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An AME Special
Release
What follows here is only one of
many ideas discussed with Richard
Himber in the early 1959 after his
release of the Diamond Prediction
Chest.
EFFECT: A glass see-through box which is locked and sealed and
which contains several folded pieces of paper (3), is given to the
committee chairman to hold until the day of the show.
For the climax of the show the Mentalist calls for the box.
This is displayed to the audience and the folded papers inside the
box are clearly seen by all.
The box is unsealed and unlocked
and anyone from the audience is told to take out the papers and
read them. These prove to be predictions of events that have just
happened and can be verified by the newspapers.
In essence, this is a Headline Prediction stunt. It is obvious
to the audience that the Mentalist never sticks his hand into the
box after it is sealed and the Mentalist never touches the papers
until they are verified!
The box may be examined and can be left
with the audience as a gift, as it is an inexpesive plexiglass box!
THE SECRET: For the presentation, the Mentalist must force a
playing card or a word in a book to a prominent member of the aud-
ience. Let's say
the three of hearts has been forced.
The three folded billets inside the box are of different color.
Two of the billets can be pink or flesh color and the third billet
can be yellow or light green in color.
The two pink billets contain the same message, for example:
"This is to certify that this box was locked and sealed
on the 3rd day of November, 1986 and was given for safe keeping to
Mr. Smith, committee chairman for safe keeping.
Signed, etc."
The yellow billet contains "The three of Hearts will
be chosen."
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THE GLASS BOX
AN AL MANN SPECIAL RELEASE
On the day of the show write out the headline predictions
on a third pink or flesh color paper. This paper must be folded
exactly as the other pink papers and of course must be of the same
size.
This prediction billet is palmed in the right hand
(or left hand if you are left handed) and is kept ready for switch-
ing during the presentation.
THE PRESENTATION: During your show you force the three of
Hearts to a very important person that is
sitting on your right
side of the audience.
After you call for the prediction box and display it and talk
about it, you unseal and unlock it being careful that the box is
in full sight of the audience at all times. You then offer the box
to anyone on your left side and tell that person to take out one of
the pink slips and to see what it says. "I will not stick my hands
in the box!" You say
(But never say "I will not touch the papers.")
The person reads that the box was sealed weeks before. You then
take the paper from the person and refold it and hold it with the
tips of your switching hand, as you talk to the audience saying that
the box has been in the good hands of Mr.
Smith and has just been
opened.
PLEASE NOTE: The slip of paper That you are
now holding in your hand, has no farther value or importance to
your audience since it has already been read, AND the audience is
not aware of what is about to take place. You can later say that
you never touch the billets until after they were read and veri-
fied!
You next go to your right and tell the VIP who chose
the Three of Hearts to take out the yellow paper and to read it.
After the VIP reads the slip, you ask. "Didn't you choose
the Three of hearts a while ago?"
This will cause a chuckle in
the audience and while all this was taking place, you had ample
time to switch the billets in your hand.
It is the Headline Pre-
diction billet that is now at the tips of your hand so you tell the
VIP to please refold the paper and throw it into the box and at the
same time you drop your billet, the Headline Predictions, into the
box.
The box looks normal again. It shows three folded papers
So now you say, "For the climax, Ladies and Gentlemen, I
want Mr. Jones, The President of the Club to verify everything and
to read my last prediction."
So saying you pass the box to
Mr. Jones as you pick up the day's Newspaper to show the audience
the Headlines, etc.
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THE GLASS BOX
AN AL MANN SPECIAL RELEASE
THE SWITCH:
Which is the best way of
sw~tching
the billets?
You may ask.
The best way is the one method you do best.
Here is an easy
methoc:
Fig. 1A shows the Headline Prediction
Billet palmed in your switching hand ready
for switching, (thumb has been removed for
A
clarity).
Fig. 1B shows the hand as it takes back
the pink paper AFTER IT IS READ. NOTE: that
it overlaps the Prediction billet. The thumb
has again been removed for clarity.
After the billet is taken at the finger-
tips, the Mentalist turns to his right hold-
ing the Glass Box as he approaches the VIP
who chose the Three of Hearts and as he does
so he touches the right side of the Box and
pushes the visible billet into his hand
so that it aligned with the palmed billet.
B
This is shown in Fig. 1C.
As the Mentalist
,
talks to the audience and while still holding
his switching hand against the side of the
Box, he pulls back his middle finger and
as he removes his hand from the side of the
box he pushes out the prediction billet
which he then drops into the box asking the
VIP to do the same with his billet.
Fig. 1C shows the hand as it is held
on the side of the Box and just before the
C
Prediction Billet is pushed into view.
Fig. 1
The moves are all very natural and should
go totally unnoticed.
If you are right handed use the above details, if not then
you may want to have the VIP on your left side instead. It really
does not matter. If the back of your switching hand is to the
audience, so much the better. In actual performance you ,will pro-
bably work so that the front of the box is seen by
your'audi7n~e.
The important thing is to handle the Box so that no SUsp1c10n
of a trick box is aroused or of fast moves. The Box must be kept
in full sight of YQur audience
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