Ganson, Lewis: Routined Manipulation Part One ©1950 Harry Stanley Unique Magic Studio, London Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 118 pages Routined Manipulation Parts I and II (combined) ©1976 D. Robbins & Co., Inc. Softcover, perfect-bound, 6x9", 251 pages

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Comments: Photos by F. Oberhoff, Stanley Hart, & Kenneth Pratt, Illustrated by Frank Webster and Ted Elliott. Part One of a Three Part Set. Parts One and Two were also published in a single volume by D. Robbins & Co.

4 Preface: by Lewis Ganson

5 Presentation of Manipulation: Essay introduction
6 The Performer: personality, dress & appearance, care and use of the hands, speech, behavior, make-up
11 His Outside Aids: Stage setting, lighting, music, apparatus
14 Technical Ability

16 The Production of Lighted Cigarettes: introduction
16 Requirements and Preparation: cigarette droppers, cigarettes, hollow pipe & cigar, lighted match from shoe
18 Manipulations
18 - The Thumb-palm
19 - To Switch a Cigarette
20 - Aquitment With a Lighted Cigarette
21 - Another Production
21 - A Vanish & Recovery
23 - A Triple Production
24 - Through the Knees
24 - Multiple Production
25 The Routine: in 8 stages

29 How Right You Are: Stop card trick, originally using a Svengali deck but updated for rough & smooth
29 The Rough and Smooth Pack
30 To Show the Cards All Different
30 To Shuffle the Cards
31 The Force
31 To Take Two Cards As One
32 The Routine: in four phases

36 Koran Torn and Restored Newspaper: Uses a tabloid size paper and needs a metal strip.
36 Preparation and Requirements
37 Performance
40 Notes

41 Fan Finale: Card fan flourishes
41 The Double Pack: cards to use and preparation
42 Performance
42 The First Fan
42 Closing the Giant Fan
43 The Second Fan
43 The Colour Changing Giant Fan
44 Splitting the Fans
46 To Close the Fans
46 The Single Handed Giant Fans
47 The Circle of Cards
48 The Routine: in 8 stages

50 Crazy Fans: a close up fan routine
50 Preparation
50 The Weave
51 To Alter the Angle of the Packs
51 To Make a Giant Fan
51 Possible Angles For the Packs
52 The Routine

54 Multiplying Lighted Candles: up to 8 candles produced
54 The Apparatus: describes gimmick by Unique Magic Studio, but adaptable to other brands
54 Preparing the Apparatus
55 The Size of the Flames
55 The Holder
55 Manipulation: for right and left hand
58 Suggestions For Routines
58 - Routine No. 1: four candles
59 - Routine No. 2: eight candles
60 - Routine No. 3: eight candles
60 Notes

61 Fred Robinson Explains
61 The Invisible Riffle Pass: top and bottom of deck is transposed during what appears to be a riffle
62 The Bottom Deal: uses a more natural method of holding the deck

65 The Walnut Shells and Pea: Three Shell Game routine
65 The Shells
65 The Pea
65 The Working Surface
65 The Basic Move
66 The Kick Steal
67 The Finger on the Shell
68 The Routine: in four phases
69 Notes
69 Additional Sleights for the Walnut Shells and Pea
69 - To Steal the Pea
70 - The Tea Cup
70 - Pic-a-Back
70 - The Spread

71 Gambler's Luck: a Four Kings routine with a Four Ace poker hand
71 Effect
71 Preparation
71 Presentation and Patter

74 Ken Brooke's Cups and Balls: As explained by Ken Brooke
74 Set Up: usual set of cups, three cork balls, and an onion
74 Working: a 24-step routine

80 The Egg on Fan: paper visibly changes to an egg when bounced on a fan.
80 Preparation
81 Performance
81 How to Prepare the Egg Skin

83 Card Production Supreme: cards produced from the hand, even with the fingers spread.
83 Method for Holding the Cards
84 To Change The Cards From One Hand to Another
84 To Interlock the Fingers
85 To Bring the Cards Into the Back Palm Position
85 To End a Back and Front Palm Card Routine

87 Matchic: Adapted from Hans Kaiser routine, a paddle routine using wooden matches
87 Requirements: two wooden matches specially prepared and an optional holder
87 Routine: in 5 stages

89 Readapack: Performer can reveal the next card cut, can be repeated and uses a non-gaffed deck; uses the Glimpse
89 Performance

91 My Name - Your Name:
91 Effect: Adaptation of Dr. Daley's "Ad Lib Spelling" card trick
91 Method
92 Performance and Patter

93 Magic With Coins: from the weekly "Abracadabra", first two sleights based on work by T. Nelson Downs.
93 Sleight No. 1: The "Ace" of coin productions. Four coins produced from the seemingly empty hand
96 Sleight No. 2: Coins in a clear glass are dumped into the hand, then invisibly tossed back into the glass
97 A "Coins In Glass" Routine: using the commercial "Copenetro" (which seems to still be available)

100 Koran's Solo Aces: The aces leave the piles and join a chosen ace one at a time.
100 The Buckle Count
101 Koran's Solo Aces Working

104 The Smoking Clay Pipes:  as performed by the German "Punx"; chemical magic
104 Effect: Smoke blown from two apparently empty pipes
104 Requirements: two ordinary clay pipes, liquid ammonia, spirit of salts, metal tray
105 Performance

107 Harold Beaumont's Dice Routine: A clever four effect dice routine demonstrates magician's control of the dots
107 The First Effect
107 The Second Effect
107 Third Effect
108 The Fourth Effect

108 Thought Prescient (Harold G. Beaumont - a different Harold than above!)
109 Effect: A card is shouted out. The Performer tosses a deck of cards in the case and puts it on the table. One card is missing: the named card!
109 Working

110 The Chinese Linking Rings: 8 ring routine follows advice from Robert Harbin
110 The Rings: recommends standard set of 10-inch rings
111 Performance and Patter
111 The Drop Count
112 Joining the Rings
114 I Can - You Can't
115 The Long Chain
116 All In One
118 Dropping the Rings
118 Notes