OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES STUART LEE A practical handbook setting out full instructions for a routine of spectacular card tricks. The tricks are classics of card magic revised to produce new and amazing effects. The book is designed to guide the beginner in card magic through the basic handling of the cards to the successful production of the tricks. However, the re-working of these classics of card magic will also appeal to the more experienced performer. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

This is a beginners book that is designed to fulfill your interest and curiosity in the world and techniques of mentalism and the secrets of mental magic. If you wish to learn mentalism and understand how to be a mentalist, you found the perfect guide It has some phenomenal secrets about becoming a mentalist: Memory skills, Predictions, Body Language Reading, Hypnosis and other mind boggling effects Within this book, I shall show and demonstrate to you some of the strongest effects that you can begin to practice and then perform immediately. The majority of effects within this book require next to no skill and can be performed in almost all circumstances. Some of the effects within this book are extremely simple but also extremely powerful when performed correctly. But professional mentalists will go crazy if they'll know we are publishing this book - so please respect these effects and ensure that they can still be performed after you are finished with them by not revealing the secrets to your audience members. I hope you enjoy this book and get a lot out of these effects. Yours, The Masked Mentalist

Clowning Glory is the ideal resource book for would-be clowns of all ages - from the youngest tot to the most elderly totterer. With over 200 tips and ideas, from acrobats to zoo games, this A-Z of clowning provides a wealth of material for use in churches, youth groups, children's clubs and street theatre.

This unique book is about a special group of alloys (safe & non-toxic) that can be used to create numerous magical effects, from vanishing (or bending or penetrating) a spoon, to mentally melting coins in the hands of spectators - even card peeks and locations using gallium. All of the listed effects are constructed in the psychology and techniques of Max Malini (the greatest impromptu magician of all time), designed for thoughtful magicians, playful pranksters and curious minded individuals. Each novel application is presented in easy-to-understand details and do-it-yourself projects.

More than 20 different cloth napkin folding tricks, including baskets and other dinner table arrangements, as well as a variety of puppets, are included in this booklet. These would certainly open up some interesting conversation opportunities for the magician invited to a formal dinner party

Every trick selected had to be practical and no manipulative move was required. A means of eliminating the difficult move had to be created to present you with a variety of tricks, using only common articles that are easily obtainable. Any special apparatus required must be simple enough to be made by the average person or child. Also, any material thereof must be easily obtainable. For example, in the kitchen, garage, around the house and in a hobby shop. Just to name a few. These tricks are also created for every conceivable situation, wherever you find yourself, anytime and everywhere. Although no manipulative skill is involved, please study these tricks carefully before presenting them and never do a trick twice.

The most complete treatise on sleight-of-hand coin conjuring, including best traditional methods and modern innovations. Guides you systematically from basic techniques, through integrated tricks to complete routined acts, 18 in all. 510 clear illustrations by Nelson C. Hahne. The best manual for amateurs, an encyclopedic source for professionals.

For many people, the circus, with its clowns, exotic beasts, and other colorful iconography, is lighthearted entertainment. Yet for Greg Renoff and other scholars, the circus and its social context also provide a richly suggestive repository of changing attitudes about race, class, religion, and consumerism. In the South during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, traveling circuses fostered social spaces where people of all classes and colors could grapple with the region's upheavals.

"The Big Tent" relates the circus experience from the perspectives of its diverse audiences, telling what locals might have seen and done while the show was in town. Renoff digs deeper, too. He points out, for instance, that the performances of these itinerant outfits in Jim Crow-era Georgia allowed boisterous, unrestrained interaction between blacks and whites on show lots and on city streets on Circus Day. Renoff also looks at encounters between southerners and the largely northern population of circus owners, promoters, and performers, who were frequently accused of inciting public disorder and purveying lowbrow prurience, in part due to residual anger over the Civil War. By recasting itself as a showcase of athleticism, equestrian skill, and God's wondrous animal creations, the circus appeased community leaders, many of whose businesses prospered during circus visits.

Ranging across a changing social, cultural, and economic landscape, "The Big Tent" tells a new history of what happened when the circus came to town, from the time it traveled by wagon and river barge through its heyday during the railroad era and into its initial decline in the age of the automobile and mass consumerism.

A treatise on the fundamental principle, theory, and practice of picking pockets for magicians. For entertainment purposes only Removing objects from an audience member is a staple in magic acts, and here magician Eddie Joseph provides the basics of various pickpocket maneuvers (coat pockets, hip pockets, watches, and more). Practice, practice, and don't get caught . . .

It a special day The circus is in town and Pinky's dad is taking her and her brother, Peter, plus her friend Mary, under the big top. The children are awed by all of the wonderful circus acts. From the lion tamer to the high-wire, the trapeze and all the clowns, Pinky and the gang have a great time. Every part of the performance enthralls the youngsters, from beginning to end. When the show is over, the kids are already anticipating going again when the circus comes back to town next year Pinky Visits the Circus will have you recalling your own trips to see the marvelous shows under the big tent

Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion (and other uncommon tales from the founder of the Big Apple Circus) is a celebration of Paul Binder's life in and around the circus. Drawing on thirty-five years with the show he created, the Big Apple Circus' founder and founding Artistic Director invites us inside the fence every kid peers through for an intimate look at the uncommon life of circus artists, their animal partners, and the roustabouts who spend their days in a world that is both close-knit and international, high-minded and low comedy, death-defying and ludicrous.

Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion (and other uncommon tales from the founder of the Big Apple Circus) balances the weird and the workaday, the curious and the commonplace, the exhilaration and the exhaustion of life in the circus, with simple portrayals of ordinary people going about the business of achieving the extraordinary.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK with complete instructions for a routine of card tricks performed using the cards as they are removed from the manufacturer's sealed carton. The book is designed to guide the beginner in card magic through all the procedures required to produce effects that will delight, surprise, and amaze an audience. Full explanations are given of all the handling required and the tricks can be performed with the minimum of manipulation and, if wished, without the use of any sleights-of-hand.

MAGIC IS AN ART LONG FORGOTTEN Magic is something that is enigmatic, which leave the audiences in a veil of mystery. This book is combination of most closely guarded secrets of card and coin magic. All the tricks in this book is well explained in a lucid style along with a lot of pictures to support the readers. This book has been created to provide readers an insight of how the tricks are done actually.You too can now show tricks of trade which magicians like CRISS ANGEL & DAVID BLAINE perform. Written by Akshat and Shubham Agrawal who are known for their street magic in India and have won The Best Magician Duo competition at the age of 15 and 19.

Covering the years 1870-75, this history celebrates the introduction of P. T. Barnum into circus proprietorship, an episode that connected his name and legend with this American institution for all time. By the middle of this decade, Barnum had become the most recognized personality of the nineteenth century--and a showman who is still remembered today. Complete with index, bibliography, notes, and contemporaneous illustrations.

This Encyclopedic Book of Almost 500 Large Format Pages Will Reveal to you exactly how to become a Financially Successful Psychic & Paranormal Entertainer able to Reveal Peoples Past, Presents and Futures with great Accuracy. You'll also learn enough Original, Unique and Mind Blowing Mentalism Psychic Style Mind Reading Routines to be able to present a complete Show. If you've ever seen psychics like Derek Acorah, Colin Fry or John Edwards on TV and wondered 'How do they do that?' then wonder no more as this book "Cold Reading & Mentalism For The Psychic Entertainer" exposes the truth and teaches you real world "Cold Reading" techniques, which will make you look like a truly genuine Clairvoyant Perhaps you've been amazed by the Powers of Psychic Metal Bender Uri Geller or Spiritual Healers like Mathew Manning or even Evangelical Preachers such as Benny Hinn and want to know how they might be performing their apparent miracles? Well now for the first time in print, Dr. Jonathan Royle examines ways to duplicate all of these Psychic Type Stunts, and along the way he'll even teach you how to Hypnotise Animals and become a Master of Derren Brown Style Mind Control Feats. For many years Royle worked as a "genuine" Psychic and was featured extensively in International Media and on Top TV Shows and now he is ready to lift the lid and expose his tried, tested and proven to work approaches of Psychic Belly Button Reading, Healing & Mind-Reading, along with Paw Reading for Dogs (Pawology), Tree Slapping, Hose Pipe & Tea Bag Readings and other Bizarre forms of fortune telling with which he had the Experts fooled You will also of course learn how to give more conventional readings with Palmistry, Numerology and Tarot Cards. Indeed British national newspaper "The Sunday People" described Royle's Psychic abilities in a 1996 article as "uncannily accurate" and in the early 90's Psychic News dubbed him as "The New Uri Geller & Doris Stokes rolled into one." Whilst Royle freely admits that all the Psychics mentioned here may actually be genuine, he is also aware of how their feats can be duplicated with trickery and clever psychology and that's exactly what he teaches you within the pages of this dynamite book Using the Secrets this book contains, Royle has been featured in International Media doing amazingly accurate Psychic readings for such people as Princess Diana, The Spice Girls, Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Cher, Olympic Swimmer Sharon Davis, Boxer Frank Bruno and numerous other A-List celebrities. And as an added bonus Royle also explains Numerous Mind Reading Routines & the Secrets this book contains on obtaining Massive TV, Radio, Newspaper and Magazine Publicity are worth many times the cost of this book alone to any Magician, Mentalist, Fortune Teller or Showbiz Performer And as A Special Bonus there are Numerous Methods Explained for performing the Legendary "Holy Grail of Mentalism" - A.C.A.A.N - The Berglas Effect, Any Card At Any Number. There's enough material within these pages to base your entire Career on, the fact is within the pages you'll learn every technique Royle has used over the years to enable him to Travel the Globe and be featured on TV & Radio Shows and in National and International Newspapers and Magazines all Over The World. This is without doubt the best value for money Mentalism & Cold Reading book available on the market today and more importantly contains nothing but materials, secrets, techniques and insider strategies that have all been tried, tested and proven to consistently work in the real world.

Are traditions of popular theatre still alive in politically-engaged theatre today? In San Francisco they are. The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a modern link in the long history of public performances that have a merry air but have a voice of political protest and social comment. Every summer since 1962 the Troupe has taken free outdoor performances to public parks in the Bay Area. In a style that is festive and a spirit that is revolutionary the Mime Troupe has relied on popular theatre forms to address timely political and social issues. Their productions maintain a contemporary political edge, while showing their origins to be the popular traditions of the commedia dell'arte, circus clowning, vaudeville, puppetry, and minstrel shows. With "The Minstrel Show" or "Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel" (1965) they expressed support of the civil rights movement. With "L'Amant Militaire" (1967) they voiced support of Vietnam War protests.

To discover what makes these apparently frivolous theatrical traditions effective for contemporary political theatre, "Festive Revolutions" explores the historical origins of the popular forms the Mime Troupe draws on. In old Europe, where performance traditions began, political turmoil blended with festive celebration. The lineage of the Mime Troupe's Punch the Red can be traced back to the Italian puppet figure Pulcinella through its English and Russian counterparts Punch and Petrushka. In the Mime Troupe the use of stereotypes and reliance upon colorful festivity are diverse strategies for dodging censorship. Productions like "Ripped Van Winkle" continue today to rekindle the radicalism the Troupe inherited from the culture of the 1960s.

"Festive Revolutions" shows that such forms have inspired political theatre for centuries.

All The Tricks And Secrets Of The Famous Herrmann Fully Explained And Demonstrated. Many Of The Tricks Are Easily Executed Without Apparatus.

Audley V. Walsh presents a fascinating overview of the popular street (and con) game of Three Card Monte, with contributions by magician John Scarne. There are multiple methods and card maneuvers used by tricksters of which the general public is unaware and magicians can incorporate into their acts Walsh (1894-1957) was a Vaudeville comic turned policeman, and an expert on gambling fraud.