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THE SPHINX
GOLDEN JUBILEE BOOK OF MAGIC
A Selection of Tricks from the Pages of the Magazine
Compiled by MILBOURNE CHRISTOPHER
Illustrated by SID LORRAINE
Dedicated to the memory of William J. Hilliar who founded
The Sphinx and A. M. Wilson, M. D., who so ably established the magazine in the world of magic
And
JOHN MULHOLLAND
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Preface
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Introduction
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A Tube of Many
Mysteries
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The Miser's Dream As
I Do It
The Ne Plus Ultra
Cabinet
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A Sleight and a Force
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Freezing Ice in the
Hand
Chinese Money Trick
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Your Card, Sir?
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Billiard Ball
Manipulation
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Number Please
The Triangular Room
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Diminishing Golf Ball
Routine
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Get the Point?
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Penetration Most
Extraordinary
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Silk Penetration
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The Phantom Flame
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New Salt Shaker
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Unprepared Trunk
Escape
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The Cut and Restored
Cigarette
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Coin in Ball of Wool
Idea
Potato Jones
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The Mysterious Lemon
Trick
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Baffles' Novel
Production Ball Fake
A Hat Load
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Comedy Cigarette
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The Ramo Samee Card
Trick
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The Napkin Ashes
The Oracle
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Neato Silk
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The Imaginary Rubber
Band
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The Self-Extricating
Card
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Yank-A-Hank
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A Useful "Number"
Laurant Cashes His
Own Check
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The Hanson Kewpie
Doll Illusion
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Penetration Deluxe
Martin's Twelve Card
Trick
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An Alcohol Rub
Harbin's Production
Box
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Bingo
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Trick
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Rope Decapitation
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Jack Trepel's Telephone
Book Trick
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The Secret Panel
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Jasonism
The Gwynne
Production Box
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Berland's One Cup
Ball Routine
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The Vanishing
Cigarette
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The Time Is
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A Great Production
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Liquid Change
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Flash Bill Stunt
Levante Flowers from
Cone
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Find the Lady
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The Weigh of All Flesh
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Paper Balls to Hat
The Fidgety Poker
Chips
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The Waiter's Tip
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A Tip for the Waiter's
Tip
Switching Decks
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Flowers at Your
Fingertips
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The Enchanted Finger
Ring
Silk Production
Novelty
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Silver and Copper
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The Hilliar Rising
Cards
Card Spelling De Luxe
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The Boudoir of the
Dancing Girl
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Flowers and Watch
Cash and Change Purse
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Rope-It
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The Devil's Flight
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Is This Your Card
A Magician's Hope
Chest
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The Tennis Racquet
Card
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A Matter of Record
Improved 20th Century
Silk
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The Five Card Trick
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Pip of a Pipe
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Golden Jubilee Book-Preface
The Sphinx Golden Jubilee Book of Magic
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Preface
W
HEN, one warm day this past summer, John Mulholland suggested the
editing of this book I agreed with little hesitancy, thinking it would be a
pleasant task to re-read the early volumes of "The Sphinx," a simple matter
to prepare the best tricks for publication. Two weeks or so, I thought, would
see the work through.
So I started through the 49 years. I had planned to read only the tricks, but
the articles and pictures and news notes kept distracting me. Reports on the
shows of Kellar and Herrmann intrigued me: the rise of young performers
such as Thurston and Houdini, not to mention Dante and Blackstone; and
most of my contemporaries kept sidetracking my attention from the matter
in hand. Then the tricks themselves! Multiply one issue by more than five
hundred and you begin to appreciate the problem of combining the best
feats into a single book. It would have been far easier to compile five
volumes than one. So many choice bits of conjuring had to be put aside. It
would astonish you to check in current dealers' catalogues the many tricks
which first appeared in "The Sphinx."
A large and excellent group of tricks had to be by-passed because they were
already so firmly established as the standard feats of today's sorcerers.
Another batch of bafflers had to be put aside because, though the trap doors
and special stage mechanisms on which they depended are just as practical
today as they were several decades ago, there are few modern wizards who
could put them to use. The decline of the theatre and the rise of television,
hotel and intimate entertainment has made a special yardstick necessary to
measure the value of a feat today. The estimated two weeks stretched into
months, but the manuscript began to take shape.
This book is far more than a collection of tricks; it's a procession of the
outstanding performers, inventors and writers of magic from 1900 down to
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today. No one man could possibly have explored so many avenues with so
many unusual results. Here then are not only outstanding tricks, but the
outstanding men who are responsible for them telling you how to do them.
Here is magic for all tastes, all purposes.
Milbourne Christopher
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Golden Jubilee Book-Introduction
The Sphinx Golden Jubilee Book of Magic
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Introduction
I
T WAS "The Sphinx" which told me what went on inside magic when, as
a very young magician, I could see only the outside. If was "The Sphinx"
which brought me advice, from the very top people of magic, on how to
better my performances. It was "The Sphinx" which gave me many of the
feats of magic my audiences most enjoy. Therefore, as a performer, and one
greatly interested in all phases of magic, the magazine has meant a great
deal to me. I am not unique in my feeling for, during the half century that
"The Sphinx" has been published, magicians everywhere have looked on the
magazine as their key to the secret door of the world of magic. Just a few
weeks ago William R. Walsh, America's number 1 amateur magician, wrote
to me: "Well do I remember the thrill experienced when, as a young man, I
found my first issue of 'The Sphinx'--how I accumulated at first single
copies, and then, later, volumes-the many, many evenings I pored over each
article and advertisement-how it opened up an entirely new world for me,
one of intrigue and deeply rooted interest. This all began about 1915. A few
years before this I had been casually interested in magic, but this was the
beginning of a real and consuming hobby which has been very close to my
heart ever since. Now I am the possessor of a complete file of 'The Sphinx'."
In all the fifty years of publication of the magazine, there have been but
three editors, and I feel that I was very fortunate to have known well both
the first, Bill Hilliar, and Doc Wilson, the second. In 1912 I was pleased and
honored when Doc asked me to work for his paper. I enjoyed working for
Doc Wilson for eighteen years. It, also, has been a privilege and a pleasure
to edit "The Sphinx" these past twenty-one years. The mechanical
headaches of any given month are forgotten with the enthusiasm of working
on the next issue.
When it was decided to publish a book to commemorate the 50th
Anniversary Issue of "The Sphinx," to include some of the outstanding
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