The Vanishing Sixpence

Sep 17, 2011 | Tricks Explained, Uncategorized

This is a very amusing trick, the success of which depends solely upon the audacity of the conjurer. He puts an ordinary pocket handkerchief upon the table, with a sixpence in the centre of it. The handkerchief is slowly rolled up with the coin in the middle. After it...

3 Old Tricks From The Scrapbook

Sep 16, 2011 | Tricks Explained, Uncategorized

THE SPELLING BEE TRICK Take an ordinary pack of playing cards and arrange the cards of any given suit in the following order : Taking the first card in your hand face upwards, and placing the others on this in like manner :- Three, Eight, Seven, Ace, King, Six, Four,...

Blazing Stage Becomes A Death Trap

Sep 16, 2011 | Deaths

TEN PERSONS PERISH IN THE FLAMES OF A BURNING MUSIC-HALL IN EDINBURGH TRAGIC FATE OF A GREAT ILLUSIONIST By a terrible fire that broke out in the Edinburgh Empire Palace Theatre the other night the stage in the course of a few minutes was converted into a veritable...

Secrets of Magic by Jasper Maskeleyne

Sep 7, 2011 | Articles By Magicians

My Grandfather was a young man when, in their triumphal progress through the provinces, the Davenports, the famous “mediums,” visited the Town Hall, Cheltenham. Like everyone else, he went to see the rope-tying phenomena, and – unlike most – he came away with a...

Some Dont’s For Young Magicians from 1906

Sep 7, 2011 | Tips

SOME ‘DONT’S’ FOR YOUNG MAGICIANS. DON’T forget that each movement which is familiar and even bare-faced, to you, is hidden and unknown to your audience. DON’T hurry, your programme will astonish just as much in twenty minutes as it will in ten, probably more! DON’T...