BOOK- Horace Bennett's Prize Winning Magic

Routines you definitely won't find elsewhere!
And the secrets to techniques that are not only useful, but clever!
Contains The Eight Billiard Ball Production full routine and step-by-step explanation.

Horace Bennett (1925 - 1990) was one of the original members of the SAM Assembly in Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1947.
As the "Baffling Bennett," he was first a stage magician, but later preferred close-up.
Over the years, he contributed many effects to Gen, MUM, Linking Ring and Mantra magazines.
The IBM Ring 180 (Richmond, Virginia) is now known as the The Horace Bennett Ring.

Horace Bennett's Prize Winning Magic is a difficult book to find, which is why it is remarkable that this book was chosen for this series.
It is packed with great information, clever handling instructions and tips, and amazingly unique routined presentations.
You'll learn some prize-winning effects with silks, linking rings and billiard balls.

CONTENTS:

• Bennett's Silken Sorcery Routine: Cigarettes and Silks
• Properties and Preparation
• The Get Ready
• Additional Thoughts on the Silk Production Routine
• Producing the First Silk
• Pefected Silk Production: silk production from none to six, with large Butterfly silk climax
• Preparation
• Performance


• Take Five: linking rings with Five rings (Key, 2 Singles, Chain of 2)
• Performance
• The Count, Showing the Rings Separate
• Linking Two Rings Together (Edward Victor and Bennett)
• Linking Moves With the Key and Singles
• Jay Marshall's Sucker Move
• Unlinking the Chain of Two (Bennett, Dowd)
• Tommy Dowd's Spin Unlink
• Chain of Three & Eugene Laurant's Removing the Centre Ring
• Jack Miller's Version of the Herman L. Weber Ring Move
• Count
• Jack Miller's Pushing the Rings Through the Arm
• Jack Miller's Causing the Rings to Jump From Arm to the Other Arm
• Jack Miller's Ring Monte
• Chain of Four
• Chain of Five
• Fini
• Alternate Switch for Exchanging the Chain of Two For the Linked Single and Key
• Bibliography
• Rink's Moves With Two Single Rings and a Key Ring


• Eight Ball Routine: production of 8 billiard balls, one at a time
• Needed: 8 balls and shell, cloth ball holders, wear a jacket
• Thoughts on Performing
• Performance
• Producing the First Ball
• The Penetration of the Silk Handkerchief
• Producing Ball No. 2
• Production of Ball No. 3
• Production of Ball No. 4
• Vanish and Production of Ball No. 4
• Production of Ball No. 5
• Production of Ball No. 6
• Vanish and ReProduction of Ball No. 6
• Production of Ball No. 7
• Swallowing and Reproducing Ball No. 7
• Production of Ball No. 8
• Bibliography

Book is hardbound.
120 pages.
Author: Horace Bennett
Originally published by Supreme Magic.

The Supreme Magic Company was a British magic manufacturer and publisher, operating from 1953 until 1993.
Founded by Edwin Hooper in Devon, England with a loan from his father and with encouragement from inventor and propmaker Jack Hughes and from Percy Abbott, Hooper launched the Supreme Magic Company.
He partnered with Abbott's Magic Company and over the years built Supreme Magic into one of the largest magic dealerships in the world.
It was exclusively a mail order business.
Supreme was not merely a retailer; they also published hundreds of books plus the magazines Magigram and Pentagram .Supreme Magic also manufactured numerous magic apparatus that is very collectible today.
The company eventually employed about 100 people, including renowned magic inventor Ian Adair.
In 1987, due to ill health, Hooper sold the company to Brian Head and Paul Dupee.
They closed the business in 1993.