Waller, Charles: Up His Sleeve ©1920 F.G. Thayer, Los Angeles, CA Hardcover, 86 pages

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Comments: "Original Creation for Magicians, Hitherto Kept "Up His Sleeve""

Contents:

4 Publisher's Note
7 Introduction

8 Perverse Magic: magic happens despite the magician
8 - The Cantankerous Handkerchief
9 - The Golliwog Ball
10 - The Impish Card
12 The Secret Tube: device
12 - The Growth of Flowers
17 Nest of Boxes: borrowed ring to nest of boxes
20 The Rising Cards
23 The Mountain of Flags: fan production
30 A Four Ace Climax: showy finish
32 The "Turn-Over" Force: Force a number of cards
33 The Rainbow Force: a classic force
34 Full or Empty: a monte style effect with match boxes
35 The Big Production: production of objects from a cloth
37 - A Basket of Flowers
38 - The Big Bowl
39 The Fourth Dimension: a card revelation
41 Charlie Chaplin and Spooky Ookum: a Thayer item routine
44 The Utility Fans: ideas for silk tricks with flexible plaited fans
46 The Candle That Was: vanishing candle
49 The Garden of Long Ago: spirit paintings and a romance story
54 An April Shower: umbrella opener
58 The Leaky Bag: cannon ball penetrates a bag
59 The Floating Ball of Paper: for parlor
62 A Japanese Idyll: juggling feat with magic
66 The Bookworm: card and book test
69 A Patriot's Dovecote: dove vanishes and appears in a box
72 The Crystal Dyeing Tube: silk changes color as passed through a clear tube
75 A Bottle and Orange Mystery: bottle and orange transpose when covered by cylinders
78 The Turnstile: black art illusion
81 Silk Stockings: a double lady appearance from a box
83 The Screen of Life: another assistant production