The Magic Wand Volume 25 (1936)
by George Johnson

Numbers 169-172

248 pages

1. Vol. 25, Number 169 March-May, 1936 [56 numbered & 8 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • The Social Side of Magic
   • Racketeering In Magic
   • Magical Book Production
   • A Story
4. A Production Tube - Tom Sellers
5. Here? There? Or Where?
7. Magical Television - Capt. J. E. Stone
9. Make a Model First - article by Verrall Wass
11. Jottings from an Old Note-Book - C. Ducarel
    • Endor's Chameleon Paper
    • Mysterious Balls of Fire
    • Novel Indian Fakir's Trick
    • Watch and Milk Trick
    • Eggs From a Borrowed Hat
    • Egg and Tumbler
    • Backward Flight of Silver
    • A Novel Vanish of a Number of Eggs
    • Coins and a Bottle
16. The Multiplying Thimbles - Paul Cumberlege
17. The Perfect False Knot - Charles Harrison
19. On Inventing Tricks - article by Tom Sellers
21. A Walk-March - Harry H. Thomson
25. The Homing Blossoms - Stanley Norton
28. Handy Tricks - Prof. Cyro
    • Named?
    • The Simplo Book Test
    • Dyeing Silks Through Glass Tube
    • Cutomix
30. A Ball Production Sleight - E. Brian MacCarthy
31. The Magical Miscellany - Contributed by the Readers
    • Ring Pull Divination - Ventor
    • A Darned Good Trick? - Eric J. Willimas
32. New Apparatus
    • two "Ventor" novelties
33. Effects in Continuity - J. H. Steele
34. A Fan-ciful Card Change
35. A Simple Form of Magic Addition - Hugh Mackay
37. Card Location - Tome Sellers & Roy Walker
40. A Thought Reading Act With Cards - G. Scalbert
45. Modern Magical Methods - Allan Peterson
    • Momentary Moves
    • Means of Disposal
    • A Little Comedy with Eggs
49. Programme
    • The Royalty Theatre of Magic
50. Book Notes
    • Magic for the Few - Lance Charles
    • Modern Hand Shadows - Max Holden
    • New Conjuring Without Skill - Norman Hunter
    • One Man Mind Reading Secrets - Ralph W. Read
    • Mental Magic with Cards - Jean Hugard
    • The 20th Century Mind Reading Act - W. G. Magnuson
    • Twenty Magical Novelties - Edward Bagshawe, publisher
    • Card Manipulations (No. 4) - Jean Hugard
54. Correspondence
56. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

57. Vol. 25, Number 170 June-September, 1936 [52 numbered & 8 unnumbered advertising pages]
57. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • Egg Bag History
    • A Pop-Gun Pencil
    • In Holiday Mood
60. A Flashlight Fantasy - Ashby Lorton
62. The Wandering Knights - Roy Walker
65. Rupert's Rope Release - Rupert H. Slater
66. Programme
    • Leo Curtis at the Pavilion, Torquay
67. My "Henry" Effect - J. H. Steele
70. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
73. The Melting Coin (Improved) - Stanley Norton
75. An Original Pipe Production - J. Ovette
76. Disc Discovery - J. F. Orrin
80. The "Very Dickens" Book Test - Stanley Collins
82. Jottings from an Old Note-Book - Second Series - C. Ducarel
    • A Silk and a Sixpence
    • A Magic Shot
    • Stout, Flowers, and Ribbons
    • An Original Production Wand
    • A Calculation Feat
    • Rising Cards
    • Skeleton Cone and Flowers
    • Vanishing Silks
    • A Water Trick
88. Refuse - poem/humor
89. Hullabaloo - article by George Johnson
91. A Matchbox Comedy - Peter Alden
93. Modern Magical Methods - Allan Peterson
    • The Bewildering Beakers
95. On Polish - article by H. Brian MacCarthy
97. Obituary
    • Wilfred Zelka
    • Charles Morritt
    • Howard Thurston
98. Sirius - An Illusion - Wilfred Huggins
99. The Magical Miscellany - Contributed by the Readers
    • Miracle Thimbles - John Bays
    • A Card Clip - Ventor
    • A Sunshade Trick - Prof. Edgar
101. The Simp-Bern Added Card Mystery - Chris Van Bern & Alex. V. Simpson
102. A Packet of Cigarettes - Frederic Culpitt
103. Book Notes
     • Mysteries of the Mystic Seven
     • Dainty Deceptions - Mariano Palhinha
     • Twelve Tested Tricks - Verrall Wass
     • Hints on the Art of Make-up - Max Factor
     • The Encyclopedia of Self-working Card Tricks - Dr. Wilheim von Deusen & Glen G. Gravatt
105. Correspondence
     • A Plebiscite
     • Notements
     • The Locket Penny
     • The Supreme Changing Card
     • Card Location
108. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

109. Vol. 25, Number 171 October-November, 1936 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
109. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
     • The Season - And All That
     • Degrees Again
     • Tricks of To-Day
     • Wonderful Things
     • The Saucepan of Duprez
113. The Magical Miscellany - Contributed by the Readers
     • A New Coin Sleight - Tom Sellers
     • Torn Cigarette Paper - B. Millard
     • The Mento Dice Effect - Prof. Cyro
115. A Question of Time - Stanley Norton
116. More Polish - article by E. Brian MacCarthy
118. Rah, The Elephant - cartoon
119. The Biff-Bat Mystery - Prof. Cyro
120. Modern Magical Methods - Allan Peterson
     • unnamed goblet effect
     • A Tricky Tree
     • Curious Chalk
     • The Floating Flame
125. Original Card Manipulation - J. Armstead & F. Haywood
     • Passing Cards
     • Repeating Colour Change
     • A Repeative Manipulation Effect
129. Three Magical Effects - Allan Peterson
     • Cigarette Packet to Matchbox
     • The Floating Cigarette
     • My Slow Motion Knot Vanish
132. From an Old Note-Book - C. Ducarel
     • The Nerve Trick
     • The Mysterious Vase
     • Table Lifting
     • Glass of Water from Top-Hat
     • The Solid Pack
     • An Improved Card Frame
136. Which Reminds Me - article by Wilfred Huggins
138. A Buffet Table - Les Vincent
140. A Cheeky Coin Trick - Roy Cowl
141. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
144. The Great Telephone Number Mystery - R. Mashford
145. Television - article/news
146. Programmes
     • Danté at the Alhanmbra
     • Danté and Company in Sim Sala Bim
     • Bradley Martin at the Palladium
150. Book Notes
     • White Magic - The Story of the Maskelynes - Jasper Maskelyne
     • Practical Ventriloquism - Robert Ganthony
     • A Real Magic Show - Frank Lane
     • Frank Lane's Ideas (No. 1) - Frank Lane
     • Magic For You - Leeds Magical Society
     • Maniuel Pratique D'Illusionnisme et de Prestidigitation - Remi Cellier
     • Conjuring For Amateurs - Ellis Stanyon
     • Thimble Magic - Jean Hugard
     • The Second Encyclopedia of Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
     • Frank Lane's Book of Patter (No. 3) - Frank Lane
     • Astound Your Audience (Vol. 1) - Verrall Wass
155. Correspondence
     • A Plebiscite
     • New Books?
     • Queries
156. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

157. Vol. 25, Number 172 December, 1936 [56 numbered; 12 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXV Index pages]
157. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
     • A Society of Magical Invention
     • Backpalming
     • Another Illusionary Idea
     • Mathematical Magick
     • Thirteen - - Thirty-Six
160. A Good Trick - steel ball through a sheet of glass demonstrated
161. The Mickey Mouse Parade - Roy Cowl
162. A Chinese Lantern - Harry H. Thomson
165. The Grand Séance of the Magic Circle - review
166. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
167. Obituaries
     • Presto Cooper
     • Laurence Glen (L. W. Spuitari)
     • B. Brema (Brown)
     • William R. Minns
     • Lieut.-Colonel R. H. Elliot
169. Masks and Faces - Wilfred Huggins
170. Clothes and the Conjurer - article by C. O. Steinbock
172. G. W. Hunter - remembrance by G.J.
175. Cards & Manipulation - column by J. Armstead & F. Haywood
     • The Split
     • The Full Pack Split
180. A Self-Adjusting Clock-Hand - S. H. Sharpe
181. Thud! - Peter Alden
182. A Coin Trick - E. Brian MacCarthy
186. Dante - personality by Roy Cowl
188. Inquiry Bureau (Cum grano salis) - humor [with a grain of salt]
189. An Italian Mountebank - article by S.H.S.
189. Rah, The Elephant - cartoon
190. The Answer's a Lemon - J. F. Orrin
193. Times Have Changed - Jeffrey Norris
195. An Old-Fashioned Swindle - Frederic Culpitt
197. Modern Magical Methods - Allan Peterson
     • The Peripatetic Poupee
     • The Wonder Bowl
     • Tissue to Silks
     • The Floating Silk
202. The Magical Miscellany - Contributed by the Readers
     • The Dissolving Loop - Tom Sellers
     • The Biff-Bat Mystery - Will Blyth
     • Another Three-Card Monte - Tom Sellers
     • A Silken Secret
     • Chameleon Liquids
205. Jottings - C. Ducarel
     • The Apostle Trick
     • A Novel Card Move
     • A Magic Wand
     • Blindfold Card Trick
207. Book Notes
     • Secrets of My Magic - David Devant
     • Si Stebbins' Legacy - Si Stebbins
     • Frank Lane's Ideas, No. 2 - Frnak Lane
     • More Magic for You - Leeds Magical Society
     • 20 Best Pocket Tricks - Monte R. Viceroy
     • 20 Best Card Tricks - Monte R. Viceroy
209. Programmes
     • Frakson at the Price of Wales Theatre
     • Ronald Frankau at the Price of Wales Theatre
     • Cingalee at the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle
209. The Longshoreman - poem
209. A Christmas Production Idea - Frank Lane
210. Correspondence
     • Stars
     • New Books
     • A Buffet Table
     • Economics
211. A Mongoose Story - humor
212. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments