TWO UNUSUAL TRICKS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 137, 12 June 1941, Page 16

TWO UNUSUAL TRICKS

TO BE A MAGICIAN (Prom Dawn Tilly. Seddon Avenue, Waihi). All you need for this clever little conjuring trick are two cigarette cards exactly alike, and one envelope. First cut a neat strip off the bottom of the envelope, and place both cards carefully inside, holding them firmly (with your fingers outside the envelope), to prevent them from falling out. To perform the trick, sit at a table and face your audience. Take one of the cards out of the envelope, and hold it up for inspection. Having done this, tear it into small pieces, and put them into the envelope at the same time letting them fall through the slit into your lap, without letting the whole card slip, too. This must be done so that your audience does not see the p'ieces fall. Make a few magic passes over the envelope with your free hand, then open the envelope and produce the whole card. Everyone will think that by some magic you have placed the torn-up pieces together again.

ENVELOPE MAGIC ' To do this trick you will need two envelopes exactly the same size and colour. Paste them together, front to front, so that a flap hangs down on each side. Now, taking the two envelopes, lift the flap of one and show a friend that it is quite empty. Do not let him see the envelope on the other side. Next take a piece of coloured paper, put it inside the envelope you snowed him, and say, "Now, by my magic powers, I'll cause this piece of paper to vanish." Closing down the flap, you take the envelope in your two hands and wave them over your head. But, of course, when you bring them down again, be careful that the empty envelope is uppermost. When you open the flap, there will be nothing in it, and it will seem that you have actually caused the piece of coloured paper to disappear, I