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The famous stage and T.V. magician lets you into some of his ;uofessional secrets.

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"I wish I could do a few can- iuring tricks," said a young man to me recently. "I envy people like you who can make the most amazing tricks look so easy."

Well, now, there is nothing dif- ncult about the ,majority of the simple, "party" two of oonlurins '.i'l0k5. not need any of you go on xainly wishing that you could be A conjurer. All you need is a little patience, a. few very simple moons of apparatus and some self- mnfldence. The rest will come :1-om practice. There is nothing more to it than that.

so here goes. Let us take a look at a few. easily-performed tricks. so that you can practice them in mine for your Christmas parties. By the way, before we start, let me just warn you never to par- iorm the some trick twice mi any Zine particular occasion. In other words, never give your audience a i-hruice to discover the secrets oi your tricks.

For our ilrst trick, you will need half-a-dozen silk handkerchieis-

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two of each of three diilsrsnt col- ours. We will, saunas that they arered. blue and green. Now you take these three hsnkies and join them together. by knotting them at the corners. If you like. you can hand them in one of the aud- ience for this to be done.

After flourishing them and as- suring your onlookers that the hsndkerchieis are securely tied to- gether. you screw than up and place them in the inside pocket of your Jacket. That done. you sug- gest to your audience that the hankies an not tied together, and that you will produce each of them in turn-according to the

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"Red!" calls one of your friends. And diving your hand inside your buttoned-up Jacket, you produce the rod handkerchief.

Green and blue follow as the colours are called. Marvellous!

Actually, before you started your performance. you tucked three col- oured hsndkesohiefs-not this ones that were knotted together. of course.-into the pocket of your waistcoat nearest to your inside jacket pocket. Thus, you see, the knotted hankies remained where you had placed them; although. to

your audience. it must have seem- ed that you producsd the hand- kerchiefs separately from the same pocket.

When you have located the

ten naughty creatures who have not turned up for choir

practice, you can colour the picture and use it as a Christmas Card.

There is only one point to re- member about thls trick. You must be quite sure you know the sequence of the three handic-

have a small piece of white linen, similar to the average type of , hankie, concealed in your left chief! Whit-'-h WU hl" M44931 hand. Now, when you twist the iW'W in 3'01" WWW033 WWW A handkerchief through your cupped mists-K0 W111 ruin the Whole trick. hand, it is the separate piece oi for the essence oi it is in produc- unm you draw up between your ms the required hmdkerchief thumb and iln-zers.and it is this without apparently looking. same piece of linen that you burn. t ' ' As you stub it out with your right Talking of handkerohiefe. ask hand. you can easily screw up the one oi your audience for a white charred remains and conceal it in one. and. having been oifered one, your hand while you hold up the watch the consternation on the undamaged handkerchief. face of its owner when you an- ' ' ' rwunce that you are going to burn a hole in it! of comic, you take no notice of his protest. and, twisting it up in your cupped left of your audience. quickly flicking hand. you pull about an inch of it backwards and forwards to the hankie clear of your thumb show both sides. Now, take the and first finger and then set light hankie and fold it diagonally in to it. Let it burn. for a few mo- hali, before you roll it into a ments, then stub it out with your shape resembling a paper fire- fingors and. with s. flourish and. lighter spill. That done, you can some suitable patter, open the

Just one more trick with a handkerchief. This time you must use your own. Flourish it in from

apple from a bowler hat and show for it will keep your audience

them to your audience. amused and bewildered-so long "But X shan't need the apple,' as you don't drop the eggl

you say. and. cutting it up into ' ' '

hali-a-dozen pieces, you hand Card tricks are always popular. them round to your friends. ”l-lope so you should include at least one you enjoy it," you continue. in your performance. Try this one.

"Meanwhile. I shall replace the It's quite easy, so long as you

orange in the hat.

Having done so, you keep your audience amused with some funny patter until the apple has been eaten. Now you come to the start- ling part of the trick. by announ- cing to the audience that they

were mistaken when they thought

it was an apple they had eaten.

"You see, you must have eaten

an orange-ior the apple is still in the hat!"

You prove it by producing from

the hat-an apple!

practise it carefully beforehand. Six members of your audience are asked to select a card-from a pack. Each is told to remember his card and then to place it in an envelope. When you have collected the envelopes and placed them on your oonjurer's table. you an- nounce that you will tell your audience the value and suit oi each of the selected cards. with- out looking.

ncunce the name oi the card you took from the FIRST envelops-- which agsln, of course, is Mi- nowledged by the member oi the aiudiievnce who selected that partic- ular card.

You carry on in the same way with the rest of the envelopes, until you come to the last one. which contains the Jack oi Clubs --although you call out the value and suit oi the card you took from the fifth envelope. Thus, having guemed correctly the six chosen cards, you can turn them up and show than to your audience, proving that there was no decep tion about the trick .not likely!

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Time ior just one more trick- another really good one, too. We will call it "The Magical Black- board".

Yes, you'll need a blackboard and a piece of chalk. And you must enlist the co-operation of one oi your friends whom you will ask a few simple questions. First oi all. his age-although you can point out that he need not give you his real age unless he likes. Okay, we'll assume that he says he is M Then write that number on the board.

"Then, if you are 24", you say, "you were born in 1929". And you write that date down under his age on the board.

Next, you ask him another ques-

work, or how long since he left school, or how long he has been playing football or cricket, or whatever game he favours. (Tell your irleind you want round num- bers-iractions can be awkward). We'll assume that his answer is seven years-all right, scribble the number seven under the oth- ers on the board. and continue:

"You've been playing iootball for seven years, which means that you started in l946''.

Again you write that number down in the form of an addition sum. Then. ask your audience to work out the sum, and the answer is 3906.

Next. you suggest that another

It sounds impossible, but it is really Just a neat deception. First

There is no deception, really. of all, you need a. confederate in Before your performance. you the audience. who will arrange have "doctored" the fruit. The with you beforehand to choose I

S certain card-we'll say the Jack oi

handkerchief-and reveal that it ., is quite whole and shows no sign ' of a bum

How is it dons? Quite simple, really. When you accept the hand- kerchief from your friend. you

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Clubs. Now. then you collect the six envelopes,'you must take care to place your coniederates envel- ope at the bottom.

Now, having paticred for a few moments, you pick up ths top envelope. pass it before your eyes. ithink deeply and then announce that it contains the Jack of Clubs. Your confederate will immediately agree that the card he selected

balance it on your hand,--or even on your forehead if you are clever enough, and the handkerchiei will remain stlifly upright, until you crumple it up and poke it back into your pocket.

Actually. of course. you must prepare the handkerchief first by ' stitching a piece of may stifiish wire-painted white, it possible- irom corner to corner, as in dia- gram "A". This will not be seen when you flourish it betore your . audience, but as should be obvi- ous. when the handkerchief is rolled around it, the eifect is as though the hankie were hypnoth- sd. And then, if the wire is not too stin. it will crumple up when you have finished with the hand-

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Mid: Whl-l9 W l5 Wm dilmllh 9"” You now know the designation it 31011116 the apple. If 15 Wm "Oi of another of the cards. and when stick down perfectly. tie a length you pick up the mwnd of the of light cotton round it. which envelope, and go through your will not be seen when you Di'0' magical thought act, you can an- duce the "orange-apple".

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Now, before you take the fruit from the hat to complete your trick, it is quite easy to slip the orange peel from around the ap- ple and tuck it into the lining in- side the hat before producing the apple.

Quite a neat way of turning on orange into an apple, isn't it?

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The egg is one of the most pop- ular oi the conjurer's "props", but because they are expensive and rather valuable. I will give you only one rtria in which an egg is used.

The trick needs careful prepa-

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tents. Now pour some fine sand into the empty DRE-Ihell-about a quarter full-and seal up the two holes wlith whitc wax, or candle grease. You now have an mg which you can "hypnotlse" because it will stand on end. lie on its side and" balance on your hand. or on the and oi a kniih blade. or anywhere eke you need it, simply because the sand inside the shell will act as the balancing agent.

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when he will find a sealsd envel- ope. Tell him to bring it forward, open it and read the number that is written on the slip oi paper in-

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"cats". . side tne envelope. ?- - Just lmemm mow gwps 0, l;llIlll0lIllIllIIillII(lI(l(II' astonishment as the number read I out is "3906"-exactly the same as that on the boardl You can't go wrong with this trick, for no matter what ques- tions you ask the answer must al- ways come to 3906. which is the number you have written on the slip of paper inserted inside the envelope and sealed down before you start the trick. Well, try it;

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