Grant, U.F.: One Hundred Tips
& Gags ©1936 U.F. Grant Softcover, stapled manuscript, 8.5x11", 10 pages |
Image courtesy eBay seller Slacks! |
Comments: From the book: "A collection of 100 Tips &
Gags, Stunts, etc., to put pep in your program. Items that have
and are being used by leading performers, and many new ones. For
Professional Magicians, Amateur Magicians, Masters of Ceremonies,
Impromptu Workers, and All Types of Entertaining. The Majority of
these items are taken from my note book. A few are original. It is
impossible to give credit to the originators of the various gags,
as no one seems to know where most of them originated. I am
indebted to W.R. Willison of New York city for several of them,
which he uses in his act with huge success."
An example: " If someone asks you to pull a Rabbit out of a Hat.
Borrow a Hat reach in same and pull out a Hair (Hare)"
Available as an ebook from Lybrary.com. Also available as part of the larger compilation by Abbott's Magic, Bag O' Trix, edited by Gordon Miller. This volume was followed up later with "Ninety Nine Tips & Gags"
Contents (From book, more detail added July 2022):
1 Hand Buzzer
1 Wand Idea for Kid Shows
1 MC Gag
1 For a Nuisance
1 Card Gag
1 Rabbit Out of a Hat
1 Kid Show Stunt
2 Standing On My Foot
2 Fake Ending
2 Never Ending Match
2 Kid Show Match Gag
2 Kid Show Gag
2 Another
2 Impromptu Spectator Card Revelation Gag
2 Vanishing Bird Cage Idea
3 Cigarette Finale Idea
3 M.C. Rose Gag
3 Water Gag With Assistant
3 Long Gloves
3 Mathematical Trick Gag
3 Never Ending Silks
3 Sucker Card Revelation
3 Moving Pip
3 Card Revelation for Magician Show
4 Mouth Coil Idea for Kid Show
4 Spectator Lemon Gag
4 Egg Gag for Child Spectator
4 Child Gag for Stage
4 Attractive Assistant Gag
4 Foo Can Hat
4 Lota Idea
4 Another Lota Idea
4 Silks on Stage
4 Big Hand Gag
5 Snake Tulip
5 Novelty Specs
5 Prism Specs
5 No Cut Scissors
5 Wise Guy Tip
5 Flash Fuse
5 Bouncing Handkerchief
5 Race for Kid Show
5 Cracker Whistling
5 Escape Artist Gag
6 Paying Attention
6 Gag for Child on Stage
6 Another
6 Egg Drop
6 Handkerchief Gag
6 Fake Escape Trick
6 Another Fake Escape for Magician Convention
6 Fake Plant
6 Elephant Vanish
6 Vanishing Camel
6 Fake Vent Act
6 Exposed Book Test
6 Cigarette Destruction
7 Cut and Restored Tie
7 Borrowing a Shirt
7 Watch Winder
7 Roll of Bills
7 Zipper Banana
7 Stocking Gag
7 One Hand Cut Gag
7 Card At Any Number Exposed
7 Thumb Production
7 Alarm Clock Gag
7 Saw Your Act Last Night
8 Three to Ace
8 Thanks for the Hat
8 Bird Cage Vanish Gag
8 Go Gag
8 Chair Hook
8 Sock Thread
8 Boy Gag
8 Another
8 Another
8 Another
8 Soft Man
8 Foo Can Confetti
8 Egg Confetti
8 Date Gag
9 Failed Flowers
9 Dionne Gag
9 Prediction Gag
9 The Following are Impromptu:
9 Jumbo Pencil Gag
9 Challenge
9 Water Gag
9 Spectator Predicts a Card
9 Restaurant Gag
9 Magician Gag
9 Bending Spoon Gag
10 Another Restaurant Gag
10 Beer Glass Betcha
10 Cruel Tip
10 Food Passing Gag
10 Watch Challenge
10 Beer Betcha
10 Magic Club Gag
10 U.F. Grant's Gag