Ireland's Fifty Cent Routine......$15.00
A spectator's borrowed half dollar is used in a demonstration about
the temperature in a room when it is full of people. Things tend to
get warm and the coin is shown to become soft and flexible as the
magician bends it between his hands. The performer returns the
coin to the spectator but the spectator tells the magician that he only
received a nickel back and that he gave a half dollar. The performer
says he's sorry and cups his hands together and when opened 45
pennies drop to the table in front of the perplexed spectator.
A more detailed effect, along with the patter, is given below.
You borrow a half dollar from a spectator. Lay it on the table in front
of you, or have the spectator hold it for a minute, and take a pencil
out of your pocket. "Did you ever notice that when a room gets warm
enough, the objects in it get soft - almost like rubber" And so saying,
you hold the pencil by its middle and move it up and down in such a
way as to create the illusion that the pencil is limp and soft. Try this
in front of a mirror to get the right speed of the hand. Slide the pencil
through the closed fist, which apparently makes it rigid again,
because you now tap it on the table. Drop pencil in your breast
pocket and take the half dollar.
Grip the half dollar between the hands, the thumbs behind it, the coin
facing the spectator, and the three middle fingers of each hand
pressing against the face of the coin on each side. Thus holding it,
move the hands back and forth as though the coin were made of
rubber and could be bent. You will see in the mirror that the
movement of the hands, when thus held, actually does make the coin
look soft and flexible.
Reach in the pocket for the pencil, slide it through the fist you have
just closed (with the coin inside the fist), tap the pencil to show it
is rigid, put it away, and stretch the fist toward the spectator. "Here
is your coin - thanks'', you say, as you open the fist and let the coin
fall into the spectator's hand he will now have held out to receive it.
But the spectator will call you on it at once, because the coin is a
nickel. You lean over and stare at it in amazement. Then say, "Gee,
I'm sorry. You did loan me fifty cents! Cup your two hands, shake
them, and as you bring them apart, drop 45 pennies on the table
before him.
This is a very funny effect, and at a convention or gathering of any
type, you will find that people will bring friends over to have you
pull it on them.
A spectator's borrowed half dollar is used in a demonstration about
the temperature in a room when it is full of people. Things tend to
get warm and the coin is shown to become soft and flexible as the
magician bends it between his hands. The performer returns the
coin to the spectator but the spectator tells the magician that he only
received a nickel back and that he gave a half dollar. The performer
says he's sorry and cups his hands together and when opened 45
pennies drop to the table in front of the perplexed spectator.
A more detailed effect, along with the patter, is given below.
You borrow a half dollar from a spectator. Lay it on the table in front
of you, or have the spectator hold it for a minute, and take a pencil
out of your pocket. "Did you ever notice that when a room gets warm
enough, the objects in it get soft - almost like rubber" And so saying,
you hold the pencil by its middle and move it up and down in such a
way as to create the illusion that the pencil is limp and soft. Try this
in front of a mirror to get the right speed of the hand. Slide the pencil
through the closed fist, which apparently makes it rigid again,
because you now tap it on the table. Drop pencil in your breast
pocket and take the half dollar.
Grip the half dollar between the hands, the thumbs behind it, the coin
facing the spectator, and the three middle fingers of each hand
pressing against the face of the coin on each side. Thus holding it,
move the hands back and forth as though the coin were made of
rubber and could be bent. You will see in the mirror that the
movement of the hands, when thus held, actually does make the coin
look soft and flexible.
Reach in the pocket for the pencil, slide it through the fist you have
just closed (with the coin inside the fist), tap the pencil to show it
is rigid, put it away, and stretch the fist toward the spectator. "Here
is your coin - thanks'', you say, as you open the fist and let the coin
fall into the spectator's hand he will now have held out to receive it.
But the spectator will call you on it at once, because the coin is a
nickel. You lean over and stare at it in amazement. Then say, "Gee,
I'm sorry. You did loan me fifty cents! Cup your two hands, shake
them, and as you bring them apart, drop 45 pennies on the table
before him.
This is a very funny effect, and at a convention or gathering of any
type, you will find that people will bring friends over to have you
pull it on them.
