McAthy, George: Smart Business for Magician's & M.C.'s ©1946 Tommy Windsor Studio, OH Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9.5", 41 pages

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Comments: Book Two of a Series (Book one was Smart Talk). Ideas, patter, and routines for props and effects you may already own, or will want to buy after reading this!

Contents:

3 Hot Water: routine with a water bottle!
5 Torn Hat & Paper Panties: comedy torn and restored with assistant
5 No Tickee, No Shirtee: routine for torn & restored ticket
6 Milk Routine: uses Flat Rabbit, Montandon's Invisible Bovine Can, and a paper cup trick from Berland's Amazing Tricks with Paper Cups book
8 Mind Reading Stunt: easy confederate stunt
8 Hot Stuff: comedy bit with Abbott's Smoke
8 Cigarette Race: not magic, but fun for smokers
9 Sure-Fire Lighter: gag
10 Hypnotic Stunt: a Hot Seat gag
11 Feather Flowers: comedy bit over a flower production
11 Comedy Banana: for Abbott's Comedy Banana - when peeled the skin pops back in place
12 Seein' Double: with a Beery-Bleery photo
13 Swing Load: bottle production
15 Flower in Buttonhole: how to make it really work
15 Mutilated Parasol: idea for presentation
16 Wilting Rose: comedy bit
16 In the Bag: another comedy bit
17 Carnation Comedy: one carnation disappears in a flash, to be replaced by another
18 Match to Flower: good comedy between magician and M.C.
18 Untying Handkerchief: patter about sobriety detector
19 Shirt Pulling Stunt: idea to extend the stunt
20 Arm Chopper: comedy leading up to the effect
21 Pieces of Business
21 - Flat Rabbit
21 - A Striking Match
21 - Flap Slate: quick comedy bit using the comics
22 - Diminishing Cards: idea
22 - Uncle Hector Again: giant thumb comedy
22 - Patriotic Bunny
22 - Here's a Little Business!: M.C. bit
23 - Quickie: word play
23 - Bread Shortage: comedy with a loaf of bread
23 - Restored Napkin: comedy finish for torn & restored
23 - For Conventions: a magician's deck gag
23 - Dirty Trick: with scissors that don't open
24 - What's Cookin?: torn and restored chef's hat
24 Patter Section - How To Sell Laughs: essay
26 Casual Comment: two-dozen one liners and jokes
28 Classified Cracks: over 30 more jokes about different subjects
32 Vanishing Bird Cage: patter
32 Introductions: three ideas
33 The Finish: two closing lines
34 Master of Ceremonies: 17 M.C. bits of business
38 Fish Clippo: a Clippo presentation on the subject of fish