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MAGIC MADE EASY Sixty Tricks Anyone Can Do By J O H N
THURSDAY
NEW YORK
PADELL PUBLISHING CO. 1945
COPYRIGHT, 1 9 4 5 , BY MAX PADELL 8 3 0 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS Before You Start The Disappearing Matches The Perpetual Match Match Through Match . The Traveling Flame The Black Cross The Balanced Glass The Spirit Sugar Cube . The Vanishing Glass The Traveling Ball The Magic Paddle The Floating Sugar Cube The Ghost Fork The Nickel in the Roll The Balanced Napkin The Napkin Ring Release The Wandering Half-Dollar The Magic Fold The Card and Glass Balance Living and Dead The Thrown-Away Coin The Appearing Rose Spinning an Egg .Hard and Soft Dime and Glass The Magic Hat Rack The Inverted Glass The Twice-Filled Glass The Hercules Match Box The Disappearing Dime Three and One '
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Cork-Lifting Glass on Dollar Bill The Almighty Dollar • The Diving Bell ' Five Bricks with One Hand Invisible Glue The Floating Needle Blow the Man Over Hanky Panky ' Mind Reading The Floating Egg Magic Transfer • The Five-Finger Lift The Spirit Force The Ghost Thread Jumping into a Card Coin and Card The Vanishing Dime Spoon into Glass The Underwater Candle The 1089 Trick Two and One t Nickel and Match The Vanished Dime The Appearing Ring Coin Through Elbow The Restored Match The Power of Water Coin Into Bottle Quarter Through Dime Hole Pigs and Corners The Hypnotized Arms
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BEFORE YOU START *
ever wished you could fill in a dull moment at a party or among a friendly group with some clever or puzzling trick? Well, you can. Not everyone can say brilliant things, or make snappy comebacks, but you can get everyone envious of your mystifying and amusing tricks. Magic looks terribly difficult when you watch it, but it isn't. That's just part of the trick. Often the most amazing and amusing hocus-pocus requires only two or three practice tries to make you master of it. Some people imagine that they have to learn complicated sleight of hand before they can do tricks of magic, but this is all wrong. Some of the greatest masters of manipulation and prestidigitation ("the hand is quicker than the eye") are very boring to watch, and require confederates, special apparatus, backgrounds of a particular color, and one thing and another that put their magic quite out of the ordinary person's reach. On the other hand, you or anyone else, with a few matches, coins, napkins, bits of string and so forth can delight all -your friends for half an hour with hilarious tricks. There are just a few things to remember before you get on to the tricks themselves—mainly a few pitfalls to stay out of. First of all, just having a large repertory of tricks doesn't make an interesting magician. In fact, one of the dullest things to watch is a self-elected funny 7 HAVEN'T YOU