Portable, inexpensive and perfectly suited to today's audiences, smart and practical. The look and impact of a large illusion, but designed to be easy to build, and to put in your car trunk. Good commercial plots with exciting elements - off beat.
 
Includes
 
Time With a Girl
Gorilla and Girl
Production of a Starlet
Strip Tease
Another Strip Tease
Dressing Milady
Pearl and Girl
Beauty and the Calendar
Mirror
Mirror on the Wall
Midnight
Shrine of Buddah
Man from Mars
Where Did the Girls Go?
Lady and Fan.
 
Illustrated.
 
INTRODUCTION
According to the dictionary definition of the word “illusion”, the multiplying billiard balls, the sliding die box or any other relatively small bit of deception might be so called. But, through the years, magicians, in a language almost of their own, have given certain definite meanings to numerous words and terms, sometimes exceeding and sometimes limiting, in scope, the definitions of the late Mr. Webster.
 
By way of example, a “trick” is a small deceptive device. If it is a pocket trick, it may be carried on the person. If it’s a club or stage trick, it may usually be carried in a grip or suitcase. At the other extreme is an “illusion”. Generally speaking this is a big magic machine which seldom is packed in less than a crate and, in some cases, requires several special trunks for carrying purposes.
 
Somewhere, in between, has sprung forth the “illusionette”. It is not a “trick”, neither is it an “illusion”. It was not born unwanted. It came into being because there was a need for it. It creates a more spectacular effect upon the audience than does its little brother, the “trick”. And it is much easier to pack and carry about an “illusion”.
 
Perhaps the word “illusionette” (which has certainly been coined by the magical gentry) is best defined as “in a relatively small mechanical or artifice, calculated to entertain and deceive laymen in spectacular fashion and which mechanism, or artifice, can be easily and cheaply transported.”
Perhaps others will arrive at better meanings for the word. In this instance, however, the definition is sufficient for it aptly describes the twelve items which are to follow.
 
In explaining “Twelve Illusionettes” I have taken the liberty of presuming that the reader has a fair knowledge of the methods of the magician. However, I have tried, and have succeeded in most cases, to keep away from effects which would require elaborate construction. All twelve are quite on the easy side to perform. This leaves only the presentation, the “selling” of the illusionette to your audience. And this I leave to you.
 
CONDITION NOTES:  The soft cover (both front and back) have wear and discoloration from age.  However, the book overall is in good condition.