Shute, Merlyn: Nine Modern Classics ©1980 Morrissey Magic Ltd, Canada Softcover, comb-bound, 8.5x11", 85 pages

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Comments: Meryln discusses the use of some metal magical props, and how to routine them into good magic.

Contents:

0 Introduction (Herb Morrissey)
i Forward

1 Chapter One: The Production Syndrome

4 Chapter Two: And From This Empty: on the illusion of empty
4 Direct Examination
6 Indirect Proof
9 Why Bother
9 Summary

10 Chapter Three: The Indian Cups and Balls
10 Introduction
10 The Technique
10 History
12 The Cups
13 The Balls
13 The Rug
14 Sitting
15 Magi - Magic - Magicians
18 The Illusion
19 The Palm
20 Handling the Cup
21 The Pass and the False Pass
22 The Sequence
23 Sequence of Three
24 Gathering a Harvest
26 Substitution Sequence
30 Charlie Miller Routine
33 Variations

34 Chapter Four: The Card Tripod
34 Paraphernalia
35 The Illusion
36 The Force
37 Proving the Card
38 The Mechanics
38 Performance
40 Gimmicks and Ungimmicks

41 Chapter Five: The Vanishing Liquid
41 The Vanishing Bowl
42 - Staging
46 - Variations
47 - Incompleteness
49 The FOO CAN
50 - Creating an Effect
50 - To Appear a Liquid
52 - To Vanish a Liquid
52 The HINDU WATER VASES
52 - Historical Background
53 - Principles
53 - Parapharnaiia
54 - Preparation
54 - Routine
57 - Embellishments
57 - Conclusion
58 LOTA BOWL
59 - How to Use
59 -- As a Running Gag
60 -- As a Contest
60 -- Conclusion

61 Chapter Six: SURPRISE! SURPRISE!
61 DOVE EGG
62 - Loops
62 - Diversion
63 - Loading the Egg
63 - Swing Load
64 - Silk and Hat
65 - Silk and Hat Second Version
66 - Contradiction
66 NEST OF CLOCKS
67 - Loading the Clocks
68 - Swing Load

70 Chapter Seven: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED.....
70 HUMOUR - What is it?
71 Don't Do It
72 And the VICTIM is
73 THE CAKE IN THE HAT PAN
73 - Apparatus
74 - Performance
78 OMELETTE PAN
78 - Parapharnaiia
79 - The Ruse
80 - Performance