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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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Having
arranged
his
programme,
and
the
appropriate
“patter”
for
each
group
of
tricks,
the
performer
should
conclude
his
practice
by
a
series
of
three
or
four
“dress
rehearsals,”
with
an
intelligent
friend
to
play
the
part
of
audience,
and
who
should
be
invited
to
criticise
with
the
utmost
freedom.
At
these
rehearsals
there
should
be
no
“make
believe,”
but
each
trick
should
be
worked
throughout
with
the
same
completeness
in
every
particular
with
which
it
is
afterwards
to
be
exhibited
in
public.
In
the
course
of
these
final
rehearsals
the
performer
should
tax
his
invention
to
see
what
amount
of
“incidents,”
or
byplay,
he
can
introduce
in
the
course
of
the
different
tricks.
Thus
at
the
commencement
of
his
entertainment,
the
trick
of
the
“Flower
in
the
Button-hole,”
or
that
of
the
“Vanishing
Gloves”
may
be
introduced--not
professedly
as
an
item
of
the
programme,
but
as
a
little
preliminary
flourish.
Again,
if
the
performer
has
occasion
for
an
egg
or
lemon
in
the
course
of
a
trick,
it
greatly
enhances
the
effect,
if
instead
of
having
the
necessary
article
brought
in
by
his
assistant,
he
produces
it
himself
from
a
lady’s
muff,
or
from
the
whiskers
of
a
male
spectator.
These
little
matters,
though
small
in
themselves,
tend
to
keep
alive
the
attention
of
the
audience,
and
to
create
a
sort
of
magical
atmosphere,
which
will
aid
materially
in
disposing
the
spectators
to
receive
with
due
respect
the
occult
pretensions
of
the
performer.
With
respect
to
stage
arrangements,
the
professional,
performing
evening
after
evening,
with
full
provision
of
stage
appliances,
will
quickly
learn
by
experience
how
best
to
arrange
those
appliances
for
the
purpose
of
his
entertainment;
but
the
amateur,
performing
only
occasionally,
and
in
places
not
specially
adapted
for
magical
purposes,
may
be
glad
of
some
little
practical
counsel
in
this
particular.
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