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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
I'm looking for references for the "transmission" of a thought of or selected playing card in which an audience volunteer tries to project the card to the audience telepathically. In this routine, he is "secretly" aided by the magician, who has a large card like the one the spectator is thinking of glued to the bottom of a tray, the back of a book or the back of a note pad.
The earliest reference I could lay hands on was in George Kaplan's Fine Art of Magic.
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Dick Christian Inner circle Northern Virginia (Metro DC) 2619 Posts |
Bill,
See the note I just posted to the "egg beater" thread on this subject.
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
Got it. Thanks!
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Jim Mullen Veteran user Lake Tahoe, California 351 Posts |
I remember seeing George Jason perform this at the Combined IBM-SAM convention in 1959 at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago. (I was 16 and had just become an IBM member that January.) Jason was on a three-person mini-show with (I believe) Charlie Miller (opener), John Mulholland (middle act), and Jason (closer). The eggbeater trick was his closer and was really funny with his presentation.
As I recall--remember this was 50 years ago--Jason had a card selected by the spectator on stage. He then explained that the spectator should select someone in the audience to whom the spectator would transmit the name of the card. To make this work, Jason explained, the spectator would have to use an antenna, and he strapped a wierd-looking antenna contraption on the spectator's head. Then he gave the spectator the egg beater for the transmission and showed how to use it. He called it something like a "multi-phasic, reciprocating oscillator." And he mentioned that when not using it for transmitting, one could use it to beat eggs. The transmission apparently did not work the first time, and Jason explained this was because the spectator was rotating the egg beater toward himself (which of course was the way Jason had demonstrated it.) Jason demonstrated "sending the thoughts" by rotating handle toward the audience. The spectator corrected this motion. Then somehow (I do not remember how) Jason pulled on something on the antenna, which caused it to open up and reveal a jumbo card on top of the spectator's head. Finally, Jason asked the audience member--the thought receiver--to name the card, and he named the Jumbo card much to the amusement of all. Jason was a funny guy so I am sure there were a lot more funny bits in the routine, but this was the biggest hit in the show--including the stuff from Miller and Mulholland. People were splitting their sides laughing at this. Jim Mullen
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