While the working time of this trick is short, the effect is neat and concise. It can be introduced at any time you wish, for its parts are simple, non-mechanical, and complete unto themselves. "Everybody has heard about the vampire bats which inhabit certain tropical countries," begins the performer, "so I want to show you something very, very strange. It was during one of my tours that I needed to purchase an additional supply of silk handkerchiefs for my performances. The entire supply of a local and so-called department store in that little settlement was only 22 and I needed…
Here is a combination of two effects, the old reliable Handkerchief To Egg with sucker finish together with the Handkerchief to Light Bulb. Its only use is for intimate gatherings, drawing room, or house parties, but I've found that when worked properly it almost invariably is a near-sensation. Any magician of two weeks standing knows the handkerchief to egg effect so I'll only mention an original slant I use occasionally when called on to do it and I've left my hollow egg at home. Merely draw a black circle on the side of an egg in about the same position…
Here is Nate Leipzig's own method of performing the card falling through a handkerchief trick. (This isn't true strictly because Nate was a master of this particular effect with any cards at any time. However, he did, at one time, make use of the subterfuge to follow, and it has its points of value. Ed.) The effect is absolutely perfect and simplicity itself to work. A card having been selected, it is returned to the pack and the spectator himself shuffles the deck. With both hands empty, and no false moves, the pack is placed in a handkerchief and wrapped…
Here is a use for several things in the possession of most magicians who store them away and forget about them after the first excitement of ownership is over. The effect: The performer says that he has discovered a new way to find out what card anyone may choose. One is taken from the deck and kept by the spectator. The deck is placed back into its case and held by someone else. The performer says, "Think of your card!", and produces a handkerchief. But when opened out it is seen to be of solid color except for a blank…
Some of us elderly "bugs" often wonder why "standbys" from the performances of Hermann and Kellar have been discarded. One of the masterpieces which lived after DeKolta was the paper cone production. The old-timers literally filled the stage with flowers, but why not, in this age, try something different using their basic principles (tried and true). With the method I will attempt to describe, ten or a dozen silks, several flags, a glass of water or other commodities, all for future use in your program to follow, may be produced with no sleeve or body work, away from tables or…
This effect has been worked up from a number of ideas and angles heretofore known by a few people if not by many. Together they make an excellent and tested routine with silks. From a proven (?) empty box of small proportions are produced three silk handkerchiefs of the 18 inch size. One by one these handkerchiefs are disappeared by rolling them into the hands in the approved classical fashion. And then, with something of a flourish, the three silks are reproduced from the hands, knotted together in a string! The string of silks are rolled into a ball and…
You who have a discarded Phantom Tube in the pile of apparatus in the closet at the end of the hall may now add a new number to your program. This famous tube for the production of silks can be important in a different guise. On his table the magician groups three ordinary glasses. Upon these he stands a shown empty tube which has been covered at both ends with crayon marked tissue paper squares. In front of this arrangement he next places a two fold screen which is about two inches taller than the tube on the glasses. Three…
While there are many tubes and boxes for the purpose of appearing, changing, and vanishing handkerchiefs, this easily constructed tube will be found compact and a device of untold uses. The extremely simple mechanical detail can hardly get out of order and the tube may be picked up at any time during your performance to serve as a secret assistant. It is approximately two and one-quarter inches in a diameter and about six inches long. Constructed of heavy tin or spun brass each cylinder should be made to fit the individual performer's hand, to be perfectly practical. Most such appliances…
(Editor's note: I hate to interrupt, but the American equivalent of "sucker dummy" is an ordinary baby's "nipple", or should I have said a baby's ordinary "nipple"?) ((Who doesn't watch for Eric Williams at any British Ring Convention? His gags and humour are ever being sought out by brother magi... and his scatty ideas are a constant source for good fun. Eric likes to play gags on the boys which accounts for the stunt he sent me for the Jinx. Try it on your local gang. Cedric)) "Here, Cedric, is an effect especially for hocum pocum men. I did it…
By Cedric George Davenport, known to the public, his agents, and the boys as Gilly-Gilly, fully intended being with us on our memorial trip to the States and the I.B.M. Convention. For the Jinx he passed on a couple of twists to a very popular item with his very best regards to all American magi and sincere regrets at no being able, at the last minute, to make it all. At a recent Demon Club show George came forward with the well known and popular Cane to Silk... tapped the stick... a wave in the air... the stick had vanished…