The Magic Wand Volume 33 (1944)

Numbers 201-204

193 pages

1. Vol. 33, Number 201 March-May, 1944 [42 numbered & 6 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Aid
   • Card Miracles
   • The Expert
   • Squaring the Circle
3. A Change-Over Palm with Four Coins - E. Brian MacCarthy
4. Ignus - V. A. Menzies
5. A Subtle Changing Card - Sydney de Hempsey
6. What is a Good Trick? - article by Dr. H. J. Tattersall
10. The Dissolving Sugar Trick Improved - Victor Farelli
11. Disc and Rope - Allan Lambie
12. The Shilling and the Snake - Wilfrid Jonson
13. Try This Strange Puzzle - Sydney de Hempsey
14. A Little Different - Alfred Frangleton
15. A Novel Doll Production - Eric P. Wilson
16. Two Suggestions - Roughing Fluid and Fanning Powder - H.J.T.
17. Tricks Presented - Stanley Davis
    • The Locket of Mene Tekel
    • The Pound Note Trick
    • Roses
    • The Souplate and the Handkerchiefs
    • The Double Lift Precipitation of Three Cards - First Version
    • The Double Lift Precipitation of Three Cards - Second Version
    • Ess-Dee New Card Precipitation
    • Ess-Dee Card Location
    • The Twenty-Seven Card Trick
    • Marking Cards
    • Using Plain Back Cards for Single-Ender Effects
    • The Twenty-Nine Card Trick
    • False Push Out Cut
    • A Club Slate Effect
31. Lightning Book Test
32. A Two Card Force
33. The Razor Illusion - Sydney de Hempsey
34. Acquitment for Slow Coin Vanish - Victor Thornton
34. What! Another Method? - Quick and Dead effect by John Robinson
35. A National Association of Magical Societies
37. The Loops - Rupert H. Slater
38. It's in The Wand - Eric P. Wilson
38. The "Aye-Cee" Ten card Trick - Arthur F. G. Carter
40. Dyeing the Silks Make Easy - Tom Sellers
41. Cum Grano Salis - Norman Conquest
41. Book Notes
    • Impromptu Card Tricks - T. Annemann and others
    • The Magician's Count - MS by Tom Sellers
    • Ring off the String - MS by Tom Sellers
    • The Spectre Card - Allan Lambie
    • Magical Originalia - G. E. Arrowsmith
42. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

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43. Vol. 33, Number 202 June-September, 1944 [42 numbered & 6 unnumbered advertising pages]
43. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • On The Warpath
    • A Comedy Notion
    • An Explosive Egg
    • The Master Book of Magic
    • Condensed Instruction
44. An Easy Reverse - Alfred Frangleton
45. Simplex Pigeon Frame Production - Allan Lambie
46. Seeing Stars - J. F. Orrin
48. A Deceptive Production of Four Coins - E. Brian MacCarthy
50. Flashes from the Forge - H. G. Sparks
    • Wavy Weaving
53. Another Vanishing Wand Presentation - V. A. Menzies
54. "Impromptu" Borrowed Book Test
55. Instanto Deck of Cards to Bouquet - Allan Lambie
56. Chit Chat - column by Frederic Culpitt
59. Tricks Presented - Stanley Davis
    • Additional Effect to the Push Out Cut
    • Pull Out False Cut
    • Triple False Cut
    • Stacked Packs
    • Dealing a Hand of Cards and Knowing the Cards of Your Opponent
    • Cards and Handkerchiefs
    • The Boxes of Amen Ra
    • Black and White Slotted Boxes
    • Conclusion
    • The Rope Trick
    • The Razor Blade Trick
    • The Poachers and the Rabbits
    • The Beanstalk
    • Corrections
70. Let there be Light - V. A. Menzies
70. Miranda's Challenge (A Dove Production) - P. O. B. Sherwood
72. Easy but Effective - Rupert H. Slater
74. Another "Just Chance" - R. W. Edmanson
75. Spades are Essential - Wilfred H. Tyler
76. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
    • An Easy Card Stack
    • Finale to Tambourine
79. The 'Good Trick' Problem - various responses
80. Programmes
    • Murray at the Chelsea Palace
    • Douglas Francis at Grand Theatre, Clapham
82. Book Notes
    • Showmanship for Magicians - Dariel Fitzkee
    • The Magical Compere - Laurie
    • Miniature Card Magic - Hen Fesch
    • Further Studies in Mystery - Eric C. Lewis
83. Amid the Magazines
    • Genii
    • The Sphinx
    • The Dragon
    • The Corsair
    • The Bat
    • The Thistle
    • Transeat in exemplum
    • The Mahatma Circular
    • The B.M.S. Journal
    • The Magi
    • The Demon Telegraph
    • Tops
    • The Magic Circular
84. The Magic Circle - club news
84. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

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85. Vol. 33, Number 203 October-November, 1944 [42 numbered & 6 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
85. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • The Magic Circle
    • Magazines and the Future
    • Joseph Bland
    • Australian News
    • The Potsherd Problem
    • Right Now
88. Simplified Cigarette Production - C. W. Thorp
89. Cig-Silk - Allan Lambie
90. From "Tails" to "Battledress" - article by J. Anthony Holland
91. Roughing Fluid and Fanning Powder
92. A Card Case Prediction - Allan Lambie
92. The Inexhaustible Tray - Harold Bevir
94. Perfect Impromptu Floating Paper Ball - Allan Lambie
95. An Idea in Embryo - Alfred Frangleton
96. A New Card Frame - J. R. Buscal
97. A Secret Cigarette Holder - Prof. Edgar
98. Waves of the Wand - Rupert H. Slater
    • The Boomerangs
    • Poachers and Rabbits
100. The Great Book Mystery
101. Divining Tissues - J. F. Orrin
103. A Little Discovery - Alfred Frangleton
104. A Rough Idea - E. A. W. Bullock
105. Just Chance with Cigarettes - Stanley Davis
106. Seeing Stars - J. F. Orrin (continued from page 47)
107. The "Best-Yet" Rope or Ribbon Through Body - Allan Lambie
108. You're a Card Manipulator - John K. Bays
110. Secret Writing - A. Leroy & J. Ovette
111. Concerning the Stick to Silks - Wu Chang
113. The One-Way Steal - R. W. Edmanson
115. Dual Personality - J. H. Steele
116. How? - Tom Sellers
117. Professional Problems - Frederic Culpitt
     • Mental Wizardry
     • A Close Fit
120. Programmes
     • Kharkov
     • S. P. Bowman, The Highlights Concert Party
121. Chit Chat - column by Frederic Culpitt
124. obituaries
     • Carmo
     • F. C. Hodson
     • Chales T. Jordan
     • Harold Bevin
124. Book Notes
     • Conjuring to Children - Eric P. Wilson
     • The Only Six Ways to Restore a Rope - Dariel Fitzkee
     • Magic in Early Baltimore - Milbourne Christopher
     • More Magical Mixture - Tom Sellers
     • Modus Operandi - Eric C. Lewis
     • Tricks and Illusionettes - Ovette
126. The National Association of Magical Societies
126. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

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127. Vol. 33, Number 204 December, 1944 [38 numbered; 10 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXXIII Index pages]
127. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
     • A New Vocation?
     • Criticism
     • The Show Goes On
     • New Sawing Through
     • To Correspondents
     • Festivities
129. obituary - Frederick Culpitt
130. Any Colour You Like - J. F. Orrin
132. How to Become a Conjurer - pamphlet review
133. For 'Soft Soap' - K. Burrows
134. Victory V - Alfred Frangleton
135. Hartz-the American Deceptionist - from an old manuscript book
139. Combined Scissors and Thumb Fake - Prof. Edgar
139. Colour-Sensitive Fingertips - George Armstrong
142. The Civet Cat (Concerning a Box of Tricks)
     Extra photo plate page - A Shilling Box of Tricks
143. Convincing Card to Pocket - Victor Farelli
144. Individualism - article by Dr. H. J. Tattersall
146. Flip Coin Vanish - Thomas Kemp
147. The Expert Deal - C. Dudley Whitnall
149. Flag Factory - W. S. Hartley
150. What's in a Name? - R. W. Edmanson
151. Four Card Routine - F. SMith
152. Odds and Ends - T. Lofty
     • Coin Sleights
     • Cards
     • Dont's [sic]
153. Under Fire - John Robinson
     • Just Chance
     • A Good Combination
154. Two Modifications - Alfred Frangleton
     • A Ball Production
     • The Dream Card
156. The Miraculous Total - Arthur F. G. Carter
158. Guess It - Alfred Frangleton
158. Well-Do You?
159. A Rope Routine - George Armstrong
160. Brunel White - obituary
160. The New Volume
161. Programme
     • The Great Masoni in "Out of the Hat" - The Empress, Brixton
162. Book Notes
     • The A.B.C. of Ventriloquism - Douglas Craggs
     • The Expert at the Card Table - S. W. Erdnase (reprint)
     • Sixteen Thumb Tie Gems - Max Andrews
     • Tips on Tricks - Milbourne Christopher
163. Conjuring in the Clouds
164. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

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