Classic Secrets of Magic

1953
Written by Bruce Elliott
Work of Various
225 pages (Hardcover), published by Faber & Faber
Illustrated with drawings by Dr. Stanley Jaks
Language: English
63 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Bruce Elliott Preface
11
Bruce Elliott The Spectator's Card is Produced different endings for finding a selected card
 		15
Unknown Card Control with a Crimp
15
Unknown Snap Over Change carp flipped over quickly with a snap on sleeve
Related toVariations 17
Dai Vernon, Wallace Galvin Card through Handkerchief tabled
Related to 18
Jay Marshall Card on Ceilling tape method
 		22
Lee Noble Corn-Cobs smoke appears from two empty corn-cob pipes, smoking without fire, chemical method
 		27
Bruce Elliott Water, Water, Everywhere!
33
Unknown The Rice Bowls
33
Al Baker Al Baker's Rice Bowls
Related to 39
Jardine Ellis Jardine Ellis Wineglass Production with vanishing thimble
 		40
Wally Dean Jardine Ellis Wineglass Production from a handkerchief
 		42
Unknown The Very Peripatetic Paddle paddle move and routine with knife and pieces of paper and matches
 		46
Francis Carlyle Carlyle's Card printing of a business card
Also published here 50
Dr. Theodore Sack Sack's Spotted Sorcery three phase routine with dice, pips on dice change
Also published here 50
Unknown, Wally Dean Those Four Aces classic ace assembly, with follow up idea by Wally Dean
 		61
Unknown False Riffle Shuffle retaining top stock
 		65
Stanley Collins Collins' Ace Trick
66
Unknown False Count adding extra card
 		67
Unknown The Glide
68
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster Peng Peng ace vanish sequence in spectator's hand
 		69
Unknown McDonalds Aces brief
 		72
Cy Endfield Slow-Motion Ace Trick
Related to 74
Unknown Turnover Add-On cards on table are turned over with a card, card is loaded in the process
 		83
Wally Dean The Miser's Dream Come True! in a wine glass
Also published here 84
T. Nelson Downs Downs Palm
86
Unknown Coin Production from finger palm, several coins for miser's dream
 		91
Unknown The Miser's Dream with saucer, gaffed method, brief
 		93
Bruce Elliott The Egg Bag, Well Done different moves, thorough explanation
Also published here 96
Roy Benson The Egg Bag lots of eggs appear from bag
Also published here 104
Bruce Elliott The Two Covers and the Four Objects...
107
Bruce Elliott Coin Assembly with one foreign coin
 		107
James Drilling Coin Steal secret pick up
 		108
Unknown Coin Vanish throwing coin form hand to hand
 		110
Clyde Cairy Card Assembly with two magazines and four cards on a newspaper
 		114
Clyde Cairy Card Transfer under two magazines, turning card over
 		116
Bruce Elliott Billards, Magic Style
124
Walter B. Gibson Billard Ball Routine four ball routine, with handkerchief
 		124
Unknown Top of the Pocket Dodge showing trouser pocket empty
 		126
Unknown Change Over Palm
126
Unknown Ball Production on fist
 		126
Unknown Shell Move shell and one ball, showing both sides
 		128
Unknown Ball Vanish take vanish
 		129
Jack Chanin Billiard Ball Sequence quick vanish and production of three balls
 		133
Walter B. Gibson Second Billard Ball Routine with five balls, a handkerchief, color changing balls
Related to 141
Lee Noble Razor Sharp twenty blades
Related to 152
Bruce Elliott, Dai Vernon The Ambitious Card! last phase in spectator's hands (Vernon)
Related to 160
Unknown Double Turnover
162
Bruce Elliott Elliott's Card Change
165
Unknown Top Card Reverse on leg
 		166
Unknown Double Cut
170
Bruce Elliott The Eternal Cups and Balls three cups, with two in the hand one in the pocket sequence
 		176
Franklin V. Taylor Taylor's Cups and Balls three cups, gaffed, thread and sponge, gimmicked possibility to make a ball appear under a cup
Also published here 187
Charlie Miller Cups and Balls three coffee cups and rolled up bills
Related toAlso published here 192
Unknown Penetration of Cup with Ball
Also published here 196
Ande Furlong, Joe Berg Cups and Balls
199
Unknown, Johnny Paul Cup Through Cup Move with variation by Johnny Paul
 		204
Roy Benson Benson Bowl
VariationsAlso published here 209
Roy Benson Spongeball Vanish with a wand
 		209
Don Alan Don Alan's Finish for the Benson Bowl
214
Bruce Elliott In Conclusion
217
Bruce Elliott Appendix list of twenty best-liked and twenty most performed effects
 		220
Bruce Elliott Glossary
223
Data entered by Lorenz Schär.