The Magic Wand Volume 30 (1941)

Numbers 189-192

247 pages

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

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51. Vol. 30, Number 190 June-September, 1941 [52 numbered & 8 unnumbered advertising pages]
51. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • Convention Comment
    • Literary Courtesy
    • Adhesive Cards
    • Ghosts
    • Out - In a Boiler Suit
54. More Old Wine - Rupert H. Slater
55. The Spelling Sphinx - J. F. Orrin
59. Mr. Einstein to the Rescue! - Peter Warlock
62. Three-Pence for Change - Rupert H. Slater
63. Through the Looking-Glass - W. S. Hartley
64. Inventing a Trick - article by George Johnson
66. Presentation for Peter Warlock's Rope and Ring Penetration - Fabian
    Extra photo plate page - The Conjurer
67. Cut Ribbon and Cards - Cyril H. Dewey
69. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
    • Visible Change of Solid Balls to Silks
    • The decapitated Knot
    • "Silver to Copper" Sleight with Coins
73. Production Kettle for Silks - Prof. Edgar
74. The Sympathetic Coins (Downs "Art of Magic," page 235)
75. New Magic - Tom Sellers
    • Cigarette to Cigar and Pipe
    • Thimble and Pea
    • Orange Through Plate
    • The "Conqu" Ring
78. Winning a Wife - H. C. Mole
81. Cartoon Capers - Mystico
82. Programme
    • Jack Le Dair at the Gaiety, Ayr.
83. Two Bridger Lewis Silk Discoveries - Ernest Castro
84. When Were You Born? - Prof. Day
86. A Card-Clip Sleight - Victor Thornton
87. The Owl Man - Rupert H. Slater
88. The Legend of Ling Toy - article by Les. Vincent
89. Allan Lambie's Magic
    • Glass of Wine Production
    • Improved "Percival" Lace Trick
90. Perennial Ponsin - article by S. H. Sharpe
92. References in Magical Literature - article by Nicholls Harley
94. Easy Does It - J. A. Esler
96. Impromptu Card Effects - Nicholls Harley
    • I. The Permanence of Retinal Impressions
98. The Diving Duck - H. Lavilette
99. 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
100. Amid the Magazines
     • The Sphinx
     • Genii
     • The Tops
     • The Linking Ring
     • Jinx
     • The Gimmick
     • The Dragon
     • The Magic Circular
     • The Magi
101. Correspondence
     • To Change a Card in a Person's Hand
     • Subtlety and Impudence
102. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

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103. Vol. 30, Number 191 October-November, 1941 [52 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
103. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
     • Then and Now
     • Master Key
     • Giving Due Credit
     • What Price Glory?
106. A Queer Card - J. F. Orrin
109. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
     • A Colour-Changing Knot
     • Lost and Found
113. The Magic Circle - club news
114. The Frantic Pass - Leonard Ashton
115. Inventing a Trick - Again - article by Prof. Edgar
116. More Flashes from the Forge - H. G. Sparks
     • The Witch-Doctor
     • A Brush for Philistines
     
     Extra photo plate page - "First of the Month"
119. Scattered Pips - Len. Vincent
121. Pinched - Rupert H. Slater
122. Bang Went Sixpence - Alfred Frangleton
123. A Production Tube - F. J. Whalley
124. An Old Idea - Rupert H. Slater
126. Pranks - Charles Waller
131. The Bands - Rupert H. Slater
     • The Chameleon Band
133. Simplex Coin Gadget - Allan Lambie
134. Varied Magic - Allan Lambie
     • Simplex Cards to Pocket
     • Modern Finger Through Hat
135. Sand Frame Plus - Peter Warlock
139. Horace Spencer's Levitation of Tumblers - Arthur Hambling
140. The Thought Screen - Harry Thomson (Hookey Spookems)
143. Flash Candle to Bouquet - Tom Sellers
143. "Inebriate" Routine - Stuart Good
145. Ottokar Fischer - obituary/article by S. H. Sharpe
148. 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
150. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
153. Paderewski was a Manipulator - article by Frederick Barlow
153. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

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155. Vol. 30, Number 192 December, 1941 [54 numbered; 14 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXX Index pages]
155. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
     • 'All About It'
     • Stage Illusions
     • Tools of the Trade
     • A Writer and a Book
     • Finish with Fun
     • Absent Friends
158. Book Notes
     • The Amazing Memory Feat - Max Andrews
     • The Book of Magic for the Amateur - Amazia
158. Joe in the Bottle - E. J. Higgins
159. David Devant - obituary
160. Transposition - Tom Sellers
160. Old Wine - H. L. Gandell
161. Stage Table Production - Ernest Castro
162. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
     • The Penetrating Tumbler
     • Goodness . . . My Guiness
167. four pages missing
     Extra photo page - Harry Sparks & Miss Margot Merlin
171. The Magical Painting Book - Stanley Thomas
173. A Cryptic Cross-Word Puzzle - Stanley Collins
174. Something Like a Magician - article by Frank Staff
176. Very Old Wine - MS dated 1783
177. Terse Tricks - Len. J. Sewell
     • A Silken Mystery
     • The Elusive Gem
179. An Emergency Card Stand - Stanley Thomas
179. a puzzle
180. Impromptu Card Effects - Nicholls Harley
     • II. The Hand of Fate
182. A Pull Problem - Ivor Lewis
183. A Flower Production - Leslie Drake
184. "Krazy Kafe" Routine - Stuart Good
186. Sorry - No Cigarettes - Rupert H. Slater
186. A Juggling Feat
187. Think of a Page - J. F. Orrin
190. The Last Word - C. W. Collins
192. Water-Divining - A Trick for the Drawing Room - Douglas Craggs
194. Paper Balls - E. J. Higgins
194. Tricks with Numbers - poem by H. L. Gandell
195. 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
199. Pocket Tricks - adapted from a lecture by Frederick Barlow
     • Converting a "Pocket Trick" into a Stage Effect
     • A "Pocket Trick" from a Stage Effect
202. For the Hands - hints from C.W.C.
203. Presentation to Mr. Cecil Lyle (Gold Medal from The Magic Circle)
     • The Cavalcade of Magic
204. Programme
     • Erikson, Finsbury Park Empire
205. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
207. Radio Review - humor by Eric C. Widger
208. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

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