Download or read book La Vellma s Vaudeville Budget for Magicians Mind Readers and Ventriloquists written by David J. Lustig and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Vellma s Vaudeville Budget for Magicians Mind Readers and Ventriloquists Classic Reprint written by David J. Lustig and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from La Vellma's Vaudeville Budget for Magicians, Mind Readers and Ventriloquists A clever Crystal Gazing act still holds the attention of audiences. from all indications acts of this sort will continue to meet with public favor for some time to come. Of course there are acts and acts. In the near future there will he less acts of this sort, if any, working in oriental costume. New methods will see light and performers will be presenting a crystal gazing act in a full dress suit or tuxedo. Truth is an act of this kind working in full dress or tuxedo will entertain and mystify a modern audience more than the customary Turkish cigarette costume with all the familiar regalia, turban, etc., which arouses suspicion. An entertainer presenting a crystal gazing act should avoid repeating a query as it was written by spectator. If the questions are repeated it is sure to arouse suspicion. Get right to the point give the spectator an answer to his question and if it is answered well that will convince the one who wrote it as well as those around him. He'll he a booster for your act. Inject some comedy into your answers whenever the opportunity offers itself. Cut and dried answers grow tiresome and then again someone might come into the theatre another day to see your act. If you "plant" a question at every show be sure if you are doing three shows a day that at the two evening shows you use two entirely different queries and two different "plants." If you wish to "plant" questions use different "plants" at every performance. A clever worker can dispense with "boosters" out front. Should you be using a "contact" or "induction" method after answering a number of questions take a small card (upon which your assistant has written the gist of from three to six questions together with the names or initials of the writers) and "palm" it in hand holding crystal ball. Throwing aside your turban (which will make the "wise" ones out front wonder), answer the last query transmitted to you via the electrical method, then as you walk about the stage, every time you wipe the crystal with a large silk flouard, upon which ball rests in your hand, glance at a question and answer them as yon go along. With care you can walk to and stand on rundown and also walk into aisle. While in aisle you are above (in height) the audiences' beads and this gives you an opportunity of seeing what they are supposed not to see, namely what is written on card you hold in hand. Be careful if you are working this in audience as it isn't quite as easy as it sounds, but a clever performer can do leaps things and get away with it. If you are capable of working this bit of business in your routine von will find it heightens the effect of act a great deal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book La Vellma s Vaudeville Budget for Magicians Mind Readers and Ventriloquists written by David J Lustig and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book LA VELLMAS VAUDEVILLE BUDGET F written by David J. 1893-1977 Lustig and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book La Vellma s Vaudeville Budget written by David J. Lustig and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRACTICAL TIPS AND HINTS FOR CRYSTAL GAZING ACTS: Also several methods which will be of aid to the clever entertainer presenting Crystal Gazing, and will help to baffle those who believe they know all about an act of this sort. During the act the performer throws aside his turban and goes right into the audience and gives readings SUGGESTED ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS FOR CRYSTAL GAZING ACTS: Numerous questions and their answers. A guide to the handling of many common and uncommon queries A CARD WRINKLE: A "different" way of locating a selected card. Excellent for your program for impromptu work MIND READING ACT ROUTINE: Routine arranged for the feature vaudeville act doing second sight THE BOOK TEST: An effect which can be worked into the routine of a mind reading act for either vaudeville or club. A sure-fire feature experiment AN IMPROMPTU STUNT: An excellent mind reading test to work on the fellows when they visit you in your dressing room AND THAT'S NOT ALL—! Can also be called, "Pure Jennie, the Moonshiner's Frau." A movie scenario of a serial play, in patter form, written around several popular tricks and sure to win favor with audiences who enjoy comedy EVERYBODY'S CHOICE: Something for your routine, if you do card work, which brings a gale of laughter THE STORY OF THE KING AND QUEEN: One of the Great Blackstone's favorite impromptu card stunts A MIND READING WRINKLE: For those who employ a verbal code WINE-O-LOGY: A down-to-the-minute liquorologue (vaudeville patter), written around a wine, water, whiskey and milk change. This patter can be used by the magician-monnloguist for a complete vaudeville or club act WRINKLE FOR CRYSTAL GAZING ACTS: Many wrinkles have been doped out for acts of this kind. Here is one the performer can use to good advantage PUBLICITY TEST: A test, used for some years by La Vellma, which can be worked to good effect anywhere and can be depended upon to fool the wise ones THE EGG BAG (La Vellma Method): A method, complete with patter, for the vaudeville performer, and one that makes an old trick new and more popular THE ENIGMA CARD EFFECT: An experiment in Cardistry by the late W. D. Leroy A ONE MAN CRYSTAL GAZING ACT: Complete modus operandi and suggested answers to questions for an act of this type in which questions are NOT collected from-spectators and all in all an act that has unlimited possibilities in. the hands of a clever entertainer ANOTHER CARD FROM THE POCKET: A neat stunt with a pack of playing cards. Can be added to the routine of your card work THE MYSTERIOUS ENCHANTED CLOCK: Vaudeville patter for the Hindoo Clock trick. It's different A TRIPLE SECOND SIGHT TEST: Wherein three tests are written by members of the audience and after the third is performed the medium turns to the writer of the test and calling: that party by name (read that again) asks if test was satisfactorily performed. A baffler that the entertainer can use as a feature in his show IT'S A CRUEL, CRUEL WORLD: A real comedy vaudeville skit for three people, in which' magical effects or crystal gazing may be introduced, unfolding the trials and tribulations of a professor of second sight and -his assistant. A real comedy hit of genuine vaudeville material BREAKING INTO THE VAUDEVILLE GAME: Inside dope, tips and hints which will aid the aspiring amateur to become a vaudeville artist. This is practical dope that each and every advanced amateur will appreciate PATTER. ODDS AND ENDS: Material entertainers can use as a sort of tonic to liven up, their chatter. This i» real vaudeville material for magical entertainers which seldom appears in print A VERBAL CODE FOR MIND READERS: One of the best known, of verbal second sight codes for vaudeville or club entertainers ...and more!
Download or read book Vaudeville Mind Reading and Kindred Phenomena written by David J. Lustig and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the INTRODUCTION. I doubt whether I shall ever forget the first time I saw Robert Heller, charming entertainer. It was sometime in the early sixties, at the Chinese Assembly Rooms, New York, his first appearance, an invitation to the press. He was almost unheard of. His advance agent, John Hall Wilton, who brought Anderson, the Wizard of the North, to this country, believing that Heller would make a more favorable impression as a Frenchman, persuaded him, clever mimic that he was, to affect a foreign accent. This he did for a while, but soon gave it up on the plea that he had been long enough in the country to learn the language. His opening tricks were nothing surprising, but when he reached his Second Sight, which was then new, at least to our people, his reputation was made. His audience was made up, in great part, of bright newspaper men, who set their wits to work to solve the secret of that clever trick....
Download or read book Musical Theatre written by John Kenrick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form and a business. Using anecdotes, biographical profiles, clear definitions, sample scenes and select illustrations, Kenrick focuses on landmark musicals, and on the extraordinary talents and business innovators who have helped musical theatre evolve from its roots in the dramas of ancient Athens all the way to the latest hits on Broadway and London's West End. Key improvements to the second edition: · A new foreword by Oscar Hammerstein III, a critically acclaimed historian and member of a family with deep ties to the musical theatre, is included · The 28 chapters are reformatted for the typical 14 week, 28 session academic course, as well as for a two semester, once-weekly format, making it easy for educators to plan a syllabus and reading assignments. · To make the book more interactive, each chapter includes suggested listening and reading lists, designed to help readers step beyond the printed page to experience great musicals and performers for themselves. A comprehensive guide to musical theatre as an international phenomenon, Musical Theatre: A History is an ideal textbook for university and secondary school students.
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Download or read book Waltzing in the Dark written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette.
Download or read book Andr Bazin the Critic as Thinker written by R. J. Cardullo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "André Bazin (1918–58) is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Among those who came under his tutelage were four who would go on to become the most renowned directors of the postwar French cinema: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, and Claude Chabrol. Bazin can also be considered the principal instigator of the equally influential auteur theory: the idea that, since film is an art form, the director of a movie must be perceived as the chief creator of its unique cinematic style.André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker: American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s contains, for the first time in English in one volume, much if not all of Bazin’s writings on American cinema: on directors such as Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Preston Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Erich von Stroheim, and Elia Kazan; and on films such as High Noon, Citizen Kane, Rear Window, Limelight, Scarface, Niagara, The Red Badge of Courage, Greed, and Sullivan’s Travels.André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker: American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s also features a sizable scholarly apparatus, including a contextual introduction to Bazin’s life and work, a complete bibliography of Bazin’s writings on American cinema, and credits of the films discussed. This volume thus represents a major contribution to the still growing academic discipline of cinema studies, as well as a testament to the continuing influence of one of the world’s pre-eminent critical thinkers."
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Download or read book Native Americans on Film written by M. Elise Marubbio and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An essential book for courses on Native film, indigenous media, not to mention more general courses . . . A very impressive and useful collection.” —Randolph Lewis, author of Navajo Talking Picture The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years, Indigenous filmmakers have both challenged these representations and moved past them, offering their own distinct forms of cinematic expression. Native Americans on Film draws inspiration from the Indigenous film movement, bringing filmmakers into an intertextual conversation with academics from a variety of disciplines. The resulting dialogue opens a myriad of possibilities for engaging students with ongoing debates: What is Indigenous film? Who is an Indigenous filmmaker? What are Native filmmakers saying about Indigenous film and their own work? This thought-provoking text offers theoretical approaches to understanding Native cinema, includes pedagogical strategies for teaching particular films, and validates the different voices, approaches, and worldviews that emerge across the movement. “Accomplished scholars in the emerging field of Native film studies, Marubbio and Buffalohead . . . focus clearly on the needs of this field. They do scholars and students of Native film a great service by reprinting four seminal and provocative essays.” —James Ruppert, author of Meditation in Contemporary Native American Literature “Succeed[s] in depicting the complexities in study, teaching, and creating Native film . . . Regardless of an individual’s level of knowledge and expertise in Native film, Native Americans on Film is a valuable read for anyone interested in this topic.” —Studies in American Indian Literatures
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Download or read book Acoustic Properties written by Tom McEnaney and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines both the coevolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the various populist political climates in which the emerging medium of radio became the chosen means to produce the voice of the people. Based on original archival research in Buenos Aires, Havana, Paris, and the United States, the book develops a literary media theory that understands sound as a transmedial phenomenon and radio as a transnational medium. Analyzing the construction of new social and political relations in the wake of the United States’ 1930s Good Neighbor Policy, Acoustic Properties challenges standard narratives of hemispheric influence through new readings of Richard Wright’s cinematic work in Argentina, Severo Sarduy’s radio plays in France, and novels by John Dos Passos, Manuel Puig, Raymond Chandler, and Carson McCullers. Alongside these writers, the book also explores Che Guevara and Fidel Castro’s Radio Rebelde, FDR’s fireside chats, Félix Caignet’s invention of the radionovela in Cuba, Evita Perón’s populist melodramas in Argentina, Orson Welles’s experimental New Deal radio, Cuban and U.S. “radio wars,” and the 1960s African American activist Robert F. Williams’s proto–black power Radio Free Dixie. From the doldrums of the Great Depression to the tumult of the Cuban Revolution, Acoustic Properties illuminates how novelists in the radio age converted writing into a practice of listening, transforming realism as they struggled to channel and shape popular power.
Download or read book Idlewild written by Ronald J. Stephens and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and hosting the era’s premier entertainers, such as The Four Tops, Della Reese, Brook Benton, and George Kirby. With the civil rights movement and the resulting expansion of recreation options available to African Americans, Idlewild suffered a sharp social and economic decline, and by the early 1980s the town had become a struggling retirement community in the midst of financial and political crises. Meticulously researched and unearthing never-before-seen historical material, Ronald J. Stephens’s book examines the rapid rise and decline of this pivotal landmark in African American and leisure history, in the process exploring intersections among race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historic preservation in the United States. Featuring a wealth of fieldwork on contemporary Idlewild, the book also takes a candid look at recent revitalization efforts and analyzes the possibilities for a future resurgence of this national treasure.
Download or read book The Seven Minutes written by Irving Wallace and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the stillness of the courtroom a bookseller stands accused of selling a book. Is it a work of sensitive genius or an execrable volume of pornography? Could it have driven a respectable college boy to commit brutal rape? And who is the author of the novel at the vortex of a storm of sensation and controversy? Michael Barret has been asked by a friend to join him in a small law partnership, but has also been offered a huge salary to go into big business. He's certain of his choice, till he is given a chance to be involved with a major case involved with protecting free speech. The case is about the explicit book "The Seven Minutes", which some people consider pornography, while others, Barret included, feel is impressive literature. The main focus of the prosecution's case is a teenager who bought the book, and was soon after arrested for rape. According to the prosecution, the book insinuated the boy to do what he did, so it must be banned. The novel follows the course of the trial, as both Barret and the prosecutor search for reputable witnesses to prove their side.
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