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BOB© LECTURE

THE ETHEREAL SILK EFFECT: After showing both hands empty, the performer reaches into the air and extracts a silk handkerchief* He explains that it was there all the time. To prove it he rolls the silk into a tiny ball and returns it to the air. Again hands are shows empty. He then reaches tnto the air and again produces the stlk After returning tt to the air the third time, he shows both hands empty, shows a small pieee of construction paper on both sides, then rolls it into a tube* He reaches tnto the air and pretends to pluck the tiny ball of stlk from tt* The ball of stlk ts tossed into the tube* Shouting hts hand empty, he reaches tnto the tube and pulls forth the stlk* Paper is shown empty, REQUIREMENTS: Half of an 18" stlk which has been cut in two diagonally* A long thumb tip, a piece of construction paper SppfioTiiMUtft 4*40* and a •naif rubber band, PREPARATION.' After stuffing the silk tnto the thumb tip, roll tt tnto the pteee of construction paper, snap the rubber band around tt and place tt on the tqble, PRESSMTATIOMt Pick up the rolled construction paper, insert your right thumb tnto the paper and tnto the thumb tip* Take off the rubber band with the LH and drop tt onto the table. Allow the paper to unroll, show tt on both sides, then stand tt on tts curled edge on the table* Show both hands empty* Lock into the air and pretend to see something. Reach out with the LH and pretend to pluck something from the air, Keep the L fist closed as if containing something* Reach into the thumb end of the fist wtth the R thumb and forefinger, leave the thumb tip in the LH as RH pulls stlk tnto view. Display the stlk for Just a moment, then steal the thumb tip from the left hand as you pull the silk through tt* To do thts turn the L fist over, finger side on top and thumb to the left* As the etlk ts pulled through the L fist the Up of the R second finger ts tnserted tnto the thumb ttp and carried away as the RH moves from L to R* The LH is opened and seen to be empty* Tell the audtece that you will explain the trick, Begtn stufftng the silk tnto the L fist and as you do so, insert the thumb ttp into it and push the silk into it. Carry the tip away on the R thumb as the LH fingers make a rolling notion, pretending to roll the silk tnto a snail ball. Show the invisible ball of stlk to the audience, then deposit tt in the air* Show both hands empty, reach out with the LH, pretending to pluck the tiny invisible ball from the air, R, H, again reaches into L fist as before, leaves the tip and pulls forth the hanky. Steal out the thumb ttp as before. Now you repeat the same business of returning the silk to the air. And at this point the thumb tip wtth the stlk ts again on the R thumb , Show both hands empty, pick up the paper wtth the RH, roll it into a tube around the thumb tip* Leave the loaded ttp in the paper while showing the RH empty. Reach tnto the air wtth the RH, pretend to catch the tiny ball of silk and toss tt tnto the tube. Show

th@ RH empty. Reach into the tube, leave the thumb tip, pull the silk into vista, display it quickly, then drape it over the L forearm* Now insert the R thumb into the paper and move that hand downward, unrolling tlia paper in the process. Show the paper on both aides, then hold papgr in the LH as RH takes silk from. L forearm, shows it, then places it and the thumb tip on the table. Paper ts also placed on table* When the silk is taken from the L forearm by the RH, the silk hidss the thumb tip so it can be displayed freely while the LH shows th速 caper and both articles are placed on table.

Mo nocd to worry about the thumb tip when it is on the R thumb.

Both hands are shown empty at the same time and are in motion so there is no danger of the tip being detected. Properly performed it should appear that you showed both hands empty, reached into the air with the m, caught something, which then becomes a silk handkerchief as the RH pulls it into view. It is a pretty effect I

Long thumb tip

construction

paper

Half of an 18" silk

Loaded thumb tip inside paper