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Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 124, 29 May 1942, Page 1

THE MISSING FILM STAR. I w, 1 ■ \ \ r 1 1 / / ///« I A " B 121 1 A pack of Film Star Cards is shown, each card bearing the name of a popular star. Pack is shuffled and cut into two, and from one portion a card is selected and shuffled back. Performer now holds this half in his right hand and the other half in his left, and states his intention of causing the chosen card to leave his right hand—pass up his sleeve, along the back of his coat and down his left sleeve into the cards in his left hand. He riffles the cards in his right hand, and says that the chosen card has gone. He proves this by dropping the cards one at a ' time upon table, and the chosen one is indeed missing. He now offers the sum of fifty pounds if he fails to produce the chosen name from the cards in his left hand. He glances through them and picks out one, which he boldly affirms is the one selected. The selector, however, denies this. Performer, slightly disconcerted, remarks that he has not said just when he will produce the chosen name, and again shows a card as the selected one. Again the selector says this is the wrong card. The performer makes several further attempts, and finally runs through all the cards, but the chooser says that his card is not there. Apparently the trick has failed, but now the performer has a brainwave, and states that sometimes the card gets caught in passing up his sleeve—he searches his coat and eventually produces the chosen card from his armpit. And now, to finish effect, he picks up the rejected cards, remarking that he still cannot understand how he failed to produce the selected name. He again shows the rejected cards, separately, calling out the names—and as he does so he lays them out on table (or stand) to overlap; and slowly THE CHOSEN NAME IS MADE UP BY THE INITIAL LETTERS. The conclusion is shown in the illustration. This effect is extremely easy to work, and can if necessary be done with audience all round. Only the pack is required, which can be carried in pocket, and the trick is ready to work at a moment’s notice. Complete with pack of 32 Film Star Cards (no stand). Price, 7/6.