Laurance W. Spitari: The Wizard's Annual 1913
Spitari, Laurance W.: The Wizard's Annual 1913
©1913 Associated Wizards of the South, Southampton
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 36 pages
Spitari: Wizard's Annual 1913
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Contents:

1 The Editor's Note (Laurance W. Spitari)
2 The Psalm of Magic (d'Harville); a poem
3 Style (The Woman in the Audience): styles to avoid
3 - The Something to Sell Style
3 - The Marionette Style
4 - The Old Fashioned Style
4 - The Funny Cuss Style
5 - The Style: the one to achieve
7 The Aero Silks (Phil Leslie): silks appear in glasses, for the platform
8 A ’Xmas Eve Experience (Maidie Wynne): a story
12 With a Cigarette Paper (Phil Leslie): torn and restored
12 Be Prepared (Reg. Long): Introduction to the following tricks
13 A Novel Pocket Trick - Combination (Reg. Long): cigarette trick
14 The Fragile Coin (Reg. Long): borrowed half crown changes to foil covered and back again, etc.
15 Magical Tips (A.W.S. Members)
15 - The Rabbit Saucepan
15 - The Dyeing Tube
15 - The Rope Loop Escape
16 - The Die Box: additional climax
16 - Pretty Throwouts
16 - The Eggs in the Hat
16 - The Ringed Handkerchiet
16 - The Hat Loader
16 - Lamp Chimneys
16 - A Very Good Tip
16 - With a Tram Ticket: torn and restored
17 A Novel Palm Pass (Reg. Long): for cards
18 Tips re a Vanisher (Reg. Long): make your own pull
19 An Improved Method of the New Pyramids of Egypt Trick (Wilford Hutchinson): milk, water, and cylinders change
21 The Magicians Club - Where Magician's Foregather: announcement
22 A Thought Reading Trick (Will Goldston): magician determines location of card in deck
 
24 The Spitari Section:
24 The Milestones of Magic: Essay
25 Something New with a Wand: wand vanishes and is pulled from the mouth
27 How to Write Patter: how-to
28 Methodical Magic: essay
30 Magical Headlines From The Daily Papers: comedy
31 A Jug, a Glass, and a Pot of Flowers: glass vanish, jug transposition
33 Patter for Popular Problems
33 - The Water Goblets
34 Tricks In Which Imitation or Blown Eggs are Used
34 Opening Patter
34 Flags From the Water Vase
34 The Ariel Cigarette Production
36 Mr. Max Sterling: photo and brief bio


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