MAGIC ••••WITH**** SRYDAY OBJECTS OVER 150 TRICKS ANYONE CAN DO AT THE DINN PURCHASER AGREES NOT TO DISCLOSE SECRETS CONTAINED WITHIN. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/magicwitheverydaOOOOschi Magic with Everyday Objects GEORGE SCHINDLER Magic with Everyday Objects Over 150 tricks anyone can do at the dinner table ILLUSTRATIONS BY ED TRICOMI A SCARBOROUGH BOOK STEIN AND DAY/Publishers/New York FIRST SCARBOROUGH BOOKS EDITION 1979 First published in hardcover in 1976 by Stein and Day/Publishers, Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, New York 10510 Copyright © 1976 by George Schindler Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 75-34265 All rights reserved Designed by Ed Kaplin Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-8128-6030-6 For Nina, Shari, Scott, and Dee, who sat through every one of these miracles. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work resulted indirectly from my association with the School for Magicians in New York City and the encouragement given me by my three partners: Frank Garcia, the most knowledgeable magician I know; Arnold Freed, a magician who creates laughter as an artist creates a painting; and Fred Ponger, a fine actor and level-headed businessman. A final acknowledgment goes to Bob Reiss, a former student at our school. Bob’s foresight in the field of “everyman’s magic” has made magic widely available. His excellent Magic Acts may provide us with the magicians of tomorrow. Contents Introduction 13 1. ON THE TABLE 17 Magic with Silverware 19 Swallowing the Spoon 19 Cheap Silver 21 Snap Vanish 23 Transformation 23 Flying Spoon 27 Quick Vanish 30 Rubber Knife 30 Musical Knife 30 Knife Suspension 31 Salt, Pepper, and Sugar Necromancy 34 Salt Gone 34 Vanishing Salt Shaker 36 Sweet and Go 39 Run, Pepper, Run 40 Mystic Shaker 42 Osmo-Salt 45 Sodium Chloride 48 DoFs Dot 49 Three Quick Ones 51 51 SEPARATING PEPPER FROM SALT 51 INSTANT SEPARATION 52 ICE-CUBE SUSPENSION Sugar Floats 52 8 | CONTENTS Soft Spot 53 Slap It Through 54 Sugar Transfer 56 Transfer Variation 57 Sugar Quick Tricks 58 58 CATCHING YOUR LUMPS 59 BURNING A CUBE 59 TURNOVER Dinner-roll Diversions 60 Light Bread 60 Easy Come, Easy Dough 62 Once in a Knifetime 64 Clinging Breadstick 65 Cracker Story 67 Bread Gags 70 70 HARD ROLLS 70 BITING A FINGER Napkin Hocus-pocus 71 Spooky 71 Knotty but Nice 74 Persian Puppet 76 Transpo-Knots 76 Utility Napkin 80 Out from Under 82 Tom and Restored Napkin 84 Teleportation 86 Producing a Rabbit 90 What Does It Look Like? 90 Napkin Betcha 94 Strong Paper 94 No More Gravity 94 Watch It Go! 95