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   • Houdini Card - Snyder
24. More New Tricks and Reviews
    • Patriotic Release
    • Two Way Nu Idea Forcing Deck - Snyder
    • Rolling a Cigarette by Magic - Brema

25. The Bat - Number Five Extra - n.d. - 4 pages
25. Impromptu Card Routines
27. Card Tricks - Special Decks
    • Mene-Tekel Pack
    • Svengali Deck
    • Stripper Deck
    • Brain Wave Deck
    • Out Of This World
    • St. Leon Deck
    • Nu-Idea Deck
    • 400 Tricks You Can Do - Howard Thurston
    • Secrets of Magic and card Tricks - Blackstone
    • Deucy
    • Magic Card System
    • Thirty-Two Impromptu Card Tricks
    • Stacks and Stacks of Cards - Val...

• ... and Water Routine
• The Surpriso Card Trick
• Vanishing Cigarette Holder
• Production Box and Devil of a Hat Routine
• The Stamp Album
• Silk Production from Boy's Coat
• The Magic Soda Fountain
• How To Force a Color
• My 20th-Century Silk Routine
• The Eggs From a Hat
• The Production Egg Bag
• A Jumbo Svengali Deck Routine
• The Card in Balloon
• Some Ideas
  • Rice, Orange and Bottle
  • Lota Bowl
  • The Card Spider
  • Sympathetic Silks
  • The Loring Checker Cabinet
  • The Devil’s Sticks (Pillars of Satan)
  • The Candle Tube
  • Rice Bowls
  • Abbott’s Pop-Up Cigar Trick
  • The Bonus Genius
• Ventriloquism
  • Near...

This is a multi-use rugged manual corner rounder that produces round corners in three sizes:

• 3 mm (1/8")
• 5 mm (3/16")
• 8 mm (5/16")

The 5 mm rounding is great for corner shorts....

Stage name of Ian Sutz. Dealer (Ian's Magic Factory) in Florida. Authored 3 booklets, including The Best Dam Tricks (1980), a monograph on the "dental dam" as magic prop, and books on the stripper and svengali decks.

The Svengali Deck is an ingenious magic deck of cards. You can learn over 110 amazing tricks and routines. Some of the tricks you will be able to do:

• Show a normal deck - then change all the cards to the previously selected card.
• Seal a card in an envelope - then have spectator pick the card in the envelope.
• Spectator stabs the deck - the selected card is where the person inserts the blade.
• The selected card appears in your pocket or anywhere else.
• The card that was selected appears anyplace where the spectator cuts into the deck.
• and much more

• 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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   • 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...

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Vol. 11, No. 2, May 2015; 60 pages

Cover: Anthony Owen

5. Editor's Letter
5. What's Inside - contents
6. Anthony Owen: Killer Magic - cover article/interview - Graham Hey
9. 60 Second Hero - Casper Van Dien
10. Letters
11. Next Issue
12. From Svengali To Count Zapik - book review
14. On The Psychiatrist's Couch with Mark Shortland & Dr. William Phipps-Clarke
16. Pros & Cons - To pre-set your performing clothes with close up props at home or take everything in a case and set them when you arrive? - Mark Leveridge
18. It's A Giveaway - Promoting Yourself Through Novelty - Mark Leveridge
19. I Wish I Was Andy Frikkin' Nyman ...

It's witty and it's full of wisdom. These are the ramblings of Mark Lewis on Internet forums. Irreverent and funny at times and full of deep thinking about magic and mentalism at other times.

Many incredible anecdotes of his varied life as a fortune teller, magician and hypnotist. In addition to this are techniques described on how to pitch svengali decks, how to do psychic readings, and most important of all how to do magic with showmanship and verve.

Included is a video clip of his legendary svengali deck routine which he has performed all over the world thousands of times plus tips...

Moves, routines, and stories around the Svengali deck.

"Okay, I'm impressed!!! Your book on The Long and the Short of It is wonderful. I'm still working on a few of the moves that I never dreamed were possible with a Svengali Deck. Excellent Routine!!! You've definitely put in the time and have the expertise with this trick to be called a Master. You get 2 big thumbs way up for your book." - Doug Howe

"Mark Lewis has spent a considerable amount of time pitching Svengali decks. He has written a useful and succinct manuscript on the subject. There is no padding. The routine Mark explains...

This ebook features 28 of Mel's mentalism ideas, each of which is commercial and entertaining.

It also has an interesting essay on getting the basics right as well as three further pages of great one-liners to use in your act. Mel's methods are practical and uncomplicated - he has a real gift for getting directly to the nub of what is needed to created any desired effect - and so there will be many ideas that you will soon be including in your repertoire.

• Introduction
• Svengali Postcards
• Any Time Impromptu Book Test
• My Drink Prediction
• Blackout Gag
• Minor Miracle with M&Ms
• The Magic...

Learned in 1917 as apprentice to Horace Goldin as Indian boy in rope trick and in 1918 by reading Erdnase. Semi-pro cardman, including working a Svengali pitch cross-country and at 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Sometimes did a nightclub act. Then a gambling investigator and lecturer, competing bitterly with John Scarne in 1940s. Later left magic to be a stamp and coin dealer.

Wrote Gamblers Don't Gamble (1939, 166pp, with J.C. Furnas), Card Mastery (1944, 81pp), MacDougall on Dice and Cards (1944, 90pp), Card Mastery (1944, 81+205pp), Don't Be A Sucker! (1945, 80pp), and MacDougall on Pinochle (1951, 90pp). Memoir is Danger in the Cards (1943, 319pp).

• ...The Magic Coin Box
• A few Items of Patter

• Number Number 14 - undated with 16 unnumbered pages
• The Editor's Chat
• Meet these Aces of Tomorrow [members]
• Miracle Milk Vanish
• Member's Page
• A Fine Impromptu Cigarette Vanish
• Our Advice to You - Your Closing Trick
• How to make a Colour-Change Handkerchief
• The Svengali Pack of Cards
  • One. A Prediction Trick
  • Two. With Assistant
  • Three. Spectators Choice
• A Good Idea when Entertaining Children

• Number Number 15 - undated with 16 unnumbered pages
• Editor's Chat
• A New Routine for the Chinese Vase Trick described in "Trixy" no. 5
• Patter Page
• The Rabbit Predicts: You will like this Good Card Stunt
• Meet these Aces of Tomorrow [members]
• Member's Page
  • Mathemagic
  • Triple Envelopes
  • Blotto
• The Shower of Cigarettes
• Some Useful Ideas
• The Shower of Cigarettes - The Presentation
• Another Good...

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     • Utility Tumbler - Richard Durham
     • Utility Shaker - Richard Durham
     • Utility Mug - Richard Durham
     • Silk and Liquid Combination - Richard Durham
     • The Bold and Subtle Miracles of Dr. Faust - David Hoy
     • Controlled Miracles - Bill Simon - reprint
     • Mammoth Medallion Svengali Deck Soutine - Tommy Windsor
     • Mammoth Medallion Miracles - Don Tanner
     • Dec-A-Pips - Stadden-Fisher Studio
     • Gag Bonanza - Robert Orben
     • Further Tips on Zombie - Joe Karson, et. al.
     • Fakir Fakery - Bob Scoville
     • Mongolian Clock - Slydini
36. McAthy's Ventopics - George McAthy
    • Double Trouble - Ralph Hadley
    • School Routine - Gregory Berlin
    • More Troubles - John R. Cooper
38. Toots from the Calliope - L....

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       • Reg. Jason - by Frederick Barlow
  26. Tryangle - Stewart James
  27. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
      • reviews
        • Light Ale - Supreme
        • The Long Hare - Supreme
        • Chicken-Egg - Supreme
        • 75 Tricks With a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson
        • Trick Talk, Bonus Calendar Issue - Ireland Magic Co.
        • The Newsletter - The Magic Wand Club of Hamilton, Ontario
        • The New Phoenix No. 388
        • Hugrard's Magic Monthly, November
        • Genii, March
        • Top Hat, Volume Two, Number Four
        • Magic-Net
  28. From the Editor's Desk - Neil Foster
  29. Mentalism & Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
  30. Twenty-Five Years Ago in "Tops"
      • Pantomime and Patter - Ormond McGill
  32. Abbott's Magic For Magicians - Percy Abbott ...

1. ... Bayard Grimshaw
27. Final Curtain
    • Gus Southall - by Bayard Grimshaw
28. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Optical Three Card Monte
29. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • reviews
      • Reputation Makers - Harry Lorayne
      • The Balloon Pitch - Tommy Windsor
      • The Real Svengali Pitch - Tommy Windsor
      • Safety Chalk Talks - Tom McCormick
      • The Magic of Pavel - Pavel
      • Paddle Antics - Ian Adair
      • Boston Barnstormer
        • World's Smallest Locked Room - Clayton Rawson
      • Magie des Boules - Decamps
      • Alive, August 1971 - "The Road to Oblivion"
      • The Magical Informant - publication
      • The Magical Informant
      • The Guest Magic Chat Number 9
      • Fredlo Developments - catalog
    • club papers
      • Boston Barnstormer
      • The...

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     • Magicana
     • Boston Barnstormer
     • Inner Circle
     • News Reels
   • New Books and Tricks
     • Take a Note - George Blake - reprint
     • Apparatus Magic - Seymour Davis
     • Von Ark Poster - Lee Jacobs
     • Jumbo Svengali Routine - Tommy Windsor
     • The Tommy Windsor Egg Bag Routine
     • The Real Methods & Secrets of the Challenge Escape from 75 Feet of Rope - Lee Jacobs
     • The Mixologist Bar Magic - Senor Mardo
     • More Magic with Electronics - Bud Morris
     • Illusions You Can Build - Jim Sommers
     • Gene Anderson's Torn & Restored Newspaper
32. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
34. Olram Turnover Switch - Edward Marlo
36. Kid Show Forum - Bruce...

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   • Utility Stand
   • Production Die
27. Answers to "Wacky Words" by Ed Harris
28. Out of My Mind - Looking Into Things Mental and Psychic - Micky Hades
    • Supernatural Mentalism - John Machniak
      • 1. The Black Magic Doll
      • 2. The Svengali Dice Routine
      • 3. The Complete Mental Test
      • 4. The Color Effect as a Prediction
    • Supernatural Mental Tips
      • 5. The Power of Suggestion
      • 6. Charms: Value to the Mentalist
      • 7. Fire Mentalism
    • How to Form a Supernatural Mental Act
    • To Form a Spooky ROutine
29. Magic Talent Contest
29. Magical Musings - Esther Olson
    • Mothers Day
30. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
32. On the Road ... with...

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     • Yogi-Gram
     • Bat Droppings
     • The Dancing Cuckoos News Reels
     • The Red Rag
     • Magicana
     • Top Hat
     • Center Stage
     • Hav-A-Laff Bulletin
   • New Tricks, Books and Things
     • Silver Sanctu - Perfect Magic
     • Bewildered - Perfect Magic
     • The Real Svengali Pitch - Tommy Windsor - new edition - Lee Jacobs
     • Phoenix Theatre of Magic - poster - Lee Jacobs
     • Folded in Fresno - poster - Lee Jacobs
     • Lee Grabel - poster - Lee Jacobs
     • Doug Henning Water Torture Escape - poster - Lee Jacobs
     • The Journal of Magic History, Vol. 1 No. 1
     • Named Reverse - Ken Stoker
     • Walt Madison's Gems - Emerson & West
     • Peter Kane's Mimics - Emerson & West
     • Goldstein's Gallery - Phil Goldstein
     • A New Look at the Okito Box - Ganson Teach-In Series
     • Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic - Ganson...

• ... Illusion
• Night Club Hindu Rope
• Oriental Cabinets
• Packing Box Escape
• Paradox Hatbox Illusion
• Phonovision
• Pile Driver Illusion
• Pillory Escape
• Queen of the Ribbon Cage
• Satan's Seat
• Screen and Tabouret Illusion
• Seeing Thru a Girl
• Sorcerer's Cellar
• Stage Thermometer
• Surrealistic Art
• Svengali's Rope Trick
• Television Production
• Tent of the Sultan
• Thurston Show Requirements
• Totable Totem-Pole
• Vanishing Boy
• Vanishing Boy and Auto
• Vanishing Dog
• Walking Thru a Ribbon
• Walking Thru a Steel Plate
• Wonderful Vanish
• Zombi Girl

1st edition 1965, PDF 99 pages.

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60. Vanish from the Left Hand
60. The Tenkai Palm
61. Screens and Music
62. The Unexpected
62. Discard Container
63. The Stacked Deck
64. The Reversed Card
65. Stabatwin
65. Calling the Cards
66. The Six Card Repeat
68. Three Cards Across
70. The Cards to Pocket
72. The Stripper Deck
73. Four Ace Trick
74. The Reds and Blacks
74. The Svengali Deck
75. The Fourteen Fifteen Deck
76. Spectacular Card Effects
76. The Card Sword
78. The Card in Balloon
80. The Card Star
81. The Card Stab
83. The Jumbo Four Ace Trick

85. CHAPTER SIX Ball Manipulation
85. The Multiplying Billiard Balls
86. One to Four Multiplication
90. One to Eight Multiplication
92. The Sponge Ball...