A NEW TORN CIGARETTE PAPER WRINKLE Versions of the torn and restored cigarette paper with duplicate waxed to thumb nail were deceptive close-up methods. For a small audience and under more stringent conditions, try this. Wax rolled duplicate to front or ball of the thumb instead, this portion of thumb being kept downward while presenting. Thumb should be dry and free from perspiration. For best results, apply wax, either diachylon or magician's wax, after slightly warming. In presenting, after tearing and rolling the first sheet, remove the duplicate roll, squeeze the two together, and show them as one between the…
Because I once mentioned the plumes production from Sach's immortal book Sleight of Hand, as a sterling piece of magic for the modern nite club performer, I received, and still get, quite a few requests that, because of the book being so hard to find these days, I reprint the instructions. Heeding those requests because I really think the effect should be in use by one performer at least, the trick is put down here with no apologies to those who haven't asked for it, and who, in spite of themselves, may find it just what it is, a very…
To the audience this routine appears at the outset to be the standard effect of shaking the selected card through a handkerchief. But when the shake is made the entire deck drops through! The magician looks amazed and embarrassed (he had announced his intention of causing only the chosen card to penetrate the cloth) and then his face brightens suddenly when he discovers that a single card remains in the handkerchief. It proves to be the chosen card. Follow the illustrations carefully. The pack is held in the right hand, face up, and covered with the handkerchief. Or you may…
Undoubtedly this is the most rapid cigarette penetration through cloth yet devised. It takes a little practice to master the move and care must be taken to have the audience directly in front of you. The cigarette may be lit. Hold it upright in the right fingers as shown in Fig. 1. Actually the lower end is grasped only by the thumb and third finger. The left hand holds the handkerchief over its palm as shown in Fig. 2. It carries the cloth in front of the cigarette, then tosses it back over the right hand, cigarette and all. But…
In this effect a fountain pen is caused to vanish from a handkerchief or table cloth, and then reappear in a novel fashion. Borrow a fountain pen and clip it to a folded handkerchief as shown in the first drawing. The handkerchief is folded once each way. Grasp each end of the pen and roll it toward you so that the cloth forms a roll about the pen. The left fingers, however, instead of rolling the end they hold, actually grasp it so that as the right hand rolls the pen toward you, the pen itself (held stationary by left…
Effect: A silk is removed from the trousers pocket which is then shown empty. The silk is marked with an initialed label and then is vanished. A spectator produces it from the magician's pocket. The trick is repeated, and the spectator who initialed the label is asked to take the silk from the pocket, and identify it for himself. The equipment needed is two 13-inch red silks, a box of gummed labels (Dennison Index Tabs N°217), and a handkerchief pull. A pencil also is in your pocket. To prepare, write the word "Hank" across the top of one of the…
Quite a few magicians have used this old time effect, but at present it seems to have died out. The usual method has been for a faked plate to be used, but this method is simplicity itself, the plate and newspaper being unprepared. A common soup plate is shown together with a sheet of ordinary newspaper. The paper is put on the table and the plate placed on it with the eating side down. One or two handkerchiefs are now shown and vanished by any favorite means or appliance. Upon the plate being lifted, the handkerchiefs are found underneath. Dependent…
With your hands absolutely empty save for a 17 inch handkerchief with contrasting border, you stroke it from end to end and it becomes two handkerchiefs. Another stroke and it becomes three. Another and it becomes four, and merely by running the hand down the four handkerchiefs they become five. This production is very suitable for either the club or stage, and each handkerchief may be made of silk with a dark border, and all five centers are of different contrasting colors. There are no fakes or gimmicks as the production is self-contained within the silks themselves. The master silk…
Modestly, of course, this title is intended to indicate that this version of the Twentieth Century Trick represents a Century of Progress, so far as the working is concerned. The effect is as usual; but the flag appears between two ordinary and unfaked 18 inch silks, and there is no switch. Further, the silks are shown to be really separate in the first place, no Sympathetic Silk principle being used. Having gone through the usual routine of whetting the reader's appetite – magicians are all potential ad writers – let's get down to the business of describing the working. The…