Columnist: Karrell Fox This could also be called “Time Out For Lunch”, because that’s what I used the prop for, originally. In the middle of my kid show, I would casually glance at my watch and say, “Good Gosh! It’s time for me to have my lunch. Pardon me.” I would then remove a child’s […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox Editor’s Note: A classic never goes out of style. These comical ideas play just as well today as they did when they were first published in 1954. We’re grateful to Karrell Fox and Fran and Jay Marshall at Magic, Inc. for allowing us to use this excerpt from Karrell Fox’s “Kornfidentially Yours.” […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox KARRELL FOX “PEEK-A-BRAIN PEEK-A-BRAIN What could be better magic than to do a “gag” prediction such as the one you just read and the laughs AND THEN to repeat the trick (or at least a similar trick) and to have it be 100% CORRECT! Intrigued? O.K., read on. EFFECT This time, you […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox Effects that combine a little mystery with a good sock laugh for a finish are hard to come by for the close-up magician. The following combines both of these elements. The magician shows a small, red thimble and places it in his left fist, the thimble vanishes and is reproduced from his […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox Quite a few years ago, the Abbott Magic Co. of Colon, Michigan, marketed a trick called Abbotts’ Daring Spring Trap. Matter of fact, they still do. In my opinion, it’s an excellent prop. It has novelty, mystery and an air of danger. (Practically all stage illusions are based on this last premise. […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox Two new Gems from Karrell Fox Get one of the gimmicks sold by dealers under the name of a “Pill Watch” (which is nothing more than a hollow pocket watch that you fill with pills, only this time DON’T). Get a package of little plastic jewels. They’re sold at the pet counter […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox Effect: A white pocket handkerchief is shown. Magician holds it stretched out between both hands and displays it freely on both sides. Then slowly and deliberately he rolls it into a tube about one inch in diameter. He folds the tube in half and picking up a small “juice” glass from his […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox FORWARD AND SDRAWKCAB Here’s a presentation bit that I stumbled onto during an actual perfor- mance of my mental lecture, “Journey to the Center of the Mind”. It played so well that I’ve featured it in my mental routine ever since. It’s one of those natural, logical things that they will talk […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox WANDS-TWO-THREE Magicians who do kid shows have been getting laughs for years with various types of prop magic wands. I imagine it all started with the break-away wand. There have also been comedy wands that bend, twist, rise, change color, enlarge, shrink, bang, become banners, multiply and even tipple-topple. Children believe that […]
Columnist: Karrell Fox Karrell does “Center Tear”, but that’s NOT the way it’s supposed to end! EFFECT: A piece of white show-card is shown. The card is covered with scribblings and markings on it that make no sense. Suddenly the marks slowly and VISIBLY begin to MOVE. Creeping and crawling, they form themselves into the […]
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