Describes how to do a variety of magic tricks and balancing tricks involving matches, balls, coins, eggs, glasses, and other materials. Includes performance tips and a lesson in juggling.
Describes how to present chalk talks, just as the artist and magician Harlan Tarbell performed them on stage, using a drawing board, an easel, paper, chalk, or a felt-tipped marker, and imagination.
Introduces the art of ventriloquism, describing how to create the illusion of sound coming from a vent-dummy, a buzzing bee, a saw, and a person in a closet.
