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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 218 | 202 LATEST MAGIC be left to take care of itself. It should auto- matically improve with each of its earlier repeti- tions as good wine improves in bottle. Faults will correct themselves, and being made perfect by practice, the performer will thenceforth be able to "speak his piece" without effort, and devote his whole energies to the actual working of the trick. To the amateur, only performing on special occa- sions, with perhaps considerable intervals between them, I commend a plan from which I myself derived great benefit, viz.: Write out from memory the patter for each trick on the pro- gramme a day or two before a coming performance. After you have given your show, go through your manuscript again carefully, noting and correcting it in any point in which the patter failed to be ex- actly right. The interpolation of a single sen- tence, the transposition in point of sequence of two movements, or the alteration of some trifling detail, such as standing at a different angle to your table at a given moment, may make all the difference be- tween partial failure and complete success. |