300 Tricks You Can Do by Howard Thurston - ebook
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CONTENTS:
Chapter 1 - Ball Tricks
Chapter 2 - Card Tricks
Chapter 3 - Checker Tricks
Chapter 4 - Coin Tricks
Chapter 5 - Cork Tricks
Chapter 6 - Dice & Domino Tricks
Chapter 7 - Hand Tricks
Chapter 8 - Handkerchief Tricks
Chapter 9 - Liquid Tricks
Chapter 10 - Match Tricks
Chapter 11 - Miscellaneous Tricks
Chapter 12 - Number Tricks
Chapter 13 - Optical Tricks
Chapter 14 - Paper Tricks
Chapter 15 - Ring Tricks
Chapter 16 - Spirit Tricks
Chapter 17 - Table Tricks
Chapter 18 - Thimble Tricks
Chapter 19 - Tumbler Tricks
Howard Thurston (July 20, 1869 – April 13, 1936) was a famous stage magician from Columbus, Ohio, United States. As a kid, he ran away to join the circus, where his future partner Harry Kellar also performed. Thurston was very impressed after he attended magician Alexander Herrmann's magic show. Alexander Herrmann was a French magician and was known as "Herrmann the Great".
Thurston became the most famous magician of his time.
Thurston's traveling magic show was the biggest one of all; it was so large that it needed 8 train cars to transport his big traveling Magic show. Thurston said, "The historian of magic can trace an unbroken line of succession from the Fakir of Ava in 1830 to my own entertainment."
He is still famous for his magic work with playing cards.
According to legend, a Mexican magician appeared at a magic shop owned by Otto Maurer in New York City. The enigmatic magician demonstrated how he could make cards disappear, one by one, at his fingertips. Maurer showed Thurston the move, which he would later feature in his act.
Thurston added the "Rising Cards" trick from Professor Hoffman's Modern Magic, the book from which Thurston had learned the basics of magic. For this trick, he would walk into the audience and ask several people to choose cards from a deck of cards. The deck was shuffled and placed into a clear glass. Thurston would then call for the chosen cards to rise. One by one the cards would rise up to the top of the deck. Thurston became well known for performing a floating lady illusion known as the "Levitation of Princess Karnac".
Thurston continued presenting the Thurston–Kellar Show following the retirement of Kellar.
He continued presenting for about 35 years until, on March 30, 1936, he suffered a stroke from a cerebral hemorrhage. He died on April 13 at his Oceanside apartment in Miami Beach, Florida.
His death was attributed to pneumonia. He is entombed at Green Lawn Abbey, a mausoleum in Columbus, Ohio
Thurston was the author of 8 Magic books:
Howard Thurston's Tricks With Cards (1903)
50 New Card Tricks (1905)
Thurston's Easy Pocket Tricks: The A-B-C of Magic (1915)
The Mishaps of Magicians (1927)
Fooling Millions (1928)
Tales of Magic and Mystery (1928)
My Life of Magic (1929)
300 Tricks You Can Do (1940)