Includes the Human Slot Machine and other guaranteed laugh jackpots, a modern line of patter for the Miser's Dream, a complete routine with a single coin, and tricks with coins of all sizes. Photographically illustrated.
Paul Fleming wrote:
This 28-page booklet is printed by the offset method from neatly typed manuscript; it is illustrated with 43 photographic reproductions (some of which are less clear than could be desired, and are not always in complete agreement with the text; and is bound in soft boards. It contains nine items by Edward Marlo, eleven by L. L. Ireland, and one by Paul Studham.
Mr. Marlo's contributions include a New Back Palm Vanish and Production for a half-dozen coins, which appears to be easy but involves a somewhat unnatural way of holding the coins when showing them to the audience; the Passe-Passe Coins, a new method of causing four coins to pass, one at a time, from one hand to the other; a clever trick with two half-dollars and a dime; a feat in which the performer undertakes to make a dime vanish, but succeeds in disposing of only nine cents, since a penny remains behind; an effective penetration feat with coins and a handkerchief; and (with three pages of explanation, and nine illustrations) a Single Coin Routine, which employs ten different "moves" and should prove very entertaining.
Mr. Ireland's best items (as we see it) are The Imaginary Half-Dollar, in which an imaginary coin becomes real and later vanishes; a coin vanish, suggested by a sleight employed by John Ramsey, the Scotch coin expert; another coin vanish, designed to duplicate a Nate Leipzig specialty; and a clean-cut vanish for a coin of dollar size. The Studham contribution (The Human Slot Machine) is in reality the production of a glass of whiskey, rather than a coin trick.
As is so often the case with coin feats, many of the things that appear in this booklet are sleights rather than complete tricks; and are suitable chiefly (and, in some instances, exclusively) for very small groups – for it is scarcely fair to ask an audience to watch a trick with a penny or a dime, unless it is a very small audience, indeed. Nevertheless, these sleights and tricks should be exceedingly useful to a multitude of "vest-pocket" magicians and other "close-up" workers. Bull's-Eye Coin Tricks presents many novel twists, and is a welcome addition to the literature of coin magic, which to lovers of this branch of conjuring must seem to be entirely too meager.
New Back Palm Vanish And Production
Marlo's Front And Back Palm
Passe Passe Coins
Two Halves And A Dime
Money From Magic
Marlo's Poor Man's Trick
Penetration And Audible Arrival
Single Coin Routine
Two Ideas
The Imaginary Half Dollar
The Toss Up Vanish
A Close-Up Trick For A Bar
In And Out Of The Fist
The Human Slot Machine
Production Of Coins From The Mouth
Patter For The Miser's Dream
A Coin Pass
The Thumb Crotch Palm
The Five Coin Pass
Through The Palm
Why Use Real Money When Palming Coins Are So Cheap?
