Fresno magic club

Preface (p.iv)

Introduction (p.vi)

PART I—CARDS

I. DISCOVERIES AND REVELATIONS (p.9–34)

II. CARDS IN MOTION (p.35–68)

• A. Transpositions (p.35–42)

• B. Flying Pasteboards (p.42–58)

• C. Rising Cards (p.59–68)

III. MEETING OF THE MINDS (p.69–121)

IV. POTPOURRI (p.122–153)

PART II—MISCELLANEOUS MAGIC

V. POCKET TRICKS (p.154–196)

VI. TRICKS FOR THE HOME (p.197–218)

VII. TRICKS FOR THE HOME AND STAGE (p.219–278)

VIII. STAGE EFFECTS (p.279–346)

PART III—BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

IX. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CONTRIBUTORS (p.347–378)

General Index (p.381–384)

• Again—The Card in the Wallet (p.42)

• Allen, Ken (p.98)

• Allerton, Bert (p.140)

• Alpha Four Ace Trick, The (p.131)

• An Amusing Interlude (p.291)

• Annemann, Theo. (p.35, p.69, p.142, p.203, p.279, p.280, p.347)

• Arbuthnot, Charles, III (p.59, p.142, p.347)

• Are You Sure? (p.25)

• Arrowsmith, G. E. (p.283, p.348)

• Arrowsmith Glass Penetration, The (p.283)

• Assisted by the Dead (p.213)

• As You Desire* (p.14)

• At a Mentally Chosen Number (p.71)

• Baker, Al (p.282)

• Balls (p.200, p.250)

• Barkann, Roger (p.122, p.219, p.348)

• Barnet, Sylvan (p.71, p.220, p.348)

• Barnett, Joseph L. (p.154, p.348)

• Beebe, Dr. Raymond (p.35, p.286, p.349)

• Bernstein, Eugene (p.72, p.349)

• Bewitched Paper (p.251)

• Big Money (p.239)

• Bills (p.161, p.163, p.189, p.239, p.252, p.320, p.337)

• Bi-Mentalism (p.80)

• Blue Intruder, The (p.94)

• Bobo, The Magician (p.9, p.156, p.349)

• Booth, John N. (p.10, p.197, p.221, p.349)

• Bowyer, Tom (p.95, p.288, p.350)

• Boyar, Vynn (p.291, p.350)

• Brandon, Joan (p.292, p.350)

• Braue, Frederick (p.104, p.350)

• Braun, John V. (p.124, p.351)

• Brent, Lu (p.127, p.222, p.351)

• Buff, R. C. (p.11, p.113, p.157, p.351)

• Cairy, Clyde F. (p.11, p.158, p.351)

• Campbell, Loring (p.223, p.352)

• Canfield Set-up, The (p.141)

• Carbo (p.106)

• Card Between, The (p.9)

• Card on the Wall (p.24)

• Cards (p.9-153)

•   coincidence (p.94)

•   discoveries and revelations (p.9-34)

•   fans (p.124, p.132)

•   find the lady (p.150)

•   four ace tricks (p.73, p.122, p.127, p.131, p.144, p.147)

•   flying pasteboards (p.42-58)

•   gags (p.140, p.152)

•   gambling expose (p.134)

•   mathemagic with (p.138)

•   predictions (p.69, p.74, p.75, p.101, p.117)

•   pseudo-hypnotism (p.128)

•   pseudo-mindreading (p.69, p.71, p.72, p.80, p.82, p.83, p.84, p.89, p.91, p.95, p.96, p.99, p.103, p.106, p.108, p.111, p.115, p.119, p.120)

•   rising (p.59-68)

•   solitaire (p.141)

•   story with (p.142, p.144)

•   transpositions (p.35-42)

•   you do as I do (p.78, p.92, p.97)

• Cards of Cairo (p.10)

• Card Thru Hank (p.49)

• Changes (p.156, p.161, p.170, p.174, p.189, p.199, p.200, p.222, p.239, p.277, p.288, p.338)

• Chanin, Jack (p.160, p.197, p.352)

• Chapman, Franklin M. (p.42, p.293, p.352)

• Chesbro, Verne (p.60, p.224, p.298, p.352)

• Christ, Henry (p.76, p.78, p.79)

• Christopher, Milbourne (p.12, p.161, p.353)

• Cig to Pipe (p.338)

• Cigarettes (p.166, p.253, p.338)

• Clever, Eddie (p.128, p.209, p.224, p.353)

• Coins (p.156, p.160, p.161, p.164, p.172, p.180, p.188, p.195, p.210, p.277, p.298, p.324)

• Coincidence? No. Prevision? Yes. (p.94)

• Collins, Stanley (p.131, p.199, p.353)

• Color Changing Hat and Gloves, The (p.288)

• Contents, Table of (p.VII)

• Copyright (p.II)

• Craig, Mystic (p.73, p.301, p.353)

• Crawford, T. J. (p.200, p.354)

• Crimmins, John J., Jr. (p.I, art editor; p.V, p.74, p.225, p.354)

• Cubical Curiosity, A (p.169)

• Curry, Paul (p.74, p.75, p.78, p.161, p.354)

• Cut Post Card Mystery (p.230)

• Dark Eyes (p.91)

• Dead! (p.209)

• Dedication (p.III)

• Del Monte (p.132, p.354)

• Destroyed and Restored (p.173, p.205, p.208, p.230, p.239, p.251, p.256, p.259, p.275, p.314)

• Dick Tracy Card Trick (p.11)

• Die Box Illusion, Karson’s A La (p.315)

• Digivision (p.83)

• Dobrin, Harry (p.228, p.229, p.355)

• Dollar Bill in Lemon (p.252)

• Double Locking Periscope Slate (p.229)

• Double Locking Slate (p.228)

• Double or Nothing (p.195)

• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (p.167)

• Dy-Cyphering (p.242)

• Edwards, Ronald B. (p.80, p.355)

• Effective Passee-Passee Card Melange (p.46)

• Eggs (p.334, p.341)

• Egg Bag, Patter for (p.334)

• Egg Bag Routine, Windsor’s (p.341)

• Egyptian X-Ray Scope (p.221)

• Electric Namreh’s* (p.337)

• Elliott, Bruce (p.V, p.VI, p.43, p.202, p.204, p.355)

• El-Ray (p.222)

• El-Tab, Professor (p.82, p.230, p.355)

• Elusive Canary, The (p.301)

• Encore (p.103)

• Ervin, Dr. E. G. (p.163, p.356)

• Escape-ologist, The (p.334)

• Evans, Dr. Henry Ridgely (p.232, p.356)

• Evans, Val (p.83, p.164, p.356)

• Extra Joker Prediction (p.74)

• Fatima (p.319)

• Fetsch Force, The (p.88)

• Fetsch, “Hen,” (p.84, p.301, p.303, p.357)

• Finger Finger (p.202)

• Fischer, Ottokar (p.322, p.334)

• Fitzgerald, “Tom” I, illustrations by (p.165, p.234, p.357)

• Fitzkee, Dariel (p.134, p.305, p.357)

• Flaming Punch, The (p.292)

• Flash Opener, A (p.320)

• Fleischman, Sid (p.63, p.205, p.358)

• Flighty Aces (p.127)

• Follow Me (p.78)

• Fountain of Silks (p.293)

• Four Ace Memory Test (p.73)

• Four Burglars, The (p.144)

• Four Coin Transposition (p.164)

• Four Door Production Cabinet, The* (p.308)

• Fries, Dr. Joseph H. (p.239, p.240, p.358)

• Future Deck, The (p.117)

• Gardner, Martin (p.33, p.89, p.166, p.358)

• Garrett, Teral (p.91, p.358)

• Ghost, Coin and Key, The (p.156)

• Ghost, Coins, The (p.188)

• Gibson, Walter B. (p.92, p.114, p.202, p.203, p.308, p.359)

• Gone! (p.160)

• Goodrum, John (p.180)

• Greatest Four Ace Trick, The (p.147)

• Grubin, Arnold L. (p.13, p.359)

• Guess It (p.41)

• Gunther, Bob (p.63)

• Hahne, Nelson C. (p.94, p.167, p.359)

• Hallucination (p.128)

• Hand(v) Magic (p.234)

• Hathaway, 14 (p.311, p.359)

• Hat ‘N Bunny (p.286)

• Headline Speller (p.113)

• Heath, Royal V. (p.138, p.242, p.246, p.359)

• Here’s Your Card (p.30)

• Here, There and Everywhere (p.54)

• Hofeller, Sigmar K. (p.37, p.313, p.373)

• Hofzinser, J. M. (p.334)

• Holden, Max (p.V, p.279, p.280, p.283)

• Hole In One, A (p.173)

• Hopkins, Charles H. (p.I, publisher; p.V, p.16, p.360)

• Hornswoggled (p.189)

• Hugard, Jean (p.V, p.247, p.360)

• Hugard’s Butterflies (p.247)

• Humpty Dumpty Gets Around (p.225)

• Illusions (p.305, p.315, p.345)

• Impromptu Bill Reading (p.163)

• Impromptu Floating Card, The (p.63)

• Improved Zens Cards and Envelopes, The (p.55)

• Insto-Transpo Perfected (p.35)

• In the Mind (p.84)

• Introduction (p.VI)

• Invisible Mischievous Genii (p.264)

• I. O. U. (p.161)

• I Won’t Play Cards with You (p.134)

• Jacobs, Mark (p.169, p.250, p.360)

• Jamison, R. M. (p.45, p.170, p.361)

• Jamison’s Spot Sticks (p.170)

• Jeudevine, F. H. (p.314, p.361)

• J. M. Rising Card, The (p.64)

• Just Raising Cane (p.321)

• Just Think of One (p.30)

• Kains, Maury (p.140, p.361)

• Kaplan, George (p.94, p.361)

• Karger’s Bent Coin (p.172)

• Karger, George (p.172, p.362)

• Karson, Joseph (p.18, p.315, p.362)

• Kattner, Wilbur (p.18, p.206, p.362)

• Kaufman, Gerald L. (p.141, p.142, p.362)

• Kayton, Dr. Howard B. (p.20, p.251, p.363)

• Kelly, Frank (p.98)

• Kindred Spirits (p.18)

• King Can Do No Wrong, The (p.142)

• Kolar Card Trick, The (p.20)

• Kolar, J. J. (p.20, p.208, p.363)

• Kolar’s Magic Shears (p.208)

• Kosky, Gerald (p.144, p.252, p.363)

• Lamarque, Abril (p.316, p.364)

• Larsen, William W. (p.V, p.95, p.167, p.319, p.364)

• Levitation (p.321)

• Lie Detector Test (p.33)

• Linking Rings (p.254)

• Liquids (p.179, p.222, p.277, p.291, p.292, p.301)

• Lorraine, Sid (p.144, p.320, p.364)

• Loyd (p.286)

• L. W. Stop Mystery (p.95)

• Lyle, Art (p.21, p.253, p.364)

• Lyons, L. Vosburgh (p.96, p.173, p.202, p.365)

• Madden, Richard F. (p.97, p.321, p.365)

• Magician’s Dream, The (p.119)

• Magic of the Wand (p.313)

• Magic Sewing Cabinet, The* (p.311)

• Magnetic Spheres (p.250)

• Magneto-Box (p.20)

• Maguire, Leon (p.180)

• Malini (p.324)

• Marbles and Marvels (p.199)

• Marechal, Greer, Jr. (p.38, p.254, p.365)

• Master Mind, The* (p.69)

• Matches (p.180)

• Materialization (p.195)

• McAthy, George (p.9, p.365)

• McCaffrey, William H. (p.23, p.174, p.365)

• McMillen, Jack (p.64, p.366)

• Mechanico Rising Cards (p.60)

• Mendoza, Harry (p.24, p.256, p.324, p.366)

• Mental Broadcast, The (p.108)

• Mental Rescue (p.96)

• Meyer, Orville W. (p.20, p.101, p.106, p.147, p.209, p.366)

• Middle Deal, The (p.11)

• Mifflin, John W. (p.325, p.367)

• Milk Build Shuffle, The (p.135)

• Mindreading (p.163, p.197, p.202, p.206, p.209, p.211, p.217, p.221, p.228, p.229, p.242, p.244, p.246, p.257, p.263, p.265, p.279, p.280, p.326, p.328)

• Mind-Testing Deck (p.152)

• Modern Crystal Coin Jar (p.324)

• Moonlight Madness (p.265)

• Morris, Chester (p.179, p.210, p.367)

• Morris, Paul (p.25, p.180, p.367)

• Mortis Plan, The (p.210)

• Mosteller, Frederick (p.103, p.368)

• Mulholland, John (p.V)

• Multiple Slate Writing (p.219)

• My Best Club Laughs (p.301)

• My Best Flash Opening (p.303)

• My Best Rising Cards (p.66)

• My Best Trick (p.99)

• My Clutch Slips (p.21)

• My Favorite Trunk Routine (p.305)

• Mystic Necktie, The (p.240)

• Mystic Sewing Machine (p.259)

• Nelson, Robert A. (p.182, p.257, p.368)

• New Color Change of a Giant Card Fan (p.132)

• New “Find the Lady” Illusion, A (p.150)

• Newmann, C. A. George (p.46, p.217, p.368)

• Next! 75 (p.75)

• Nicholson, Grady (p.326, p.368)

• Nite Club Teaser (p.325)

• Nixon, Dr. Cecil E. (p.328, p.369)

• Nyquist, Charles W. (p.27, p.183, p.369)

• O’Dell, Dell (p.259, p.369)

• Odloscope (p.328)

• One in Millions (p.138)

• One Plus One Equals Three (p.122)

• On the Cuff (p.204)

• Opening Tricks (p.286, p.303, p.314, p.320)

• Osborne, Tom (p.261, p.370)

• Out of These Hands (p.115)

• Paddles (p.170, p.174)

• Paper (p.157, p.208, p.220, p.247, p.251, p.256, p.275)

• Paper Cone, Silk N’ Water (p.222)

• Paper Money (p.161)

• Paper Napkin Vanish (p.157)

• Parade of the Lamas (p.43)

• Patter (p.259, p.334)

• Pedagogue’s Nightmare, The (p.174)

• Peek Deck (p.111)

• Peek Deck Pappy (p.112)

• Pen (p.197)

• Pencils (p.165, p.184, p.185)

• Pen-Plexity (p.197)

• Perfect Pitch Test, The (p.206)

• Perpetual Pencil (p.185)

• Perry, Warner (p.112)

• Peter Rabbit Goes to Town (p.182)

• Philanthropic Poker Chip, The* (p.186)

• Physician’s Ropes (p.240)

• Pittman, George H. (p.49, p.370)

• Poker Chip (p.186)

• Poor Man’s Bank Night (p.186)

• Pop’s Opener (p.314)

• Pop Through Cigarette (p.166)

• Predictopack (p.101)

• Preface (p.IV)

• Principle of Alternative Terminations, The (p.27)

• Prize Winner, Bill McCaffrey’s (p.23)

• Productions (p.179, p.182, p.195, p.250, p.286, p.301, p.308, p.311, p.313)

• Proskauer, Julien J. (p.106, p.370)

• Psychic Impressions (p.257)

• Rabbit Vanish, The Lamarque (p.316)

• Rawson, Clayton (p.108, p.371)

• Read, Ralph W. (p.184, p.371)

• Refund (p.277)

• Releases (p.158, p.165, p.167, p.183, p.261)

• Ribbon Release (p.158)

• Ring from a Rope, The (p.261)

• Ring in Transit, A (p.224)

• Ring of Thoth, The (p.167)

• Ring on Pencil, The (p.165)

• Rings (p.165, p.167, p.183, p.204, p.224, p.261, p.332)

• Rise and Fall of Paul Mall, The (p.253)

• Rising Cards from Houlette (p.59)

• Rope Riting (p.242)

• Ropes (p.240, p.261)

• Rudin, Dolf (p.30, p.332, p.371)

• Rungle, Herb (p.30, p.263, p.372)

• Rutledge, Ned (p.31, p.372)

• Sailor’s Rope, A (p.241)

• Sanders, Jimmy (p.185, p.372)

• Saturn’s Card Transposition (p.39)

• Saxon, Lucille Pierce (p.334, p.372)

• Searles, Lynn (p.116)

• Secret of the Maharajah, The (p.332)

• Sefalaljia, III (p.183)

• Selbit, P. T. (p.232)

• Sensitive Fingers* (p.72)

• Shot of Scotch, A (p.179)

• Silent Stop (p.82)

• Silk Production, A (p.250)

• Silks (p.222, p.232, p.250, p.293, p.319, p.337)

• Silver Shower, The (p.298)

• Six Cards to Pocket with Extras (p.53)

• Sixty-four Dollar Word, The (p.113)

• Slates (p.219, p.228, p.229)

• Smith, Willard S. (p.186, p.373)

• Sorensen, Jerry (p.33, p.186, p.373)

• So Simple Force (p.116)

• So That’s the Way You Want It (p.16)

• Spirit Effects (p.184, p.213, p.219, p.223)

• Spirit Mirror, The (p.223)

• Spread, Shuffle, Spread (p.89)

• Starke, George (p.188, p.189, p.373)

• Stone, Dr. Raymond V. (p.264, p.334, p.374)

• St(r)ung (p.154)

• Take a Number from One to Thirty (p.246)

• Tap Force (p.12)

• Tapping Pencil (p.184)

• Tarbell, Dr. Harlan (p.39, p.321, p.374)

• Taylor, Dr. Franklin V. (p.111, p.113, p.195, p.374)

• Tear Supreme (p.275)

• Technicolor Transpose (p.38)

• Telepathic Routine (p.140)

• Telephone Book Trick* (p.211)

• Telephone Drama, The (p.279)

• Test of the Tiber, The (p.280)

• That’s the Way They’re Done (p.33)

• There’ll Be Some Changes Made (p.37)

• Thimbles (p.180)

• Thompson, Jacqueline Jeanne (p.III)

• Thompson, Julia Frances (p.III)

• Thompson, J. G., Jr. (p.I, editor; p.IV, preface; p.12, p.113, p.115, p.195, p.265, p.375)

• Thought Projection Test (p.326)

• Three in One (p.180)

• Timed Turnover, The (p.18)

• Tomorrow’s News (p.263)

• Torn and Restored Strip of Paper (p.256)

• Trepel, Jack (p.211, p.375)

• Trick Without a Name, The (p.205)

• Trinket Test (p.217)

• Turnabout (p.92)

• Two Be or Not Two Be—That Was the Question (p.97)

• Two Tiered Blank Fan and Some Variations, A (p.124)

• Under Cover (p.13)

• Under the Pan (p.200)

• Up My Sleeve (p.45)

• Vanishes (p.157, p.188, p.195, p.197, p.301, p.313, p.315, p.320, p.334)

• Vanishing Aces (p.144)

• Vanishing Salt Trick (p.197)

• Van Reese, M. (p.213, p.375)

• Vernon, Dai (p.94, p.95, p.124, p.140)

• Victoria (p.120)

• Vosburgh, Jack (p.117, p.217, p.375)

• Walking Through a Ribbon Table (p.345)

• Walsh, Audley V. (p.53, p.119, p.376)

• Warlock, Peter (p.66, p.376)

• Watches (p.232, p.339)

• Watch and Nest of Boxes Without Assistant (p.339)

• Watch, Glass and Handkerchief, The (p.232)

• Weber, Herman L. (p.120, p.337, p.376)

• Weil, Bob (p.54, p.338, p.377)

• Well, Well (p.31)

• Wilson, William H. (p.41, p.339, p.377)

• Windsor, Tommy (p.341, p.377)

• Wise, Howard D. (p.150, p.275, p.377)

• Wolff, Ed. (p.152, p.277, p.378)

• Wright, T. Page (p.95, p.167)

• Wuxtra! (p.220)

• Zens, M. F. (p.55, p.345, p.378)