Schwartz, Walter A.: GIMAC ©1933 Walter A. Schwartz Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 39 pages

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Comments: From the preface, "I am proud to state that in this book as well as in CIGAM that every effect is practical. Every one has been used by myself or I have witnessed their performance by their originator". This book is also included in Abbott Magic Company's compilation, "Bag O' Trix", edited by Gordon Miller.

Contents: (corrected and updated 31 Aug 2015)

6 Preface
7 A New Presentation of the Dime and Penny Trick: for hairy men
7 Spirit Slate: using a flap slate
8 Schwartz' Living and Dead Test: using six playing cards
8 A New Gimmick: for vanish of a handkerchief
9 Walter's Speller: for cards
9 Touch A Color: magician tells color of face down cards by touch
9 Formula for Good Cement
10 Canary Production: in a cage
10 A New Flower Growth: from a pot
11 Targetto (Robert A. Weidaw): Card selected, corner torn, and marked. Deck is placed on a table & shot at, only the selected card remains. Provides details of table construction.
13 Selecto: clever 2 person code for determining pointed at card
13 The Elastic Pack: quickie flourish with a gimmick
14 Betwixt and Between: selection appears between two reversed cards
14 Make Your Own Rubber Cement
14 Whispering Hope: Joker whispers name of two card selections
15 Multiplying Eggs by De Costa (Harold A. Schwartz): similar to multiplying Billiard Balls
15 Source for Imitation Cigars
16 Old Mother Hubbard: stage production cabinet
17 Slacaro: Torn card is shot at a slate, and appears almost intact except for one piece
17 Vacuum Cleaner Spray Gun: tip
18 Penc-A-Stretch: pencil stretched to twice its size
18 An Unusual Rabbit Production: from a loaf of bread
19 Unique Stand: side stand can be used for small vanishes
20 The Vanishing Stack of Coins: spectator's hat is returned with coins, but none are to be found
20 Ghost Materialization: a ghost rises above the incense
20 Balloon-O (L.W. Place): card in balloon
21 Divination: magician discerns color of thimble
22 Spirit Drum: drum answers questions by beating
22 Electrosis: a Chinese Wands effect
23 A New Tambourine: for stage productions
24 A Sucker Giant Card Trick: Die Box style trick for children using Jumbo Cards and a Card Box

25 U.F. Grant Section:
26 Practical Card Force: for three cards
26 Fishing Trick: three card selections are magnetically fished from a hat
26 Four Aces: Aces are reversed in deck but turn into 4 indifferent cards; Aces are found inside a bill-fold
27 Fifty-Fifty Girl Illusion: low cost stage illusion
28 Reproductions of Old Wood Cuts Used in the Eighteenth Century: two images

29 Harry Hollis (Henry Ginsburg) Section
30 Fluroscoptic Eyes: magician determines selection stored in a sealed box in the dark
30 Psychic Prediction: magician predicts random card selection
31 Passe-Passe Glasses: milk transposes from one glass to another
31 Vanishing Glass: of milk
32 It's Impossible: Unknown card and selection transpose in the deck
32 Thirty Card Transposition - Improved Routine: using red & blue backed decks
33Anti-Gravitational Liquids: liquid from bottom glass travels up through a plate into upper glass
34 A Reproduction of the Cover Design on Brotherhood Secrets: image

35 Odds and Ends of Patter (Harry Bernard)
36 One Liners: 23 jokes for various effects
37 Hindu Wands: a story
37 The Coin Bucket: patter for the Miser's Dream
38 The Chinese Linking Rings: patter
38 The Phantom Tube: patter
39 Vanishing Bird Cage: patter