Since the cinema houses inaugurated "free dish nights" and "prize allotments" throughout the U.S. in order to bolster up attendance marks, the public has become as conscious of "chances" as of the movies themselves. There have been a number of effects based on free selections of envelopes with the performer successful always in winning the prize, but I offer the following because it is simple, direct, and has been in constant use with my program. The magician shows six business size envelopes. All are in a sealed condition and each contains a piece of paper, dollar bill size, with the…
Calling it BANK NITE, Floyd Thayer first released a most excellent idea in an early issue of Genii. As is customary and to be expected with all items of sound effect, improvements and variations began to follow. The method to follow does away with the use of any arbitrary counting to a selection, such as the word "Bingo", etc., and makes of it a more personalized trick with the audience. The variation also tends to impress the watchers that the selection of envelopes is perfectly free and left undeniably to chance alone. Five envelopes are used. This number will be…