Pasteboard Presto

Written in 1940, "Pasteboard Presto" was Marlo's first published manuscript! It covers nine effects that utilize one of magic's most deceptive card controls - THE CRIMP. Effects include "The First Miracle" - Marlo defied the reader to find anything that compares with it. A deck of cards is shuffled and spread on the table. The magician instructs a spectator to take a card halfway out of the spread, peek at it, push it back with the rest of the cards and then push the cards together in a pile. All this is done while the magician's back is turned. He then picks up the deck and gives the cards a shuffle and a cut. The face of the cards are never looked at. The pack is held face down in the right hand and the name of the card is asked for. After getting the name the deck is again ribbon spread face down and there, yes there, miraculously, is the card named, face up in the spread. Other material includes Two Pets (1 & 2), Marlo's Rosini, Another Rosini, Everywhere and Nowhere (with a borrowed deck and no duplicate cards), Four Aces Again, The Ambitious Card, and General Ace Trick. Recommended for the intermediate to advanced card worker. 12 pages, illustrated.