pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 33
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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 33 | NOVEL APPLICATIONS OF THE "BLACK ART" PRINCIPLE BLACK ART MATS AND BLACK ART PATCHES The Black Art Table has long since established itself in the affections of the conjurer as one of his most effective aids. At a stage performance the presence of one or more such adjuncts is almost a matter of course, but the drawing room performer finds many occasions when, for one reason or another, the use of such an aid is precluded. Some wizards, as a matter of personal convenience, decline to burden themselves with more artistic luggage than can be bestowed in an ordinary hand- bag. Others, again, hold (and not without rea- son) that the use of a special table, imported by the performer himself, tends to discount the marvel of his show; as being suggestive of that "prepara- tion" which every artistic conjurer is anxious to disclaim. It is no doubt an easy matter to arrange a good enough programme for which the aid of "black art" is not needed, but this means the exclusion not merely of a valuable auxiliary, but of many of the most striking magical effects. I have pleasure in introducing to the reader a substitute which, though its capabilities fall a good 17 |