Close Up Magic Book

For The Night Club Magician  

By Jean Hugard

Herein Mr. Hugard has compiled a collection of close up effects with all information about this new line of magic. Most every magician of prominence at the present day is being featured in the new entertainment field: Cardini, Leipsig, Zingone, Vernon, Jarrow, Benson, Brooks, Swan, Martin, Thompson, Orloff, Larry Gray, Dave Allison, Haskell, Devant, Albenice, Carlyle, and many others. A book is full of ideas for the close-up worker. 57 pages well illustrated.

Contents Include:

Chapter 1: The Night Club Field and its Requirements 
The Night Club Field and Its Requirements: article
Chapter II Introductory Tricks 
4 M. Moreau's Opening: Moreau's method of approaching a table using cards
5 Another Opening Method: using coins or bills, with a method to get tips
5 - Another Mode of Entry: using cigarettes, bills, or a vanishing Whiskey
6 Introduction by Table Cards: and further suggestions on how to end
Chapter III Miscellaneous Tricks
7 Production of Wand: from sleeve
8 The Pear Trick:a bitten pear is restored, with the spectator's marked dime still inserted
9 Sugar and Coffee Mystification: writing sugar cube transfers to spectator's palm
10 Ring and Wand: borrowed finger ring is removed from a wand
12 Flying Ring: borrowed finger ring vanishes from hand covered in a handkerchief
13 Cut and Restored
13 - With Cotton Thread
14 - With String: another version
15 Pocket Knife and Bottle: knife dropped in bottle rises and lowers on command
16 Tearing a Button From a Spectator's Coat: and restoring it 
Chapter IV Handkerchief Tricks
17 Wand Through Handkerchief
18 Pulling a Handkerchief Through a Wand
18 Cut and Restored Handkerchief: while wearing a jacket
19 - Another Way: after the center has been cut out
20 The Dancing Lady: a figure made from a handkerchief
Chapter V Tricks with Bills
22 Impromptu Drinking Cup: magician takes a drink from a rolled up bill
22 Tearing a Bill: and restoring it
23 Bill and Card Combination: card torn and restored and vanished bill found inside
25 Cigarette and Bill: burnt bill is later found in cigarette
26 Bill Change Over: a $1 and $10 Bill transposition with a vanish
Chapter VI Tricks with Cards
29 The Tacked Card: chosen card sticks to the wall
30 Torn Card: from mouth with matching corner
31 A Poker Deal
Chapter VII Tricks with Cigarettes
33 Rolling a Cigarette With One Hand
34 Migrating Cigarette: a broken cigarette joins others in the spectator's hand and more
35 The Four Hobos: an assembly routine with four cigarettes and four napkins
Chapter VIII Sponge Ball Tricks
36 Balls: how to cut them;
36 Routine: uses four small and four large balls
Chapter IX Tricks with Coins
38 Coin Rising From Glass of Beer: a metal coin rises in a beer glass and is examined
40 Coin Through Sleeve
41 Coin and Silver Boxes: coin in nested boxes
43 Coin and Glass of Water: vanishes
44 Coin and Two Cards: impromptu production of coin between two cards
44 Novel Vanish: coin vanish under handkerchief
45 Coin Found in a Dinner Roll
45 Best Coin Fold
46 The Coin and Harness Rings: a coin vanishes from the middle of a brass ring
47 Coin Through Hand
Chapter X Tricks at the Table
48 Vanishing Glass of Wine: while seated
49 Vanishing a Plate: similar to above
49 Swallowing a Knife
50 A Spoon or Fork Through a Glass: illusion
50 Plate and Bread Pellets: a sort-of cups and balls with plates and bread pellets
51 Vanishing Matches: bundle of stick matches vanish under a handkerchief
52 Cigarette Papers: torn and restored
52 Walnut Shells and Pea: not detailed, refers to a "recent publication" for details
Chapter XI Vesting and Sleeving 
53 Vesting: vanishing articles under the vest
54 Sleeving: several methods briefly described
Effective Gags
55 Watch: apparently smashed
55 Flash Paper
55 Match Lighting Fake: producing a lighted match
56 Biting a Piece Out of a Plate
56 Care of the Hands
57 Conclusion 
 

Details: Close Up Magic Book by Jean Hugard

64 Pages, saddle-stitched, size 5 1/2" by 8 1/2".