The Magic of Edward Victor's Hands

Compiled and commented by Rae Hammond.

The Magic of Edward Victor's Hands
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Author	Rae Hammond
Publisher	Kaufman and Greenberg
Illustrator	Joseph K. Schmidt
Publication Date	1995
Language	English
Pages	250

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Editions

• All known editions

Contents

Acknowledgments

• 14 Foreword (Francis White)
• 15 Preface

Edward Victor: The Man

• 17 A Recollection of Edward Victor (Arthur Hambling)
• 18 Edward Victor: A Brief Biography of a Long Life

Classic Routines

• 29 All Those Bats!
• 30 - A Bat Routine for the Stage
• 32 - The Mayor’s Trowels
• 34 - Edward Victor’s Famous Cricket Bat Trick
• 40 - Alternate "One Bat" Version
• 41 The "E-y-E" Trick
• 41 - "E-y-E"
• 44 - A Clip of a Climax for Edward Victor's 'E-Y-E’
• 46 The Sympathetic Silks
• 46 - EV’s Sympathetic Silks
• 47 - The Warlock Set-Up
• 48 The Eleven Card Trick
• 48 - EV’s Eleven Card Trick
• 50 - The Dizzy Dollar (Gene Gordon)
• 54 The "Dream Sequence” Thimble Routine
• 56 - EV’s Notes for "The Magician’s Dream"
• 57 - The Reconstructed "Dream" Routine
• 61 The Diminishing Cards
• 61 - The Diminishing Card Trick
• 64 EV’s Diminishing Pack

Edward Victor: Professional Magician

• 70 The Magic Seen on the Music Hall Stages
• 72 Package Deals
• 74 Summer Shows
• 77 Edward Victor and the Maskelynes
• 80 Illusions

Magazine Contributions: Part One

• 83 The Gen
• 83 - I.O.U.
• 84 The Magazine of Magic
• 84 - The Pocket Trick
• 85 - A Whistling Wangle
• 85 The Magic Circular
• 85 - Gilding the Lily
• 87 - Paper-Clip Magic
• 87 - Paper-Clip Magic (continued)
• 89 The Magic Magazine
• 89 - Passe-Passe Coin Effect
• 91 - An Original Self-Working Four Ace Trick
• 92 - The Three Card Monte
• 94 - Two Useful Sleights
• 94 -- 1. A Ball Color Change
• 95 -- 2. A Cigarette Production
• 95 - New “Do As I Do" Effect
• 97 - Penetrating Rope Effect

Edward Victor: Other Roles

• 99 Edward Victor as Abanazar
• 101 West End Sophistication
• 103 The Albert Whelan Act
• 104 Filming with Charlie Drake

Magazine Contributions: Part Two

• 106 The Magic Wand
• 106 A Thimble Pass
• 107 An Effective Discovery
• 108 A Coin Vanish
• 108 The Triple Color-Changing Thimble
• 110 The Four Ace Trick: A New Method
• 111 New Whispering Queen
• 112 The Crazy Matchbox
• 114 An Experimental Spirit Silk
• 116 The Back-Hand Palm Vanish
• 116 The EV Vanishing Card Case
• 119 Red and Black Magic
• 120 A “Spectacular" Choice
• 121 Back Palm Production
• 122 Front-Palm Production
• 122 An Original Continuous Fan Production
• 123 A Cigarette, Matchbox and Cigar Routine
• 126 Streamlined Thimble Production
• 127 A Card Change
• 127 The Travelling Pennies
• 129 Out Of This World
• 130 The "About Turn" Card Trick
• 131 Switching a Packet of Cards
• 132 The "Cards Across" Trick with a Difference
• 133 One From Eight
• 134 Have You a Ball Vase?
• 136 A Cigarette Paper Mystery
• 137 Ring and String Routine
• 139 The Thumb Tie Using Rubber Bands
• 140 The Burnt and Restored Initialled Tissue
• 141 The Crimp
• 142 A Chinese Ring Interlude
• 143 E.G. Brown's Nap Hand Mystery
• 144 Rainbow Fingertips
• 146 Pen-Knife Card Force
• T146 he Flying Salt
• 147 New Card Transposition
• 149 False Counting
• 150 A Nap Hand Production
• 151 A Single-Load Four Ball Production
• 152 A Ball and Shell Move

Edward Victor: Stories from the Road

• 153 The Blue Danube
• 154 In London Digs in the Early Twenties
• 155 A Music Hall Artist’s Income and Expenditure in 1926
• 156 The Variety Show That Never Was
• 156 From Ireland to Aintree

Magazine Contributions: Part Three

• 158 The New Pentagram
• 158 - Paper Rise
• 159 - Tube and Paper
• 160 Phoenix
• 160 - The Al 'n' Dai Card Trick
• 162 The Sphinx
• 162 - A Card Problem

Edward Victor: Shadowgraphist

• 165 Me and My Shadows
• 170 Three Sketches
• 170 1. Shaving Routine
• 170 2. Lady’s Hairdresser Sequence
• 171 3. The Dentist (By Gum!)
• 172 Blue-Eyed Sal

Edward Victor Effects from Assorted Books

• 176 The “Do-itself" Card Trick
• 177 An Interesting Card Discovery
• 177 The Devil's Thought
• 178 The Nudist Deck
• 181 Transmutation
• 182 A Useful Number Tnck

Previously Unpublished Edward Victor Effects

• 183 Edward Victor's Milk Trick
• 184 An EV Card Effect
• 184 EV Color Changing Deck
• 185 Another Edward Victor "Find the Lady" Effect
• 187 Unnamed Effect
• 187 Some Lost Tricks

Edward Victor: Lifetime Member of the Magic Circle

• 189 Edward Victor and the Magic Circle
• 190 Gold Medalist of the Magic Circle
• 191 Royal Command
• 194 The Magic Circle Complimentary Entertainment for Edward Victor

The Edward Victor Notebooks

• 199 Unpublished Effects taken from an Edward Victor Notebook
• 199 - The Elastic Handkerchief
• 201 - A Fragment: The Cups and Balls
• 202 - A New Glass and Ball Production
• 205 - A Color-Change Thimble Sleight
• 206 Jottings from an Edward Victor Notebook
• 213 Eight Edward Victor Notebooks
• 221 The Centenary Celebrations

Micro Magic

• 222 Twenty Tricks in a Matchbox
• 223 1. The Ring Escape
• 223 2. Elastic Band Trick
• 224 3. Magic Safety Pins
• 224 4. The 'Slit'(?) Handkerchief
• 224 5. The 'Slit'(?) Buttonhole
• 225 6. Magic Rod
• 225 7. Chinese Rods
• 226 8. Changing Dice Spots
• 226 9. A Magic Dice Throw
• 226 10. Hidden Sides
• 227 11. Magic Card Transposition
• 227 12. Three Card Trick
• 228 13. Turned Card
• 228 14. X-Ray" Tube
• 228 15. "No Burn" Trick
• 228 16. Disappears Sixpence
• 229 17. A Paper Release
• 229 18. Pencil Penetration
• 229 19. The Moving Matches
• 230 20. Magnetised Glasses
• 231 Dice Magic
• 231 1. The Changing Spots
• 232 2. Additional Effect
• 232 3. The Changing Spots (Second Method)
• 232 4. Transposition of Spots
• 233 5. "Slow-Motion" Change
• 233 6. "Non Touch" Spot Changing
• 233 7. The Magic Throw
• 233 8. A Dice Card Location
• 233 9. The Hidden Numbers

Edward Victor: The Family

• 234 Family History
• 238 Eileen O'Connor
• 239 Paddy Victor
• 244 The Second Mrs Victor (Bayard Grimshaw)

L'Envoi

• 248 About the Author
• 250 Shakespeare's Hamlet Says

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