Comments: Illustrated by Sid
Lorraine. Originally published in the pages of Sphinx Magazine.
Available as an e-Book from Lybrary.com
Contents:
1 Preface: What Constitutes a Magician?
1 East Indian Needle Feat: threading needles in the mouth. Mouth can
be
examined before and after
2 Cigarette In Bill Again: simple approach to burning a bill and
having
it end up rolled up in a cigarette
4 Mentalex? Two or three spectators freely select a card from deck.
Deck is placed in a hat, and one by one the cards are transferred
from
the hat to another hat. Spectator #1 is asked to say "stop" when any
card is 1/2 way to the other hat. Upon doing so, the card in the
magician's hand is shown to be that spectator's card. This can be
continued with the other one or two spectators. (3-way force deck)
4 Telephone Mystery: An approach for predicting selected cards via
telephone. Allows different cards to be "selected" each day of the
week.
5 Attention, Mentalists! a simple approach to a living and dead test
6 No Title at All: Two selections are found by stopping at any card,
and then counting to the spectator's number
7 Three Card Monte Outdone: not with cards, but with coin rattle
boxes.
Spectator must find box with a coin in it amongst three boxes. Nice
approach.
8 The Master Mind: a multiphased card prediction effect using one
red
and one blue deck
12 My Original Swami Test: a number and color are predicted
14 Improvement 8,000: a selected cards is "spelled" to (Si Stebbins
stack)
14 Slate Writing Wrinkle: an idea for using the spirit slates
15 Club or Stage Mental Number: multiple card divination by
blindfolded
assistant
15 A Mediumistic Stunt: yet another card divination, this one using
the
Si Stebbins stack