This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... COFFEE, MILK AND SUGAR This belongs to that class of tricks which, while old in years of service, is, if artistically presented, ever new to an audience. It was one of the favorites of our dean, Harry Kellar, * and in a different form figured in the programs of those never-to-be-forgotten artists, Imro Pox and Chung Ling Soo. In the Kellar version a light wooden box half full of white paper clippings was shown, a handful of which he tossed in the air with that well-remembered expression, "Papier bianco"; then a like box of blue clippings, introduced as "Papier bleu"; finally, a box of bran. A nickeled cocktail shaker was then produced, shown to be quite empty, and filled with the white clippings. This was placed on a side table and covered with a little square of * Regret to say that since writing this book, Dean Kellar passed away, in Los Angeles, March 10, 1922. In the near future I hope to be able to publish his biography, on which I have been working for several years. Dean Kellar was an ornament to the world of magic.--H. H. black velvet. Another like vessel was filled with the blue clippings, placed on another table and covered in the same way; and finally, a glass jar was filled with bran and covered with a paper cylinder. After a few mesmeric passes the velvet cover was removed from the first shaker and it was found to be full of steaming hot coffee; the second was full of milk, and when the cylinder was lifted from the glass jar it was full of cut loaf sugar. Explanation.--In the boxes of white and blue clippings were concealed duplicate shakers, one filled with coffee and the other with milk. These were furnished with metal covers upon which paper clippings of the respective colors were pasted, and while pretending to fill the...