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The Magic Wand Volume 30 (1941)
by George Johnson

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The Magic Wand Volume 30 (1941) by George Johnson
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Numbers 189-192

247 pages

  1. Vol. 30, Number 189 March-May, 1941 [50 numbered & 10 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • On Active Service
    • Designs for Magic
    • Aunt Kate
    • Old Ideas
    • Marketable Magic
    • Chemicals
    • Diachylon Deceptions
    • Harking Back
  3. Just Cheek - Lavilette
  4. Getting the Bird - J. F. Orrin
  5. The Tumble Pass - Dr. H. J. Tattersall
    • The Shuffled Set-Up
  6. Doublo and Treblo - C. W. Collier
  7. Lighted Cigarette Production - Allan Lambie
  8. Patriotic Silks - Cyril H. Dewey
  9. The Card in the Balloon - Claude Chandler
  10. Council Meeting - Tierra Del Fuego Magical Society - humor by H. A. M. Bone
  11. Two into One will go - E. Brian McCarthty
  12. Just Fun - Allan Lambie
  13. The Elusive Stamp - Douglas Craggs
  14. Ropes and Rings Again - S. P. Bowman
  15. Further Flashes from the Forge - H. G. Sparks
  16. Bits and Pieces
  17. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
    • Cage and Canary Through a Mirror
  18. Thank You, Mr. Anderson - Peter Warlock
  19. The Magazines - held over
  20. Thimbles - The Final Moves - Peter Warlock
  21. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
  22. A Laugh and a Candle - H. Lavilette
  23. Varied Versions - Rupert H. Slater
    • With a Cigarette
    • Vice Versa
    • A Card Goes
  24. For the Four Aces - Jack Le Dair
  25. Memories - article by Jack Le Dair
  26. Book Notes
    • Memory Tricks No. 6 - Bernard Zufall
    • Card Manipulations - Jean Hugard
  27. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

  1. Vol. 30, Number 190 June-September, 1941 [52 numbered & 8 unnumbered advertising pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • Convention Comment
    • Literary Courtesy
    • Adhesive Cards
    • Ghosts
    • Out - In a Boiler Suit
  3. More Old Wine - Rupert H. Slater
  4. The Spelling Sphinx - J. F. Orrin
  5. Mr. Einstein to the Rescue! - Peter Warlock
  6. Three-Pence for Change - Rupert H. Slater
  7. Through the Looking-Glass - W. S. Hartley
  8. Inventing a Trick - article by George Johnson
  9. Presentation for Peter Warlock's Rope and Ring Penetration - Fabian
  10. Extra photo plate page - The Conjurer
  11. Cut Ribbon and Cards - Cyril H. Dewey
  12. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
    • Visible Change of Solid Balls to Silks
    • The decapitated Knot
    • "Silver to Copper" Sleight with Coins
  13. Production Kettle for Silks - Prof. Edgar
  14. The Sympathetic Coins (Downs "Art of Magic," page 235)
  15. New Magic - Tom Sellers
    • Cigarette to Cigar and Pipe
    • Thimble and Pea
    • Orange Through Plate
    • The "Conqu" Ring
  16. Winning a Wife - H. C. Mole
  17. Cartoon Capers - Mystico
  18. Programme
    • Jack Le Dair at the Gaiety, Ayr.
  19. Two Bridger Lewis Silk Discoveries - Ernest Castro
  20. When Were You Born? - Prof. Day
  21. A Card-Clip Sleight - Victor Thornton
  22. The Owl Man - Rupert H. Slater
  23. The Legend of Ling Toy - article by Les. Vincent
  24. Allan Lambie's Magic
    • Glass of Wine Production
    • Improved "Percival" Lace Trick
  25. Perennial Ponsin - article by S. H. Sharpe
  26. References in Magical Literature - article by Nicholls Harley
  27. Easy Does It - J. A. Esler
  28. Impromptu Card Effects - Nicholls Harley
    • I. The Permanence of Retinal Impressions
  29. The Diving Duck - H. Lavilette
  30. Book Notes
    • More than a Trick - Jack Vosburgh
    • Tele-Cardology - Si Stebbins
    • Mental Multiplication - Charles Lipkin
    • Magic as a Business - E. R. Springston & Horace Marshall
    • Tips, Tricks and Gags - Santini
    • Fifty Crazy Card Stunts - U. F. Grant
    • Fifty Methods of Producing a Silk - U. F. Grant
    • Fifty Cute Coin Tricks - U. F. Grant
    • Tricks with hair - U. F. Grant
  31. Amid the Magazines
    • The Sphinx
    • Genii
    • The Tops
    • The Linking Ring
    • Jinx
    • The Gimmick
    • The Dragon
    • The Magic Circular
    • The Magi
  32. Correspondence
    • To Change a Card in a Person's Hand
    • Subtlety and Impudence
  33. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

  1. Vol. 30, Number 191 October-November, 1941 [52 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • Then and Now
    • Master Key
    • Giving Due Credit
    • What Price Glory?
  3. A Queer Card - J. F. Orrin
  4. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
    • A Colour-Changing Knot
    • Lost and Found
  5. The Magic Circle - club news
  6. The Frantic Pass - Leonard Ashton
  7. Inventing a Trick - Again - article by Prof. Edgar
  8. More Flashes from the Forge - H. G. Sparks
    • The Witch-Doctor
    • A Brush for Philistines
  9. Extra photo plate page - "First of the Month"
  10. Scattered Pips - Len. Vincent
  11. Pinched - Rupert H. Slater
  12. Bang Went Sixpence - Alfred Frangleton
  13. A Production Tube - F. J. Whalley
  14. An Old Idea - Rupert H. Slater
  15. Pranks - Charles Waller
  16. The Bands - Rupert H. Slater
    • The Chameleon Band
  17. Simplex Coin Gadget - Allan Lambie
  18. Varied Magic - Allan Lambie
    • Simplex Cards to Pocket
    • Modern Finger Through Hat
  19. Sand Frame Plus - Peter Warlock
  20. Horace Spencer's Levitation of Tumblers - Arthur Hambling
  21. The Thought Screen - Harry Thomson (Hookey Spookems)
  22. Flash Candle to Bouquet - Tom Sellers
  23. "Inebriate" Routine - Stuart Good
  24. Ottokar Fischer - obituary/article by S. H. Sharpe
  25. Book Notes
    • Walk into My Parlour - Margaret Lane
    • Studies in Mystery - Eric C. Lewis
    • Our Mysteries (Collected Effects) - Sphinx Publishing
    • After the Dessert - Martin Gardner
    • Select Secrets - Dai Vernon
    • More Card Manipulations - Jean Hugard
    • Something Borrowed, Something New - Paul Curry
    • Old Tricks Made New - Bert Douglas
  26. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
  27. Paderewski was a Manipulator - article by Frederick Barlow
  28. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

  1. Vol. 30, Number 192 December, 1941 [54 numbered; 14 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXX Index pages]
  2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • 'All About It'
    • Stage Illusions
    • Tools of the Trade
    • A Writer and a Book
    • Finish with Fun
    • Absent Friends
  3. Book Notes
    • The Amazing Memory Feat - Max Andrews
    • The Book of Magic for the Amateur - Amazia
  4. Joe in the Bottle - E. J. Higgins
  5. David Devant - obituary
  6. Transposition - Tom Sellers
  7. Old Wine - H. L. Gandell
  8. Stage Table Production - Ernest Castro
  9. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
    • The Penetrating Tumbler
    • Goodness . . . My Guiness
  10. four pages missing
  11. Extra photo page - Harry Sparks & Miss Margot Merlin
  12. The Magical Painting Book - Stanley Thomas
  13. A Cryptic Cross-Word Puzzle - Stanley Collins
  14. Something Like a Magician - article by Frank Staff
  15. Very Old Wine - MS dated 1783
  16. Terse Tricks - Len. J. Sewell
    • A Silken Mystery
    • The Elusive Gem
  17. An Emergency Card Stand - Stanley Thomas
  18. a puzzle
  19. Impromptu Card Effects - Nicholls Harley
    • II. The Hand of Fate
  20. A Pull Problem - Ivor Lewis
  21. A Flower Production - Leslie Drake
  22. "Krazy Kafe" Routine - Stuart Good
  23. Sorry - No Cigarettes - Rupert H. Slater
  24. A Juggling Feat
  25. Think of a Page - J. F. Orrin
  26. The Last Word - C. W. Collins
  27. Water-Divining - A Trick for the Drawing Room - Douglas Craggs
  28. Paper Balls - E. J. Higgins
  29. Tricks with Numbers - poem by H. L. Gandell
  30. Some thoughts on Magical Literature - Prof. Day
    • The Urge to Write
    • Importance of Presentation
    • Choice of Style
    • Good Writers and Good Magic
    • Presentation Again
    • The Reason for This
  31. Pocket Tricks - adapted from a lecture by Frederick Barlow
    • Converting a "Pocket Trick" into a Stage Effect
    • A "Pocket Trick" from a Stage Effect
  32. For the Hands - hints from C.W.C.
  33. Presentation to Mr. Cecil Lyle (Gold Medal from The Magic Circle)
    • The Cavalcade of Magic
  34. Programme
    • Erikson, Finsbury Park Empire
  35. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
  36. Radio Review - humor by Eric C. Widger
  37. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

word count: 95303 which is equivalent to 381 standard pages of text