Mertz, Ray: Forks Hotel, The Close Up Magic of Ray Mertz © Unknown, Ray Mertz Softcover, stapled manuscript, 8.5x11", 15 pages

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Comments: Ray's second lecture

Contents:

1 Introduction
2 Shirt Off Your Back: magician pulls shirt off confederate in an instant
3 Slop Shuffle Roll Over: Aces mixed into deck and deck mixed face up and down, then Aces come out and deck is righted
5 Jack Sandwich Flip: a flashy sandwich effect
7 A Bar Trick: comedy magician's force for the bar
8 Commercial Insurance: Ray's routine for the Insurance Policy
9 Yankee Doodle: selection revealed to song of Yankee Doodle
10 Easy Multiple Spellbound, Plus!: Four halves change to copper coins, then to Chinese, uses four C/S coins
12 Two Coin Quickies: coins hand to hand
13 Mertz's Poker Mental: Magician names four of five cards memorized from 5 poker hands, with the 5th reversed in the deck