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Well, Let's See What We've Got This Time

A Good Coin Vanish
A Sleight With a Cigarette
How to Use an Old Broken Breakaway Fan
For the Sleight of Hand Fellers
The Four Aces
Something Brand New
A Card Trick For Your Club Show

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Well, Let's See What We've Got This Time

Suppose we start off with a trick that I feel is worth a two
dollar bill to anyone who likes card tricks. Get this for an
effect:
A deck of cards is thoroughly and genuinely shuffled and
SHUFFLED OVERHAND so the spectators can see the
fronts of the cards TOO. The performer, after the shuffle,
writes a prediction on a piece of paper (Say he writes "You
will take the Queen of Spades") He allows someone to hold
this paper. A spectator now cuts the deck ANYWHERE HE
WISHES, The card at the cut is looked at by HIM alone.
The performer now divides the deck in 2 sections, one
section goes in his pocket, the other in the spectator's
pocket. Each man now takes out one card from his pocket.
The rest of the cards are placed together. The performer
states that he is really demonstrating how easy it is to do a
miracle in front of their eyes when he has the knowledge,
and how futile it is for the outside or layman to attempt the
same thing. He asks the spectator to think of his card and
turn over and look at the card he took from his pocket. He is
asked if that is the card he cut at. The answer will be NO.
The performer now demands the name of the card and on
turning over the one HE TOOK FROM HIS POCKET it is
the very same card.
AND THE PREDICTION PAPER STATES THE NAME
OF THAT CARD.
AND THE DECK IS ORDINARY AND MAY BE
EXAMINED,
AND YOU SHUFFLED IT GENUINELY
AND HE CUT WHEREVER HE WANTED
AND THERE ARE NO CONFEDERATES.
Well if we gave you an easy method, would you DO IT?....
or would you just read it and pass it up?
No sleights. We have a regular svengali deck. In this deck
there are 26 different cards, besides the forcing card which
we will assume is the Queen of Spades. Take these 26
cards, (the different ones) and in your left hand coat pocket,
you put 26 more cards of the same back design, so that
when these 26 in the deck and the 26 in your pocket are put
together, they will make a full deck. On the TOP of the 26
cards in your pocket, place the QUEEN OF SPADES. Have
these 26 cards VERTICAL in the pocket. Now the regular
svengali deck and we're ready.
1st: Write your prediction "You will take the Queen of
Spades" on a piece of paper and fold it, and give it to
someone to hold. Next HOLD THE SVENGALI DECK
WITH FACES TO AUDlENCE SO THEY CAN SEE
THEM AND GENUINELY SHUFFLE THEM
OVERHAND. This secret alone is in my lists for $1.00 and
has been for five years. In this manner you can show them
the deck is ordinary without calling attention to it, and
ESPECIALLY MAGICIANS, if they do not know this
principle.
Now hold the deck by the sides and have them cut it
lengthways. When they cut, take the portion they cut off, in
your right hand, and you can tell easily by looking at the top
card of the lower heap whether it is a force card or not (The
force cards will be cut at the ends) If it ISN'T, then look at
the under card of the top portion in right hand and that will
be a Queen....
(Note: This genuine shuffle of a svengali deck is bound to
mix up a few of the cards, but I have never yet failed to
have a spectator cut at a forced card. FOR THE SIMPLE
REASON THAT THEY WILL CUT A LONG CARD.)
So push out either the top card of the lower portion, or the
bottom card of the top portion (whichever the force card is)
to spectator and he looks at it, The card is now replaced and
deck squared up.
Next proceed to deal out the deck in two piles and as you do
so give YOURSELF all the force cards and the spectator
ALL THE OTHERS. You may have to give yourself two
cards at a time, once in a while, but you talk saying, I'll mix
these up carefully, or I'll mix them up any old way.... here; I
don't have to take one card at a time. I'll take two.... I'll give
YOU two.... I want you to feel, my friends, that everything
is done aboveboard.... Now, you continue, "Neither of us
knows which pile your card is, let's put each pile in our
pockets. I'll put one in my pocket and you put one in yours.
Fine. Now I'll show you how hard tricks are. I'm going to
ask you to reach in your pocket and take out a card. So will
I." (and you both do so).... you then take out the OTHER 26
cards rather the other 25 cards as you have taken the
QUEEN OFF THE TOP AND BROUGHT IT OUT ON
TABLE FACE DOWN.... "let's lay the rest of the cards
together here.... (and you put his cards and your cards
together after he takes out his 25 cards too).... then you
finish the trick exactly as explained in the 1st paragraph and
allow everything to be examined.
You've paid many a dollar for card tricks that don't compare
with this one. Even to ME.
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A Good Coin Vanish

(and easy too)
I better not tell you this is good. Suppose you try it for
yourself.... the misdirection is perfect.... your own coin or a
borrowed coin, is placed under a handkerchief and
completely vanishes.... both hands being shown absolutely
empty, and of course the handkerchief is ordinary, being
borrowed, also, if you desire.
Have the coin, preferable a quarter or half dollar, in left
hand being held between finger tips.... next place the
handkerchief over the left hand (and coin, too, of course)
and as the right hand goes underneath, the coin is clipped
away from the left fingers between the tips of the third and
second fingers of the right hand.... this is done in an instant
while apparently straightening out the handkerchief from
underneath.
The right hand now is drawn under the handkerchief and
against it too.... toward the corner that is nearest your body
and the both hands must be in such a position that when this
right hand is drawn outward under the handkerchief that
when the RIGHT FINGERS GRASP THE CORNER OF
THE HANDKERCHIEF THE RIGHT THIRD AND
SECOND FINGERS SHOULD BE DIRECTLY OVER
THE BREAST POCKET, where the coin is dropped, and
then the hand moves away easily, a little distance from the
pocket....
While this is going on, naturally the left fingers under the
handkerchief, pretend to hold the coin.... and as you are just
about to drop the coin in pocket, or better still JUST
ABOUT AS YOUR HAND IS ABOUT TO APPROACH
THE BREAST POCKET.... you misdirect by saying, "I'm
going to let you SEE THE COIN." Then all eyes are
directed at once to the center of the handkerchief and the
dirty work can proceed in the next instant....
You would like this, if you saw it DONE....
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A Sleight with a Cigarette

(and a good laugh)
This is an entirely impromptu thing and can be used
anywhere and any place, and is especially effective at a
dinner table or cafe or parlor.... using a borrowed cigarette.
BUT.... the switch itself can be used in ANY trick where a
cigarette is substituted for another one.
In this instance you borrow a cigarette from someone, and
without apparently making any moves whatsoever, you take
the cigarette, and expressing great surprise, you pull out the
cigarette and it stretches way out like rubber, after doing
this three or four times, you pass the cigarette back again
and needless to say, it is all right, and the spectators, besides
being compelled to laugh at a ludicrous bit of by-play with
someone else's cigarette, are also completely fooled.
The speed with which you work this sleight or switch, will
determine the laughs or mystery you get out of the move.
First of all have the RUBBER CIGARETTE thumb palmed
in the right hand (held in crotch of thumb between thumb
and first finger).... Ask to borrow a cigarette and when one
is offered, you take it with your left hand and hold it upright
between your fingers (SEE ILL. NO. 1)....Now bring your
right hand over to left hand, as in FIGURE 2.... forming a
"V" with the two cigarettes.... your left hand now lowers the
2 cigarettes holding them still in a "V", and as soon as the
cigarette leaves the right hand, the left hand tips to the right
so that the tip of the real cigarette goes into the right hand
thumb crotch, where it is palmed and left hand moves
immediately away with rubber cigarette, left hand tips
upside down so the cigarette is pointing down toward the
right fingers which grasp it, stroke it a few times, and then
PULLS IT WAY DOWN, STRETCHING IT TO FULL
LENGTH, and then back again.... when you do this rapidly
three or four times, it is very funny.... after you finish, turn
left hand so cigarette is now pointing upward again, bring
right hand over and form the "V" again and then work the
same moves as explained above so that the real cigarette is
in the left hand at finish. You then pass it back to the
spectator, and reaching in your pocket for your
handkerchief, you leave the cigarette, and bring out hank,
and wipe off your hands.... IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHERE TO GET RUBBER CIGARETTES, I'LL
GLADLY SEND YOU A COUPLE OF THEM FOR
NOTHING.
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How to Use an Old Broken Breakaway Fan

I know there's hundreds of them around.... I have two
myself in my cellar.... you can work several tricks with
PART of the fan.... I'll give you ONE.... Take out the pin
that holds the fan together at the handle.... this gives you
several SMALL FANS.... now you'll find that if you fan one
of them (say one with three or four leafs) that you can show
it back and. front Or both sides, and everything will appear
to be all right.... but if you stuck a MINIATURE PLAYING
CARD on one of the leafs, and then reversed the fan, IT
WON'T SHOW, yet you can show both sides.... well,
simply have the duplicate of the miniature card forced, and
show the fan back and front, and. then after the card has
been selected.... either open it up and show the miniature
which wasn't on either side a moment ago.... or give it to
some lady, opening the fan so she can SEE THE
MINIATURE CARD, and tell her that it is the fan of CHIN
CHIN ALLATIME and if she fans herself while she
concentrates, she will be able to tell the name of the card.
Allow her to see plainly the little card, as you hand her the
fan.... if you work it this way you needn't call attention to
the fan beforehand.... but afterward, you can casually show
the both sides of the fan.... and she will be as puzzled as
they are, because she sees that the card she just looked at
has GONE.
If you HAVEN'T A BROKEN FAN, and you are DYING to
do this trick, I'll send you part of one for nothing.... unless
they are all gone by the time you ask for it.
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For the Sleight of Hand Fellers

(Card Trick)
It's a swell effect tho'.... and worth the two sleights.... A
spectator takes his own deck over in the corner or out of the
room and shuffles them, merely THINKS OF A CARD and
when he hands you the deck you take one card out, lay it on
the table, and it is turned over later, and that is the card he
selected or just thought of.
The effect alone of this trick will command immediate
attention from an audience if you SELL THE IDEA TO
THEM BEFORE YOU START. We will suppose he
thought of the ten of spades.... when you take the deck
back.... you take out any card, but apparently you think
deeply before you take the card out. Lay it face down on the
table and as you lay it down, bend the corner up a LITTLE.
We'll say the card is the ace of hearts. Tell them that this is
really not a sure thing. If you get the card, you will be very
lucky, and as long as you have laid one card. down it is
perfectly all right for you to ask the name of the card
selected.
AS YOU SAY ALL THIS, the cards are face toward you;
held by both hands. They will now tell you the name of the
card; You say, "Well, that's all right if it's the 10 of
spades.... you know most everyone thinks of a deuce of
clubs or a five of hearts or some card like that." and as you
talk you locate the 10 of spades and bring it to the top of
deck, by simply cutting the cards at that 10 spot.
You now have the 10 of spades on top of the deck. Make a
double a lift and take these two cards in right hand and
show them, saying "You didn't think of the five of hearts
tho' did you?.... this card below the ten spot must be
mentioned as one of the cards that people usually think of,
before you show it.... hold the 2 cards over the top of deck,
drop the under one and with right hand.... you perform the
Mexican turnover with the ace of hearts on the table and
show that the card you laid down was the 10 of spades, now
IN A FLASH, before they can get their eyes off the 10, you
do the TOP CHANGE, and the ace is now changed to the
five and you carelessly throw that down on table face up....
and I defy anyone to get this, if you do it right.... I could
mention name after name of fellows who have bet me
money they could do it right away, simply because they saw
the Mexican turnover, but the last part FOOLS THEM when
THEY try it.... as if they are misdirected right, and you do it
IMMEDIATELY (the top change) after you turn the 10 spot
over, then they're fooled. I'll do it for you, when you see
me....
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The Four Aces

in a different manner
Here's a quick one, when anyone thinks of an ace trick,
you'll think of this....
The four aces are put in different places in deck and they
SEE THEM THERE.... you pass your hand over the deck
and, they are CHANGED. This is another one you'll like to
do.
Hold the deck in left hand, the 4 aces laying on table. Pick
up a red ace and put it at the back of deck (the deck is held
face toward spectator).... another red ace is placed on the
face of the deck.... so far we have now a red ace on bottom
and one on top with the deck held so spectators see the ace
on front.... Now a black ace is inserted in center of deck.
The ace of clubs.... next put the ACE OF SPADES IN
FRONT OF this AND ALLOW BOTH CARDS TO
PROTRUDE FROM THE END OF DECK ABOUT AN
INCH.... so they see the red card on face and they see the
ace of spades and they know the ace of clubs is behind it.
Now show the red ace is on top again.... and you are going
to show the ace of clubs THIS WAY.... deck held still in left
hand, right forefinger bends ace of spades forward so they
can see the ace of clubs is back of it, left top or TIP of
forefinger goes against the ace of clubs as the right
forefinger lets the ace of spades go back again in place.
Now ALL YOU DO IS PUSH WITH THE LEFT
FOREFINGER ALL THE CARDS IN REAR OF ACE OF
CLUBS AND INCLUDING THE ACE OF CLUBS TO
THE RIGHT HAND WHERE THEY ARE PALMED FOR
A SECOND, RIGHT HAND BROUGHT DOWN TO
SIDE, AND THEN RIGHT HAND BROUGHT UP
CARDS PLACED ON TOP OF THE OTHERS ALL
SQUARED UP, AND NOW the red aces are in the middle
and the black aces, on top and bottom, where they are
shown.... the move is exactly as if you were going to PALM
HALF THE DECK for reproducing a fan under the knee.
REPEAT IT IF YOU WISH.
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Something Brand New

Who said there was nothing new?.... well, Sir, this
something is NOT new.... but it IS NEW and I offer it for
the first time to MAGICIANS to use in their magic work,
FIRMS that make a specialty of selling apparatus and ideas
to gamblers sell what I am going to tell you about for TWO
DOLLARS a few inches, but NOW, for the first time, you
will be able to buy all you want for around a half a dollar, In
DRUG STORES it is called adhesive for TOUPES.... used
by men to STICK TOUPES TO THEIR HEADS, so they
won't fall off. Sounds silly, using a thing like that doesn't it?
But if you're near an ART STORE go in and ask them FOR
ADHESIVE TAPE WITH THE ADHESIVE ON BOTH
SIDES, and if they are out to date they'll have it in stock.
Now if you can't get it anywhere you let me know and. I'll
get you a LARGE ROLL enough to satisfy you for quite a
while for the large sum of 79 cents which is what I pay for
it. But it does come in smaller sizes for 50 cents or
thereabouts. It's adhesive tape, then WITH THE
STICKINESS on BOTH sides, and that's what the story is.
There isn't much more to say if you have imagination.
However, there are SO MANY ways this can be applied to
magic, that I will only delve into a few, and when you get
the idea of how it can be used, then you can use your OWN
IDEAS.
I give a gambling demonstration at clubs and organizations,
and I have a little piece of the tape right on the callous
under my third finger, on the open hand.... If you are
playing for money and change is used, or even chips, show
them how easy it is for you, after a pot is won by someone
else, to PUSH OVER THE POT TO HIM WITH THE
HAND WITH THE TAPE (THE RIGHT HAND) AND
SAY "The pot's yours, feller".... and then show the palm of
your hand, and let them see that a dime or a quarter has
stuck to the hand.... What a laugh that is, to show them how
easy it is for you to cheat, IF YOU WANTED TO.
Another way is to ask a druggist to give you ten dimes for a
dollar bill.... when he does so, and he puts them on the
counter, you push them aside as if you wanted to count
them easily, and stick one to your palm, and then argue with
him as long as you wish, about only getting nine dimes
back.
Here's a beautiful stunt and a real miracle if you use a table
with a well.... About 6 inches in the front of the well, have a
black piece of card. To the end of this tie a thread and have
the end of thread down the well, THRU THE WELL and off
stage. On top of the black piece of card have a SMALL
PIECE OF THE TAPE. Now have a card selected, and
when you get it back in the deck shuffle the card to the
bottom, or you can HAVE THE DECK SHUFFLED. Then
take the deck and show faces to prove the card is still in the
deck, and when you see it yourself, as you turn around, you
make the pass, bringing the card to the bottom. Lay the deck
face down ON TOP OF THE TAPE AND BLACK PIECE
OF CARD. As soon as this is done, your assistant pulls the
thread slowly and it will draw the SELECTED CARD AND
THE BLACK CARD SLOWLY BACKWARD AND INTO
THE WELL.... NOW ISN'T IT A MIRACLE IF YOU
TELL your audience that the card was selected freely.... put
back in the deck, and you have told them to watch every
move you made. You showed them the card was in the
center of the deck somewhere, and now without doing a
thing you are going to make the card disappear. AND
THEN WHEN YOU ARE READY ALLOW ANY
SPECTATOR TO PICK UP THE DECK HIMSELF AND
RUN THRU IT AND THE CARD IS REALLY GONE.
You can have a small piece tied, OR STUCK, RATHER to
the ends of a handkerchief and then by simply pressing
lightly another handkerchief against the tape, it will appear
when you lift them up, the handkerchiefs are tied. together.
If you do this, make a small knot in the ends of silk first, so
they'll really look as if they're tied.
PUT A SMALL PIECE INSIDE YOUR BILLIARD BALL
SHELL and then when you vanish a ball by inserting it in
the shell YOU'LL BE ABLE TO TOSS THE SHELL AND
BALL IN THE AIR, and they'll stick together, and look
LIKE ONLY ONE BALL, fooling the ones who know
about the shell.
You can put a small strip against the side of your trousers
and then stick cigarettes on the strip. To get them off when
you wish to produce them, ROLL THEM OFF, and they
won't break.
If you stick a small piece as explained in the first idea on
the callous of right hand palm, IT IS REMARKABLE
HOW EASY IT IS TO PALM OFF THE TOP CARD
FROM THE DECK AND KEEP THE FINGERS WIDE
OPEN. I use this one a lot.
If you want to vanish a coin QUICKLY, stick a piece in the
center of your white pocket handkerchief, and then when
you borrow the coin, drape the hank over left fist, and with
right hand, put the coin underneath and stick it to the tape....
When ready, shake handkerchief and coin apparently has
gone.
Do you see now, the hundreds of ways this can be used?
YOU'RE WELCOME.
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A Card Trick for Your Club Show

The reason I named it that, was because I put it in my own
show.... the effect of the trick is that a card is taken, and
replaced and the deck shuffled.... the deck is then fanned so
spectators can see the cards, and attention is called to the
fact that you might GUESS at the card selected, but you
would only have 1 chance out of 52 in guessing RIGHT.
You then turn to some TOTAL STRANGER and have him
look over the cards and without undue influence on the
stranger, you tell him to settle his mind on one card and HE
TELLS THE OTHER SPECTATOR THE NAME OF THE
CARD HE SELECTED. Of course there are no
confederates.
You use anyone's deck for this, if you wish, or your own,
the idea and effect is the real thing.... the method.... I'm sure
you'll like, as it is subtle.... The principle is that when you
fan the deck WITH ONE HAND, and it is the right hand,
with faces up that all the cards will show, that is the pips
will show.... but if you take the deck in the LEFT HAND,
with the faces UP and fan it with that left hand, THERE
WILL BE NO PIPS SHOWING, except the last card.
Now for the routine.... have a card selected, and replaced
and brought to the top.... by the pass or any method.... now
with right hand, fan the deck with THAT ONE HAND, and
show them the cards.... explaining as stated above that you
would have a mighty slim chance of getting the card if you
GUESSED. But now you turn to someone at your left and
some one seated in a spot where no one could see the cards
but that person if you fanned them in front of her.... you
remark that this man or lady doesn't know magic, and that
they never DID do tricks, but you are to fan the deck in
front of them and ask them to concentrate on some ONE
CARD that they see, and then after taking plenty of time
they will announce the name of the Card that was selected
without any help whatsoever from you.... you take the deck
and overhand shuffle it, leaving the top or selected card on
the bottom of the deck. Now take the cards in left hand, face
up and toward you, and fan them with left hand.... and then
hold them in front of the spectator....
Naturally that being the only card they can see, they will
name it.... but tell them to take their time.... they will enter
the spirit of the thing and do as you request. After they
name the card, say slyly, "Don't tell how it's done will you?"
They'll know what you mean but the other spectators will
think you are KIDDING THEM.
THE END.
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