Hugard's Magic Monthly Vol. 1 #7
December 1943

December 1943

December 1943 Booklet

Contents

# Title
25

Five envelopes, one containing a $10 bill, are mixed by a spectator; four spectators each spell B-I-N-G-O and remove an envelope on the O — all get empty ones.

25

Hugard's seasonal message to magicians everywhere, wishing a Merry Christmas and hoping the New Year brings victory, peace, and prosperity.

26

A card is selected; the magician produces a jack from each of four packets, each time failing; the four jacks handed to the spectator conceal the chosen card among them.

26

An essay on the back palm as a secret sleight, tracing its history from European origins through Downs, Elliott, and Thurston's stage act, arguing against its use as a flourish.

27

A children's story trick — Mickey Mouse vanishes from his card frame when a monster appears to eat him, then is discovered safe on the performer's back.

29

Complete technical instruction for all back palm methods — three vanish variants, the reverse palm, and transfers between positions — with tricks using the sleight secretly under cover.

31

A freely chosen card vanishes from the pack and is found inside a glass that was shown empty and wrapped in a borrowed handkerchief.

31

A card tossed into a hat passes visibly through its crown to the floor; picked up and pushed against the outside of the crown, it re-enters the hat.

32

A chosen card rises from the pack held in one hand up to the other hand held above it, using the back palm with no preparation or thread.

32

As a spectator comes forward to assist, the performer shakes his hand and a fan of cards is produced apparently from the spectator's palm.

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