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jezza Elite user 469 Posts |
Just wondered if anyone does it and what sort of reactions they get? and any tips?balls to use? etc. Much appreciated.
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cataquet Veteran user England 363 Posts |
The 3 ball routine is a fantastic routine. However, the Vernon routine has been improved through use of the Pladek roll-up move. This move was popularised by David Roth and his three ball routine is acknowledged as one of the best. Also, check out Mike Gallo's (on his video) and Danny Acher's (separately marketed) routine.
For fastest access, I suggest you get Danny's routine which includes the balls. Bye for now Harold
Harold Cataquet
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jezza Elite user 469 Posts |
is their a video teaching dave roths routine, how does his differ from dai vernons? i have not seen this performed and i find it hard to imagine looking deceptive from the book
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cataquet Veteran user England 363 Posts |
David's routine is on the Coin CloseUp lecture that David did for International Magic. It uses a roll up move instead of a pop up move. Both moves are very deceptive IF done well.
Bye for now Harold
Harold Cataquet
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Paul Chosse V.I.P. 1955 - 2010 2389 Posts |
There are many version of the three ball trick. Vernon based his on a stage version by Louis J. McCord, better known as "Silent Mora". The Mora routine was done on stage with large balls and two spectators. The spectators held a fishnet between them as the "table" for the balls to rest on after each revelation. The fact that it was netting allowed the audience to see the balls even if they were below eye level.
Vernons' adaptation, as written by Ganson on "The Dai Vernon Book of Magic", was for a stand-up performance, though that is not as clear as it should be. One of the problems with the moves in the Vernon routine is that they are not properly blocked for close-up performance. Consider that the moves should be made as you display the balls to spectators on either side of you, and you will have a better understanding of the intended flow of the routine. I can go into more detail in the secret sessions forum if this is not clear. Other sources for three ball routines are abundant, but the best include the Frank Garcia book, the original Vernon material, and a Dr. Daley version called "Chromospheres". John Luka has the best routine I have seen. It is in his book, L.I.N.T., and includes a color change at the beginning (you start with three red balls, and in the very first phase they change colors!). After that the routine is the standard two-in-hand, one-in-pocket effect, with a final vanish. But, and this is a big but, it is done with the differently colored balls, persuading the audience that there can be no substitution. It uses the Chromosphere move that is being credited to Oscar Pladek. Definitely worth a look... Best, PSC
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bblumen Special user Baltimore 987 Posts |
I would submit the Silver Spheres routine by Ed Marlo from the Linking Ring June 1957 and updated in Arcade Dreams 1997.
Brian B
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Scott F. Guinn Inner circle "Great Scott!" aka "Palms of Putty" & "Poof Daddy G" 6586 Posts |
Johnny Thompson teaches the Vernon routine with an update handling on the Commercial Classics video series. The Roth routine is also on one of his A-1 Videos. The Garcia book is excellent if you can find it. Luka's routine in LINT is a beaut.
Sol Stone has a brief but very strong routine on his DVD from Meir Yedid. John Scarne has a nice routine in Stars of Magic and Ken Brooke has one in "The Unique Years." I have a routine as well, called "Having a Ball" that I published in my book, "Great Scott! It's More Magic!" I also sell the routine separately, complete with photo-illustrated instructions and the required balls, for $10.
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leefoley3 Elite user Texas 402 Posts |
Scott, How big are your balls?!! My cups require 7/8 in. as opposed to 1 in. (if I want all three to sit on one cup). Could you describe the balls that come with your routine? What they are made of, etc? Thanks in advance, Lee.
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Dennis Regular user 124 Posts |
Also, check out Aldo Colombini's routine
"Get The Ball Rolling" - it's not bad... and it requires neither net nor table! Dennis |
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Scott F. Guinn Inner circle "Great Scott!" aka "Palms of Putty" & "Poof Daddy G" 6586 Posts |
Quote: I wish you had worded that question differently...
On 2003-09-10 19:54, leefoley3 wrote: These are not for a cups and balls routine.They are rubber super bounce balls, 1-inch. They would not work well for cups and balls, but they are ideal for the three-ball routine.
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DwightPA Regular user Dwight Powell 113 Posts |
I'm familiar with the Vernon routine as taught by Johnny Thompson. I didn't see any mention here of Danny Archer's Three Ball routine....how does it compare to the others?
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Scott F. Guinn Inner circle "Great Scott!" aka "Palms of Putty" & "Poof Daddy G" 6586 Posts |
Look at the second post in the thread--he mentions the Archer routine. I have it and it's pretty good. He uses the thumb palm, which makes the routine a little easier to learn.
Most of these routines are pretty similar--the balls jump across a couple of times and then a 2-in-hand, 1-in-pocket phas and then a vanish of all three. I felt these routines were too repetitious with too little variety, so I don't do all the repeats and have some different stuff thrown in (color changes, perpetual ball from mouth, etc) as well. It's not for everyone, but it plays well for me.
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Dougini Inner circle The Beautiful State Of Maine 7130 Posts |
I have the Johnny Thompson vids. Which volume is that routine located? If it's in Vol 1, I'm S.O.L., as I could not get Vol 1...
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christopher carter Special user 660 Posts |
I also really like John Luka's routine in LINT.
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RayBanks Special user Nassau Bay, TX 533 Posts |
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On 2003-09-16 11:47, Dougini wrote: Can't believe you can not get Volume 1. It's available at most suppliers. The three ball routine (Scarne/Pladic) is on Vol 3.
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martyk Loyal user 275 Posts |
Saw Vernon do the routine in Allentown on his perhaps last Lecture. Had always wanted to SEE it done after reading it in his book. He was terrible. To retrieve the ball to the top in the left hand, he bent over the table for misdirection, but, at least I was not misdirected. Then Stan Freeman (?) did it on the Vernon Revelations series and it was incredible. He may have been using the double roll up, but I did not even know of it at the time. Roth's is the standard Vrnon, but uses the double roll up and is mostly incredible. I say "mostly" because the Hang Pieng Chan move at one point was badly done.
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charliewerner Regular user 164 Posts |
Double row up is by Marlo right?
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kentfgunn Inner circle Merritt Island FL 1639 Posts |
This guy lists a bunch of excellent sources for the trick and does his own version.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
It's difficult to delineate what is or isn't a three ball routine
Lots of it depends not on technique but for a part in the use of props, for a part in the effect (should two in the hand and one in the pocket be considered as part of a three balls routine or not - but, in the affirmative, it means that C&Bs are three ball routines as many performer use this pocketing technique in their routine) Thus, in order to help creativity and renewal in the Three Ball Trick, here are my notes on the effect Nature of the balls Hard balls Ivory balls (Mehjid-Kahn Rezvani, Claude Rix), pearls (Romaine: the Perplexing Persian Pearls in Frank Garcia’s The Real Secret of the Three Ball Routines; or Horace Bennett C&Bs), marbles (Steve Draun. Steve’s Marbles © Richard Kaufmann - Secrets Draun from the Underground) Importing ideas from the C&Bs one may choose (despite the lack off originality) to use crocheted balls (Dai Vernon style) or small leather (baseball or cricket) balls, Monkey fists, high bouncing balls, large ball bearings (like Lou Serrano), rubber balls, ear plugs, knots tied in a rope (Aldo Colombini), pebbles (Alciphron) Importing possibilities from other magical sources like the nuts for the nuts and bolts (Doc Eason), some round sea shells, bullets (round old ones like Conus, Robert-Houdin), ball bearings (Paul Gertner), modern bullets with casing (Pete Biro’s shells and pea), runes, precious or semi-precious stones, dice of one or various colors (John Scarne), pom-poms of one or various colors (Aldo Colombini) Importing possibilities from the billiard balls magic like small soap (glass or transparent plastic) bubbles Importing ideas from coin magic (possibly with Al Schneider’s Coin Pop up move), buttons (Johnson, Elmer -Milwaukee, Wisconsin- My Favourite Vest Pocket effect © The Spinx Vol XXVI N°1 March 1927 a Rezvani/John Ramsay type of routine) Edibles Beans (John Ramsay’s Four Little Beans), tic tac (Tomas Medina. Tic Tac Trick © Geek Magic), grapes (James X with 3 grapes on the table –with an additional one palmed and one in the mouth-, John Carney in Books of Secrets II), olives and pimento-stuffed green olives (Michael Baker), cherries (Michael Skinner in Tea cups and balls), cherry-tomatoes, nutmegs (real or fake), ice cubes (real or acrylic), fake mushrooms, garlic cloves, fake dried figs, fake dates, fake prawns, small cocktail sausages (real or fake), boiled quail eggs (especially if the routine ends up with a full size chicken egg as a climax) Impromptu or impromptu looking For an impromptu routine Ed Marlo launched the original concept of using balls made from crumpled aluminum foil (using classic sleights that he claims, as usual, to have invented). Flip Hallema (Fabulous Three Ball Trick (World's Greatest Magic by the World Greatest Magicians – DVD) is using the idea in a very original way. Crumpled aluminum foil is more classy than crumpled $ bills or crumpled tissue paper (possibly switched at some stage with flash paper). Actually an impromptu routine can be performed with borrowed bills folded in 8, which feel better to hand back to their original owners. It is also possible to use Porto or Madeira bottle type of corks with a larger round plastic hold, metal or porcelain thimbles, dice, Fake insects (especially if you can produce a bunch of real live ones as a climax) Sponge balls In Routined manipulations Finale (©1954 Harry Stanley), Lewis Ganson worked at making sponge balls popular. Sponges had already been used in the XVIII and XIX century and wedged in cups for a finale in the cups and balls routine. Then the use of sponge balls was rediscovered in the early XXth century by magicians like Jesse J. Lybarger in the Linking Ring issue of 1926, Audley Walsh, with Al Cohn claiming to be the originator of their use, and Joe Berg (first to use sponge balls for the cups and balls). Jay Sankeyn for some time used giant sponge ear plugs and Lawrence O’ ladies’ make-up sponges. Production of the balls The balls can be rolled out from a small box where they will reappear after their vanish : this effect initially offered by John Cornelius in his Jawbreakers routine, will be used in Lou Serrano’s famous Steel Ball routine. The production of the balls can also be performed one by one from thin air or by splitting balls previously produced (not exclusively with sponge balls) In Routined manipulations Finale (©1954 Harry Stanley), Lewis Ganson works at making sponge balls popular. He indicates Do Not Make the Routine Too Long, and Build Up to a Climax. Routine combines the two in the hand and one in the pocket with multiplication in the spectator's hand Vanish with reappearance in the mouth Mehjid-Kahn Rezvani (Les Billes d’Ivoire [Ivory balls] © 1946, Maurice Sardina : La Magie du Sorcier), Four little beans by John Ramsay, Romaine (The Perplexing Persian Pearls. © 1978 – Frank Garcia, The Real Secret of the Three Ball Routines), Claude Rix (Les 5 perles d’ivoire des mendiants persans), and more recently Tomas Medina (Tic Tac Trick © Geek Magic DVD) wet the balls in their mouth before vanishing them and letting them reappear in their mouth. Transfer from hand to hand Between the performer’s hands over a net Silent Mora Three ball and Net Routine © 1949 Regows Magic Company is made famouts by Dai Vernon (the Dai Vernon Book of Magic © 1957 Lewis Ganson – Harry Stanley) and is put on video by Johnny Thompson in his Commercial Magic DVD Vol 3 With the advent of 3-Fly in coin magic, Jon Townsend revived the idea of using a shell in a Three Ball routine Danny Archer uses a table rather than a net. Between the spectator’s hand This is the predilection effect for sponge balls and there is a huge number of performers using this awesome effect either to produce balls in the spectators’ hand or to perform a magical travel into a spectator’s hand. However only Jerry Lukins (using the table) devised a proper feint very cleverly adapted by John Carney for an in hand version to make this apparition in the spectator’s hand fully deceptive (and vastly ignored by “amateurs”) Change of nature A color change properly performed can be presented to dispel the use of sleight of hand. The Billiard ball magic offers many solutions to perform this effect. Jim Sisti (editor): The Magic Menu The First Five Years November/December 1993, Issue 20 - Special Bill Malone Issue p 223 Utility Sponge Ball Switch (David Mirto) can be used as a color change Daryl created a totally original effect with his bounce no-bounce routine which finds a very natural and magical place in a 3 balls routine. Jay Scott Berry in The Power of Two DVD including “Color Warp” also offers with just the wave of a hand, the change of a sponge ball from one color to another and, with another wave, its changing back. Two in the hand and one in the pocket The hand as visible container and one in the pocket Monochrome Silent Mora’s “Three Ball and Net” routine, long kept secret (as from about 1905) is released in a book and the routine for walk around performers then gains fame thanks to Dai Vernon (The Dai Vernon Book of Magic by Lewis Ganson. 1957 1st Ed. Harry Stanley). The Pop Up move made popular by Frank Garcia and reworked by Milton Kort to be easier and even more deceptive. the Double Roll Up created by Oscar Pladek, allegedly invented by Ed Marlo and made popular by David Roth Multicolor routine Jacob Daley is the first to have used balls of three different colors with his Chromo-spheres (© The Sphinx Vol 51 N°1 March 1952), a routine soon followed by Milton Kort’s Kortospheres, which was developed in the context of his Chromo Cups and Balls One in a container and one in the pocket René Lavand’s Three Little Crumbs. Having only one arm left, René used a coffee cup as a second hand and his bread crumbs were actually made of putty allowing his to hide one behind his ear for a later steal. Roberto Giobbi did adapt the container principle, replacing the pocket with a bag set on to the table. Actually this approach was already in use with the chop cup (with a ball under the cup or in the pocket) invented by Scot Fred Lodge (© 1936, The Mysteries of the Mystic Seven - Scotland) and made popular, years later, by Al Whitley (© Genii Vol. 21, N° 7 March 1957, p 257) performing in Chinese attires as Chop Chop. The Finale Most amateur magicians and a few seasoned performers end up showing their hands to be empty without realizing that they create a frustration (and therefore a form of hostility against them), and a suspicion about the genuineness of the balls (mostly as an excused for having been fooled). For smart spectators, its not fun to be fooled, it just feels like a magician expressing “I’m smarter, and you are looking stupid”(which doesn’t entertain any one). So if one wishes to go this way, at least he should consider ending up with a flash from an electronic thumb tip when he is revealing his hands to be empty (Alex Conradi in his coins to cup routine): the production of a flash is killing the frustration and feeling of having been taken for a fool. More astute performers end up producing a large load (large ball, lemon, egg if the routine is performed with boiled quail eggs, large fruit like a kiwi in Carl Cloutier’s style) or another larger related object with a different shape (like the Goshman Ball to Cube or the Yuri Lesnick ball to small Sponge Dragons) Along the same line some performers present the props in a modified condition (Doc Eason All Screwed Up: the nuts end up threaded on a bolt) Multiple small balls: there is a creative possibility to end up an original routine not using sponge balls with the apparition of a lot of small balls either in the performer’s hands or in the spectator’s hand as per Dr. Jaks’ Multiball (©1950 performed with sponge balls: one page sheet of instructions edited by Bruce Elliott with 9 illustrations by Dr. Jaks, marketed through Holden's Magic Shops - New York & Boston) used by many well known performers like Eugene Burger or Daryl with the sponge rabbits. To prevent the balls from rolling all over the place, one may use Michael Baker’s smart idea of using threaded small balls (he does it using olives), which can be handled as one large load and made from any type of “small balls”.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Since I have already published a large bibliography on sponge balls, it would probably be more confusing than helpful to include it in what is now called present Three Ball Trick.
A Three Ball routine bibliography Anonymous James: I do it [the 3 ball routine] with grapes as more of a two in the hand one in the mouth. Briefly: Have one grape hidden in mouth, one hidden in right hand and three visible grapes on table or spectator's hand. Put two grapes in left hand (secretly adding hidden one from right hand) and pretend to put third grape in mouth (standard balls from mouth move but sort of done in reverse or sort of a pop up move done with your lips). They see grape between lips and you pretend to chew grape and swallow (I take a tiny bite from the back of the grape so they can hear chewing). Show three grapes in left hand and repeat. At the end I just make all three vanish (put them all in mouth as I place the visible one in lips). I suppose producing a tiny bottle of grape juice or wine may be a nice kicker - but I think making them all vanish is more magical. What I like about the routine is that you can pretty much do it impromptu wherever you find grapes just by loading a grape into your mouth and into your hand. Archer, Danny. 3 Ball Routine © Danny Archer. The rendition can be seen on video on the net. Danny combines the Silent Mora effect with the two in the hand and one in the pocket in a perfectly routined sequence brilliantly delivered. Bertram, Ross. Not found anything on the three ball routine in his work (possible confusion with his work on the C&Bs) Benzais, John. 4D Ball Trick © 1967 - The Best Of Benzais, Haines House of Cards. p 52 Three balls vanish one by one before reappearing. Carlyle, Francis [aka Francis Finneran]. Francis Carlyle’s (large yellow) Balls and Net for his rendition of “Silent” Mora’s classic sleight-of-hand effect were sold at auction with a certificate of origin by Richard Kaufman in a letter to Larry Jennings. Any written description of his routine seems to have been lost. Carney, John. Muscade Magic © Book of Secrets & Video from Secrets Volume 1 performed with grapes. On the Genii forum an anonymous performer (James X) offers a variant with grapes to mouth Cataquet, Harold. The weakness in the routine, using the Pladek move for the first two balls, is that the first two repositionings are mind blowing, and the third ball repositioning is the weakest. In a matrix, the final repositioning is the strongest. Roth uses a HPC. Vernon and others use a retention vanish. My solution is a modified Sylvester's pitch. Show the third ball and pitch it into the right as you reach for the other two balls. © Genii Forum Colombini, Aldo. Get the Ball Rolling © Essential Aldo Colombini DVD Vol # 3. A version of the routine for workers, performed without net or table Cornelius, John. Three ball routine (Jawbreakers) © Creative Magic by John Cornelius (DVD) Three balls are dumped out of a box. The balls all vanish and appear back in the box. This effect will be taken over and worked out in an advanced routine by Lou Serrano. Daley, Dr Jacob. Chromo-spheres © The Sphinx Vol 51 N°1 March 1952 p 14 & Frank Garcia: The Real Secret of the Three Ball Routines © 1978 p 76. The original reference for a multicolor balls routine Daryl. Bounce No-Bounce Balls © Daryl Huston. The balls made famous by Daryl are perfect for a three ball routine and can supply an additional effect (using Dai Vernon Change Over Palm in combination with the Shuttle Pass) If using different color balls (Daly, Kort…) then the ball in one color can offer the bouncing effect as a sucker explanation, without suspicion of switch between the balls. Dhotel, Jules. La Prestidigitation sans Bagages © 1945, Jules Dhotel, Paris Draun, Steve. Steve’s Marbles © Richard Kaufmann - Secrets Draun from the Underground p 140 Steve credits the Harrison routine which he completely reworked Gallo, Mike. © Michael Gallo: The Dynasty Continues DVD Giobbi, Roberto. 3 ball routine [marketed routine and props] © Roberto Giobbi. "Described and arranged by Roberto Giobbi”. The Effect is that three balls move from hand to hand, then, from the bag back into the hand and finally they disappear. In their place appears a lemon (for an ending “with a twist”). The props delivered include the balls (mini-baseballs) a silk net with four corner rings and a bag. Harrison, Charles. Marvelous Marvels © 1955, Lewis Ganson – A Magician Explains Johnson, Elmer (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). My Favourite Vest Pocket effect © The Spinx Vol XXVI N°1 March 1927 p 19. The routine is John Ramsay’s routine performed with 5 buttons instead of 4 little beans or Tic Tacs Fuentes, Balthazar. Three ball routine © High Five Magic lecture notes Garcia, Frank. The Frank Garcia’s Routine © Frank Garcia: The Real Secret of the Three Ball Routines © 1978 p Guinn, Scott F. Having a Ball © "Great Scott! It's More Magic!" p 19 starts with the production of the balls. Halema, Flip. The Secrets of the Famous Three Ball Tricks © World Greatest Magic by the World Greatest Magicians DVD. An off the beaten path presentation with aluminum foil balls Horowitz, Sam Leo. The Big Secret © The Real Secret of the Three Ball Routines © 1978 p 18 Jagerhorn, Robert. Three Ball Routine' © video. Part of his competition act. (Finnish magician) Kam, Curtis. Sphere Chucker © unpublished. Balls are produced, travel from hand to hand, two in the hand, one in the pocket, original ending (no large load nor vanish) Ladshaw, Tom: Apocalypse Vol 12 No 3 March 1989 by Harry Lorayne; p 1612 A Sponge or Two: Two in the hand, one in the pocket with sponges, but no pockets are used. A classic soft mat replaces the net. The traditionally pocketed sponge is made to vanish in plain sight with a classic Nutshell and Pea move : the ball traditionally to be pocketed is brought to heel clip of the loosely closed fist; the fist gets to rest palm down on the table top and moves slightly back allowing the ball to “grip” against the mat and ride under the knuckles of the curled fingers of the loosely closed fist; then the hand starts rotating, opening up as it moves slightly forward (rolling the ball under the backs of the fingers or riding the backs of the fingers over the ball) and appears to be empty as it ends fully palm up and as the backs of the fingers are pressing the ball down against the soft working surface. This “vanish” allows the ball to seem to have travelled to the other closed fist with the two balls. Long Tack Sam. Long Tack Sam, also known as Tack Sam Long and Sam Tack Long, was the stage name of performance artist Lung Te Shan. He was a world-renowned Chinese-born American magician, acrobat, and vaudeville performer. His personal routine has been lost be he is one of the few names credited by Frank Garcia in his book on the Three Ball Routines. Luka, John. Chromo Spheres © L.I.N.T. his take on Daley's "Chromo Spheres" with a story McComb, Billy. McCord, Louis Jerome [aka Silent Mora]. Silent Mora’s Ball and net routine © 1949, Jim Swoger "Silent Mora -- Magician-of-the-month" by Leslie P. Guest in the February 1959 issue of MUM: ... Here is the development of Mora's famous "Four Balls and Net Trick." The idea came to him after seeing Kellar, Blackstone, Leipzig, Malini and others perform with rolled-up cigarette papers and other small items. Mora adapted the same trick, but presented it with four one inch solid white rubber balls, which could be seen at a distance. For the transposition from hand to hand, a new key move was needed. This, Mora adapted from "The Chinese Marble Trick," described in Sach's "Sleight of Hand," and which he saw Ching Ling Foo perform in Clyde Powers Magic Shop (about 1912). Then, either Frank Shepard or Manuel Thomas suggested the final vanishment of all four balls, a climax which Mora quickly accepted. Now he had a small stage effect which he put into his vaudeville act. About 1930, he was discussing the trick with his friend Jack Davis, a popular Jewish Comedian. Jack said, "The trick is all right, but there is something lacking. When you reach into that black velvet bag to pick up the balls, people cannot see your hands. Why don't you use mosquito net?" This was just what Mora needed, and soon the mesh bag was replaced by an open net, held at the corners by spectators. Silent Mora sold the routine to Jim Swoger (Regow), who copyrighted it in 1949. McLintock, Reed. Three balls, one of a different color, and a little larger than the other two. revised following his lecture tour in Europe (reminiscent of the Two copper one silver coin trick) Medina, Tomas. Tic Tac Trick © Geek Magic With Tomas Medina & Penguin Live Lecture (second part). John Ramsay’s Four little beans adapted for a routine with Tic Tacs Miller, Charlie. Mentioned in the Magic Café Forums but no reference found in print or video Minch, Stephen. Kortospheres © The Magic of Milt Kort - 1999 p 299 an improved version of Daley’s routine & p 302 Improved Pop Up move Okito. Mentioned in the Magic Café Forums but no reference found Pladek, Oscar. 3 ball routine © The Pallbearers Review (April 1973) & Johnny Thompson Commercial Magic DVD. Oscar Pladek became famous for the Double Roll Up very nicely demonstrated in one of his DVDs by David Roth who should get credit for making the move popular in his lecture notes and then in several DVDs. Marlo, Edward. Silver Spheres © 1997 Arcade Dreams by Jon Racherbaumer and Richard Kaufman. A three phase routine with four aluminum foil balls. From the Richard Kaufman we learn that Marlo (once more) presented as original a stolen routine he had already published earlier in the Linking Ring after discarding the Pladek move, Ramsay, John. Four Little Beans © 1952 - Victor Farelli, Observer Printing Works 24 pages involves taking beans in and out of the mouth Rezvani, Mehjid-Kahn. Les Billes d’Ivoire [Ivory balls] © 1946, Maurice Sardina : La Magie du Sorcier p. 84 to 88. Rink [aka J. Van Rinkhuysen, Holland]. Some Spheres and Cubes © The Gen Tribute to Dai Vernon. Little rubber balls materialize, vanish and re-appear in the hands. They finally change to a large ball which becomes a cube when placed on the table Rix, Claude. Les 5 perles d’ivoire des mendiants persans © Claude Rix. Inspired from Rezvani’s magic and brought to a perfection level that made Claude Rix famous worldwide. Rogers, John. The Walrus Three Ball Routine © John Rogers Best Stand-Up Routines DVD No table, no net and no volunteer from the audience are required. The routine can be performed for large groups. One ball vanishes and reappears repeatedly, then two more balls are introduced, whereupon the balls begin to travel invisibly from one location to another in very magical (and often funny) ways. Finally, all three balls vanish at once. Romaine. The Perplexing Persian Pearls. © 1978 – Frank Garcia, The Real Secret of the Three Ball Routines p 44 : A very thorough routine starting with the magical appearance of the pearls Roth, David. The David Roth lecture © Lecture Notes & Ron McMillan International Magic DVD a very good demonstration of the double roll-up Sachs, Edwin T. Chinese Marble Trick © 1877, Sleight of Hand by Edwin Sachs. Chapter VI. This seminal work is considered as the grandfather of most modern 3 ball routines including Silent Mora’s one Scarne, John. John Scarne’s Classic Ball Magic © 1946 by George Starke - Stars of Magic Series 1, No. 1 Serrano, Lou. Lou Serrano’s Steel Ball Routine © Lou Serrano P.O. Box 1665 Agoura Hills, CA 91376, Marketed effect with quality props and DVD. Three 1 inch metallic balls disappear one by one and reappear in the box they were initially taken out from. Despite its appearance, this routine, based on John Cornelius’s Jawbreakers, is not an impromptu routine. Stone, Sol. Chaperone © Quick & Casual Close-Up DVD. A basic three in the hand and one in the pocket with vanish at the end Thompson, Johnny. 3 Ball Routine © Commercial Magic DVD Vol # 3. A reference work on the effect. Townsend, Jonathan. The three ball routine is “probably a really good place to insert a 'three fly' type 'across' segment to the routine… and by all means add a shell. Fakini sets of mini billiard balls in the 1 inch and 1.5 inch sizes would work well. This would allow a fully fingertips handling like with the coin trick. Add a holdout and you've got something memorable” Thompson, J. G. © The Miracle Makers Vernon, Dai. Three Ball Transposition © The Dai Vernon Book of Magic by Lewis Ganson. 1st Ed. Harry Stanley. 1957 - p. 61 to 69. The Professor having been intrigued by Edwin T. Sachs comments, suppressed the placing of the balls into the mouth and reworked the basic sleight. To end with a two in the hand and one in the pocket.
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