Robert Spencer: Fetsching Magic

Spencer, Robert Kirkwood: Fetsching Magic
©2007 Robert Kirkwoood Spencer, Magico Magazine, NY
Hardcover, w/dj, 9x11.5", 206 pages

Image courtesy eBay seller RaolsonMagic

Comments: The Life and Legacy of Hen Fetsch

Contents (from book ToC, updated Jan 2022):

vii About the Author
viii Acknowledgments
ix Foreword
x Introduction

1 A Hero of Magic
5 A Magical Triumvirate
7 Significance of the Pyramid Magic Club
8 Thurston's “Wonder Show of the Universe”
11 The Depression - but a Good Job
12 “The Apple of His Eyes”
17 A Brother and Two Sisters Remember
20 - Making a Name for Himself
22 Rope Epic—“A Modem Miracle”
24 - “The Dexterous Dozen?” or “The Unholy Thirteen?”
25 - Recollections of Bob Brooks
25 “Who's Fooling Who?”
26 - Hen Fetsch and Gene Gordon
29 - “A Complete New Act!”
30 Hen Crosses the Atlantic
31 - GoodlifFe’s Review
32 - Hen Performs for “The Caliph”
33 Mental Epic - “Another Modem Miracle”
34 - 1956-Busiest and Best
36 “Festival of Magic”
37 - “Fetschtival of Magic”
40 - Hen and “Punch and Judy
41 - The Fetsch/Gordon Legacy
42 - “Nightmare”
46 A Magic Immortal
48 Gene Gordon Letter
50 Harris A Soloman Letter

51 The Hen Fetsch Magical Legacy
51 An Introduction
53 Hen Presents Fetsching Magic—“Sammy the Soldier”

56 “Who’s Fooling Who” Lecture
57 Opening Magic
57 Cane Magic
58 Bird Cage Magic
58 Rope Magic
59 Silk Magic
59 20th Century Silk Magic
59 Variety Magic
60 Flower Gloves
61 Nickel Silk Gimmick
62 Silk Lightning
62 Fantastic Flowers
63 Opening or Finale
64 Bunny Bowl
65 Balloonicut

67 Surprise Miracle
68 Bunny Tie
69 Funny Bunny Business
71 More Funny Bunny Business
72 Quite Natural—Tips and Gags
73 Flower Magi-Mart
74 Doll House Dillies

75 Milk Pitcher Magic
75 My Best Flash Opening
76 Liquid Flowers
76 Flower Silk
76 Rice Silk
76 Bouncing Milk
77 Bunny Making
77 School Days Magic
77 Airplane Gag

78 Visible Twentieth Century
79 Silk Epic
81 Patriotic Silk Epic
82 Ribbon Epic
84 Silk Through Body
84 Sircle Cilks
86 The Cowboy Routine
86 Squaround
89 ShimmeRing
91 Growand
94 Striking Trick

95 The Chinatown Quarter
95 Chinatown Monte
95 Chinatown Letter

97 Tips on Chinese Sticks
99 CigCane

100 Pencil Presto
100 Pencil Clue
100 Pencil Bendo
100 Pencil Rise
101 Ring Rise
101 Pencil Phantom

102 Rope Epic
104 Patriotic Rope Epic
106 Far-Fetsched
109 Quad-Ropelets
114 Rope Session
119 Rope Stretch
120 Five-Rope Repeat
121 Mental Epic
123 Drag-a-Net
127 Symbologic

129 A Minor Miracle
131 Band-It Card
132 Band-It Card Cache
132 Band-It Card Escape
133 Band-It Card Undercover

134 The Click Locator
135 Future Hue
136 Past Present and Future
139 Chance of Eternity
143 Four Chances in a Million
143 Ribbon Card
144 Hank Hex

146 The Magic Spell
147 Mental Version
148 Group Mental Version
148 Comedy Version
148 Joker Version

149 Breaking the Sound Barrier
151 Three Spot Pass

152 The Fanfare of Fun
153 No. 1 - The Four of Roses
154 No. 2 - A Comedy Four Ace Trick
154 No. 3 - For the Ladies
155 No. 4 - The Calculating Card
155 No. 5 - Bottom Betcha!
156 No. 6 - Let’s Face It
156 No. 7 - Eight Ball
157 No. 8 - Mindreading
157 No. 9 - Gag or Miracle—Which?
158 No. 10 - The Bug-Eyed Bunny

159 Your Favorite Force
160 The Fetsch Flip Force
162 Surpasso!

164 Miniature Card Magic
164 Simplicity Force
164 Midget Cards
164 ast Chance Brother
165 Simplicity False Cut
166 Direct Approach
166 My Favorite
167 Stung Stab
167 They Name
168 Amazing Photography

170 Magicardtoons
170 Africardo
172 Trickanometry
173 Double Presentation

174 The One O’ Fetsch

176 Streamlining Your Sorcery
176 Monkey Business
177 Mystery Artist?
177 The Christmas Tree
179 Candy Cane

180 Hen’s Best Production—Nancy Lee Fetsch

181 Fetsch in Hugards
181 Bunny Bowl
183 Educated Silks
183 Egg-Salt
184 Fast Fifty
184 Floating Magician
185 Flower Production
185 Four Away
186 Hooked
187 Knot Trip
187 Magic Spell
189 Novel Telepathy
191 Parasol Tip
192 Ralston’s Slat Card Frame
192 Sleeve Sorcery
193 Snip Snip
193 Trick Coins
194 Easy-Off Card (with Edgar Heyl)

196 The Creations of Hen Fetsch

204 Effect Notes and References