Houdini's Card Trick by Wayne Dobson in association with Alan Wong
"Houdini
was famous as an escape artist, but what few people today realise is
that not only was he a gifted magician who started out billed as 'The
King Of Kards', but he was also fascinated with spiritualism, the
weirdness of coincidences and mind-reading. He was a master of
publicity, and never missed a chance to fool a reporter and hence get
his name in the papers. This was the trick he'd turn to when performing
for editors and journalists."
You talk about Houdini's love of
publicity, and his favourite card trick that he turned to whenever he
was showing something to an editor or journalist. You take out and show a
postcard bearing an aged picture of a random mess of face-up cards that
illustrates Houdini's effect and recreate that Houdini moment when he
dropped a deck of cards in a mess on the floor! The assisting spectator
simply thinks of one of the playing cards in the photograph.
You
demonstrate convincingly you had predicted their merely thought choice
well in advance. Quick, dispensable and mystifying with Wayne's charming
storyline together with custom designed props and ideas by Alan Wong.
It resets in an instant and you will always carry the envelope with you.
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