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CARDBOARD CONNECTION by PAUL HARRIS
The most talked-about trick on the Las Vegas Strip! The centers of any two cards are openly torn out creating a pair of impromptu "rings." These cardboard rings, which can be signed, are instantly linked together! The two cards are actually seen to be connected through one another. The linked cards are then magically disconnected and are both immediately handed out for examination. A new principle in penetrations enables you to perform this close-up linking ring routine under test conditions without resorting to special gimmicks, gaffs, switches or key rings. Completely impromptu - can be done with any deck 32 pages with 31 illustrations.
ITEM # BK0657 PRICE $5.00
CARD MANIPULATIONS NUMBERS 1-5
Everyone interested in card tricks should have this series of Card
Manipulations by Jean Hugard.
No 1 and No 2 Contains palms, shuffles, rising cards, color changes, etc.
No. 3. Contains a deck production, Cardini color change, numerous sleights, flourishes
such as weaving cards, fans, etc.
No. 4: Contains more flourishes, routines by Dr. Daley, Audley Walsh, Nate Leipzig.
No. 5: Has a wonderful chapter on "Peeking." Setups, Palming, and more
flourishes.
The entire series, 161 pages, illustrated
ITEM # BK0069 PRICE $8.00
ON STAGE! by SAMUEL PATRICK SMITH
BRINGING OUT THE BETTER PERFORMER IN YOU
Whether you are performing on an actual stage ... or in a living room ... or at a table in a restaurant ... On Stage! will help you be a better, more successful entertainer. For over 20 years, the author interviewed and studied dozens of outstanding performers. He used these principles himself in over 4000 performances. And now this book will teach you how to use these techniques to leave a lasting impression.
Even more importantly, you'll learn the key to making an audience like you. It doesn't matter if they think you're clever or talented-if they don't like you, you're not coming back! Some of the Topics Covered in On Stage!
• Making a professional entrance
• Learning to relax in front of an audience
• Why a relaxed attitude is better than artificial confidence
• Timing your gag lines
• How Burling Hull got a standing ovation from a 50-cent trick
• Breaking in new material
• Why you must replace some tricks
• Increase the dramatic impact of each trick
• How to let the audience know when to applaud
• Theatrical additives
• Surprises vs. shockers
• Reluctant volunteers, step right up!
• Seven-point success pattern
• Levitating the art of magic
Since one of the keys to becoming a good performer is gaining experience, you'll also find a section devoted to getting more bookings. (You may have a great act, but if you haven't learned to promote that act, nobody will ever get a chance to see it!) You can read On Stage! in just one or two evenings at home, but what a difference it can make for the rest of your performing career!
ITEM # BK0053 PRICE $10.00
SHORT COURSE ON SELLING YOUR ACT
by SAMUEL PATRICK SMITH
For almost 25 years, Sam read self-help books and listened to motivational and educational tapes. Many of them have been helpful to him in keeping his attitude positive and in teaching him how to get better results from the work he does as a full time performing magician.
In this book he gives you concise information about all you need to know on how to get bookings. He writes sample letters for you to use when writing a prospective client. He imparts to you valuable knowledge that has made him a very successful performer. Although the book contains only 53 pages it is what I call "power pages." All the nonsense has been removed and here lies what you need to know to sell your act.
ITEM # BK1132 PRICE $10.00
ANATOMY OF KEYS by STEVEN PRICE
A tour de force, a book-length poem, embracing a wide variety of poetic and prose forms, to tell the story of Harry Houdini.
Steven Price's Houdini knows better than most the limitations of life, having
bent the efforts of a lifetime to transcending them, and having failed. Ah, but
his thinking! Or rather Steven Price's thinking with and through him. "Make it
muscular and be apparent in it," says Houdini's archivist/advisor, "words are
also escapes." So they are in a book with the sinew of Anatomy of Keys. The
facts of Houdini's life are here - immigration to America, youth, circus stint,
fame, that notorious life-ending punch - but the facts are the spine of a deep
and ardent meditation on what is. In poems of astonishing technical virtuosity,
Steven Price reads Houdini's world and our own in compellingly original ways.
Swivel-and-snick sputter of a turned handle.
Bald knob bare in the palm. The torpid click
And calm take of springs triggered far within.
I'd set myself to hear it clear again,
That ordinary hinge and creak and drag
Of doors we live with all our days and lose
The wonder of.
"Steven Price, in his Anatomy of Keys, draws us into the intricacy of Harry Houdini's character, as the Master himself entered trunks, chains, a web of knots. In poem after poem, there is the miraculous surprise of release. These are moving, brilliant poems, a remarkable debut." - Tim Lilburn
Steven Price was born and raised in Colwood, BC. His work has appeared in Canadian and American literary journals. He is one of the poets in Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. Price graduated from the University of Virginia Writing Program, and currently teaches poetry and writing at the University of Victoria.
Book Dimensions Approximately 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" Pages 141
ITEM # BK1228 PRICE $18.00
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