KARELL FOX COLUMN
A COUPLE OF "THUMB"-TIPS Number
1 Short & Sweet
Our "supper table sorcerer"
calls attention to the sugar bowl he holds in
his left hand. He taps the edge of the bowl
with a teaspoon he holds in his right hand.
The bowl is replaced on the table and the left
hand is formed into a fist. The right hand taps
the spoon against the closed left fist. The
left fist is speezed tightly and then slowly
(finger by finger) opened to disclose A SUGAR
CUBE!
The gimmick is the magicians
old (and very useful) standby, a thumbtip. The
thumb-tip and the sugar cube are concealed in
the left hand. You will recall that the sugar
bowl is also held in this hand. Show the teaspoon
in your right hand, and handle it casually so
that the spectators can observe that the hand
is otherwise empty. Fill the spoon with sugar
(not too full, experiment!) and set the bowl
back on the table at the same time forming the
left hand into a fist. Slowly dump the sugar
into the left fist, actually it goes into the
thumb-tip. Turn the left fist downward so that
the closed fingers are on the bottom, and the
top of the fist is upwards.
************************* WISDOM FOR THE
WIZARDS ***************************
"Imitation
is the sincerest form of thievery."
Don't
be a magician who suffers from "I" trouble.
Magic
has had a magnet-cycle, and a balloon-cycle,
and a dove cycle. Why doesn't someone invent
some new tricks with motors so we can have a
MOTORCYCLE!
He who
laughs last is the guy you stole the joke from
in the first place.
New things
that are good, are very good. But, old things
that are good, are much better than new things
which are not so good.
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