McAthy, George: Smart Stuff ©1970 George McAthy, Louis Tannen Publications Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 138 pages

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Comments: A compilation of Smart Tricks, Smart Talk, Smart Business, and Smart Comedy.

Contents (taken from the individual books; each book retains it's own page numbering):

Smart Tricks

2 Publisher's Preface (Tommy Windsor)
3 Portrait of the Author
4 Uncle Charlie’s Vices: a routine you can make with dice, shot glass, small metal tube, and a sponge rubber ball
5 Tricks with a Bang - Gun: how to gimmick it
6 Assorted Asides: 32 comedy lines for your show
8 The Magician: comedy monologue
9 Dove Pan Routine: comedy routine around a Birthday cake
10 Patter for Afghan Bands
10 Livestock Case: plans for building
11 Whiskey from Where?: production that doesn't need the ball
12 Comedy Introduction: print out and hand to M.C.
13 8 Ball Medal: gag 8-ball turns into a medal
14 Patter for Fir Tree: patter for roll of paper turns into a fir tree
14 Cigarette Pack Tank: how to make a magical cigarette pack
16 M.C. Pipe: how to make this variation of the M.C. Cigar
16 Cute Quickies
16 - Frozen Cigarette
17 - Lota Gag
17 - Restored Sandwich
17 - Cigar to Stick Candy
17 - Idea for an Act
19 - Breakfast Set
19 - No Force Card Forcer
19 - Scotch Money Clip
19 - For Your Next Magic Club Meeting: magician gags
19 - Hot Whoofle Dust
20 - Vanishing Corn Cob Pipe
20 - Color Changing Tie
20 - Wand Gag
20 Shuffle Routine - Coast to Coast on a Bus: a flourishy card routine with patter
23 Threading Life Savers: how to make and full patter
24 Diminishing Soap: routine and how to make
25 Patter for Money Egg Bag: routine for Egg Bag as a Money Bag
26 Plastic Tumbler: cup of water is rotated 360 degrees on a sheet of plastic without spilling
27 M.C. Monobits: just over two dozen one liners and jokes
28 M.C. Stuff
28 - Saving for a Rainy Day: umbrella gag
29 - Pipe's Birthday: pipe gag
29 - Two Person Gag or Bit: comedy
29 - Four-In-Hand Bow: tie to bowtie
30 Scotchman’s Match Trick: making a match light twice
31 Mac’s Napkin Trick: torn and restored
32 El Ropo Grande: Cigar to rope
33 Classified Comment: over 50 more gags and comedy lines

Smart Talk

4 Egg Bag: routine with a cigar
5 Six Card Repeat: patter
6 Soft Soap: routine and patter
6 Diminishing Cards: opening remarks for
7 Openings: about a dozen comedy opening lines
9 Random Remarks: six jokes for your act
10 Closing Lines: a suggested closing
10 Classified Patter: over 2 dozen comedy lines
12 Razor Blades: routine and patter
13 Oriental Vase: patter for the prayer vase that can be lifted with a rope, or in this case a chopstick
13 Grant's Cow Trick: for Grant's glass of milk production
14 Mandroop's Favorite: a comedy non-card trick
15 Paper Tearing: a comedy monologue
16 Manipulation: about a dozen one liners
18 M.C. Material: 14 or so M.C. comedy bits
20 Mac's Pet Business: clever fake pick-pocketing
21 Midget Vent Act: ventriloquist act
24 The Rabbit Letter: excuse for not having a rabbit in your act
25 12 Ways To Use The Comedy Lit Cigar: a clever cigar that can remain lit, likely not available anymore
29 New Card In The Cigarette: using two Comedy Lit Cigars
29 Mandroop's Opening: torn and restored story around a diploma
31 Club Chatter: comedy monologue
31 Billiard Balls: full routine and patter for multiplying balls

Smart Business

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

Smart Comedy

2 Introduction (Wm. Larsen)
4 Portrait of the author
5 Standard Patter: patter for standard effects
5 Changing Bag: story around a dry cleaner
5 Billiard Balls: for multiplying balls, patter about rabbits
6 Blue Phantom: a soap story for this checker and rod effect
6 Chinese Wands: clever ending for the Chinese Sticks
7 Egg Bag: a fairy tale story for a quick egg bag routine
8 Die Box: the die as a strange egg
8 Torn & Restored Newspaper: patter story
9 Starting Your Show: some opening comedy lines
10 The Drunkard’s Dream: a combination of Tom Bowyer's Repeat Bill Trick and Abbott's Five Shot Lota
11 Necromatic Nifties: over three dozen one liners and short jokes for your act
16 New Spot Laughs: comedy signs/props
16 - Dressing Room Sign
16 - Hare Restorer
16 - Ticket to Siberia
17 - Blow Card
17 Classified Comedy: over 60 comedy one-liners
23 Trouble Wit Routine: routine for the folding paper effect, with diagrams
29 Pasteboard Policy Patter: routine for the Insurancd Policy card trick
30 Monkey Business: gags
30 - Squirting Telephone
30 - For a G.I. Magician or M.C.
30 - Giant Match
31 - Comedy Production Item
31 - Sawing Through a Woman - M.C. Style
31 - Laugh Bit
32 - Gag Blindfold
32 - Untieing Silk
32 - Dove Pan Idea
32 - Nudists Cigarette
33 - Cigar Butt Lighter
33 - To Get Spectators on Stage
33 - Drawer Box Bit
34 Die Box Routine: with a few modifications
35 Stunts for Jugglers: six comedy bits for juggling
37 Medal Gags: five more jokes
37 Idea Department
37 - Finger Chopper
38 - Flash Houlette
38 - Flag Staff
38 - Kids and Kards
38 - Weller Beer Bottle
39 - Break-a-Way Wand
39 - Laff for Razor Blades
40 - Laff for Walsh Cane
40 - Restored Napkin Finish
40 - Razor Blade Finish
41 - Electric Laff Lamp
42 - New Use for Fire Bowl
42 The Four of Roses: a gimmick card trick
43 Em Cee Gags: over 50 more one-liners and quick jokes