Magic with Everyday Objects: Over 150 Tricks Anyone Can Do at the Dinner Table

244 Pages·1979·7.718 MB·English

by  George Schindler

MAGIC
••••WITH****
SRYDAY
OBJECTS
OVER 150 TRICKS ANYONE
CAN DO AT THE DINN
PURCHASER AGREES NOT TO DISCLOSE SECRETS CONTAINED WITHIN.
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Magic
with
Everyday
Objects

GEORGE SCHINDLER
Magic
with
Everyday
Objects
Over 150 tricks anyone can do
at the dinner table
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ED TRICOMI
A SCARBOROUGH BOOK
STEIN AND DAY/Publishers/New York
FIRST SCARBOROUGH BOOKS EDITION 1979
First published in hardcover in 1976 by Stein and Day/Publishers,
Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, New York 10510
Copyright © 1976 by George Schindler
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 75-34265
All rights reserved
Designed by Ed Kaplin
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 0-8128-6030-6
For Nina, Shari, Scott, and Dee,
who sat through every one of
these miracles.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work resulted indirectly from my association with the School
for Magicians in New York City and the encouragement given me
by my three partners: Frank Garcia, the most knowledgeable
magician I know; Arnold Freed, a magician who creates laughter
as an artist creates a painting; and Fred Ponger, a fine actor and
level-headed businessman.
A final acknowledgment goes to Bob Reiss, a former student at
our school. Bob’s foresight in the field of “everyman’s magic” has
made magic widely available. His excellent Magic Acts may
provide us with the magicians of tomorrow.
Contents
Introduction 13
1. ON THE TABLE 17
Magic with Silverware 19
Swallowing the Spoon 19
Cheap Silver 21
Snap Vanish 23
Transformation 23
Flying Spoon 27
Quick Vanish 30
Rubber Knife 30
Musical Knife 30
Knife Suspension 31
Salt, Pepper, and Sugar Necromancy 34
Salt Gone 34
Vanishing Salt Shaker 36
Sweet and Go 39
Run, Pepper, Run 40
Mystic Shaker 42
Osmo-Salt 45
Sodium Chloride 48
DoFs Dot 49
Three Quick Ones 51
51
SEPARATING PEPPER FROM SALT
51
INSTANT SEPARATION
52
ICE-CUBE SUSPENSION
Sugar Floats 52
8 | CONTENTS
Soft Spot 53
Slap It Through 54
Sugar Transfer 56
Transfer Variation 57
Sugar Quick Tricks 58
58
CATCHING YOUR LUMPS
59
BURNING A CUBE
59
TURNOVER
Dinner-roll Diversions 60
Light Bread 60
Easy Come, Easy Dough 62
Once in a Knifetime 64
Clinging Breadstick 65
Cracker Story 67
Bread Gags 70
70
HARD ROLLS
70
BITING A FINGER
Napkin Hocus-pocus 71
Spooky 71
Knotty but Nice 74
Persian Puppet 76
Transpo-Knots 76
Utility Napkin 80
Out from Under 82
Tom and Restored Napkin 84
Teleportation 86
Producing a Rabbit 90
What Does It Look Like? 90
Napkin Betcha 94
Strong Paper 94
No More Gravity 94
Watch It Go! 95