Paul Harris In

Close Up Entertainer

The  D. Robbins Publication of Paul Harris' in Close-Up Entertainer Book including magic with playing cards, coins, cigarettes, Wax Lips, and many more routines. Includes 29 Tricks including Ackerman's Face Lift. The book is illustrated with detailed descriptions. Also taught is a classical move that every magician performing a matrix effect should know.

The revolutionary principles and presentations revealed in this book will add exciting new dimensions to your own close-up performances!

Featuring Effects Like:

• PEELER: A new One card method for the torn and restored effect that leaves the card totally unharmed. You'll be able to perform this fascinating routine ten minutes after reading it.
• EL WARPO: The Close-up Entertainer, through a simple exercise in logic, convinces the audience that they've been transported to the Inside of a card case.
• WAX LIPS: The performer steals a kiss from a willing spectator. He then steals the Lips that produced the kiss and holds them in the palm of his hands.

Contents Include:

Foreword by Dana Betz
ii Paul Harris interviewed by Chuck Martinez

1 The First Chapter
1 Peeler: Magician tears smidgen of backing off a card, restores it.
10 Side-Winder: Card protruding from deck squared, shoots out other side, squared again, shoots out front, deck cut into two sections, card squared, shoots out other portion.
24 BlackJack Challenge: Spectator cuts the deck, deck shown cut to Jack and Ace, the magician reveals other three Ace-Jack combos, Jacks separated from
Aces, magically return, magician deals self hand of four Aces and one Jack, changes to Royal Flush.
37 The P.H. Switch: Two cards change places, when repeated first card vanishes, reappears next to second.
44 El Warpo: Card case turns inside out.

51 Paul and Looy: The next three routines were developed with Looy Simonoff.
52 Drop Shot: Corner is torn from a card, placed in magician's pocket, the card with missing corner buried in the deck, deck set on top of the glass, glass tapped, torn corner drops into a glass, the card with a missing corner now in magician's pocket.
55 "A-Force": Deck ribbon spread, spectator touches a card, the magician turns the card face up without looking, a card is actually forced.
60 "A Subtle Poker Move": Magician deals five cards to himself, spectator, when spread, both hands have grown to over fifteen cards each.

65 The Kidd: The next three routines were developed with Terry LaGerold.
66 Kinky-Pinky: The selected card rises out of the deck while a deck is balanced on the back of the magician's hand.
69 Streaker: Spectator streaks finger along face-down spread, winds up with only one card under finger: the selected card.
72 Blind Peek: Spectator selects a card, closes eyes, magician's fingers on closed eyes, card revealed by magician and/or audience.

74 Coins
75 The Silver Elevator: Four coins penetrate one at a time from table to the center of the deck, the last coin penetrates up onto the exposed surface of the pack.
86 Quarter Caper: Quarter borrowed from a spectator, placed on the back of magician's hand, covered with other hands, a half dollar appears under a quarter, covered again, the second half dollar appears under first, third half dollar plucked from the air, three coins squeezed into two, then one, then back into a quarter.
96 P.D.Q. #2: Four half-dollars travel one at a time from one hand to other.
101 Four Finger Finale: Coin visibly appears on the table beneath the tip of the finger.
104 The Betz Poker-Roll: Four half dollars held between thumb and forefinger, cartwheeled down across fingers, flipped across the table, caught with other hands.
107 Free-Flight Revisited: Four half dollars vanish from hand, appear under a playing card, the last one appears under the spectator's hand.

114 Guest Stars: The next few routines were developed by others
115 Looy's Superman (Looy Simonoff): Magician holds the sheet in front of self with Superman outfit depicted on it, the performer visibly levitates.
119 Daniel's Butterfly (Daniel Cros): Selected card cut into the shape of a butterfly, levitates above magician's palm, butterfly given to the spectator as a keepsake.
123 King Solomon's Drink (King Solomon): Magician repeatedly vanishes coin within folds of the hank, producing it from various places, eventually glass of beer produced from hank.
125 Ackerman's Face Lift (Allan Ackerman): Prediction card placed between two Jacks changes to spectator's card, then vanishes, invisible card placed between Jacks, spectator's card appears.
134 Okawa's Cellophane Surprise (Allan Okawa): Cellophane removed from the pack of cigarettes, one removed, cellophane restored, the pack is unopened.

139 P.U.S.H.: Utility move for exchanging one up-jogged card with another.
143 The Acapulco Thinker: Deck spread, spectator mentally selects a card, deck turned around, one card up-jogged, spectator names card, up-jogged card matches.
146 A Card In the Hand Is Worth Two In the Deck: Three cards selected, indifferent card inserted halfway into the deck by spectator, cards on either side are two of the selections, the up-jogged card turns into third.
148 Stretch: Rubber band around deck, top card visibly penetrates band.
152 The Castle Conspiracy: Four cards balanced against each other on a table to make "castle", the fifth card displayed, placed in the deck, exchanged for one of the cards in the "castle" without knocking it down, other three cards in "castle" seen to be mates of it.
160 Instant Castle: Two cards held in each hand, the performer is able to instantly construct a "castle".
164 Wax Lips: Spectator blows a kiss, caught with deck, lip marks appear on the card, lip marks slid off a card, magician's hand opened to reveal set of wax lips.
169 The Pinochle Solution: Not an actual routine, just a singularly loony joke.

Details: Paul Harris In Close Up Entertainer

171 pages, hardbound with dustjacket, size 5 1/2". by 8 1/2".