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Oi_~~LIE MILLER LECTURE Oakland, Calif. Nov. 3, 1967

Miser's Dream- Uses oucket or sack and sometimes :toft bat, coins in right coat or pants pocket ... to set reac,ues in bott1 ,pockets and ge: t; load of' 12 coins in right hand and one coin from otr1er poe:k;.f!et; in left hand- load coins in P.O.$i~tion as he picks up bucket and uses oth.er coin to tap on oottom of bucket wnile pattering to cover noise of getting coins in position for drop­ping. Uses classic palm and sort of tosses coin in air and catcnes it for productions. After about 7 or 8 coins dropped put nand in pail in drop-ping coin and drop rest of coins from right hand and catch in left nand be­fore coins hit the bottom of bucket, take bucket in left nand and dip some of coins left in bucket in right uand and letting tnem fall .Jut retaining a few now· transfer bucket back to rigil.t hand and produce coins in left hand one­at-a-time and tnen let coins in right nand st~am into bucl;;:et.Bits of bus­iness - pass coin tnru bottom of bucket and s~y "leaky :.mcket 11 •

Rubber nand in Hat - By snapping finger on side of hat preti'ends there is rubber band in nat, pulling it out and letting it snap oack etc, takes aank and balls it up and pretending to hold it in :mnd loads it in to hat and pret...l"ends to snoot it into hat with rubber band, and tJlen dumps hat over and hank falls out. This was very good and very entertaining and based completely on the presentation.

7 Cornered Handkerchief - this is descrioed in ~~tton & Plate - use 24 incn or 36 inch hank, tie 2 ad~acent ends together using square knot whicn is upset and as these 2 corners are placed in c~~ter of nank so soectator can hold them one corner is pulled ou~ of tne other so spectatore ls aolding only one corner simulating a knot. Now repeat with 2 more corners and have specaator hold tnese with other hand (again pulling out one corner and repeat 3rd time with 2 more corners and have spectator hold witD eitner hand and finally show still have one corner still free- making 7 corners ..• this was.quite effective and Onarlie said it has oeen kicking around for a long time and snould je made use of by magicians .•

Jumping i:Cnot - 2 silks about 36 inches, tie fake knot vrnicLl can iJe pulled out in one hank and nold tnis nank and another aank parallel in front of chest and 2nd hank is neld so that tne instantaneous knot can be tied as hands are Jrougat together in back of nanks - tie t:1is knot and bring i1ands apart again pulling on tne 2 hanks simultaneously and one knot vanishes and knot appears in tne other hank - tnis takes ssome p:racticti but looks ef­fective~

;l.PNI Yarn Mystery - same as trll'ead deal but one good ~ant is t:~at the wraoned piece (wnich is wrapped like described in Kaplan's Art of .Eagic) i~n end of piece tnat is shown (all one piece) - yarn is aoout 10 or 12 feet long, hand one end to spectator and stretch out to otner end and break yarn wnich leave otner load in nand, keep breaking yearn till'reacn s~ectator and take broken pieces and push ilitner load into center of t1em and snow all pieces together- can set down in one ball ... now pick up and get load out of center and get two ends and hand one to spectator and nold otl1er yourself and as you oack up, yarn un-ravels very effectively - better to see tnan tllread trick. Use mending wool yarn.

Thimble Moves - did a few moves ending up witn tuimble jumning back and for from one index dinger to t~:te otner and finally ends up wi t:1 8 trd.mules -1 on each finger ... used w:-.. i te tGimbles and a peculiar nolder -v.rnicn will hold 6 tHimbles and t,-La t way he is sure to get 4 as ne puts his :land in nis pocket.

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Cashing a Check: 'ivri tes check, wraps in piece oi' flas:1 paper and suost­itutes 2 $1.00 bills wra,!ped in same kind of paper (makes substitution in small bowl on table W11ich also has. matcl1es in ,it), wrapped package is placed on rmnd and lit with rna tch and after a flasG t1:1ere is tne 2 dollar bills laying there. He puts one of bills in ri~ht pocket and palms out a oU:nch of $ billsand fans tnem out in two fans - very effe~~tive. To pre­pare tne extra bills, have 16 bills and on top of t,1em faciing otGer way 16 more bills so can tell v-men 16 oills ha~e been fanned and ends uo with a double fan of bills sometuing like cards ... if oills are new and d~a't fan easily, use zinc sffieorate powder. This was one of tne oest trix tGat he did.

Magnetic Knfufe - same as business with wand, knife is ~~eld on to fingers by gripping witn fingers bent over, looked good out very nard to do.

Cups and Balls- didn't do routine, just showe-d some II10Ves and ;lOW to load. Recommends D. V. Book for best n:e tnod of loadingS tarts out ~·ri t11 twisting tn cups so they can penetrate each other, uses stick to spread oalls with and also to snow height differne:nt on ou't~ide than on inside.

Cards - Start with flourishes - fans, cards on taole and turn-over etc. Did card tnrough nandkerchief using standard moves. T:~en did a difJerent version where card is palmed into a bight created in tile :1anl.-c oy tne deck and as tne corner is pulled tne card is pulled up out of t_~e oight. Card stab - 2 cards cuosen and controlled together so taat one is on oottom and one on top, glimpse the one on bottom and rememoer it, use piece of paper about tabloid size and as bring paper over deck, do tLle C;mrlier .Pass li·wich brings the 2 cards together in tne center witn a natural oreak separating them. Wrap paper around and taking knife jao it into creak an~ tear paper off and s11ow knife between cards a:r::cd predict tLLa t t:1e card vmicr1 was spotted on the bottom will be tile card above t~1e knife and otner card belovr tne knife - separate the cards by Golding cards above knife wita nand and up-ending L1e knife and cards to s11o1rr tr1e card on tne face and turn over ot.cl­er card and snoH is other caosen card ... this was very good.

Card Effect - didn't explain this one but tnink he used a Silort card in tne deck, had card freely chosen and riffled cards for return of card (oelow sr10rt card), squared cards very carefully and sh~ffled t.nem freely, (be­lieve he also had spectator shuffle cards) put card in pocket and as specta~or called out card, ne reached in pocket and orougnt out card.

Leipzig 4 Ace Effect - slapping tne aces - just like described in Vernon's oook on Leipzig.

12 Card Trick - 2 suectators - eacn counts out 12 cards and 6 cards are caused to travel fr~m spectator t~ tne otner (spectator cnooses now many cards are supposed to pass over.This is strictly palming; 6 cards are palmed off of one pile after tney are counted and palmed onto ~tner pile.Tip on counting of cards - as cards are counted, taJ:Ce t~lem from Sfl ecta tor a Ed place them in the other nand (gets tnem in oetter position for ~ne palming.

Card Effect - 10 cards are peeked at, controlled and found in 10 different ways, last card is caugnt iL air as cards are thrown at ,.irr..

Sympa t!1etic Silks - used 6 silks, all same color, s tar;dard ruu tine.

~1alini Egg 3ag - Jag is rnade ra tiler differently W{liCil alloV>rs some good .aandling with tne spectator reaching in bag and no eg,~; and vvit,out any false moves or anytning, reaching in again and there is egg ... uses alown egg since witn tnis type of a bag need real lignt egg. Jag can .oe obtained from Ireland ~agic Co. witn instr. for 810.00. ookert 1ord to make.

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Professon's Rope Trick- used larger than average rope colored yellow and did standard routine and tnen wnen·ropes were all same lengt11 ne tied tuem together with two inots, one of tne knots was tqe snort pice tied around the center of the .Long piece and then tied t(J.e o tner 2 ends Loge Liter with a slip knot. Knots are vanished one at time - sho:tt piece of rope is palmed off as rope is sna:;ped and other one is slipped out and t1;-ro ends fo longer pieces of rope are held together - believe tnis was described in Genii and is very good.

Ri!!:q on vfand - this is described in Genii and· uses an extra ring whmch must fairly closely resemble borrowed ring - substitution is made as ring is dropped down from top and caught half-way down by otuer ~mnd already nolding duplicate f;lring already on wan<i, hank wnich rests over rignt arm is dropped over Ciurro:wed ring and other ring is briefly flashed a:1d placed under hank and hank pulled off and there is borrowed ring on wand Jeing neld by spec­tator •.. tnis very good.a follow up is to us~ a$ oill ring ahd the 1xkx substitute is another $ bill ring - ring can be siggEd for identification.

Rice 3owls - tais was final trick, used Jaker bowls, used s~lt instead of rice, standard routine, very w·ell done and evidently one of Caarlie' s favorite tricks.

Charlie• has a pleasant manner, seems to enjoy performing and gave lots of good advice in tips etc. He is an old pro and concentrates on tnings anat are very commercial. It would seem that he barely scratcned tne surface on what he actually knows and probably could do 2 or 3 more lectures giving out the same k•ind of material.