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The Comprehensive Guide to Making Money Pitching Svengali Decks

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been made on selling the humble Svengali Deck and yet few people ever learned the inner secrets of how to pitch the deck successfully. This DVD fills that shortage.

Don Driver pitched for twenty-five years all over the country. He learned his pitch from S. David Walker, the Grand old Man of Svengali pitching who has been at it since the early 1940s. Mr. Walker learned from Mickey MacDougall, the creator of the Svengali pitch.

Explained in detail is a pitch that has been polished and...

A specially-recorded hour-long interview of Don Driver (interviewer is the late David Alexander) that gives history, insights, and advice on how to make money selling the most popular trick deck in the world. Don also tells many stories and anecdotes of how he got into magic, side shows and ultimately pitching Svengali decks.

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   • The Complete Don Alan Chop Cup Book
   • The Chalice Chop Cup
   • The Bazar de Magia Cups and Balls/Chop Cup Combo Set
48. Masterclass
    • Mindful Coins – Gary Jones
    • Order Order – Gary Jones
50. Reviews
    • Cryptical Envelopment – ebook - John Hostler
    • Essentials in Magic – The Svengali Deck – DVD - Daryl
    • Grab That Pinhead – DVD – Dan Garrett & Bob Sheets
    • Heritage – mentalism effect DVD - Martin Adams
    • Recall – 2 DVD Set – Tom Crosbie
    • Kid's Show Selection – book - Ian Adair
    • Spider Pen Pro – effect/prop – Yigal Mesika
    • The Boof – ebook...

Here, Chris Wardle explores the use of long and short cards (Svengali Deck style) for mental magic presentations. Whilst initially he gives some background to the Svengali deck and how to make and handle one, some routines use variants on the deck and several don't use playing cards at all. There are thirteen routines from Chris plus some additional commentary and a bonus routine from publisher Paul Hallas. Chances are after reading this you'll not think of the Svengali deck in the same way again.

Since the appearance of this booklet (his third) Chris authored Magic For Everyone (2006) and...

This ebook holds extremely valuable information for anybody who would like to become a pitchman or grafter who sells Svengali decks and other items. Even if you do not sell as a pitchman, but perform on the street or other public venues you will learn quite a bit from Walt Lees.

Some of the points discussed are:

• Which magic tricks are suitable for pitching?
• Types of pitching
• Earnings and rewards
• Requirements of a good pitchman
• Styles of pitching
• Choosing a good site
• Peek selling times
• What to have with you
• Dealing with complaints, hecklers, pilferers, non-buyers, aggro merchants,...

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44. Mind Control

    LESSON 3. THE LARIAT KING

44. Inventing Magic
45. The Lariat King
45. How the Trick Is Done

    LESSON 4. THE AFGHAN BANDS AND THE CUT TURBAN

50. How to Make the Afghan Bands
50. How to Work the Turban Trick

    LESSON 5. FINDING A SELECTED CARD, 1: FORCING

56. Forcing and Forcing Decks
57. The Svengali Pack
57. Forcing Sleights: The Fan
59. Forcing Sleights: The Slip
60. Another Knife Force
61. The Telephone Trick

    LESSON 6. FINDING A SELECTED CARD, II: LOCATIONS

63. False Shuffles
64. The Tap Location
66. The Glimpse
68. The Spelling Master
70. The Stripper Deck
71. The Long Card
71. The Double Card
71. The Short Card ...

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: History: The Name Game
• Chapter 2: The Concept of Duplicate Pairs
• Chapter 3: Short / Long vs. Long / Short Configuration
• Chapter 4: Handlings for the Svengali Hybrid
• Chapter 5: Multiple Card Selections
• Chapter 6: The Blue / Red Set-up
• Chapter 7: Rough & Ready
• Chapter 8: Non-Gaffed Arrangements
• Chapter 9: Variations on the Theme – Jazz Deck
• Chapter 10: Marked & One-Way
• Chapter 11: Self-Contained Card Delivery System
• Chapter 12: The Pseudo-Copy...

Terry wanted to be able to show a packet of cards, shuffle them and have someone just look at one and then he reproduces it. He didn't want to use marked cards or some sort of stack, but he wanted it to be sure fire. As a result he came up with Force This.

While the method is not new, it is known as the Siamese Svengali Pack (see for example Encyclopedia of Card Tricks or Greater Magic), the way Terry uses it in combination with business cards and a paper clip makes this a very practical and innocent looking method.

1st edition 2013, 5 pages.

Volume II (June 1944 - May 1945), Jean Hugard, editor

70 pages

53. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume II, Number 1 - June 1944 - 4 pages
53. The Lamarque Rabbit Vanish
54. Routine with a Svengali Deck - Tom Bowyer
54. The Rice Bowls - Roger Barkann
54. Impromptu Daub - Gerald L. Kaufman
55. Magnetic Fisherman - A. Heller, The Card Board Lover
55. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
55. Silks - tip
55. Producing a Rope - George Engel
55. 3-2-1 - A di-abolical Deception - George G. Kaplan
56. Classified Advertisements

57. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume II, Number 2 - July 1944 - 4 pages - The R.M. Jamison Special Number
57. The Oracle Speaks ...

1. ... Spoof - Paul V. Mullen
571. "Jerk-Back" Palm Improved - Harry Lorayne
571. Thimble Transpo - Charles S. Ames
572. Drinks from the Air - Jean Hugard
572. Magicana - bits of wisdom
572. The Linking Rings - Jean Hugard
573. News and Views on TV Magic - Norman Jensen
574. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
     • Stuthard's Svengali Subtleties - Joe Stuthard
     • Kalman's Novel Passe Coin Routine and Climax - Bill Kalman
     • Sharp Magic - Val Don
     • Puppetrix - William Larsen
575. Bert Allerton's Crazy Cards - Martin Gardner
576. Allerton's Wrist Watch Trick (see page 555)
576. Classified Advertisements

577. Hugard's Magic Monthly...

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   • ... - Art Lyle
     • How to Win Friends Without a Dime
   • Double-Turn False Cut - Fred Braue
   • Up the Ladder - Fred Braue
99. The Ultimate Prediction - Dr. Raymond Beebe
100. Baking a Cake in a Borrowed Hat - Midnight Magic - Arthur Bull
100. Lowe's Opening - Milbourne Christopher
100. Trick Tip - Svengali Spread - F.B.
100. Dice Box Resurrection - Art Lyle
100. Patter Line - Cliff Green
101. The Lost Trick of R.W. Hull - An Encore - Dr. Raymond Beebe
     • The Hypnotic Joker
101. Patter Line - Cliff Green
102. Princess Fatima - Fred Braue
102. Allerton's $50,000 Routine - announcement
103. Roundabout with Fred Braue ...

1. ... Green
13. Poor Man's "Hypnotic Joker" - Dr. Raymond Beebe
14. Book Profiles - Edgar Heyl
    • Panorama of Magic - Christopher
    • The Magic of Numbers - Toquet
    • The Jerry Lewis Book of Tricks and Magic - Lewis
    • The Impossible - Dick Gardner
    • In Print
    • Recently Reviewed
14. 75 Tricks with a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson - advertisement
14. Showstoppers with Cards - advertisement
15. Betcha, 2 - Norman Houghton
    • Solution to No. 1
15. Patter Lines - Cliff Green
15. Trick Tip - Will Dew - Art Lyle
16. Endorsed Dealers Offerings

17. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume XX, Number 3 - November 1962...

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5. Patter Line - Cliff Green
5. The Wizard's Variations - Al Stevenson
   • "Take a Card - Any Card"
     • By Measurement
     • Strange Places
     • Flip-Top Fakery
     • Strictly Burlesque
6. Patter Lines - Cliff Green
6. Betcha, No. 9 - Norman Houghton
   • Solution
7. 75 Tricks with a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson - advertisement
7. Cups & Balls in HMM - A reference Guide for Contest Entries
7. Dr. D'Gahalene's Floating Table - Arthur "Francisco" Bull
7. A Patter Line
7. "Taking It Easy" - announcement
8. Patter Line - Cliff Green
8. Endorsed Dealers Offerings

9. Hugard's Magic Monthly...

1. ... pages
117. Cover - Christmas Edition
121. Odd Magical Facts - Frank Fewins
121. At the Parent Assembly Reception for Mrs. Houdini
121. A Letter to Santa - Bill Larsen
121. Merlini Mentor [Clayton Rawson] Recuperates
122. Genii Speaks - editorial comments
123. Carlyle's Evolution of a Rabbit in a Hat - Carlyle
124. Slayton Finds Svengali [U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office)
124. Birth of a Trick - Walt Kaeber
124. Cards Together - from the notes of Caryl S. Fleming
125. The Hindu Liquid Trick - Jack Gwynne, Jim Conley, Frank Herman, Fred and Helen Rickard & the Editors
126. Trapping the Spy - Julian J. Proskauer
127. The Tibetian Priest's Prayer Chain - Caryl S. Fleming
127. New Zens Trick Free!
127. Excuse Us...

1. ... B. Bobo
370. I've a Code in My Head - Gerald Kosky
371. Smart Stuff - George "Mandroop" McAthy
371. Readers Digest Discovery - James A. Lucier
372. Magic in New England - Vynn Boyar
373. Color Riddle - Glenn G. Gravatt
373. The Card in the Balloon - Irving Joslyn
374. Paper and Ink - Dariel Fitzkee
     • The Pitchman's Svengali Routine - Eddie St. John
     • Street Fakir Act - Tommy Windsor
     • Whims--Wiles--Wizardry - The Wizard Watson
     • Dope Sheet No. 10
     • The Linking Ring, June
     • The Sphinx, May
     • The Conjurors' Magazine, May
     • Tops, June
     • Hugard's Magic Monthly, May
     • Phoenix Nos. 125-127
     • The Bat, June
     • Pentagram, April
     • The Modern Magi, May
375. Magigals - Geraldine Larsen
     • I.B.M. Convention ...

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   • Penny Ante
333. Results of the Genii-Orben Poll - Robert Orben
     • Article Two
335. P.C.A.M. Convention News - William W. Larsen
336. P.C.A.M. Convention Snapshots
339. Paper and Ink - Dariel Fitzkee
     • Pentagram, February, March & April issues
     • Trilby Deck - Joe Stuthard
     • Stuthard's Svengali Subtleties - Joe Stuthard
     • magazine test - Milbourne Christopher
     • Card Tricks Without Skill - Paul Clive
     • Stars of Magic, Series 5
       • No. 1: Dai Vernon's Impromptu Cups And Balls
       • No. 2: Dai Vernon's Ambitious Card
       • No. 3: Dai Vernon's Mental Card Miracle
     • Over the Coffee Cups - Martin Gardner
     • Paul Fleming Book Reviews Nos. 142-144
     • Phoenix Nos. 176-177
     • Tops, June
340. Gerald Kosky - biographical sketch
340. Nineteen Forty-Nine T.A.O.M. Conclave
341. Holden Hospitalized
341. Video Magic - The...

This exclusive book has now been republished as an ebook. Encyclopaedic in scope, with notes on making, handling, pitching, and performing in a variety of situations.

Contents

• Handling the Svengali Deck
• Pitching the Svengali Deck
• About the Tricks
• Impromptu
• Almost Impromptu
• Multi-Method Classics
• Novelty Revelations
• Things going wrong, and sucker effects
• Apparatus Required
• Special Decks
• Publicity, Promotion, Spectacle
• Using sleights and moves
• Miscellaneous
• The Last Word

1st edition 1999, 181 pages.

• Lassoo A Silk
• Playing Cards
• Follow-Up Lassoo A Silk
• The Talking Frog
• A Card Vanish From The Table
• A Card Turn Over
• A Mental Effect
• A Champagne Production
• A Cigarette Production
• Linking Silks
• Rising Cards A La Svengali
• A Silk Vanish Opening
• Variation Triangle Silks
• A Perfect Glass Balance
• A Floating Record
• Cutting A Rope In Three
• A Folding Table Screen
• Silks In Loop-Holes
• Bottles To Doves Transformation
• The High Light Of The Show
• A Dove Or Rabbit Vanish
• A Card Fan Production
• Two Silks From The Air

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   • Griff on Cards - Tony Griffith
   • Publicity Tips for Amateurs and Professionals on the Way Up in Show Business - or The Do-It-Your-Self Show Biz Flack - Fred A. Woodress
   • The Magnet scheduled to reappear
   • 75 Tricks with a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson
   • Psycho-Gizmo, Vol. 3 (Nos. 25-36)
   • Backstage with Magigals, February & March issues
   • The Silent Messenger, March
   • Barney, March
   • La Wain's House of Magic list sheet
   • Supplement to the M.C.A.
344. M.D.A. Forward March - Ed Dart, Publicity Chairman, M.D.A.
345. Twenty-Five Years Ago In Genii - Geraldine Larsen Baker
346. Magician's Guild of America, Inc. - Georgia Kondos

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   • ... Sticks - Edwards' The Magic Shop
   • special cards - Joseph Roseberger
   • Sponge Balls - Magic Center
   • Roydon's Magic Wand - Roydon's Magic co.
172. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
     • My Favorite Card Tricks - Harry Lorayne
     • Joe Stuthard's "Famous" Svengali Trick Pack of Cards
     • A La Zombie - Ian Adair
     • Tips Galore - Aavelle [sic] and Andree
     • Thanks for the Help - Ken de Courcy
     • Sorcar TW'sGM
     • New Jinx, September
     • Backstage With Magigals, October
     • Profile, August
     • Cigam, July
     • La Wain's Big List No. 88
     • Edgar Heyl's Catalogue No. 76
     • Silent Messenger,...

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   • Comedy Letter (24 times a year) - Robert Orben
   • Current Comedy (24 times a year) - Robert Orben
   • Comedy Fillers (12 times a year) - Robert Orben
   • Erwin Linking Ring Routine - Walter B. Gibson
   • E.S.D. (Extra Sensory Deception) - Bud Morris
   • I Am Curious - Magic! - Bud Morris
   • The Real Svengali Pitch - Tommy Windsor
   • The Balloon Pitch - Tommy Windsor
   • Safety Chalk Chalks - Tom McCormick
   • Advanced Techniques in Stage Hypnosis - Nelson Chandler
   • The Encyclopedia of One-Liner Comedy - Robert Orben
   • The Bottom Collectors - Father Cyprian
   • The Mendoza Cups and Balls Routine...

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438. Magicians' Guild News - Seymour M. Heilbron
438. Letters

445. Genii - Volume 37, Number 11 - November 1973 (published in March 1974) - 44 pages
445. Cover - Paul Fidler "The Magic Hawaiian"
447. In This Issue - contents
455. The Genii Speaks - Bill Larsen
456. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
457. Schizophrenic Svengali - Russell Thornton
457. Instant Location - Russell Thornton
458. Visible Materialization - John R. Olsen, Jr.
459. Playtime Puzzler - Robert K. Miller
460. The Jumping Flea - Glenn Gravatt
462. Visible Silk Appearance - Glenn Gravatt
462. Joining the Colors - Glenn Gravatt
463. Pockety Pair - Len Hollyman
464. It's Only My Opinion But - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
465. Magicana...

1. ... - News From All Over the World
310. Kuda Bux - The Man With The X-Ray Eyes - Bill Larsen
     • Kuda Bux - poem
312. Presto - A Magic Spectacular - Doug Henning
316. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
     • The Tommy Windsor Egg Bag Routine
     • Tommy Windsor's Jumbo Svengali Routine
     • Directory of Theatrical Agencies of U.S. and Canada
     • The Miracle Makes - James G. Thompson
     • The Complete James G. Thompson Bibliography and Index to "The Miracle Makers"
     • The Magician - folds
     • BUM - Boletin Unica de Magia - number 1
     • The Bulletin for Friends of Magical History - Steve Tigner - 2 issues to...