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Marechal, Greer, Jr.: Magic for the Millions Reprinted as The Complete Magician |
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Comments: Illustrated by the Author and Joseph R. Wardlow.
Very thorough discussions of each effect, with presentation ideas
and alternative approaches.
Contents: (from The Complete Magician edition):
7 Foreword (Bruce Elliott)
13 Part One The Why of Magic
15 Chapter I An Introduction to the Theory of Magic
33 Part Two Impromptu Magic
35 Chapter II Tricks With Playing Cards
37 Look No Hands!
46 Backward Glance
48 Spellbound
53 Color Blinding
60 Sympathetic Student
65 Between The Eyes
71 Blacktone's Penetration
76 That's All
80 A Word About Impromptu Card Routines
82 Miscellaneous Discoveries
83 - 1 Your Number
84 - 2 Reversed Card
85 - 3 Sleight of Food
85 - 4 Gravity Magic
86 - 5 Ambitious Card
86 - 6 Mistaken
87 - 7 Turnabout
88 - 8 Pure Luck
90 Chapter III Tricks Without Playing Cards
91 Spirit Calling Card: Out to Lunch principal
97 Drawn and Quartered: cut and restored rope
102 Should Not Knot: tying a knot challenge with spectator
participation
197 Where There's Smoke...: handkerchief is not burned by a
cigarette
112 Cutting Wit: "clipppo" cut paper doesn't appear to cut
117 Demi-Tasse: a selection of impromptu effects
118 - 1 Crystal Clear: unwrapping a sugar cute by slapping
118 - 2 Soda Jerk: torn and restored straw paper
120 - 3 Tumbling Tumbler: glass goes through table
121 - 4 Salt and Pepper Cheat: Salt shaker is replaced by pepper
chaker under napkin
124 - 5 Watch Out: broken and restored, borrowed watch
127 - 6 Flaming Proof: burning cigarette passed through tablecloth
without harming it
129 - Lummpy Legerdemain: four sugar cubes assemble under a napkin
135 Chapter IV When Conversation Lags
136 Card Flourishes
136 - 1 Card Fan
138 - 2 Fancy Cuts
139 - 3 Hindu Shuffle
139 Card Tricks
139 - 1 Sloppy Shuffle
141 - 2 Easy to Fool
146 Impromptu Openings Without cards
146 - 1 Flying Knot: instant knot in a scarf
148 - 2 Vanishing Knot: knot vanishes when pulled
149 - 3 Magic Hangman: scarf through neck
151 - 4 Magic Bow: with a scarf
152 - 5 Blackout: blowing up the sleeve to blow out a match
154 Chapter V Handle With Gloves
155 Size of the Cards
156 Riffle Shuffle
158 Overhand Shuffle
161 False Cut
163 The Glide
165 Hindu Shuffle
168 Palming
171 Double Lift
175 Fan Force
181 Part Three Prepared Magic
183 Chapter VI Prepared Playing Cards
186 What Are Prepared Cards?
186 - 1 Forcing Decks
186 - 2 Rough-Smooth Deck
189 - 3 Svengali and Mene Tekel Decks
190 - 4 Marked Cards
190 - 5 Short Card
192 - 6 Double Faced and Double Backed Cards
194 - 7 Set Up Decks
196 - 8 Special Decks
197 Chapter VII Tricks Using Prepared Cards
198 Sucker Trick: using duplicate card
202 Pocket Pickings: using short card
205 Double Trouble: using double faced card
211 Divining Dagger: card stab using two rough-smooth forcing
decks
215 Four Told: prediction uing a two-way forcing deck
220 Fifteen Miracle: three cards transfer to another packet, using
a specially constructed deck
227 Precognition: magician predicts selection using a special
rough-smooth deck of red and blue backed cards
232 Chapter VIII Tricks With Silks and Handkerchiefs
234 Tarbell Silk: color changing
236 Two to One: either one of two silks in a glass vanishes -
opener
239 Twentieth Century: third silk vanishes and is found tied
between two others
243 Silk Productions
246 Fast and Truly Barehanded: production of multiple silks
253 Old Hat: silk production from hat
257 All Out - Of Nowhere: other approaches
259 Master Silk Routine: a full routine
272 Chapter IX Mental and Spirit Effects
275 Spirit Slates: message written on blank slate, three methods
278 The Message: what to write
278 Playing Card Forces
281 Other Card Forces
282 Clipboard Forces
282 - 1 Clipboard Svengali
283 - 2 Clipboard Addition
286 Mental Effects: introduction
286 Billets
286 - 1 Billet Switches
289 - 2 One Ahead: center tear
290 - Impression
291 Limited Choice
291 - Pocket Index
295 - Book Test
297 - 500 Unlimited: another book test
301 Two-in-One Routine: a full mentalism routine
314 Chapter X Miscellaneous Tricks
317 Lucky Lemon: dollar vanishes and is found in a lemon
325 Pocket Pastry: bake a cake in spectator's pocket
332 Raise You Three: rising cards
344 Linking Rings: approach using a ring set - linked pair,
single, oversize, and key
359 Bathtub Gin: clear liquid to black instnantly
364 A Word About Sucker Tricks
366 Stung Again: while attempting to make pictures vanish
spectators think they know the method
373 Read to Shreds: torn and restored newspaper
389 - Part II: a second tear and restore with a sucker climax
383 Ready Mixed: making biscuits without heat, and a sucker climax
389 L'Envoi
393 Index
