Bagley, William A.: One Man Show ©1940 (circa) Vawser & Wiles, London Softcover, saddle-stitched, 96 pages

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Comments: "A Guide for the Semi-Professional Entertainer". Nicely illustrated with drawings by W. Bagley. A book on entertaining, including conjuring and other related arts such as juggling, shadowgraphy, music, etc.

Contents (from book, updated Dec 2022):

2 Drawings: for page 22
3 Introduction
4 Drawings: for page 28
5 Contents
6 List of Illustrations

7 Ring Up the Curtain

9 Chapter I The One Man Show
9 Individual vs. Team Work
10 There's Something to Suit You!
10 Getting Material
11 Launching Out
11 My Fees Are..
12 Publicity Pays
13 Getting On
13 Books That Help
14 Dressing Up

15 Chapter II Conjuring
15 An Entertainer, Not a Trickster
15 Two Kinds of Conjurers
16 Making Your Own Apparatus
16 Style and "Patter"
17 Arranging the Repertoire
17 Useful Books
18 More About Programmes
18 Helpful Hints
19 Drawings: for page 38
20 Some Recommended Tricks
22 Tricks For You To Do Know
22 - An "Ink" Credulous Affair: tumbler of ink changes to water
23 Drawings: for page 48
24 The Human Matchbox: match blown out magically, and another produced lit
24 The Escapologist: rapid escape from rope ties behind a screen
25 Gone!: penny vanishes in a handkerchief
25 Balls From Nowhere: balls produced from nesting tubes
26 A Bran-New Mystery: bran in a tumbler changes to milk
27 Drawings: Principles of Juggling, page 50
29 The Matchbox Mint: a halfpenny changes to a shilling in a matchbox
30 All Change!: red and blue balls transpose in two paper bags
31 Drawings: for page 52, more juggling
32 The Missing Link: performer removes from pocket the selected card
32 Rings On a String: curtain rings removed from a cord
33 Soldiers and Sailors: performer divines if papers have soldiers or sailors on them
34 The Perambulating Pencil: pencil vanishes in a paper
35 Drawings: more juggling stunts, for page 54
36 A Curious Pencil Sharpener: a pencil is sharpened in a duster
37 The Inexhaustible Matchbox: matchbox refills itself twice
38 The Economical Cigarette Case: empty or full
38 The Patriotic Fan: Changes color four times
39 Drawings: for page 57

41 Chapter III Music
41 Tickling the Ivories
41 Jazz vs. Classics
42 Other Instruments
43 Drawings: rope stunts for page 58
44 Fake Musical Instruments
44 Singing
45 Voice Training

46 Chapter IV Feats of Dexterity and Skill
46 Juggling, Plate Spinning, Escape Artiste
46 Faked Apparatus
47 Drawings: puppetry, for page 73
49 Ball Juggling
49 An Outline Course in Ball Juggling
51 Drawings: paper tears for page 78
52 Practice Makes Perfect
53 Juggling With Plates, etc.
55 Drawings: more paper tears for page 79
56 Impromptu Tricks:
56 - Pennies on Back of Hand
56 - Pennies Caught from Elbow
56 - Tumbler Feat: two versions
57 Hat Tricks
57 Be Colourful
58 Rope Spinning
58 - How to Spin a Rope
59 Drawings: Troublewit, for page 83
60 The Escape Artist
61 - The Kellar Tie
61 - The Jacoby Tie
62 - Another Escape
63 Drawings, more Troublewit
64 - The 100-ft Sash-Line Trick
64 - The Indian Sack Mystery
65 Showmanship is Necessary
65 Other Stunts

66 Chapter V Other Vocal Efforts - Ventriloquism, Mimicry, Monologues and Recitations, Punch and Judy, Living Marionettes, Clowning
66 You Can Do It
67 Drawings: hand shadows for page 85
68 Working the Figure
68 Dialogues
69 Voice Throwing
69 Good Books To Read
69 Mimicry
69 Impersonations
70 Monologues and Recitations
70 - The Modern Idea
71 Drawings: more hand shadows, for page 85
72 Some Tips on Elocution
72 Punch and Judy
73 Living Marionettes
74 Clowning
75 Drawings: Lightning artistry, for page 89
76 The Comedian

77 Chapter VI Artful Art, Paper Tearing, Troublewit, Shadowgraphy, Lightning Sketches, Rag and Smoke Pictures, Chapeaugraphy
77 Paper Tearing
77 Combine With Paper Magic
78 Paper Act For a Young Performer
80 Make a Good Display
81 Drawings: more figures, for page 89
82 Twopence Coloured
82 Troublewit
83 - What Can be Made
84 Shadowgraphy
85 - Three Ways of Doing It
86 The Lightning Artist
86 - Your Apparatus
86 - Making Your Own Chalks
87 Drawings: Chapeau, for page 92
88 - The Paper You Can Use
88 - Making the Drawings
89 - A Useful Dodge
90 - By Way of a Joke
91 Smoke Pictures
91 Chapeaugraphy
92 - Making Your Own Hat
93 Drawings
94 - Accessories
94 - Making the Hats
95 - An Amusing Idea
96 Intermission