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Elliott, Bruce: Classic Secrets of Magic Republished as: Great Secrets of the Master Magicians |
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Comments: Illustrated by Stanley Jaks. Excellent instruction in magic, including many "classics" such as Paddle tricks, Egg Bag, and Cups & Balls. Bruce Elliot's writing is thorough and not just the "here's another trick" type. Lots of line drawings. Recommended.
Contents: (from book):
ix Preface: Introduction to the book by Bruce Elliot, September 1952
1 Chapter 1: The
Spectator's Card is Revealed!
2 Wrong Card Tranforms to Selection
4 Card Through the Handkerchief (Dai Vernon & Wallace Galvin)
8 Card on the Ceiling (Jay Marshall)
13 Chapter 2: Corncobs
13 Corncob Pipes (Lee Noble): smoke pours from empty pipes in
increasingly unbelievable ways (chemical trick)
19 Chapter 3: Water
Water Everywhere
19 The Rice Bowls: rice to double rice to water, fully explained
24 Brahmin Bowls: more advanced version (commercial product)
24 Al Baker's Bowls: another improvement
26 Jardine Ellis Wineglass Production
28 Wineglass Producion: Wally Dean's approach
32 Chapter 4: The Very
Peripatetic Paddle
32 Table Knife Paddle
35 Match and Arrow
35 Business Card Turnover (Francis Carlyle)
36 Dr. Sack's Dice: a full routine with a pair of dice
47 Chapter 5: Those
Four Aces
47 Simple Four Ace Trick: Aces assemble to one pile
50 Wally Dean's Follow Up: Aces travel to top of deck
52 Collins Ace Trick (Stanley Collins): Aces clearly shown to be
in four different piles before assembling
55 Peng Peng (Conradi) One Ace vanishes while packet is in
spectator's hand
56 Ending for Collins Ace: reproducing the Aces
58 Gimmicked Four Aces: with gimmicked cards
60 Slow Motion Ace Trick (Cy Enfield): another Four Ace trick
70 Chapter 6: Miser's
Dream Come True
70 T. Nelson Downs: intro
71 Wally Dean's Miser's Dream: starts with wine glass intro
79 Al Flosso: brief description
79 Gimmicks: coin dropper
82 Chapter 7: The Egg
Bag, Well Done
82 Simplest Presentation: overview and general approach
84 About the Bag: seems to describe a Tarbelll style bag as
opposed to Malini
86 Special Moves: twisting the bag, stepping on it, other
convincers
86 Stringed Egg Bag: for a clean vanish
88 Using an Egg-shell
90 Roy Benson's Egg Multiplication: many eggs appear in the bag
93 Chapter 8: The Two
Covers and the Four Objects
93 Chink-A-Chink: coins assemble under two playing cards
100 Four Card Version (Clyde F. Cairy): four cards, coins, a
newspaper, and two smaller magazines
109 Chapter 9:
Billiards, Magic Style
109 Multiplying Billiard Balls (Walter B. Gibson): with a standard
set and a handkerchief
118 Jack Chanin Move: for vanishing the balls
127 Advanced Routine (Walter B. Gibson): adds color changes and a
fifth ball
136 Chapter 10: Razor
Sharp
136 Razor Blade Swallowing (Lee Noble): razors become attached to
thread in the mouth
144 Chapter 11: The
Ambitious Card
144 Bruce Elliot's Routine: multi-phased routine in which the card
always comes to the top
159 Chapter 12: The
Eternal Cups & Balls
159 The Basic Routine: for any set of cups with a two in the hand
and one in the pocket climax
169 Dixie Cup Version (Dr. Franklin V. Taylor): cleverly gimmicked
cups
175 Charlie Miller Routine for Coffee Cups: with coffee or tea
cups and rolled up dollars
182 Dealer Cups and Balls (Joe Berg, Ande Furlong): another
routine for standard commercial cups, a sponge ball, cork balls
and jumbo final loads
187 Cup Through Cup Illusion (Johnny Paul)
189 Benson Bowl Routine (Roy Benson): a one cup and ball routine
(not a chop cup) using a larger bowl sized cup and sponge balls
and a wand
199 In Conclusion:
essay on presentation of magic
203 Appendix:
List of best-liked effects of magic and twenty most performed
effects by American magicians
207 Glossary
209 Index
