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Cecil, Harry E: Magic That Perks

?1937 Abbott's Magic Novelty Co., Colon, MI

Softcover, saddle-stitched, 70 pages

Magic That Perks

Comments: Harry E. Cecil was Vice President of the IBM.

Contents:

4 Foreword (Robert Climax Anderson)

6 Introduction (Harry Cecil)

9 Opening Patter

10 The Fir Tree

13 Banana Bag

14 Comedy Egg Bag

16 Laundry Ticket

16 Sun and Moon

19 Slate Prophecy

23 Card in Cigarette

24 Worlds Worst Magician Royal Flush Card Effect

25 My 'Sure Enough' Card Effect

27 The Old Pink Lemonade Stand

29 Lines of Patter: one liners for your act

31 Middle-Words (Max Terhune and Skully)

32 The Animal Chase: children's animal card trick

35 One of the Ups and Downs of Magic

36 New Finish for the Max Sterling Egg Trick (Billy Russell)

36 Anti-Slip In the Stack of Bowls Production (Billy Russell)

36 To Prove the Absence of Any Connection With a Piece of Apparatus (Billy Russell): two methods

37 Russell's Watch Board

38 The Silk Cocoon

40 Simple Effective Spelling Trick

41 A Version of the Cups and Balls (Howard Strickler, John Snyder Jr.): with use of Large Cups

43 Clean Cut Color Change

44 Strait-Jacket Card Effect (J.J. Crimmins, Jr.)

46 The Case of the Four Kings (J.J. Crimmins, Jr.)

46 Subconscious Card Control (Dr. William Bates)

47 Sympathetic Spelling Bee (Charles J. Jones)

48 Color Harmony (Charles J. Jones)

49 Telephone Card Trick (Frank N. Kroner)

50 Fun With Second-Dealing (James S. Grigsby)

50 Original Coin Act (T.J. Crawford): using the Crawford coin stand

54 The 'Fitz' Hat Trick: cut and restored tape in hat

55 Slate Divination

56 Imitation Beer: chemical

57 Mind Reading Extraordinary (A.A.A. Almon)

58 Scotch Thrift: a brief anecdote

58 A Silly Opening Trick (Sid Lorraine)

59 Dual Attraction (Reginald Eaton Clark): card problem with an unprepared pack

61 Relue's Ropes and Cups: tin cups release from rope while china cups remain suspended

62 The 'G' Men and the Joker (Wilf. J. Fleury)

64 Planting a Load in a Borrowed Hat (Walter "Buck" Hambright

65 A Card Problem (Paul Noffke)

66 Unusual Card Change ("Al" Saal)

67 Spelling Trick Supreme (Abe Warsaw)

69 The Balloon Goes Up (Harry E. Cecil): card in balloon

71 After-Words (Howard G. Strickler)

72 The Last Words (Harry Cecil)