The Genii Forum

Brad Jeffers

Thanks Bill, for posting the information about Marion Stephanie.
It is now apparent that it is she, and not Suzy Wandas, who appears in the film.

Brad Jeffers

Here's a working link . Kobe van Herwegen recently posted on Facebook some information that convinces me that the manipulator woman was Marion Stephanie. So who is the mystery woman?! Bill, could you cut and paste the information that now leads you to believe that the woman is Marion Stephanie. I am...

Brad Jeffers

I don't remember the name of the trick, but if you want one of the coins, check here.

Brad Jeffers

"Shin Lim settles in for long-term Las Vegas Strip residency"
Is a six month contract now considered to be a long-term residency?

Brad Jeffers

One issue is that all magic presented via a screen is media magic. I appreciate the term media magic, but would not apply it to all magic presented via a screen. I would not for example, refer to the videos of Cardini or Channing Pollock as media magic. I would instead use a term like filmed magic,...

Brad Jeffers

There are people who collect any and all editions of Erdnase. For these people there is a need to own at least one copy of every edition ever printed, or else their collection will be incomplete. How many of this type collector are there? I don't know. Perhaps a hundred. Therefore, I feel that if yo...

Brad Jeffers

Roy M. McIlwee wrote: They seem to be out of stock everywhere.

You can get them on Ebay.

Brad Jeffers

Although Vernon once placed the event in 1919, he also once placed it in 1922. He also once placed it in 1917 (the Revelations tapes volume 9). So, in my mind, as Vernon was not one to keep a lot of material on hand, this photograph - one he may have kept for over forty years before moving West, mu...

Brad Jeffers

It's interesting to compare the first two posts of this topic with the last two.

Same posters, same question, same answer, different decade.

Really Ricardo?!
Are you going to ask that same question every 12 years?

Quit hounding Richard.

He's working on it!

Brad Jeffers

Bill Mullins wrote:Has Mr. Charming's account been deleted?

Apparently yes.
He made a disparaging remark regarding Michael Close which was quickly deleted and subsequently ...

Richard Kaufman wrote:Mr. Charming has departed the building.

Brad Jeffers

If you're a cardist who likes the look of the Jerry's Nuggets, then you probably already own a few bricks of THESE.
I have to admit, they're every bit as beautiful as the originals.

Brad Jeffers

magicfish wrote: that remark ought to scare the daylights out of any thinking magician

What's the remark he's referring to?

Brad Jeffers

It would appear so.
HERE is a link to Harry Keaton performing "his invention".

Brad Jeffers

Jonathan Townsend wrote: a straight beats four aces

Where do you play poker at Jonathan ?

Brad Jeffers

It wasn't the final episode, but an episode from season four entitled "Ed the Shish Kebab".

Brad Jeffers

performer wrote:It has nothing to do with MacDonald

But he had something to do with It

Brad Jeffers

Who's the publisher of this edition?

Brad Jeffers

Here is some more information on the Erdnase film.
And also this.

Brad Jeffers

HERE is a collection of instruction sheets for sale.
You could purchase these; keep the Dobson Pick and Mix instruction sheet for yourself; then sell off the extras.

Brad Jeffers

I wonder how this will effect the selling price of original decks of Jerry's Nugget cards which can go for as much as $500 apiece. I hold the same opinion as Bill Duncan. These are indeed some very unattractive cards! The only use I have for these and other cards of this ilk, are in packet tricks su...

Brad Jeffers

I see you've been paroled Mark.
Good to have you back.

Brad Jeffers

It's from Magicol magazine August 1951.
It accompanies an article by Martin Gardner entitled Editions of Erdnase.

Brad Jeffers

I suspect the finale mentioned above is Bill’s sequence where the coins, the box,and the lid all pass through the magician’s hand. Is that the same as this ... Paul Cummins has a great Okito Box effect in his FASDIU book. It starts out as the basic illusion where the box is placed on the back of yo...

Brad Jeffers

You can get 3 sheets of black dental dam for $1.95 HERE.

Brad Jeffers

Of the seven sets of cups listed for sale on their website, which is the one that you designed?

Brad Jeffers

Mark Collier wrote: I wish I could remember the trainer's name.

David Polke

Brad Jeffers

Just like what JT described and attributed to Slydini ... Okay, here's what I recall: The key is that you are going to push a card to the side with your thumb and then pick it up to show its face, then replace it on top of the packet before displacing it to the bottom of the packet. You shold be a s...

Brad Jeffers

You ever see on a magician's forum where someone will post something like ... "Yes Bosco24, that is indeed a very good method, but I myself prefer to vanish a silk using a Vernet XL th--b t-p". Well, I hear that Google is working on an algorithm that will fill in the blanks. Now we're real...

Brad Jeffers

I've now been told how this works.
As I figured - there was a tiny bit of procedural information withheld from Q's original description!

Brad Jeffers

Is it mostly coin stuff, or is Mr. Henderson also a cardman?

Brad Jeffers

I can't imagine how this would work!? you do need to know how many cards were taken in the first cut. I can now figure out a method to do this, but still not exactly as initially described ... The deck is on the table, spec 1 takes half the deck and places it in pocket Spec 2 takes half the remaind...

Brad Jeffers

I can't imagine how this would work!?

Brad Jeffers

Martin Gardner speculated that Mark Twain might have written Erdnase “Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be: baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.” ― Mark Twain I guess the above quote adds one more notch to the Mark Twain theory...

Brad Jeffers

Martin Gardner speculated that Mark Twain might have written Erdnase “Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.” ― Mark Twain I guess the above quote adds one more notch to the Mark Twain theory.

Brad Jeffers

1974 was the first year that I went to a magic convention. It was in Colon Michigan. Abbott's '74 was also my first magic convention. I was 17. Perhaps we sat next to each other at one of the shows, or maybe you were the kid who showed me Cardwarp at the diner. Who Knows? For sure, it was a wonderf...

Brad Jeffers

My current ideas ... #2. Find people who review a lot of different magic products and ask them if they would like a review copy. That's a good idea. I suggest that you submit a copy to the person on this forum who goes by the name EndersGame . He will give you a review that is three times as long a...

Brad Jeffers

The term palmed off as used by Sanders in the sentence "the literary huckster ... has PALMED OFF upon us our own alleged history" has really no correlation with the term "palm off" as used by Erdnase. If we found a candidate had written something like "he had a sudden SHIFT ...

Brad Jeffers

In the 40's Dai Vernon had business cards made that read simply, Dai W. Vernon - The New York Card Expert. Do you know why he did that? That's news to me. What did he say about that? Glad you asked, Jonathan. Here's what he said about that ... "I never was proud of the fact that I was a magici...

Brad Jeffers

Brad Henderson wrote:Card expert says far more about the person and what they do than cardman ever will.

In the 40's Dai Vernon had business cards made that read simply, Dai W. Vernon - The New York Card Expert.
Do you know why he did that?

Brad Jeffers

Bill Duncan wrote:Off the top of my head, I can think of at least two effects that are magical without misdirection.

Off the top of my head I can think of about four hundred and fifty.

Unless misdirection is somehow synonymous with deception.

In that case I can't think of any.

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