by Sheridan | Jul 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Many of our readers have seen Chung Ling Soo perform the mystifying trick of a vase filled with ink suddenly change to vase containing the same amount of clear water. The method here described, is highly novel and ingenious. We understand Herr Ernest Basch, of...
by Sheridan | Jul 24, 2013 | Tricks Explained
I am indebted to my friend, G. W. Hunter, for the little idea I shall endeavour to illustrate this month. The trick consists of borrowing a match, placing it into a handkerchief and breaking or allowing it to be broken into several parts The handkerchief is now...
by Sheridan | Jul 24, 2013 | Tricks Explained, Uncategorized
Effect. Performer sketches a picture or cartoon on a sheet of white paper, with a border all round it, which is then taken off and rolled up tube shape. Now, after a few passes, the paper is unrolled, when the sketch or cartoon is seen to have vanished. SECRET....
by Sheridan | Jul 24, 2013 | Tricks Explained
At the present time no stage act is complete without an illusion. Stage Managers do not welcome the idea of illusion acts, for the reason that the stage is cut here, there and everywhere, to allow the performer to fit his traps. This illusion has been presented to us...
by Sheridan | Jul 24, 2013 | Tricks Explained
AN ENDLESS PUZZLE. Remove your coat and then take a piece of twine some three yards long, tie the ends together, place it over your right arm and put your right hand in your waistcoat pocket. The trick is to take the string off your arm without cutting the twine or...
