DeCourcy, Ken: After Dinner Technique ©1980 Supreme Magic Co. Ltd, Bideford, England Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 62 pages

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Comments: After Dinner entertaining. From the preface, "This book first appeared in 1953 in serial form in Goodliffe's Abracadabra.".

Contents (from book):

3 Preface and Acknowledgement (Ken de Courcy)
5 Foreword Be Natural: about dinner jobs
6 - What About Style?
8 Chapter 2 What About Dress?
11 Chapter 3 What About Conditions?
12 - Should I Compere?
14 Chapter 4 Now, About Audiences...
17 Chapter 5 What About Volunteers?
20 Chapter 6 A Word About Your Table: with some construction tips
23 Chapter 7 Choosing the Tricks: pros and cons of effects, with examples
28 Chapter 8 Now, About the Acts...: putting it all together
31 Chapter 9 More About the Acts: more about putting together a full act
34 Chapter 10 The Sorcerer's Apprentice: pros and cons on using assistants
37 Chapter 11 Music, Maestro, Please: on arranging for music
37 - The Signature Tune
40 Chapter 12 How Music Helps
40 - Applause Cues
40 - Stage-Waits
41 - Pointing
41 - Comedy
43 Chapter 13 Get Your Clients Registered: recording your shows
43 - Tying The Loose Ends: on booking and show management

46 Part Two Trick Section
46 First Guest - Ali - The Thief of Bad-Gags
47 Routine for the Six Card Repeat (Ali): 6 card repeat but the Magician keeps getting interrupted
49 Second Guest - George Blake
49 Flash! (George Blake): comedy bit with a newspaper clipping which bursts into flames, followed by a lit cigarette vanish
52 - Variation for Magicians
54 Third Guest - Tan Hock Chuan
54 Discatorial (Tan Hack Chuan): performer knows what color disc removed from a bag behind his back, and ends with predicting a color order
57 Fourth Guest - Jimmy Revill
57 Block and Frame (Jimmy Revill): block penetrates a rope, routined for a punch finish
59 Finale
59 - Money to Burn (Ken DeCourcy): fully routined burnt and restored bill