Fresno magic club

• Introduction: Embers  Max Maven  (p. 15)

• Preface  Todd Karr  (p. 19)

• Trickster Fingerprints  Steranko  (p. 21)

ANNEMANN: LIFE AS AN ENIGMA  Todd Karr  (p. 25)0 

I. ANNEMANN ARTICLES0 

1. 19240 

• The X-Ray Act  (p. 99)

• An Additional Effect of the X-Ray Eyes  (p. 100)

• Argamasilla’s Super-Vision (?)  (p. 101)

• “Emerson, Master Mystic”  (p. 102)

• A Sealed Letter Test with Cards  (p. 103)

• Another Force  (p. 104)

• A Different Color Change  (p. 104)

• A Mind-Reading Mystery  (p. 105)

• Improvement on “Secret of the Swami”  (p. 106)

• A Si Stebbins Kink  (p. 106)

• The Devil’s Four Aces  (p. 107)

• Another Four Ace Maneuvre  (p. 109)

• An Original Tray Vanish  (p. 110)

2. 19250 

• The Ghost Card  (p. 111)

• The Better Yet Box, Rod, and Rings Challenge  (p. 112)

• A New (?) Reverse Card Trick (p. 114)

• A P & L Four Ace Suggestion (p. 115)

• A Club or Stage Mental Number (p. 116)

• A New Slate Writing Wrinkle (p. 117)

• A Subtle Poker Stunt (p. 117)

• “To Satisfy an Argument” (p. 118)

• The Cigarette and Dollar Bill Again (p. 120)

• The East Indian Needle Feat (p. 121)

• Three Card Monte Outdone (p. 122)

• Attention, Mentalists! (p. 123)

• My Original Swami Test (p. 124)

• A Mediumistic Stunt (p. 126)

• The Master Mind (p. 127)

• An Idea (p. 132)

3. 1926

• Mentalex (?) (p. 133)

• The Simplified Telephone Mystery (p. 134)

• “Letter on Ballot Box” (p. 134)

• Improvement 8000 (p. 135)

• My Doll Production (p. 136)

• Wanted – For a New Effect (p. 137)

• The Supreme Book Test (p. 138)

• Coincidence (p. 138)

• A Good Coin Vanish (p. 139)

4. 1927

• A Couple Card Wrinkles (p. 141)

5. 1928

• “A Little Article Regarding ‘Copped’ Material” (p. 143)

• No Title at All (p. 144)

• A Radio Publicity Feat (p. 145)

• “Let’s Be Different” (p. 146)

• Annemann’s Book Test (p. 146)

6. 1929

• A Monster Master Mysterious Mystery (p. 149)

• A Single Sitting Billet Reading and Slate Test (p. 150)

• Just Think of a Card (p. 152)

7. 1930

• Slate Writing Par Excellence (p. 155)

8. 1931

• The Annemann Torn Card Method (p. 157)

• The Passe-Passe Cards (p. 159)

9. 1932-3

• A Dead Name Duplication (p. 161)

• How…?  Unpublished version from Sid Lorraine’s files (p. 163)

• Ne Plus Ultra Reading Method (p. 165)

• Number, Please (Second Version) (p. 167)

II. ANNEMANN ESSAYS  Articles for the Public

• 1. “Inside Secrets of False Mediums and Their Marvels” (1931) (p. 171)

• 2. “Magic’s Fatal Jinx” (1938) (p. 191)

III. EXCLUSIVE MANUSCRIPTS

1. Master Subtleties with Cards (ca. 1928) (p. 205)

• Annemann’s Single Card Location (p. 206)

• Annemann’s Cut Pack Card Location (p. 207)

• Annemann’s Ne Plus Ultra Card Location (p. 208)

• Annemann’s Five-Card Thought Trick (p. 209)

• Annemann’s Five-Card Stab Trick (p. 211)

• Annemann’s One Way Set-Up (p. 212)

• Annemann’s One to Ten Detection (p. 213)

• Annemann’s Pair Detection (p. 214)

• Annemann’s Audience Location (p. 214)

• Annemann’s Alternate Detection (p. 215)

• Another Card Discovery (p. 216)

• Red and Black (p. 217)

• Odd and Even (p. 218)

• Improvement on the Pair Detection (p. 218)

• Another Presentation of the Alternate Detection (p. 219)

• Another Reverse Move (p. 219)

• Faces or Backs, Which? (p. 220)

• Different Reversible Backs (p. 220)

2. Exclusive Secrets of Annemann’s Conception (The Fifty Dollar Manuscript, ca. 1930) (p. 223)

• Annemann’s Stop Trick (p. 223)

• Another Stop Card Effect (p. 225)

• Cards in the Cases (p. 226)

• Annemann’s Four Ace Routine (p. 227)

• The Thought Mystery Card (p. 229)

• With Back Towards Spectator (p. 231)

• Annemann’s Own Pellet Trick (p. 231)

• Red and Blue Decks (p. 234)

• Color-Changing Deck (p. 236)

• You Took the Selected Card (p. 237)

• The New Spelling Card Trick (p. 239)

• A Deck of Cards and Two Envelopes (p. 240)

3. Various Manuscripts

• 1. Annemann’s Color-Changing Back (p. 243)

• 2. A Mulholland and Annemann Pet (p. 244)

• 3. Annemann’s Original Sympathy Effect (p. 245)

• 4. The Red and Blue Back Color Change (p. 246)

• 5. Annemann’s Two-Card Transposition (p. 248)

• 6. Wire Release (p. 249)

IV. THE BOOKS WITH A NAME

1. Card Miracles (1929)

• Editor’s Introduction (p. 253)

• The Five-Card Stabbing Mystery (p. 254)

• The Eye-Popper Card Feat (p. 257)

• Poker Player’s Dream (p. 258)

• The “You Spell It Yourself” Feat (p. 260)

• A Day-Time Nightmare (p. 263)

2. Mental Mysteries (1929)

• The Premier Book Test (p. 267)

• The Mentalist’s Card Staggerer (p. 270)

• The Psychic Writing (p. 272)

• Instantaneous Card Memory (p. 275)

• “Phantasma” – A Mental Card Feat (p. 277)

• Addenda: Traveling Thought Card Trick (p. 279)

3. The Book Without a Name (1931)

• Introduction  Al Baker (p. 285)

• Foreword (p. 286)

• The “Really New” Locator Card (p. 286)

• An Original Set-Up Discovery (p. 287)

• One in Fourteen (p. 288)

• A New Thought-Card Spelling Effect (p. 289)

• Whichever You Please (p. 291)

• Count Your Card! (p. 291)

• Telepathy in the Audience (p. 292)

• The Red and Blue Back Mixup (p. 293)

• The Gambler in Person (p. 295)

• The Gambler is Back Again (p. 297)

• Psychic Sympathy (p. 299)

• The Four Pile Location (p. 301)

• The Genii Cut-Deck Location (p. 302)

• The Mystery Card Reading Method (p. 303)

• A New Apparatus for the Pellet Switch (p. 304)

• Find the Lady (p. 306)

• The Improved Magic Square Presentation (p. 306)

• The One-Man “Genuine” Magazine Test (p. 308)

• Mental Coloring: Telepathy in Silk  Stuart Robson (p. 310)

• The Color-Tell Billiard Balls (p. 311)

• Seeing in the Dark (p. 312)

• Seven Keys to Baldpate (p. 313)

• A Prophecy of the Koran (p. 316)

• Jimmy Valentine Opens a Safe (p. 319)

4. 101 Methods of Forcing (1932) (p. 320)

5. Strange Secrets (1932-3)

• 1. Insto-Transpo! (p. 343)

• 2. “Stop” (p. 345)

• 3. The Dollar Cigarette Challenge (p. 346)

• 4. Remote Control Improved Orville Meyer (p. 348)

• 5-6. The Accessory (p. 349)

• 5. Mental Dollars (p. 350)

• 6. Number, Please (first version) (p. 352)

• 7. Sensitive Thoughts (p. 352)

• 8. The Card Doctor (p. 354)

• 9. Slates and Aces (p. 355)

• 11. Poker Plus (p. 357)

• 12. Thought, In Person (p. 358)

• 14. A Mental Headache (p. 359)

6. 202 Methods of Forcing (1933)

• Second Introduction (p. 363)

7. Climax Card Routine (1933)

• Foreword (p. 403)

• The Principle (p. 404)

• The Magical Application (p. 404)

• A Card Location (p. 404)

• Top and Bottom Location (p. 404)

• Before Starting (p. 405)

• The Half-Moon Location (p. 406)

• Location Plus (p. 407)

• The Improved Version of “Everybody’s Choice” (p. 407)

• A Snappy Finish (p. 407)

• The Stage Location (p. 408)

• The Master Card Speller (p. 409)

• The Mystic Cut (p. 409)

• Counting by Eye (p. 410)

• Odd or Even (p. 410)

• To Slick Cards Up After Wearing Off (p. 411)

• Re-Slicking Cards (p. 411)

8. Sh-h-h…! It’s a Secret (1934)

• Introduction as Usual (p. 413)

• Call Me Up Sometime (p. 414)

• The Borrowed Deck Tragedy (p. 415)

• Help Wanted in the Dark (p. 416)

• A Thought is Fathomed (p. 417)

• Your Nose Knows (p. 418)

• A Rule of the Thumb (p. 419)

• A Handkerchief is Selected  E. Leslie May (p. 419)

• A Card is Found Once More (p. 420)

• Odd or Even, Which? (p. 421)

• The Alternate Detection (p. 422)

• A New Kink for the Reversing of One Card (p. 423)

• Annemann’s Eight-in-a-Row Location (p. 423)

• Red or Black? (p. 424)

• The Challenge of the Year (p. 424)

• The Mind in Retrospect (p. 425)

• The Five-Card Thought Effect (p. 427)

• The Guessing Contest (p. 427)

• The Two-Person Location (p. 429)

• A Couple of Cards Get Together (p. 429)

• The New Deal Card Code (p. 430)

• The Perfect Club Slate Routine (p. 430)

• Fair and Square (p. 432)

• Dual Sympathy (p. 433)

• Another Sympathetic Mystery (p. 433)

• Triplets by Chance (p. 434)

• The Last of the “Think Stop” Tricks (p. 435)

• Your Card (p. 437)

• The Tune Detective (p. 437)

• The Mindreader’s Dream (p. 438)

• Music in the Air (p. 439)

• A Quaint Happening (p. 441)

• The Prophecy of Occurrence (p. 442)

• The 203rd Force  Henry Christ (p. 443)

• Nickels on the Brain (p. 444)

• Despair of the Devil (p. 444)

• The Lady and the Gentleman (p. 445)

• The Bell Mystery (p. 446)

• Three Cards, Three Numbers (p. 446)

• The $1000 Test Card Location (p. 447)

• Dead Men Tell No Tales! (p. 448)

9. Annemann’s Complete One Man Mental and Psychic Routine (1935)

• Introduction (p. 451)

• Requisites (p. 452)

• Biller Switching (p. 453)

• Magic vs. Mindreading (p. 455)

• The Telephone Drama (p. 456)

• The Dead Name Test (p. 457)

• The New Nile Divination (p. 460)

• Book Mentalism (p. 461)

• Telepathy Plus (p. 462)

• Addenda: Author’s Note (p. 464)

• The Master Mind (p. 464)

• The Act (p. 465)

• Author’s Note Again (p. 468)

• The Mirror Reflector (p. 468)

• A Living and Dead Combination (p. 469)

• The Sealed Envelope Dodge (p. 470)

• The Spirit Pencil (p. 471)

• Advance Information (p. 471)

• Pencil Reading (p. 472)

10. Annemann’s Mental Bargain Effects (1935) (p. 474)

• The Impromptu Mind Reader (p. 474)

11. En Rapport (1937) (p. 479)

12. The Jinx Programs (1938)

• Jinx Program No. 1: A Club Act of Magic (p. 496)

• Jinx Program No. 2: A Mental Club Act (p. 499)

• Jinx Program No. 3: A Magical Club Program (p. 503)

• Jinx Program No. 4: A No-Card Mystery Act (p. 506)

• Jinx Program No. 5: “No Code” Telepathy (p. 510)

13. Other Books

• 1. A Newspaper Office Stunt (1928) (p. 515)

• 2. The Short Card (1932) (p. 518)

• 3. Introduction to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937) (p. 519)

• 4. Find the Queen (1937) (p. 519)

• 5. The Ambitious Card (1937) (p. 520)

• 6. Introduction to Encyclopedia of Cigarette Tricks (1937) (p. 521)

• 7. Introduction to Tips on Thumbs (1938) (p. 522)

V. ADVERTISED EFFECTS

• 1. Annemann’s Challenge Mind Test (1926) (p. 525)

• 2. Gerit (1928) (p. 526)

• 3. Answert (1928) (p. 527)

• 4. Annemann’s 33 Cent Think of a Card Trick (1928) (p. 527)

• 5. Annemann’s Nightmare Effects (1928) (p. 529)

• 6. Annemann’s Diabolo Pellet Reading (1928) (p. 530)

• 7. Annemann’s 44 Cent Mystery Card Reading Method (1928) (p. 532)

• 8. Annemann’s 55 Cent Card Memory (1928) (p. 533)

• 9. Annemann’s Psychic Writing (1928) (p. 534)

• 10. The Master’s Touch (1929) (p. 536)

• 11. Annemann’s Mental Masterpiece (1929) (p. 539)

• 12. 30th Century Television (1929) William J. Hewitt (p. 541)

• Later Version (p. 544)

• 13. The Modern Mind Reader (1929) William J. Hewitt (p. 546)

• 14. Fourth Dimensional Telepathy (1930) (p. 547)

• 15. Eyes of the Unknown (1930) (p. 553)

• 16. Coincidence? (1930)  William J. Hewitt  (p. 554)

• 17. Penetrating Vision (1930)  J. G. Thompson, Jr.  (p. 556)

• 18. Remote Control (1931) (p. 558)

• Annemann Nuance for The Test of the Tiber (p. 562)

• Special Addition (1945) (p. 562)

• 20. Annemann’s New Marvelous Two-Card Slate Prophecy (1931) (p. 565)

• 21. Annemann’s Card and Pocket Miracle (1932) (p. 567)

• 22. The New Double Telepathy Routine (1933) (p. 570)

• 23. A Matter of Policy (1935) (p. 571)

VI. ANNEMANN AFTERWARD

• 1. Mind Over Money (p. 577)

• 2. Forecast (p. 579)

• 3. The Window Washer’s Dream (p. 581)

• 4. Ted Annemann’s Favorite Location (p. 582)

• 5. Quickie: A Clever “Set-up” Effect (p. 583)

• 6. Gaglets (p. 584)

• 7. It Goes Double (p. 585)

• 8. Aces at Random (p. 586)

• 9. New Deck Speller (p. 586)

• 10. Any Deck One-Way (p. 587)

• 11. One-Way Mark Located (p. 587)

• 12. Nail Writer Methods (p. 588)

• 13. A Couple of Numbers (p. 588)

• 14. More About Ted (p. 589)

• 15. Turnover Card (p. 590)

• 16. Card on the Ceiling (p. 591)

• 17. Kiddingram (p. 591)

• 18. The Nerve Test (p. 592)

• 19. Two-Pellet Routine with One Person (p. 594)

• 20. Duplicated Name (p. 595)

• 21. Needle Variation (p. 597)

• 22. Original Spelling Bee (p. 597)

• 23. “Annemann on Secrets” (p. 599)

• 24. Message Reading Par Excellence (p. 600)

• Appendix 1: Annemann Quotes

• 1. Memorable Thoughts (p. 605)

• 2. About The Jinx (p. 620)

• 3. Insights into Annemann (p. 638)

• Appendix 2: Postmark: Waverly (p. 651)

• Appendix 3: The Most Dangerous Trick in Magic  William Lindsay Gresham (p. 679)

• Appendix 4: The Jinx Bibliography  James B. Alfredson and George S. Daily (p. 687)

• Appendix 5: The Fake Jinx (p. 691)

• Annemann Bibliography (p. 697)

• Index (p. 709)

• 30th Century Television (p. 45, 475, 541-5)

• 101 Methods of Forcing (p. 20, 54, 60, 320-40, 394, 398, 605)

• 202 Methods of Forcing (p. 20, 60, 61, 362-400)

• 203rd Force (p. 443)

• $1000 Test Card Location (p. 447-8)

A

• Abbott, David P. (p. 444, 662, 667)

• Abbott’s Magic Co. (p. 512)

• Abrams, Frank (p. 43)

• Abrams, Margaret (p. 43, 140)

• Abrams, Max (p. 241, 242)

• Accessory (Strange Secrets 5-6) (p. 349-50)

• Aces at Random (p. 586)

• Acme Thought Card Pass (p. 496, 498)

• Ad Club of Rochester (p. 67, 71)

• Addison, Joseph (p. 635)

• Additional Effect of the X-Ray Eyes (p. 33, 100-1)

• Advance Information (p. 471-2)

• Advertising Club (p. 74, 273)

• Al Baker’s Book (p. 396, 437)

• Al Baker’s Torn and Restored Magazine Page (p. 147)

• Alcorn, Howard W. (p. 60)

• Alexander, Claude (p. 661)

• Alfredson, James B. (p. 687)

• Allyn cinema (p. 53, 221)

• Alternate Detection (p. 420, 422)

• Ambitious Card (p. 520)

• American Legion (p. 43)

• Andrus, Jerry (p. 23)

• Anneman, Elizabeth (p. 29)

• Anneman, Flavilla (p. 37, 40, 41, 46, 51, 341, 720)

• Anneman, John (p. 29)

• Anneman, Matthew Stanley (p. 28, 29, 81)

• Anneman, Jeanette (Parr) (p. 68, 69, 71, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 564, 648, 679, 684)

• Anneman, Leland (p. 28, 29, 30, 37, 43, 51, 130, 148)

• Anneman, Margaret (Abrams) (p. 46, 48, 52, 53, 54, 65, 68, 341, 414, 415, 444, 475, 554, 684)

• Anneman, Mona (p. 19, 65, 68)

• “Annemann on Secrets” (p. 599-600)

• Annemann’s 33 Cent Think of a Card Trick (p. 48, 527-9, 532, 534, 567)

• Annemann’s 44 Cent Mystery Card Reading Method (p. 48, 532-3)

• Annemann’s 55 Cent Card Memory (p. 48, 533-4)

• Annemann’s $50.00 Manuscript (p. 242)

• Annemann’s Alternate Detection (p. 215-6)

• Annemann’s Audience Location (p. 214-5)

• Annemann’s Book Test (p. 146)

• Annemann’s Card and Pocket Miracle (p. 567-70, 605)

• Annemann’s Card Miracles and Annemann’s Mental Mysteries (p. 262, 263, 448)

• Annemann’s Challenge Mind Test (p. 665)

• Annemann’s Club Act of Magic: Jinx Programme No. 1 (p. 703)

• Annemann’s Color-Changing Back (p. 243-4)

• Annemann’s Complete One-Man Mental and Psychic Routine (p. 64, 67, 450-73, 606)

• Annemann’s Cut Pack Card Location (p. 207-8)

• Annemann’s Dead Name Duplication (p. 163)

• Annemann’s Diabolo Pellet Reading (p. 475, 530-2)

• Annemann’s Eight-in-a-Row Location (p. 423-4)

• Annemann’s Exclusive Tricks with Unprepared Decks (p. 233, 241, 242)

• Annemann’s Five-Card Stab Trick (p. 211-2)

• Annemann’s Five-Card Thought Trick (p. 209-11)

• Annemann’s Four Ace Routine (p. 227-9)

• Annemann’s Magical Melange (p. 62)

• Annemann’s Mental Bargain Effects (p. 64, 392, 474-6, 541, 544, 545, 546)

• Annemann’s Mental Masterpiece (p. 475, 539-41)

• Annemann’s Miracles of Card Magic (p. 20, 705)

• Annemann’s Ne Plus Ultra Card Location (p. 208-9)

• Annemann’s New Marvelous Two-Card Slate Prophecy (p. 565-7)

• Annemann’s Nightmare Effects (p. 529-30)

• Annemann’s “No-Card” Mystery Act: Jinx Programme No. 4 (p. 508)

• Annemann’s “No Code” Telepathy: Jinx Programme No. 5 (p. 512)

• Annemann’s One Man Mental and Psychic Routine (Armstrong edition) (p. 469)

• Annemann’s One to Ten Detection (p. 213)

• Annemann’s One-Way Set-Up (p. 212-3)

• Annemann’s Original Sympathy Effect (p. 245-6)

• Annemann’s Own Pellet Trick (p. 231-4, 242)

• Annemann’s Pair Detection (p. 214)

• Annemann’s Psychic Writing (p. 475, 534-6)

• Annemann’s Psychological Force (p. 559)

• Annemann’s Single Card Location (p. 206-7)

• Annemann’s Stop Trick (p. 223-5)

• Annemann’s Tactic for “The Test of the Tiber” (p. 562)

• Annemann’s Traveling Thought Card Trick (p. 279-82)

• Annemann’s Two-Card Transposition (p. 248-9)

• Annemann Torn Card Method (p. 157-9)

• Annemann’s Challenge Mind Test (p. 672)

• Annual of Magic (p. 642)

• Another Card Discovery (p. 216)

• Another Four Ace Maneuvre (p. 109)

• Another Presentation of the Alternate Detection (p. 219)

• Another Reverse Move (p. 219-20)

• Another Stop Card Effect (p. 225)

• Another Sympathetic Mystery (p. 433-4)

• Anstro Forcing Deck (p. 332, 333)

• Answerit (p. 527)

• Anwar, Tao (p. 71, 91)

• Any Deck One Way (p. 587)

• Anything Goes (p. 607)

• Arabian Beads (p. 78)

• Argamasilla, Joaquin (p. 33, 101)

• Argamasilla’s Super-Vision (?) (p. 101-2)

• Argosy (p. 77, 96)

• Armstrong, George (p. 360, 454, 468, 469, 500, 502, 512, 703)

• Arnold, Theodore H. (p. 166)

• Art of Magic (p. 64, 241)

• Astley, Philip (p. 195, 196)

• Attention, Mentalists! (p. 123-4)

B

• “Back Room” (p. 582, 588)

• Baker, Al (p. 16, 31, 40, 42, 45, 48, 54, 62, 64, 74, 77, 78, 162, 164, 270, 285, 286, 302, 307, 308, 314, 431, 445, 464, 485, 562, 570, 589, 599, 607, 610, 617, 618, 645, 651-77)

• Ball and Vase (p. 29)

• Ballot Box Divination (p. 134, 135)

• Bamberg, David (p. 642)

• Barbizon Plaza (p. 82)

• Bartron, A.B., (p. 29)

• Baumgarten (p. 9, 19, 54, 421, 426)

• Bayers, Melba (p. 74)

• Bays, John K. (p. 505)

• Beard, Reverend Thomas (p. 194)

• Belais, Arnold (p. 644)

• Bell, Alexander Graham (p. 67)

• Bell Mystery (p. 446, 584)

• Bennett, Bertha L. (p. 43)

• Bergin, Frank S. (p. 60)

• Besinet (p. 657)

• Betowski, Mrs. (p. 37)

• Better Yet Box, Rod, and Rings Challenge (p. 112-3)

• Bibliography of Conjuring Periodicals in English: 1791-1983 (p. 687)

• Billboard (p. 33, 41, 44, 46, 55, 136, 137, 661)

• Billet Switching (p. 452-5)

• Blackstone, Harry (p. 606, 608)

• Blake, Eubie (p. 15)

• Blindfold Drive (p. 10, 41, 55)

• Blodgett, S. B. (p. 668)

• Blumenfeld (p. 198)

• Bonaparte, Napoleon (p. 146)

• Book Mentalism (p. 452, 461-2)

• Book Without a Name (p. 53, 54, 61, 284-319, 434, 605)

• Booth, John (p. 67, 69)

• Borrowed Deck Tragedy (p. 415-6)

• Boston Blackie (p. 73)

• Bowl of Water (p. 102)

• Bowyer, Tom (p. 17, 80, 376, 429)

• Boy Scouts (p. 193)

• Bradford County Fair (p. 65)

• Brahman Rice Bowls (p. 102)

• Braun, John (p. 131)

• Brema, Carl (p. 655, 658)

• Brema Magic Co. (p. 123, 655, 658)

• Brewer, Josephine (p. 26)

• Brooks, Herbert (p. 567)

• Brown (printer) (p. 644)

• Brrr! (Meaning “Very Cold”) (p. 507, 508)

• Brush, Charles “Baffles” (p. 379, 451)

• Buck, Arnold (p. 198)

• Buddha Money Trick (p. 400, 401)

• Buerger, William A. (p. 36)

• Buffalo Auto Show (p. 71, 72)

• Buffalo Evening News (p. 71)

• Bullet Catch (p. 20, 23, 54, 55-60, 61, 65, 68, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 80, 83, 191, 195, 196, 197, 199, 493, 680, 681, 682, 683, 684)

• “Bullet in Transit” (p. 54, 55)

• Bulson, Eugene L. (p. 562)

• Burgess, Clinton (p. 657)

• Burned Treasures (p. 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127, 573)

• Burr, Aaron (p. 669)

• Burton, Tim (p. 22)

• Bush, Conrad (p. 505)

• Byrd, Admiral Richard E. (p. 44)

C

• “Cabinet of Card Miracles” (p. 44, 254)

• Cagliostro, Count de (p. 617)

• Call Me Up Sometime (p. 414-5)

• Card and Pocket Miracle (p. 567)

• Card Box (p. 333, 378, 397, 398)

• Card Doctor (p. 354-5)

• Card Feat (p. 257)

• Card from Pockets (p. 127, 570)

• Card from the Hat (p. 652)

• Cardini, Richard (p. 21)

• Card in Wallet (p. 497, 498)

• Card is Found Once More (p. 420, 424)

• Card Location (p. 404)

• Card Manipulations (p. 388)

• Card Miracles (p. 212, 252-64)

• Card on the Ceiling (p. 591)

• Cards and Pellets (p. 652)

• Cards from the Pockets (p. 127, 444, 465, 567, 570)

• Cards in Pocket (p. 570)

• Cards in the Cases (p. 226)

• “Card Stars” (p. 64)

• Carlisle, Great (p. 641)

• Carlyle, Francis (p. 67, 641)

• Carnegie, Dale (p. 642)

• Carrington, Hereward (p. 150)

• Carroll, Earl (p. 521)

• Carson, Chester (p. 341)

• Carven, Chris (p. 62, 453, 454)

• Cashmere Grotto Fair (p. 41)

• Challenge Mind Test (p. 518, 525, 665)

• Challenge of the Year (p. 424-5)

• Change Bag (p. 390, 394, 397)

• Changing Card (p. 36)

• Chanin Building (p. 80)

• Charlier (p. 381)

• Charybdis (p. 637)

• Chautauqua (p. 43, 674)

• Chinese Sticks (p. 78)

• Christ, Henry J. (p. 65, 443)

• Christie, Agatha (p. 22)

• Christopher, Milbourne (p. 595, 597)

• Churchill, Winston (p. 22)

• Cigarette and Dollar Bill Again (p. 120-1)

• Cigarette Rolled by Proxy (p. 496, 497, 498)

• Clark, Keith (p. 21, 22)

• Clarkson, Crystal (p. 79)

• Classical Cigarette (p. 506, 508)

• Clayton, Mystic (p. 671)

• Clever, Eddie (p. 505)

• Climax Card Routine (p. 60, 402-11)

• Clinton Hotel (p. 69)

• Clippo (p. 634)

• Club or Stage Mental Number (p. 116)

• Coincidence (Annemann, 1926) (p. 138-9)

• Coincidence? (Hewitt, 1930) (p. 475, 554-6)

• Coins, En Route! (p. 507, 508)

• Collier’s (p. 308, 666)

• Collins, Stanley (p. 619)

• Color-Changing Deck (p. 236-7)

• Color-Tell Billiard Balls (p. 311-2)

• Confetti and Doves (p. 102)

• Confucius (p. 152)

• Conjurers Chronicle (p. 334, 438)

• Conkin, Roscoe (p. 102)

• Conradi, F.W. (p. 658)

• Coulew (p. 194, 199)

• Counting by Eye (p. 410)

• Count Your Card! (p. 291-2)

• “Couple Card Wrinkles” (p. 141-2)

• Couple of Cards Get Together (p. 429-30)

• Couple of Numbers (p. 588-9)

• Crimmins, John J. (p. 519, 520)

• Cups and Balls (p. 631, 655, 658)

• Curtis Publishing Company (p. 654)

D

• Daily, George S. (p. 687)

• Daley, Dr. Jacob (p. 498, 635, 643)

• Dante (p. 21)

• Davenport, George (p. 640)

• Davenport, L. and Co. (p. 262, 281, 400, 422, 425, 434,

• 437, 448, 687, 706)

• Davis, Richard (p. 657)

• Day-Time Nightmare (p. 263-4)

• Dead Men Tell No Tales (p. 448-9)

• Dead Name Duplication (p. 161-3, 461)

• Dead Name Test (p. 457-460, 469, 470)

• Deck of Cards and Two Envelopes (p. 240-2)

• De Grisy, Edmund (fictional) (p. 196, 197)

• De Grisy, Remi (fictional) (p. 196, 197)

• DeLand, Theodore (p. 16, 23)

• De Linsky, Louis (p. 197)

• De Linsky, Madame (p. 198)

• De Merry, Jean (p. 399)

• Dennis (p. 656, 660)

• Desfor, Irving (p. 74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 249, 401, 515, 516,

• 577, 646)

• Despair of the Devil (p. 444-5)

• Devil’s Four Aces (p. 107-8)

• Devil’s Handkerchief (p. 350)

• Die Box (p. 638, 658)

• Different Color Change (p. 104-5)

• Dillenback, Alden I. (p. 644)

• Dixey Cigarette Vanish (p. 496)

• Dixey, Henry E. (p. 632, 497, 498)

• Doc Kries’ Medicine Show (p. 39, 41)

• Dodd, Carey (p. 641)

• Dodd, Frank (p. 641)

• Dollar Cigarette Challenge (p. 346-8)

• Doll’s Dream (p. 136)

• Dommer, C. D. (“Drummond”) (p. 409)

• Don’t Miss a Trick (p. 61, 431, 432)

• Dorny (p. 77, 621)

• Douglas, Lyle (p. 655)

• Downs, T. Nelson (p. 40, 64, 241, 270, 651, 653, 675,

• 676)

• Drawer Box (p. 397)

• “Dream of Fairyland” (p. 29)

• Drumhead Tube (p. 397)

• Drummond (p. 404, 411)

• Drummond Card Slick (p. 411)

• Dual Sympathy (p. 433)

• Ducrot, Frank (p. 30, 626, 643, 655, 660)

• Duke University (p. 631)

• Dunninger, Joseph (p. 22, 23, 655, 663, 664, 669, 670,

• 676)

• Duo Telepathy (p. 510, 511)

• Duplicated Name (p. 595-7)

• Durbin, W. W. (p. 662, 665, 673, 677)

E

• Eastern United States Gun Club (p. 193)

• East Indian Needle Feat (p. 121-2)

• Edwards Monthly (p. 333)

• Eggers, John W. (p. 40, 654, 665, 666, 671, 675)

• Eight Kings System (p. 492)

• Elks Club (p. 66, 192)

• Elliott, Dr. James W. (p. 158, 159)

• Elliott, Bruce (p. 19, 23, 25, 26, 53, 68, 69, 71, 83, 84,

• 581, 582, 584, 586, 587, 588)

• Elliott, Bunny (p. 82)

• Ellis, Jardine (p. 545)

• Emerson (p. 36, 102)

• “Emerson, Master Mystic” (p. 102)

• Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank (p. 644)

• Empire Room (p. 63)

• Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (p. 519, 520)

• Encyclopedia of Cigarette Tricks (p. 521-2)

• En Rapport (p. 67, 458, 478-92, 564, 479, 510)

• “En Rapport” (act) (p. 684)

• Erdnase, S. W. (p. 239)

• Ervin, Dr. E. G. (p. 305, 677)

• Evening Times (p. 31, 33, 37, 46, 66)

• Everybody’s Choice (p. 407)

• Everybody’s Magazine (p. 75)

• Exclusive Secrets of Annemann’s Conception (The

• Fifty Dollar Manuscript) (p. 48, 223-42)

• Extra-Sensory Perception (p. 500, 501, 502)

• Eyck, P. Ten (p. 674-5)

• Eye Popper Card Feat (p. 257-8)

• Eyes of the Unknown (p. 475, 553-4, 595)

F

• Faces or Backs, Which? (p. 220)

• Fair and Square (p. 432)

• “Fake Jinx” (p. 73, 691-6)

• Farley, Jim (p. 571, 572)

• Felix the Cat (p. 62)

• Fernanda (p. 32)

• Fetsch, Henry “Hen” (p. 508)

• “Fifth Row, Center Aisle” (p. 636)

• Find the Lady (p. 306)

• Find the Queen (p. 519-20)

• Finneran, Francis (p. 641)

• Fischer, Ottokar (p. 508)

• Five-Card Stabbing Mystery (p. 254, 255)

• Five-Card Stabbing Trick (p. 212)

• Five-Card Thought Effect (p. 427)

• “Five Foot Shelf of Magic Books” (p. 65)

• Flash Ribbon Restoration (p. 503, 505)

• Flat Rabbit (p. 644)

• Flinch (p. 337, 385)

• Foo, Ching Ling (p. 199)

• Ford, Edwina (p. 67)

• Ford’s Theatre (p. 76)

• Forecast (p. 579-81)

• Foto (p. 71, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 171)

• Four Pile Location (p. 301)

• Fourth Dimensional Telepathy (p. 547-52)

• Frame-Ups (p. 511)

• Frank, Edgar (p. 43)

• Frank Munroe Farm (p. 79)

• Freer, Winston (p. 63)

• Fritz, T. Francis (p. 643, 655)

• Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks (p. 20)

• Fu Manchu (p. 642)

• Fyfe Building (p. 655)

G

• Gable, Clark (p. 71)

• “Gaglets” (p. 584)

• Gamages (p. 297, 434)

• Gambler in Person (p. 295-6)

• Gambler is Back Again (p. 297-9)

• Gault, Gilbert (p. 254)

• Genii (p. 17, 69, 441, 447, 449, 504, 506, 631, 642, 649)

• Genii Cut-Deck Location (p. 302-3)

• Gernsback, Hugo (p. 80)

• Getit (p. 475, 526)

• Getit: Simplified Version (p. 527)

• Ghost Card (p. 111-2)

• Ghost Stories (p. 47, 171, 179, 189, 698)

• Gibson, Walter A. (p. 23, 33, 73, 76, 79, 80, 83, 84, 579, 591, 593, 595)

• Gilbert, A. C. (p. 29)

• Gilbert, B. L. (p. 115, 600)

• Gilbert Magic Set (p. 29)

• Gogh, Vincent Van (p. 22)

• Goldston, Will (p. 625, 668)

• Good Coin Vanish (p. 139-40)

• Gordon, Gene (p. 691)

• Grand Central Palace (p. 640)

• Grand Central Station (p. 584)

• Grant’s Magic Studio (p. 522)

• Grant, U. F. (p. 16, 67, 518, 644)

• Gravatt, Glenn (p. 519, 520)

• Gray Photo Offset Corp. (p. 636)

• Greater Magic (p. 64, 68, 73, 602, 624)

• Green River Whiskey (p. 66, 67, 650)

• Green River Whiskey’s “Three Feathers Frolic” revue (p. 66, 640, 650)

• Gresham, William Lindsay (p. 36, 78, 679-86)

• Guessing Contest (p. 427-8)

• Gutenberg, Johannes (p. 363)

• Gwynne, Jack (p. 642)

• Gysel, Robert (p. 145, 652, 654, 659, 661, 662, 665, 667, 670, 671, 673, 676, 677)

H

• Hackett, Joseph A. (p. 60)

• Haden, Conrad (p. 588, 589)

• Hahne, Nelson (p. 67, 441, 458, 484, 484, 492, 541, 641)

• Hale, Robert (p. 319)

• Half-Moon Location (p. 406-7)

• Hall, Eldred (p. 632)

• Hamman, Bro. John (p. 23)

• Handkerchief is Selected (p. 419-20)

• Hardin, Henry (p. 16, 460)

• Harto, James S. (p. 599, 600, 672)

• Hayes, Flavilla B. (Anneman) (p. 26, 29, 31, 32)

• Hayes, John N. (p. 26, 187)

• Hayes, Josephine (p. 26, 82)

• Heath, Charley (p. 32, 37, 148)

• Heath, Royal V. (p. 508)

• Help Wanted in the Dark (p. 416-7)

• Hendrix, Jimi (p. 22)

• Henry E. Dixey Cigarette Vanish (p. 497)

• Here, There, or Where? (p. 102)

• Herrmann, Alexander (p. 76, 199)

• Herrmann, Leon (p. 199)

• Hewitt, William J. (p. 46, 541, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 554, 556)

• Hilliard, John Northern (p. 33, 45, 54, 61, 64, 68, 73, 77, 323, 324, 331, 414, 544, 607)

• Hindu Lota Jar (p. 638)

• Hindu Shuffle (p. 582)

• Hinkson, Ralph (p. 73, 691)

• Hoffmann, Professor Louis (p. 585)

• Holden, Max (p. 16, 44, 45, 46, 53, 54, 60, 61, 64, 65, 67, 71, 73, 79, 81, 83, 264, 272, 284, 286, 564, 293, 294, 573, 307, 309, 312, 314, 318, 337, 338, 342, 359, 360, 362, 363, 365, 371, 375, 388, 391, 392, 396, 403, 417, 419, 421, 431, 441, 447, 452, 454, 464, 465, 466, 473, 474, 475, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 489, 494, 496, 503, 504, 506, 507, 510, 511, 512, 519, 520, 521, 522, 586, 590, 571, 583, 587, 589, 591, 635, 641, 660, 663, 627, 634, 641, 642, 647)

• Holden, Tess (p. 46, 83, 627)

• Holmes, Donald (p. 331, 668)

• Hoover, Mary (p. 26)

• Hornmann Magic Co. (p. 643, 660)

• Hotel Nutt (p. 31)

• Hotel Syracuse (p. 161)

• Houdini, Bess (p. 46, 201, 202)

• Houdini, Harry (p. 23, 33, 39, 201, 202, 634, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 683)

• Houston Chronicle (p. 53)

• “How…?” (p. 163, 164)

• “How to Cure a Hangover” (p. 95)

• “How to Win a Free Drink” (p. 92-4)

• Hub, Carlton M. (p. 44)

• Hugard, Jean (p. 73, 363, 388, 519, 520, 642, 658)

• Hugard’s Magic Monthly (p. 595, 596, 597, 598, 600)

• Hull, Burling (p. 44, 45, 60, 61, 63, 252, 254, 263, 264, 266, 281, 402, 406, 410, 411)

• Hull, Ralph W. (p. 376)

• Hutchinson, Wilford (p. 334, 438)

• Hyde, Mr. (p. 21)

I

• I.B.M. (International Brotherhood of Magicians) (p. 44, 48, 60, 61, 65, 194, 202, 253, 493, 603, 644, 660, 661, 664, 682)

• Idea, An (p. 132)

• Impossible Card Reading (p. 217)

• Impromptu Frame-Up (p. 510, 511)

• Impromptu Mind Reader (p. 475-6)

• Improved 33 Cent Think of a Card Trick (p. 528)

• Improved Magic Square Presentation (p. 306-8)

• Improved Version of “Everybody’s Choice” (p. 407)

• Improvement 8000 (p. 135)

• Improvement on “Secret of the Swami” (p. 106)

• Improvement on the Pair Detection (p. 218-9)

• “Improvements” (p. 505)

• Incorporated Strange Secrets (p. 73, 342, 343, 355, 357, 360, 365, 371)

• Indiana (PA) Gazette (p. 197)

• Indiana Rifle Association (p. 193)

• “Inside Secrets of False Mediums and Their Marvels” (p. 47, 171-89)

• Instantaneous Card Memory (p. 275-6)

• Insto-Transpo! (p. 343-5)

• Ireland, L. L. (p. 385)

• “It Goes Double” (p. 585-6)

• Itinerant Dollar (p. 496, 498)

J

• James, Stewart (p. 16)

• Jansen, Harry (p. 661)

• Jekyll, Dr. (p. 21)

• Jimmy Valentine Opens a Safe (p. 318-9)

• Jinx (p. 11, 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 41, 45, 48, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 71, 72, 73, 75, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 606, 591, 283, 571, 409, 410, 444, 453, 473, 477, 487, 495, 497, 498, 500, 501, 502, 505, 507, 508, 509, 511, 512, 513, 609, 577, 593, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 13, 617, 618, 619, 620-637, 638, 639, 640, 641, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 687-690, 691-6, 720)

• Jinx Extra Cocktail (p. 638)

• “Jinx Five-Foot Shelf of Magic” (p. 65, 706-7)

• “Jinxiana” (p. 591, 593)

• Jinx Program No. 1: A Club Act of Magic (p. 494, 495, 496-8)

• Jinx Program No. 2: A Mental Club Act (p. 499-502)

• Jinx Program No. 3: A Magical Club Program (p. 495, 503-6)

• Jinx Program No. 4: A No-Card Mystery Act (p. 506-9)

• Jinx Program No. 5: “No Code” Telepathy (p. 510-3)

• Jinx Zippers (p. 71, 494-513)

• Jinx Zipper Cocktail (p. 641, 642)

• Johnston, Helen (p. 644)

• Jones, Carl W. (p. 64, 68, 73, 602, 624)

• Jones, Cliff (p. 642)

• Jordan, Charles T. (p. 16, 65, 112, 114, 167, 508, 628, 640, 669, 675, 708)

• Joy Buzzer (p. 641)

• Judah, Stewart (p. 611)

• Junior Commerce (p. 65)

• Junior Hadassah Bal (p. 53)

• Just Think of a Card (p. 152-3)

K

• Kane, Charles Foster (p. 22)

• Kane, J. D. (p. 642)

• Kanter, Mike (p. 75, 562, 563, 565)

• Kanter’s Magic Shop (p. 565)

• Kara (p. 667, 671)

• Karr, Todd (p. 19-20, 25-90)

• Kasco Mill (p. 41)

• Katz, Max (p. 80)

• Kaufman, Gerald L. (p. 642, 644)

• Kaufman, Mrs. Gerald L. (p. 631, 642, 706)

• Kellar, Harry (p. 76, 643)

• Khaldeh (p. 653)

• “Kiddingram” (p. 591-2)

• Kiwanis Club (p. 65)

• Knights of Magic (p. 82)

• Kolar (p. 669)

• Koran, Al (p. 21)

• Krenzel, Ken (p. 23)

• Krieger, Louis (p. 658)

• Kries, Doc (p. 39)

L

• Lady and the Gentleman (p. 445)

• Lamarque, Abril (p. 71, 636)

• Lane, Frank (p. 63, 397)

• Lao Tzu (p. 15)

• Larash, William L. (p. 60)

• Larsen, Geraldine (p. 642)

• Larsen, William W., Sr. (p. 16, 17, 645, 646, 649)

• Last of the “Think Stop” Tricks (p. 435-7)

• La Vellma (p. 103, 407)

• La Vellma’s Vaudeville Mind Reading (p. 103)

• Leat, Harry (p. 677)

• Lebey, Charles C. (p. 608)

• Lehigh Valley Railroad (p. 36, 683)

• Leipzig, Nate (p. 61, 62, 64, 67, 74, 632, 644, 658)

• Lemon and the Dollar (p. 503, 505)

• Le Roy, Servais (p. 645, 668)

• LeRoy, W. D. (p. 382)

• Lesta, Cliff (p. 642)

• “Let’s Be Different” (p. 146-7)

• “Letter on Ballot Box” (p. 134-5)

• Lie Detective (p. 500, 501, 502)

• Life Savers (p. 400)

• Lightner, Joseph (p. 632)

• Lincoln, Abraham (p. 22)

• Linking Ring (p. 17, 36, 44, 45, 67, 69, 72, 73, 79, 106, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 147, 166, 371, 376, 379, 396, 429, 443, 465, 541, 548, 584, 586, 587, 589, 590, 602, 666, 665, 666)

• Linx (p. 61)

• Lions’ Ladies’ Club (p. 53)

• “Little Article Regarding ‘Copped’ Material” (p. 143)

• Living and Dead Combination (p. 469-70)

• Living and Dead Test (p. 123, 470)

• Living and Dead Trick (p. 652)

• Living Burial (p. 143)

• Lloyd, Arthur (p. 54, 321, 322, 363, 641)

• Lloyd, Harold (p. 23, 73, 477, 582, 679)

• Location Plus (p. 407)

• Lock and Key (p. 507, 508)

• Lohrey, Carl S. (p. 105)

• London Daily Mail (p. 198)

• Look (p. 75, 83, 643)

• Lorayne, Harry (p. 21)

• Lorraine, Sid (p. 60, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127, 163, 164, 205, 306, 362, 562, 573, 684)

• Lovecraft, H. P. (p. 21)

• Loyd, Sam (p. 662)

• Lu-Brent (p. 505, 508)

• Lucky Number Magic Square (p. 507, 508)

• Lyons, Dr. L. Vosburgh (p. 82)

M

• Madison Revolver Clu (p. 194)

• Magic (p. 486, 669)

• Magical World (p. 668)

• Magicana for Collectors (p. 687)

• “Magic Around New York” (p. 16)

• Magic Circle (p. 54)

• Magic Circular (p. 54, 73)

• Magic Collectors’ Weekend (p. 691)

• Magician Monthly (p. 297, 434)

• Magic Inc. (p. 691)

• Magic (magazine) (p. 668)

• “Magic’s Fatal Jinx” (p. 22, 71, 191-202, 698)

• Magic vs. Mindreading (p. 452, 455-6)

• Magic Wand (p. 54, 328, 373, 375, 428)

• Magic World (p. 107, 156)

• Maguire, Leon (p. 249)

• Maly, Charles (p. 599)

• Mandrake the Magician (p. 21)

• Manning, Otis (p. 508)

• Mansfield Hall (p. 54)

• Manuel, Master of the Mighty Dollar (p. 654, 658)

• March of Time Finale Trick (p. 503, 505, 506)

• Margules, Sam (p. 80)

• Marlo, Edward (p. 23)

• Marshall, Jay (p. 39, 55, 61, 72, 74, 77, 80, 81, 691)

• Marshall, Naomi (p. 77)

• Martinka’s (p. 380, 643)

• Maskelyne, John Nevil (p. 76)

• Maskelyne Levitation (p. 76)

• Master Card Speller (p. 409)

• Master Mind (p. 127-131, 464-8)

• Master’s Touch (p. 536-8)

• Master Subtleties with Cards (p. 205-21)

• Matter of Policy (p. 65, 496, 497, 498, 571-3)

• Maven, Max (p. 15-7, 20, 75, 651)

• May, E. Leslie (p. 419)

• McAlpin Hotel (p. 77, 79)

• McCaffrey, William H. (p. 11)

• McCarthy, Leon E. (p. 55)

• McEwan, Raymond (p. 285)

• McFadden Publishing (p. 47)

• “Mechanical Slate” (p. 156)

• Mene-Tekel Deck (p. 330, 382, 383)

• “Men of Daring” (p. 96)

• Mental Coloring: Telepathy in Silk (p. 310-1)

• Mental Dollars (p. 350-2)

• Mentalex (?) (p. 133)

• Mental Headache (p. 359-60)

• Mentalist’s Card Staggerer (p. 270)

• Mental Mysteries (p. 264, 266-82)

• Mephisto (p. 21)

• Mercedes (p. 439)

• Message Reading Par Excellence (p. 600-2)

• Metropolitan Opera House (p. 641)

• Meyer, Orville (p. 60, 643, 348, 349, 437, 497, 642, 681)

• Miller, Liscomb (p. 607)

• Millfield (p. 641)

• Mind in Retrospect (p. 425-7)

• Mind Over Money (p. 577-9)

• Mindreader’s Dream (p. 438-9)

• Mind-Reading Mystery (p. 105-6)

• Mind Reading Trick (p. 652)

• Mirror Reflector (p. 468-9)

• Mishell, Ed (p. 426)

• Modern Mind Reader (p. 475, 546-7)

• Monster Master Mysterious Mystery (p. 149-150)

• Monte Cristo Deck (p. 332, 333, 383)

• Moore, E. J. (p. 44)

• Moose Club (p. 37)

• Moose Lodge (p. 31, 40, 43)

• “More About Ted” (p. 589-90)

• Morris, Chester (p. 23, 73, 401)

• “Most Dangerous Trick in Magic” (p. 78, 679-86)

• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (p. 15, 17, 22)

• Mulholland and Annemann Pet (p. 244-5)

• Mulholland, John (p. 79, 244, 245, 413, 608, 628, 630, 646, 647, 648, 649)

• Music in the Air (p. 439-41)

• Mynberg, William (p. 659)

• My Doll Production (p. 136-7)

• My Original Swami Test (p. 124-5)

• Mysterious Flight (p. 102)

• Mystery Card Reading Method (p. 303-4)

• Mystery of the Blackboard (p. 507, 509)

• Mystic Cut (p. 409-10)

N

• “Nail Writer Methods” (p. 588)

• National Spiritual Alliance (p. 173)

• National Spiritualist Association (p. 178, 668)

• Needle Swallowing (p. 40, 658)

• “Needle Variation” (p. 597)

• Neff, Bill (p. 61, 73, 197, 683, 686)

• Nelmar (p. 627, 631)

• Nelson Enterprises (p. 668)

• Ne Plus Ultra Reading Method (p. 165-7)

• Nerve Test (p. 590, 592-4)

• Nevada State Journal (p. 196)

• New Apparatus for the Pellet Switch (p. 304-6)

• New Conjurors’ Magazine (p. 591, 592, 593, 595)

• New Deal Card Code (p. 430)

• “New Deck Speller” (p. 586-7)

• New Double Telepathy Routine (p. 475, 570-1)

• New Kink for the Reversing of One Card (p. 423)

• Newmann, C. A. George (p. 612)

• New Marvelous Two-Card Slate Prophesy (p. 53)

• New Nile Divination (p. 460-1)

• New Phoenix (p. 61, 691)

• New (?) Reverse Card Trick (p. 114)

• New Slate Writing Wrinkle (p. 117)

• Newspaper Office Stunt (p. 515-8)

• New Spelling Card Trick (p. 239-40)

• New Thought-Card Spelling Effect (p. 289-91)

• “New Year Ramble” (p. 648)

• New York Hippodrome (p. 201)

• New York Kiwanis Club (p. 146)

• New York State Troopers (p. 191)

• New York Times (p. 46, 82)

• New York World (p. 101)

• New York World’s Fair (p. 199, 515, 516)

• Nickels on the Brain (p. 444)

• Nixon, William J. “Doc” (p. 657)

• “No Card” Magic Act (p. 495)

• “No Code” Telepathy (p. 495)

• No Title at All (p. 144-5)

• Number, Please (p. 352)

• Number, Please (Second Version) (p. 167-8)

O

• Oaks Magic Co. (p. 330)

• Odd and Even (p. 218)

• Odd Fellows Lodge (p. 33)

• Odd or Even (p. 410-1)

• Odd or Even, Which? (p. 420-1)

• O’Dowd, Mike (p. 691)

• O’Farrell, Thomas (p. 39)

• One in Fourteen (p. 288-9)

• One-Man “Genuine” Magazine Test (p. 308-10)

• One-Way Mark Located (p. 587)

• Opel, Harry (p. 41)

• Original Set-Up Discovery (p. 287-8)

• Original Spelling Bee (p. 597-8)

• Original Tray Vanish (p. 110)

• “Origin and History of the Torn Deck Trick” (p. 498)

• Orpheum (p. 676)

• Ovett, Joseph (p. 143, 515, 518, 599, 600, 645, 661, 662, 676, 677)

P

• Pack That Cuts Itself (p. 40, 652)

• Palmer House (p. 63, 67, 696)

• “Palmography” (p. 91)

• Pamahasika, Professor (p. 39)

• Parrish, Robert (p. 502, 511, 512, 615)

• Passe Passe Cards (p. 159-60)

• Peck, Epaphroditus (p. 60)

• Peck, Gordon (p. 621)

• Peet, Charles (p. 469, 470)

• Pencil Reading (p. 472-3)

• Penetrating Vision (p. 48, 475, 556-8)

• Perfect Book Test (p. 510, 512, 669)

• Perfect Club Slate Routine (p. 430-2)

• Petrie-Lewis Magic Co. (P & L) (p. 115, 304, 315)

• “Phantasma” – A Mental Card Feat (p. 277-82)

• Phantom Tube (p. 658)

• Phoenix (p. 19, 23, 25, 26, 53, 85, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588)

• Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism (p. 150)

• Picasso, Pablo (p. 15)

• Pierce, J. E. (p. 107)

• Piff Paff Poof convention (p. 65, 71, 361, 493, 684, 685)

• P & L Four Ace Suggestion (p. 115)

• Plough, Alvin (p. 623)

• P & L Spirit Bag (p. 315)

• Podell’s (p. 74)

• Poe, Edgar Allen (p. 22)

• Poker Player’s Dream (p. 258-60)

• Poker Plus (p. 357-8)

• Popular Card Tricks (p. 80)

• Popular Science (p. 133)

• Powell, Frederick Eugene (p. 30, 642, 657)

• Powell, William (p. 71)

• Practical Mental Effects (p. 20, 705)

• Prediction Chest (p. 592)

• Premier Book Test (p. 267)

• Prince of Schwartzberg Sonderhausen (p. 197)

• Princess Card Trick (p. 427)

• Programmes of Famous Magicians (p. 67, 641)

• Prophecy of Occurrence (p. 442-3)

• Prophecy of the Koran (p. 316-7)

• Proskauer, Julien J. (p. 286, 498)

• Psychic Sympathy (p. 299-301)

• Psychic Writing (p. 272-5)

• Publicity Miracles (p. 143, 515, 518, 645)

• Puff, Harold (p. 639)

• Pyramids nightclub (p. 39)

Q

• Quadruple Concentration (p. 112)

• Quaint Happening (p. 441-2)

•

R

• Radio Publicity Feat (p. 145-6)

• Rageh, Tamar (p. 668)

• Rawson, Clayton (p. 79)

• Razor Blade Swallowing (p. 36)

• Read, Ralph (p. 471)

• Real French Capers (p. 61)

•

• Real Tempting Tales (p. 61)

• Red and Black (p. 217-8)

• Red and Blue Back Color Change (p. 246-8)

• Red and Blue Back Mixup (p. 293-5)

• Red and Blue Decks (p. 234-6)

• Red or Black? (p. 424)

• Remote Control (p. 558-9)

• Remote Control Improved (p. 348)

• Rhine, J. B. (p. 631)

• Ribbon Trick (p. 653)

• Richardson, Cedric (p. 154)

• Richards, Ralph (p. 657)

• Ring in Transit (p. 503, 505)

• Rising Cards (p. 609, 612, 614, 668)

• Ritz cinema (p. 193, 197, 686)

• Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène (p. 618, 684)

• Roberts, George (p. 39)

• Robinson, William E. (p. 199, 200, 201)

• Robson’s Conjurer’s Shop (p. 649)

• Robson, Stuart (p. 81, 82, 270, 310, 418, 501, 522, 649, 676)

• Rock, Will (p. 76)

• Rohn, Amos (p. 613)

• Roney Plaza (p. 642)

• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (p. 571, 636)

• Rosencrance (p. 645)

• Rosini, Paul (p. 77, 588)

• Rotary Club (p. 44, 46, 53)

• Roth, David M. (p. 664)

• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (p. 647)

•

•

• Rule of the Thumb (p. 419)

• Rullman, Leo (p. 340, 368, 432)

• Runyon, Damon (p. 21)

• Russell Playing Card Co. (p. 217)

S

• Salkeld, Alan B. (p. 193, 194)

• S.A.M. (Society of American Magicians) (p. 54, 55, 60, 77, 82, 253, 630, 633, 643, 674)

• Sanderson, George P. (p. 602)

• Sans Souci (p. 642)

• Sardo, John (p. 40, 41, 121)

• Saturday Evening Post (p. 40, 515, 516, 517, 525, 653, 654, 656, 663, 666, 670, 671, 672, 673)

• Saturday Evening Post effect (p. 653, 654, 656, 656-657, 663, 670, 671, 672)

• Sauty, E. (p. 399)

• Sayre Board of Trade (p. 65)

• Sayre Boys Band (p. 40)

• Sayre Fire Department (p. 43)

• Sayre Firemen’s Banquet (p. 662)

• Sayre Masonic Temple Fair (p. 53)

• Schlesinger Living and Dead Test (p. 64)

• Science and Invention Magazine (p. 133)

• Scientific American (p. 670)

• Scylla (p. 637)

• Sealed Envelope Dodge (p. 470-1)

• Sealed Letter Test with Cards (p. 103-4)

• Sears, Roebuck (p. 677)

• Second Sight (p. 67, 506)

• Secret Order of the Aces (p. 510, 512)

• Secret Ways of Al Baker (p. 651)

• Seed, Walter (p. 668)

• Seeing in the Dark (p. 312-3)

• Selectit (p. 538)

• Sensitive Thoughts (p. 352-4)

• Seven Circles (p. 160, 337)

• Seven Keys to Baldpate (p. 313-5, 496, 498)

• Shadow, The (p. 23)

• Shadows in Moonlight (p. 387)

• “She’s Mine, All Mine” (p. 31)

• Sh-h-h–! It’s a Secret (p. 61, 501, 623, 651)

• Shilling, Louis E. (p. 668)

• Short Card (p. 518)

• Sidney, Sylvia (p. 91, 171)

• Sign of Exceptional Magic (p. 65, 628, 640, 708)

• Simplex Torn Card and Balloon (p. 503, 505)

• Simplified Telephone Mystery (p. 134)

• Single O Club (p. 40)

• Single Sitting Billet Reading and Slate Test (p. 150-2)

• Si Stebbins Kink (p. 106, 107)

• Si Stebbins System (p. 491-2)

• Slate Immortality (p. 500, 501, 502)

• Slates and Aces (p. 355-7)

• Slate Writing Par Excellence (p. 155-6)

• Slick Ace (p. 404)

• Slow Motion Card Vanish (p. 654)

• Small, Charles (p. 589)

• Smith, Mysterious (p. 657, 661)

• Smith’s Tavern (p. 66)

• Smoke Rays (p. 166)

• Snappy Finish (p. 407-8)

• Snyder, John (p. 644)

• Society of Osiris (p. 662)

• Soo, Chung Ling (p. 55, 192, 194, 199, 200, 201, 686)

• Spaeth, Sigmund (p. 437)

• Special Addition to Annemann’s Own Sensational Telephone Book Mystery (p. 562-5)

• Spectator (p. 635)

• Spectral Seamstress (p. 507, 508)

• Speke, James W. (p. 668)

• Sphinx (p. 16, 17, 31, 33, 36, 39, 44, 46, 48, 60, 62, 67, 79, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 137, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159, 167, 168, 254, 286, 288, 290, 293, 294, 324, 333, 338, 340, 344, 351, 356, 359, 360, 365, 366, 368, 380, 382, 409, 414, 431, 432, 449, 451, 452, 464, 468, 469, 526, 527, 528, 529, 531, 533, 535, 537, 540, 543, 544, 546, 548, 549, 553, 555, 557, 559, 560, 569, 573, 630, 631, 632, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 651, 652, 653, 656, 657, 659, 660, 661, 664, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 675, 680, 649)

• Spindell, Dave (p. 74, 82, 582)

• Spirit Hand (p. 33)

• Spirit Pencil (p. 471)

• Spirit Slates (p. 39, 155)

• Spot (p. 83, 84)

• Squires, Frederick (p. 26, 43)

• Squires, Miles (p. 26)

• Squires, Theodore John (p. 21, 26, 48, 187, 683)

• S. S. Munargo (p. 67, 68, 69)

• S. S. Prince David (p. 641)

• Stack of Nickels (p. 652)

• Stage Location (p. 408)

• Stage Magic (p. 406)

• Stanwyck, Barbara (p. 23, 73, 91)

• Stanyon, Ellis (p. 447, 486, 668, 669)

• Star-Gazette (p. 31, 683)

• Stebbins, Si (p. 23, 44, 100, 104, 106, 135, 141, 231, 232, 287, 289, 417, 418, 447, 491-2, 565)

• Steele, Rufus (p. 23)

• Steisel, Jacob (p. 498)

• Steranko (p. 20, 21-3)

• Stewart, James (p. 23, 73, 477)

• Stone Opera House (p. 32)

• “Stop” (p. 345-6)

• Stop Trick (p. 223)

• Strange Secrets (p. 54, 73, 342-60)

• Subtle Poker Stunt (p. 117-8)

• Super Slates (p. 503, 505, 506)

• Supreme Book Test (p. 138)

• Supreme East Indian Needle Feat (p. 503, 505, 506)

• Svengali Deck (p. 330, 382, 383)

• Swann, Russell (p. 84)

• Synthetic Sympathy (p. 500, 501, 502)

T

• Tampa Daily Times (p. 101)

• Tannen Magic Co. (p. 426, 492, 499, 687)

• Tappan, Anna J. (p. 43)

• Tarbell, Harlan (p. 21, 79, 153, 665, 670)

• Teale, Oscar S. (p. 39)

• “Ted Annemann’s Favorite Location” (p. 582-3)

• Ted Annemann’s Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks (p. 705)

• Telepath on the Cuff (p. 511)

• Telepathy in the Audience (p. 292-3)

• Telepathy on the Cuff (p. 510)

• Telepathy Plus (p. 462-4)

• Telephone Card Trick (p. 64)

• Telephone Drama (p. 456-7)

• Tell, William (p. 196)

• Ten Cards to the Pocket (p. 102)

• Terry, Pat (p. 83, 265, 605)

• Test of the Tiber (p. 77-8, 559-65, 683)

• Thayer Magic Co. (p. 102, 162, 163, 166, 167, 387, 566, 669)

• Theater of God’s Judgments (p. 194)

• Thiers, Gerard (p. 664)

• Thomas, Lowell (p. 74, 283)

• Thompson, J. G., Jr. (p. 48, 53, 83, 556, 557, 558, 588, 632)

• Thought, In Person (p. 358)

• Thought is Fathomed (p. 417-8)

• Thought Mystery Card (p. 229-30)

• Thoughts in General (p. 498)

• Thoughts in the Air (p. 510, 512)

• Three Card Monte Outdone (p. 122-3)

• Three Cards, Three Numbers (p. 446-7)

• Three Feathers Frolic (p. 650)

• Thumb Tie (p. 78)

• Thurston, Howard (p. 32, 33, 36, 37, 45, 76, 77, 148, 639, 640, 643, 657, 659, 661, 676, 677)

• Thurston, Jane (p. 76)

• Tiffany (p. 23)

• Times Square (p. 679)

• Tioga County Firemen Association (p. 53)

• Tioga County Medical Association (p. 53)

• Tips on Thumbs (p. 522)

• Top and Bottom Location (p. 404-5)

• Tops (p. 80, 83, 512, 599)

• “Torn and Restored Magazine Page” (p. 45)

• Torn Deck Location (p. 496, 498)

• “To Satisfy an Argument” (p. 118-9, 605)

• Tracy, C. R. (p. 414)

• Traveling Thought Card Trick (p. 279-282)

• Trick of the Month Club (p. 53, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167)

• Tricks with a Short Card (p. 518)

• Tri-Color Boxes (p. 102)

• Triple Coercion (p. 500, 501, 502)

• Triplets by Chance (p. 434-5)

• Tropical Beer Gardens (p. 641)

• “Trouping Around in Magic” (p. 635, 645, 653)

• True (p. 22, 71, 78, 191, 192, 195, 202, 680, 686, 698)

• Trull, Major (p. 193)

• Tucker, Sophie (p. 64, 623)

• Tune Detective (p. 437-8)

• Turnover Card (p. 590-1)

• Twentieth Century Cards (p. 503, 505, 506)

• Twentieth Century Newspaper Test (p. 500, 501)

• Twenty-Sixth St. Armory (p. 194, 643)

• Two Papers and a Spectator (p. 500, 501)

• Two-Pellet Routine with One Person (p. 594-5)

• Two-Person Location (p. 429)

U

• Ultra Four Ace Effect (p. 107)

• Uncle Sam (p. 625)

• U.S. Playing Card Co. (p. 220)

V

• Vallee, Rudy (p. 623)

• Valley Rotary Club (p. 65)

• Vanishing Bird Cage (p. 78)

• Vanities (p. 521)

• Vernon, Dai (p. 15, 62, 577, 654, 659)

• Vernon, Dave (p. 654)

• Veterans of Foreign Wars (p. 193)

• Villon, François (p. 26)

• Vintus, Len (p. 666, 672, 677)

• Visible Cigarette Vanisher (p. 506, 508)

• Visible Super-Vanish Extraordinary (p. 102)

• Volta (p. 263)

• Voyage de Monsieur Persichon (p. 31)

W

• Walsh, Audley (p. 401, 487)

• “Wanted – For a New Effect” (p. 137)

• Warlock, Peter (p. 73)

• Waverly American Legion (p. 68)

• Waverly Fellowcraft Club (p. 40)

• Waverly Jolly Rogers Club (p. 44)

• Waverly Kiwanis Club (p. 41)

• Waverly Lions Club (p. 65, 156)

• Waverly Masonic Temple (p. 156)

• Waverly Trade Board (p. 65)

• Weill, Robert W. (p. 65, 71, 73, 200, 648, 685, 691)

• Welworth (p. 669, 670)

• West End School (p. 37)

• Wheal, Emery (p. 31)

• Whichever You Please (p. 291)

• White, Brunel (p. 112)

• White, George (p. 32, 76)

• Whitestone Landing (p. 76)

• Wilbey, Harry (p. 635)

• Wilson, Dr. A. M. (p. 102, 631, 644, 645, 648, 649, 657, 661, 672, 673, 677)

• Wilton, Alf T. (p. 46, 55)

• Window Washer’s Dream (p. 581-2)

• Wire Release (p. 249)

• With Back Towards Spectator (p. 231)

• WNEW (p. 75)

• Wolff, Dorothy (p. 649)

• Wolff, Ed (p. 609)

• Wood Green Cottage Hospital (p. 201)

• Wood Green Empire Theatre (p. 192, 200)

• Woolworth (p. 500, 623)

• Wright, T. Page (p. 16, 137, 387, 645)

X

• X-Ray Eye Act (p. 33, 99-100)

Y

• Yale Law School (p. 60)

• Yogi Coin Box (p. 123)

• Yogi Force (p. 167)

• Your Card (p. 437)

• Your Nose Knows (p. 418-9)

• “You Spell It Yourself” Feat (p. 260-2)

• You Took the Selected Card (p. 237-9)

Z

• Zarrow, Herb (p. 21)

• Ziegfeld, Florenz (p. 310)

— ILLUSTRATION CREDITS —

• Illustration credits: Todd Karr Collection: pp. 11, 14, 18, 23, 72, 105, 323, 400, 414, 493 (top), 524, 572, 635, 645, and all book covers; David Copperfield and the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts: frontispiece, pp. 2, 7, 8, 38, 57-9 (various), 73, 82 (left), 153, 154 (below), 222, 265, 522 (right), 604, 636, 642, 696 (left); the Robert Lund Collection at the American Museum of Magic: pp. 62, 74 (top and center right), 77-8, 80, 204, 250, 283, 473, 514, 522 (left), 543, 573 (right), 576, 619; Roy Davenport, p. 640; London Ervin: pp. 10, 13, 58 (center right), 81 (right), 129, 190, 493 (below), 607, 678; Magicana: p. 3; Max Maven: pp. 9, 24, 45 (lower left), 74 (lower right), 307, 314, 651; Ray Ricard: p. 166; Byron Walker: p. 254