Lane, Frank: Funny Talk Vol 1
©1960s (circa) Magic, Inc.
Softcover, comb-bound, 8.5x11", 71 pages
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              Lane Funny Talk
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Frank Lane: Funny Talk

Comments: First of two volumes of gags, patter, and ideas. Both volumes were also available as combined in a hardcover edition as Funny Talk for Magicians, by Nelmar Publications.

Contents (from book ToC):

5 Army and War Patter
9 Baker's Salt Trick
10 Baker's Slate Trick
10 Baker's Vanishing Pencil
11 Balloon Stuff
11 Ball and Tube
12 Banana Bag
12 Baseball Game Card Story
14 Billiard Ball Routine
14 Bird-Cage Gags
15 Blendo
15 Block & Penny Routine
17 Blowing The Silks
17 Bottle Suspension
18 Blue Phantom, Thayer's
19 Boomerangs
19 Bullet Trick
19 Card & Balloon
20 Card Trick - with fake card
21 Cards and Envelopes
22 Card Trick - with 13 cards
22 Card Gags
22 Cards, Rising
23 Card Trick (Impromptu Rising)
24 Card To Pocket, Twelve
24 Card Idea by Billy Bell
25 Card Stuff (Political Patter)
25 Cartoons
27 Cartoons, Extra Gags
27 Checker Trick
27 Cherchez La Femme (Baker's)
28 Chinese Block & Frame
28 Chinese Laundry Trick (Marshall)
29 Chinese Mystery Cards
29 Chinese Paper Tearing
30 Chinese Rice Bowls
30 Chinese Sticks
31 Churches
31 Cigar
31 Cigarette Changing Case
32 Clippo
33 Clock Dial, The
34 Closings (How to Finish)
34 Coins
34 Coin Between Discs (Chanin)
35 Coin in Bottle
35 Coins Production, Gags for
36 Color Change Ribbon
37 Comedy Act for Two Men
39 Comedy Card Routine
40 Comedy Mindreading
43 Cups and Balls
44 Cutting a Bill by Berland
45 Demon Handkerchief Box
45 Dentist (M.C. Material)
46 Dentist Patter Material
47 Devil's Own Ribbon
47 Dice Box, The Sucker
48 Diminishing Cards (Palhina)
49 Dyeing Silks, The
49 Doctor's (Gathering) M.C. Mat.
51 Dollar Bill in Egg
52 Dollar Bill (gag)
52 Dyeing Silks & 20th Century
53 Egg on Fan
54 Egg (gag)
54 Elmer & the Gamblers
54 Ellis Ring Trick
55 Floating Light Bulb (Shea)
55 Floating Ball
56 Foo Water Can
57 Football Card Story
57 Four Ace Trick
58 Fresh Fish Trick
59 Gags (Miscellaneous)
63 Glasses
63 Glass Penetration
64 Golf Balls, Patter & Routine
65 Golf (Patterette)
66 Grant's Milady Hat
67 Guillotine, The
69 Half Dollar in Lemon


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