McAthy, George: Magic from the Dope Den ©1967 Micky Hades Softcover, tape-bound, 8.5x11", 67 pages

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Comments: Illustrated with drawings, printed on single sided pages. The Deceptive Order of Prestidigitorial Entertainers (DOPE) was a magic club formed by Tommy Windsor, and this is selection of magic from the club's newsletter, "The Dope Sheet", which was originally published between 1945 and 1948.

Contents (from book, descriptions added April 2025)

4 About the Dope Den

5 Torrid Trickery
6 An Opening Trick by Tom Dowd: Hat to Bouquet
6 C. Steffensen's Beauty Cream: card with picture of a woman's face is rubbed with cream and changes
7 Billy McComb's Vanishing Wand: routine for a shell wand
8 George McAthy's Around the World Card Trick: card on toy card matches a named selection
9 Four Tricks by Tom Palmer:
9 - Ending for Electra: bulbs from mouth
9 - Thought Transference: comedy 2nd spectator reveals first spectator's selection
9 - Pulling Hat From a Rabbit: quick routine using Sten's Hat from a Rabbit
9 - Impromptu Twentieth Century: using borrowed handkerchiefs
11 Al Boyle’s Rabbit Hokum: multiple rabbit production
12 Beaumont's Snake Puppet and Egg Wand
12 - Snake Puppet: idea for card revelation
12 - Egg Wand: DIY
12 McAthy's Timely Version of the Card in Cigarette: Card in pipe
13 Jack Beierle’s Flying Ring: borrowed finger ring jumps from one hanky covered hand to the other
13 Paul Gable's Electric Deck: DIY
14 Beaumont's Atomic Antics: silks change in glasses
14 Beaumont's Card Idea: comedy card revelation
15 Beaumont's More Evaporated Milk: Milk, cone and beer routine
15 Beaumont's Finger Stretching Gag: using a tape measure
16 Beaumont's Comedy Parasol: with a supposed borrowed lady's handbag and silks

17 Comedy Bits, Gags And Ideas
18 Beaumont's Random Ideas:
18 - Opener
18 - Drunk Act
18 - Repeat Gag: with watch
18 - Comedy Lit Cigar: tip to keep it lit
18 - Comedy Card in Cigarette
19 - Fresh Fish: comedy idea
19 - Hydro Static Glasses: addition
19 - Phantom Tube: idea to get rid of the feke
19 - Substitution Trunk: comedy idea
19 - Tipsy Turvy Bottle: gag
20 Tom Palmer's Gags
20 - Handcuff Escape: comedy bit
20 - Flash Bill: idea
20 - Allah Be Praised: card revelation
21 More Ideas by Tom Palmer
21 - Electra: more ideas
21 - Reels: tip
21 - Repeat Bills: idea for climax
22 - Twentieth Century Hank: borrowed handkerchief becomes spotted but then clean
22 - Clay Pipes: chemical smoke stunt
23 Ideas by Douglas Francis
23 - Torn and Restored Newspaper: comedy addition
23 - The Wrist Chopper: comedy bit
23 - Comedy Card Exit: for closing the show
23 Ideas by Chuck Smith
23 - Lighted Bow Tie: as a comedy lie detector
24 - One Liners: four comedy bits
24 Tips by Fields the Magician
24 - Chopper: comedy bit
24 - Rabbit Production: comedy bit
24 - Flat Rabbits: comedy bit
24 - The End: closer
25 Kolocotronis' Kute Kwickies
25 - Dog Production: comedy
25 - Kid Assistant Gag
25 - Hat Brick Production
25 - Kitty Gag
25 - M.C. Bit
25 - Moving Table: comedy bit
26 Price's Gaggery
26 - Fish Gag
26 - Blank Gun: for attention
26 - Egg Bag Distraction
26 - Linking Ring Gag
26 - Water Gag
26 - Regular Job Gag
26 Chinese Prayer Vase (H.G. Beaumont): smoke addition
27 Anderson's Ideas and Gags
27 - Squirting Phone: ideas for use during your routines
28 Tom Dowd! Magic For Any Crowd
28 - Chopper: comedy ending
28 - Growing Plant: idea
29 Bert Feinson's Ideas
29 - Milk Pitcher: idea
29 - Al Baker's Salt Shaker: tip
29 - Rope Trick: prelude idea
29 - For Magicians Only: using small sleigh bells instead of balls
29 - Ribbon Production
30 Kolocotronis' Komedy for Konjurers
30 - Orange Gag
30 - Name a Card: gag
30 - Stooge Gag
30 - Slate Gag
30 - Welsh Rabbit Gags
31 Ideas by Magnus, Sanders and Herman
31 - Coin Thru Table
31 - Comedy Rabbit From Hat
31 - Spirit Cabinet Comedy
31 Chuck Smith's Lota Bowl Gag
32 Ideas by Robert Orben
32 - Squared Circles: gold fish and extra item production
32 - Dye-Boxers: adapting the silks
32 - Spook Stuff: using balloons to spook an audience

33 Patter And M.C. Material
34 George McAthy's M.C. Material: five quick jokes
35 - Comedy Lit Cigar: bit
35 John J. Crimmins Jr.'s Card Gag: for a Good Night exit
36 Jack Laments’s I.O.U. Five Bucks: comedy skit for two
37 Billy McComb's Running Gag: centered on torn and restored newspaper
38 Beaumont's Laughable Card Idea: Card revelation with a live King of Spades
38 Bob Orben Patter Bits: for Guillotine, for the hiccups, and a few lines for hecklers
39 George McAthy's Openers: four opening comedy monologues
40 George McAthy's Patter for Tricks:
40 - Changing Card
40 - Thumb Tip Gag
41 - Pop Up Tie
41 - Poona Poona Rope
41 - Patter for Coin Slide
42 Yuletide Greetings by McAthy
42 More Xmas Chatter by McAthy
43 Patter Lines by Anderson: 10 of them
44 Jack Lamonte's Patterettes:
44 - Skeleton Rabbit: skit
44 - Dye-Box: jokes
44 - Just Chance: patter
44 An Opener by Tom Dowd: rhyme

45 Riotous Routines
46 McAthy's Light-Up Bow Tie
47 McAthy's Funny Munny Routine: using full size, half size and quarter size stage money bills
47 McAthy's Houdini Egg Bag: a lock becomes unlocked in an Egg Bag
48 Neal's Original Egg Bag Act: patter and routine for children's show
49 McAthy's Snake Pet: routine with Snake Basket
50 Hen Fetsch's Chopper Routine: five comedy bits for a head chopper
51 Ed Weston's Shirt Tale Drama: child's shirt tail gets destroyed, but all is well
52 Mel Navoe's 20th Century Routine: with a color changing handkerchief
53 Ace Gorham's 6 Card Repeat: with a rhyming patter
54 Mandroop's Chink Stick Finish: comedy sock ending
55 Great Gladstone's Dove Pan Routine

57 Cute Quickies From Everywhere
58 Slate Gag (Bob Gunther)
58 Vent Gag (Bob Brethen)
58 Set-Up Deck (Thomas S. Palmer): card gag for magicians
58 Shirt Pulling Stunt (Bob Ace): gag
59 William's Christmas Ties (Bill McComb): version of silks from newspaper
59 Color Changing Hanky (Mack Pickick): comedy bit
60 Frozen Milk (E.W Morris): milk doesn't vanish for a reason
60 Production of Rubber Articles (George McAthy)
60 Torn and Restored Paper (George McAthy): expired gag
61 Walsh's Flash Appearing Cane (Duke Stern): gag
61 Uncle Abner (Harold Mayer): running gag
61 Weller Wieners (Gerald Kosky): gag using a real one
61 Razor Blades (Paul Morris): tooth gag
61 Opening Gag (Doyne E. Michie): candy giveaway
62 Canned Oranges (Harold G. Beaumont): bill to orange gag
62 Elephant Imitation (Gerald Kosky): visual gag
62 Flash Paper Shower (George McAthy): tip
63 Comedy Passe Passe Bottle and Glass (Elisha A. Loe): tip
63 Match to Flower (Gerald Kosky)
63 Stamp Album: presentation idea
63 Billiard Ball Vanisher (Jimmy Kolocotronis)
64 Guillotine (Bob Ellis): kid show gag
64 Card In Balloon (Al Minder): skinny card
64 Gambling Expose Routine (William A. Ratcliffe): promoting Savings Bonds
64 Finger Guillotine (Bob Gunther): a finger gag
65 Finger Chopper (Doyne E. Michie): idea
65 Rabbit From Hat Gag (Bob Gunther)
65 Camel Cigarettes (Gene Packard): visual gag

66 Index