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Gags, Routines and Patter by Sid Lorraine - Book
Some entries include just patter ideas for commercial products, and the actual working of the effect or secret is not provided. Other entries provide a full routine with description of how to make up the effect along with patter and presentation. The last section includes almost 200 one-liners and gags.
Contents:
7 Foreword: on the proper use of patter
9 Atomic Candle: patter ideas for the vanishing candle
9 A Grown Up A B C: full routine and explanation provided - magician picks letter cards that spell selected word
13 The Vanishing Wand: routine using the vanishing wand gimmick with some productions and humorous patter
14 Milk In Light Bulb: full routine and patter for this commercial item
16 Temple Screen: general patter and ideas for the Grant production screen
17 Card In Balloon: patter can be used for any card in balloon apparatus
19 The Professor's Nightmare: alternative patter for this rope routine; details of trick not provided
20 Rising Cards: patter lines for most any rising cards trick
21 Anti-Gravity Glasses: patter for this commercial effect, secret not divulged
23 Words, Words, Words: Word gag using either the word Starling or Tryout
26 Tissues to Paper Hat: patter ideas
27 One Upon a Diamond: full description and patter for a gimmicked Jumbo card trick
31 Cut and Restored Rope: general patter, trick not described
32 Bill in Orange: full bill in Orange routine
35 Fir-Tree and Ladder: patter for these well known paper tears - tears are not described
37 Handkerchief Frame: patter for the commercial effect where a borrowed handkerchief in a wooden frame is penetrated unharmed
38 Comedy Mindreading Act: a comedy act for two
42 Diminishing Cards: routine and patter for most any version
43 Spelling Bee: a game where the children get easy words to spell and the adults get difficult ones; fully described
49 Cards to Pocket: fully described with patter
50 A Card Story Walk-Off: Jumbo card closing item fully described
53 Gag Bag: almost 200 gag lines and stories under various categories
54 - Age
54 - Appearance
54 - Astrology
54 - Bald
54 - Boy
54 - Cane
54 - Cards
54 - Chinese
55 - Clothes
55 - Confused
55 - Cruise
55 - Date
55 - Double Talk
55 - Drink
56 - Eggs
56 - Farm
56 - Feather
56 - Feet
56 - Health
56 - Heckler
56 - Hotel
57 - Lazy
57 - Milk
57 - Mind
57 - Memory
57 - Mistake
57 - Miscellaneous
59 - Money
60 - Newspapers
60 - Nightclubs
60 - Party
61 - Pen
61 - Plants
61 - Psychologist
61 - Rabbit Pan
61 - Rings
61 - Rope
61 - School
61 - Sleep
62 - Sewing
62 - Silly
62 - Small Town
62 - Spirits
62 - Stories
63 - Table
63 - Tumbler
63 - Television
63 - Vegetables
63 - Watch
64 - Weather
64 - Wife
64 - Work
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