For the opening or closing of a short card routine included in any act, I have something new to work on. It would make a smart and modern frame within which could be set a series of moves and manipulations, and it would provide the most necessary start and finish. The first part has been written up somewhere but the last part has not been figured out. I’ll come through with two subscription periods of ten issues for the best solution, or split it between the opening and closing effect if the occasion warrants.
Upon entering the performer shows a single sheet of tissue which he places between two tambourine rings about seven or eight inches in diameter forming a drumhead. Showing this on both sides, he shows the right hand empty back and front. Plunging this hand through the tambourine from the back to front, the hand appears with a fan of cards. The cards are taken with the left hand while the right hand tosses tambourine aside.
Several minutes later after moves, sleights, etc., the performer makes another tambourine in the same manner and again shows it to be what it is. Laying it on the table, the deck or cards that have been used are openly dropped inside the container formed by the inch wide rings and the paper bottom. Picking the tambourine up flatwise it is held away from everything, then turned slowly so that the bottom faces the audience and is seen unbroken, and again the hand is plunged through and the tambourine cast aside. The cards have been both produced and vanished via the same route.
Keep away from wells if humanly possible. Twist the effect as much as you like, as long as you retain the tambourine production and vanish. Try to make this a stunt for a smart act where tables and whatnot are not generally used. Now it is up to you.
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