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MENTAL MAGIC Al Baker 89 Pictures and Text Show You How Toâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Read Numbers on Folded Bills Read Sealed Secret Messages A Practical Method for Clairvoyance, Telepathy, Pseudo-Fortune Telling and the Interpretation of the Zodiac and Meaning of Each Playing Card. A System for Memorizing 100 Objects Quickly.
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It has been more than fifty years since Al Baker first appeared professionally in magic in his home town, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. For years he played vaudeville and chautauqua, four and five shows a day. Then he entered the club field and here he acquired that intimate touch that has made him famous as a master of ceremonies or after dinner speaker and performer. Mr. Baker succeeded Elmer P. Ransom as Dean of American Magicians, who said of him: "Magicians everywhere look to Al Baker's act as an example of perfection and spontaneous wit. He is a prolific inventor, a superb performer, a remarkable ventriloquist. But even more, Al Baker is known all over the world as the fairest, most charming and wittiest man in magic . . . an absolute credit to his profession."
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MENTAL MAGIC
MENTAL MAGIC By AL
BAKER Author of
Al Baker's Book Al Baker's Second Book Magical Ways and Means
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All of Al Baker's Effects, Routines and Patter, were witnessed and recorded by JEAN HUGARD
C A R L W. J O N E S , Publisher of Magic Minneapolis, Minn. I949
Copyright Nov. 1949 BY CARL W. JONES
All Rights Reserved: No part of this book may be reproduced in any form. Infringement of copyright will be prosecuted as will borrowing with credit, rewriting for encyclopedias, compendiums, and lessons. First Impression
Illustrated by Miaco and Kwakenat. Engravings by Herald-Review, Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
TO VIRGO The Sixth Sign Of The Zodiac, her virtues being Thoughtfulness, Efficiency and Purity.
MAGIC BOOKS GREATER MAGIC
1938
By John Northern Hilliard EXPERT CARD TECHNIQUE
1940
By Hugard and Braue MAGICAL WAYS AND MEANS
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By Al Baker CARD MAGIC
1945
By John Northern Hilliard The Card Chapters from Greater Magic MEMOIRS OF ROBERT-HOUDIN
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MENTAL MAGIC
1949
By Al Baker
Carl W. Jones, Publisher of Magic Minneapolis, Minnesota
CONTENTS Page FOREWORD CHAPTER i.
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First Lesson in Mind Reading Technique . . . The Baker Switch Bill-epathy CHAPTER 2. New Light on the Center Tear The Baker Method of Reading the Center Tear Co-Incidentally CHAPTER 3. Telephone Mysteries A Telemirakel Over the Phone Telephony CHAPTER 4. Mental Magic Effects No-Nomonics Baker's Eight Card Trick Thought Transmission Al Baker's Envelope Switch Envelope as an Accessory Chicken-Feed Parlor Telepathy Impossible! Pellet Reading Out of the Air Baker Switch Number 2 Secret Reading of Billets Pseudo-Fortune Telling Seance The Dead Man's Name Mental Card Tricks The Pulse of the People The Stethoscope Telepathy for Two Unconscious Clairvoyance The Magic Bell APPENDIX Adrian Plate's System of Mnemonics . . . . Fortune Telling Significance of Playing Cards . Recapitulation of Al Baker's Rules . . . . vii
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