Goodliffe: Simply Wizard ©1946 A Goodliffe Publication, England Hardcover, w/dj, 107 pages

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Comments: Illustrations by Dennis

Contents (From book ToC, updated with description Feb 2024):

7 Foreword
8 Contents
9 Introduction (Edward Maurice)
11 Preface: The Plan of Campaign

13 Fairy Castle: bottle of beer production
17 Goodliffe’s Improvement to “Say When”:  liquid appear
22 Dehydrated Oranges: production routine for children
28 Galleon Production: discussion of Showmanship, and production of a ship on a table-top
32 The Portal Pre-Fab: idea for decorating a Japanese Box for a practical application
35 A Bit of Business:  comedy bit
36 Intermission - The Value of your Voice (Gerry Findler): essay
39 Goodnight: production effect for the end of your show
42 The Vanishing Wheelbarrow: stage size wheelbarrow transforms to briefcase to be taken off-stage
45 Intermission - The B.W. Dove Act (Brunel White): plays for 12-14 minutes
48 - Caught In the Net
50 - Birds In a Cage
53 - A Very Flighty Couple: transposition
55 - All Birds Like Flowers
55 - The Egg, Orange and Dove
58 - A Problem in Black and White: another transposition
60 - Where Did the Birds Go?: vanish
62 - Two Birds In the Blackout
65 - Concluding Remarks
66 Two Rice Bowl Wrinkles: routine provided without details of working
69 Made in Japan: routine for Harbin's Milk Life
73 The Impressionable Joker (Fredric Payne): signed jumbo Joker gains imprint of thought-of card
80 Goodliffe’s Leg Chopper: fully detailed
86 Adelaide, The Educated Ostrich: Large stage bird picks out the selected color silk
90 Potato Crisps: potatoes turn into chips when poured through a box
84 A New Liquid Production: using a special wand
96 A Useful Trolley: idea for a practical table
98 The Magical Grocer: a full routine around a general store and standard effects such as Soft Soap, Rice Bowls, etc.
105 False Teeth: "borrowed" false teeth click answers to questions
107 Au Revoir