The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1903, Page 7

wh # THE »# EVENING Chicot Tells Iimro j © » \ am i 4 , fry b a el array alee 9 _ There Are Two Forms of Magic, ihe Old Legerdemain’ nd he New ‘Kodak Method—Apparatus Now Ficures Almost cs Prominently as Does Skill—Con- jurer's Prog Should Be as Car Iu Planned as a Golirme.s Men sai ; i rT two clas f magictana, © tow rr ft le Jemain and the ‘kodak noo! jak’ magician is one wh presses the but while} CHICOT. ome loes the rest hat some one is usu © work: men employed by the ma facturin magician. » the: met e, With stight pr ks now co han! of the tri al tricks spoil In the ex 1k Is lost to an uld duplicate halt of “Buch purely m| 1s shown all the any smart boy ten years old ¢ applause. It {s merely a matter of pressing this spring or releasing that but and, presto! the trick is actomplished without the exertion 0f any skill on the| part of the operator. “When such tricks creep into print they naturally lose their value. since the| auditor perceives that {t !s not skill but audacity which forms the magicians] equipment. | “Now, on the other hand, the old sleight-of-hand ts different plain how this trick or that ie accomplished. ar “give the public a greater eenso of appree they can perform the trick themselves, so much the b how much better it is being done and u Take the multiplying billiard ball for instance. It Is one of t ‘ks {maginable, It is merely a matter of several balls and one shel closely to any of the balls. ‘The shell 1s of metal, made as rigid vd {s painted tn exactly the same tint as the bails proper. It is merely a he hemisphere held up on the stage with the convex side to the audience, and t are few who, knowing the trick, could tell which was the shell i Wanishing Billiard Balls. “You take the shell and one ball in the hand. You slip the s bail. Now there 1s but one where there were two. Simple, ane wee ay See how difficult it is to always keep the shell in the proper position, You ha a greater respect for the magician. You appreciate how difficult the trick is “Take again two balls. You have over your thumb a very fine thread. cannot be detected from the auditorium. One may ex-| tter. Then they stand the laborious train re It On the end of tho thren@ 4s a rubber vacuum cap practically the same as the old leather ‘sucker’ you cllpped from the upper of an old shoe when you were a boy. ‘The cap attaches to the second ball Sea Ine: the back of the hand and the audience would never guess that “You hold in your hand e ball and shell. You slip the cap over th x= plain that the.ssoohd has passed through your hand, chow both oienedinice of the other hand empty and passing it behind the hand holding up the ball you bring up the second, which 1s of another color. You can do it the first time you try {t, and show your audlence exactly how you have done it. There will be trouble in getting rid of the thread, the ball might not come off the cap or the thread may break. It will be months before you have that trick so that it may be accomplished skitully. “It does not hurt to expose a trick like that. It educates an audience. “To continue with the balls, suppose you take the ball and shell ae pince it between the thumb end forefinger of your left hand. ‘The shell faces the back of the hand, which {s turned toward the audlenod. ‘The other fingers are depressed | —— Of Dg [miNG | 5 = a: ee Showin Fler 2 & j Emety. @ onen informed at ave rmanee, hut quick eno firet and onlddie fingers, with the right hand, You raise that hand to die and t fingers and at the game . t 1 little fingers and the shell is filed At ' sing the movements you redu t mbe ned hing en, you do some ing Simple, but Requires Practice k in usually accomplished will wonder If some new method Is not being 4 at i value of the expose comes In. The ski! we m 1 palming. Here fs a common pack of steamboat car ts pack and \ dozen cards. These I place in my hand so that they en the fo 1 little fingers, There {s a quick moveme nt of e hand vl ards ar One by one they reappear from empty space, for I have 1d back of my hand are bare. “it {a very simple of accomplishment. The cards being held between the frst and little fingers, the middie fingers are closed, passing under the lower edges + irda. When the hand 1s opened again the movement forces them to the hand, where they are held in the same position. Reversing t! them to the palm again, where they are then thrown betw timmb and the base of the fingers, and not only may the back of the hand be the fingers may be spfead apart to show that they are not hidden rep that the front a These moves are repeated several times, and then, the cards being at Ch ee ms — ri 1 al ee) AOT OLKEE the hand. she the back of the hand, the cards are released one by one and brought into view. 710 Clever Card duggling, very simple, bu: you may learn to play on the plano in tess time 16 a good palmist. k is to take @ card, or any number of cards. With the rently shoved into the left hand, which ts held partly eated several times, until the audience finally sees you t Presen a om thin air. At the last moment, when you have apparently shoved the cards into the left hand, you In reality slide them into the right by simply using the middle fingers to flip the carda right over. You have centred the attention upon the left haad, and they are watching that. It 1s easy to arrange them comfortably in the right hand before any one thinks of looking there. “This trick Is made more effective if Just before this you have been doing palm- ine with the left hand and the audience knows that you have been concealing the Js in that hand That is one of t the best result the tr! preceding trick should pave the wa Magic Bill of Fare. ‘phe ‘routine’ or succession of tricks should be laid out with the same care that the gourmet selects from the bill of fare, They must not only be good in themselves, but they must bear a proper relation one to the other. A programnie ot magic Ja very much like a menu. There is the operatit wnen the magtolan enters, the palming of the gloves or some such little thing to whet the appetile for more. The routine of card tricks may be regarded as one dish in which the various ingredients must blend properly. Coin tricks might form anothor course ‘and lest there be too much of a sameness, too much sleight of hand, mechanical ‘teks or tricks with showy apparatus must be added, while for the reeves thera ire the comedy tricks, such as the borrowed hat. “Tam taking out my own show next season, My programme wfil be a com- bination of mechanical magic and sleight of hand, with somo {llustons for dessert. I infght do very well with @ progiamme made up of the regular parlor tricks, but in order to make the best effect 1 must have all kinds of work, though I per- conally prefer tricks In which sleight backs up apparatus to those In whtch the aces where the art of the magician ts displayed. To get sidered as a whole, and, where possible, the for that which follows. and brought back into position. The movement 1s quick, not ‘quicker than the, skill of the performer does not figure. SSS TWO MORE THEATRES WIbkb OPEN FOR THE SEASON. the hand is opened, and with your right ( tricks mystify Most of n For half a dollar you . form would cost ten, It Is turned wood | is the same and the trick Is MW Few tricks thing which may not ples aro r thelr be purchased a kn but the | 4pprectation: |Nerve Is Next to Skill. wn, facturl simply beca o » carry the trick off “You know how ti ki rv you It is so simple, | hat 3 5 rene trating the myster, do your ver ire, You bungle the t is so absurdly this trick because | AN ODD OBJECT LESSON A i = PS Woking ww CHVETH | Reser DR WAG \shamed of It nu Uke a joke, bit tt is sometimes a very ae matter to the newer men, who have hi not become accustomed to working # WORLD'S # HOME .« MAGAZINE «# th A forcing pack is used and the duplicate ca tache the taread and so made to rise, looks us heavy asa bridge cable audience. A act, onl © ini and phat's what 1 me e you ace It exp Fox In the ple ‘front’ and “back palm k with the hands ure merely variant nim in whic The cha J one tricks Cu < employed are all Try it 0 your experi ‘or convente gives itthe lustre and stlkiness of youth. When, tho hair 1s gray or taded it BRINGS BACK THE YOUTHFUL COLOR. } tt prevents Dandruff and hate falling and keeps the scalp clean and healthy. ceweeeeeeveeeeseuetees MANHATTAN BEACH TO-DAY | | Amusements, | | —LAST 2 TIMES—— @ new form of the rising card trick. You imagine that it 1s equally perceptible to the it was some time before the trick was discovered, mpetents took tt up. when I say that digital magic ts not hurt by exposure. 1 the more you appreciate the work of those who work tyes has shown some of the standard moves with canis. “as they are called, comprehend the entire ¢nechan- Master the front and back palm and the rest nd combinations. ls aro elther removed tfrom the face of the pacie o: vanishing spot is the same thing, end ell of !t up on this single ¢oundation. ariants of these basic moves; all else required time and see how easy it looks and how difoult ¢t really nts do not use the costly gilt-edged decks, The “Steam- enta a pack, are used because, being cheap stock, they, are easily and not through motives of eoonomy that the ‘CHICOT. SA OO OUR This ts merely « thread across are arranged to be at~ You stand on tho stage and that thread) ‘The card with the changing Amusements. HUBER’S 14TH ST. MUSEUM. Mottiing & with READE. On ‘Bey wh break the and one Faanle W, Tunlson, Handles Marv Robbina, Dag Puncher: Others TR I'S Gol PROCTOR’S F8-RA, Rss #8 28d St. penuaeas Tastee, ee aS HH) go-called ‘combination houses’ ‘are rapidly getting into running onder again. ‘The Star Theatre reopens to-night with te Black Patti Troudadours in “Darktown's Cirous Day,” and at in- tervals during the Msorder Sissieretta Jones will endeavor to sustain the title @e took unto herself by hitting the in * ir i at Madison Square Garten will begin to-morrow night, with fies Charlotte G. George as the soloist. As heretofore the principal features of the dill at the Crystal Roof Garden will be “The Darling of the Gallery Gods," Ned Wayburn's Minstrel Misses and "Lifting the Cup.” Isabel Urquhart and company in tne skit, “Even Stephen,” will lead at Kolth's a bill which will include How- ard and Bland in “A Strange Boy’’ and John F. Leonard, monologist. On the dill at Pastor's will be Calla- han and Mack, Irish comedians; Mc- Mahon and Chappelle in ‘Twenty Min- utes Before the Train Leaves,” and the Chamberlaine, rope jugglere and lasso | the Duss throwers. The Great Lafayette will continue as the headliner of the vaudeville bill at &t. Nicholas Garden. Rosatt's Naval Reserve Band will con- tinue its enjoyable concerts on the Pabst Roof Ganien, Grand Circle, The cinematograph plotures of King Etward’s coronation heve again been put on the ecreen at the Eden Museo for the benefit of out-of-town visitors. At Huber’s Qfuseum on Monday even- tow Le Mettling and W. W. Bean, on thelr evelewacing treacle, will attempt to break the world's records for a half-)eral new features to its aggregation of mile and mil The Columbia Theatre, Brooklyn, will inaugurate a change of policy. It will be the home of musical comedy and will be ocoupied throughout the season| by the Wells-Dunne-Harlan Musical ‘Comedy Company, the princkpal mem- bers of which are Ot!s Harlan, May Marble, Tony Hart and Joe Hartly. ‘At Manhattan Beach Monday night that gorgeous spectaaie, ‘The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast,” will begin an engagement, and Pain's fireworks and Ghannon's Band will continue as other attractions. ‘The Boatock anfmal show at Sea Beach Palace, Coney Island, will make next week one of special days. Monday will be Children’s Day; Tuesday,Teach- ers’ Day; Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be gtven over to the special entertainment of postal employees, po- Ucemen, firemen and their families, and Saturday Will be Orphans’ Day. Next week's bill at Brighton Beach Music Hall will include W. B. English's Hoosier Zouaves, Boloe and Wileon in “Life on the Champs Blyaees" and Gol- man's cats and dogs. .) Lana Park, Coney Island, will add sey- THE SHADOW OF A CRIME, By HALL CAINE. ‘A story of quaint people, of lovers who dared much, and of a murder mystery that led two heroes to the foot of the scaffold. BEGINS MONDAY, ENDS NEXT SATURDAY IN THE EVENING WORLD HOME MAGAZINE. shows. The Johnstown Flood remains one ot the sights best worth seeing at Coney Island. |_Among the attractions at Morrison's Theatre, Rockaway Beach, will be Mc- Intyre and Heath, Lottie Grison, Imro Fox and Mead and Bennett. Among those who will appear on the floating root garden of t! steamer Grand Republic will be Mitchell and Cain, Gilson and Countess and Bessie Clifford and Harvey Elsie, MY MOTHER'S BIBLE. Tho’ relentless time has faded, And the clasps are tinged with rust; ‘Tho’ the leaves are worn and yellow And Its gilding dimmed with dust, "Tis as sacred and as holy As the night she placed it there, With a blessing for its guidance ‘And a softly muttered prayer. ‘Tis a rello fraught with sadness For my heart, but yet I seo In its dim, discolored pages Solace that wes meant for me. Yes, it seemed that mother spirit, Lowering gently, hovering near, And in sacred language whispered All ite eweet truths in my ear. There tt lies, where last she aid it; Years have come and flown since then, Memory’s sednees fell and lingered— By its truths dispelled again. ‘Tis the same beloved Bible ‘That she cherished; It ean AN All the sad hours with its halo And bring comfort to me atill. —Guy B. May in Cincinnati Com- merotal Trébune. ‘Wile th auld An Englishman proposes that the goyertment shall bury all dead drunkards in hearses [ike this, . Amusements. Amusements. Mt. wt Lex. 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