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Ou JOE K^RSON ZDEAS. SUGGESTIONS. MOVES etc

PUBLISHED BY

I^RfON XdUSIVES, SP'FLD,MASS. JUNE 1946

\oJUST BEFORE VTE START

I would like very much to thank all the performers and magicians who have helped make ZOMBIE what it Is today, a great trick, and a famous one.

Their letters, efforts, routines and ideas have

sky-rocketed ZOMBIE to the very top. enthusiasm, and also by our orders.

This we know from your own In four years, we have not

been able to keep up with the demand.

In many cases the war made

it difficult to be able to make even a few.

In most cases, we had

enough material to keep us busy night and day.

And now with the war

over, with plenty of material, we are still struggling to meet the demand.

Your letters re ZOMBIE and your orders are like a medal to us.

With such enthusiasm and inspiration coming from all sides, I have gone to work, and developed some additional moves with ZOMBIE, reread some of the letters we received, picked out some ideas, and put them together to make this pamphlet, TIPS ON ZOMBIE.

They may not all be good for XOU, but your hat will fit poorly on the other guy, and what you pick out perhaps the other fellow won't.

However, I have every confidence that all ZOMBIE workers will be delighted with SOME of the ideas.

Perhaps ALL of them, I hope.

So let's cut out the speeches, start the fan-fare, and pull the curtain wide open.

Sincerely, Joe Karson

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THE SKULL IDEA

The idea is okay, and we cannot mention a name, because about fifteen of you thought of the same thing, ZOMBIE, using a skull.

One of the boys even sent me one, even though he was rather late with the idea, and we tried it.

The profile of the skull

making that slight turn gives the thing away in our opinion.

The one we tried was papier mache.

If you decide to use a skull,

set It slightly on an oblique angle, so that when it comes toward you back of the cloth, it will straighten out.

And if you think

there is anything to the skull idea, then you can try any other object.

One magician wanted us to make a floating pound of butter,

(box, of course) which fitted into his act.

Zombie originally

comes from an idea I originated years back.

See the floating

Queen in Tarbell No. 4, and see If you can see the resemblance.

A HOLE IN THE CLOTH

Is not a bad idea.

ZOMBIE ball.

The hole is made somewhat smaller than the

On your UP movements, the top of the ball shows

through the hole, as it goes right over the ball.

Also, BACK of

the cloth movements can be developed, and the audience can see the ball going back and forth.

The cloth In this case should be

black so that the gimmick will not show through the hole.

Another

idea similar, is WITHOUT the hole, drawing up the cloth in your hands, and the ball is visible near the bottom of the cloth hanging in your hands.

This is a pretty move.

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Try it.