Jinx #6 for March included an effect under the above title which I thought to be an original twist to an old principle. Now I find myself again behind the eight ball, in the nine hole or something that carries the same meaning. Dr Duncanson sends me a version that he used over ten years ago which sounds extremely effective and makes a stage item of this otherwise neglected trick.

Entering a small cabinet and wearing a white silk shirt, the performer has his wrists securely tied in the center of a long rope, the ends of which are passed through the sides of a cabinet and held in view by the spectators.

A red shirt is now handed into the cabinet and almost immediately a white shirt is handed out, the performer reappearing and wearing the red shirt! Of course, everything can be examined as the tie is genuine, the shirt is really on the performer and the white shirt is unprepared.

Having two red shirts and one white makes this all possible. A red shirt is first put on and then covered with a white in the skeleton manner that I described. Now the wrists are tied, rope ends held and the red shirt passed in. This is stuffed into the folds of the cabinet or a pocket in same, the white shirt removed and passed out, the performer now wearing the red. Silk shirts work much easier than linen. It is also advisable to pin down the tail of the red shirt to prevent its being pulled out.

One thing certain with Dr Duncanson’s ingenious arrangement is that anyone using the effect is always sure to have more than one shirt to his back.