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Paul Cummins - Stumped!

Columnist: Paul Cummins After I left AT&T back in 1998 to pursue a career writing books for magicians and doing some corporate performing I spent the next two years working most of my magic for magicians at lectures and convention appearances. Although the writing and publishing was proceeding nicely, I wanted to perform for layman more often. Resultantly, I took a job a couple of nights a week doing bar magic at ...
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Paul Cummins - The Invisible Card

Columnist: Paul Cummins The Invisible Card As you’ll see in my cut-and-pasted description of this routine from my lecture notes, it’s one I’ve been doing for years and years and years. The mechanics of the routine are not original with me, but the entire presentation has been honed for all of those years. It’s a wonderful routine that doesn’t do much for magicians but which laymen really react to. It allows you t...
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Pete Biro - Loopy Loop

Columnist: Pete Biro Loopy Loop, AKA “Pricking the Garter” or… call it what you wish. It’s the old gambling game with and Endless Loop. Whilst working up various handlings, I came upon a NEW item and a Magical Finish for the routine. The effect: After doing the Gambling Demonstrations showing how the “sucker” can not win, that no matter which side he/she chooses, they will always be “loose” (another name for the routi...
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Pete Biro - The Magic Place

Columnist: Pete Biro IMHO there is (was) only ONE Magic Place… and that was at 145 Wardour Street, London, W1-Ken Brooke’s Magic Place. On a recent trip to London, I had to go by 145 to see what was now at that location (Ken had passed on years ago and closed “The Place”). What I found was The Zoo Studio. I have no idea what the Zoo Studio is, or might be, but it isn’t “The Magic Place.” Not only was Ken Brooke at th...
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Pete Biro - The Reel Works

Columnist: Pete Biro By Pete Biro Not to be confused with the Real Work. When I first began writing for magical publications, I lived very close to Lloyd E. Jones, who was the book reviewer for Genii Magazine. Lloyd was a pharmacist and book collector par excellence. As a matter of fact, Lloyd didnít realize it, but he had the absolutely, indisputably, finest antiquarian book collection on the planet. W...
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