Clark, Keith & John Braun (editor): Keith Clark's Original Nite Club Act ©1944, Harold R. Rice, Silk King Studio, Cincinnati, NY Hardcover, 50 pages

Image courtesy Bryan-Keith Taylor

Comments: Presented by Harold Rice. Illustrated by Nelson Hahne. Combines three of Keith's previous books: Celebrated Cigarettes, Rope Royale, and Silks Supreme.

Contents:

v Foreword (Harold Rice)
vi Introduction (John Mulholland)

1 Chapter One Celebrated Cigarettes
2 Thumb-nail History of Celebrated Cigarettes
3 Introductory Remarks
4 Celebrated Cigarettes as the Audience Sees It
5 Props and Preparations
5 - Cigarette to Silk
8 - Water Drinking Routine
8 - Sleights
8 - Cigar and Pipe Finish
9 The Public Performance of Celebrated Cigarettes
9 - Preparation
9 - Presentation
16 Extra Deluxe Routine
17 Water Drinking Finish
17 Cigar and Pipe Finsish
18 Special Note

19 Rope Royale
20 As the Spectator Sees It
21 The Rope to Use
21 Preparation
21 - To Prepare the Rope With Cement
22 - To Put on Caesar Rope Gimmicks
22 - Clean Cuts
22 Presentation
22 - Cutting the Rope
26 - Restoration
28 - Knots Reappear
28 - Knots Dissolve
28 - Samples
30 Patriotic Rope Royale
30 - To Prepare the Patriotic Rope

31 Silks Supreme
32 As the Spectator Sees It
33 Properties
34 Preparation
38 Presentation
38 - (1) A Striking Experiment
38 - (2) The Naughty Knots
40 - (3) Squeegie, Squeeegie
42 - (4) The Fourth Dimension
43 - (5) Another Silk Appears
43 - (6) The Conjurer Counts - And Counts Again!
44 - (7) The Sympathetic Silks
47 - (8) The Multiplication Finale