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doves. I use an Ed Harris design and accent-uate with black marker. (Note: When cutting out the two paper doves you may want to make a cardboard pattern - it makes the set-up next time much easier.) The egg is also cut out of white paper approximately 8x10 inches. To aid you when you thrust your hand through the cut-out egg during performance, slit an "x" a little above center on the egg using an exacto knife. The egg is now crumbled into a ball and placed in the center of one of the paper doves. That dove is now folded around the wadded egg concealing it. At this point you will have a paper dove with the wadded dove containing the egg glued to the back. This sounds so complicated but is really very simple.
After placing the dove in a cat gut type harness gently place him tail first up your sleeve so his head and the loop are pointed toward the palm of your hand. If you are right handed load the dove in your left sleeve; if you are left handed place the dove in your right sleeve. You are ready to begin.
The working is rather obvious by this point. Display the paper cut-out of the bird exercising caution not to flash the wad glued on the back. Hold the paper with two hands to prevent the cut-out from sagging because of the weight of the wad on the back. Do the cut and restored bit whereby you have folded in the torn pieces and reversed the packet (similar to the newspaper tear). Unfold the restored cut-out and thereby drop the crumpled wad (egg) to the floor. Don't make a big deal out of the wad falling - get what applause you can out of the restored cut-out of the bird. Besides, if you do this trick for kids they will let you know!! Pick up the egg wad, unfold it, show the egg, mention about it beginning to hatch, and break through the paper, and pull the cat gut and bird right through. It looks great! The bird literally pops right out of the bole in the egg. This is a cute effeci one I think you'll enjoy using. Until next month - Hal Diamond, P.O. Box 351, Kensington, MD 20895.
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One of my favorite magical correspondents is Luis M. Gavilondo from Havana, Cuba. It's always a special pleasure to get a letter from him. He is one of the very few working magicians in Cuba - employed by the government to perform well over three hundred shows a year. His writing is most personable but he lacks magic news from the outside world. In fact, it takes a letter between eight months and a year just to reach him. You can well under-stand why over the last six years we've only corresponded eight times ! Most of his illusions are performed using a minimum of apparatus such as the one I'll pass on to you here.
The effect involves a torn and restored paper dove. The restored paper dove then lays a paper egg which magically hatches and produces a real live dove! Nice visual magic that's easy to follow and simple to perform.
In detail the effect is this: A large white paper cut-out of a dove is shown. After calling attention to the paper and perhaps naming the dove, the paper dove is torn to pieces and wadded together. After a magic word or two, the wad is unfolded and the cut-out of the bird is shown fully restored. But wait a minute! In the process of unfolding the paper, a sus-picious bunch of crumbled paper has fallen to the stage floor. What could this be? Upon unfolding we discover it is a large oval of white paper; it looks just like a giant egg. It is, and look the egg is about to hatch. The magician tears a hole in the paper egg, thrusts his hand in and produces a real live dove! Applause!
Preparation for this novel illusion is very quick and easy. In fact, it takes longer to explain than it does to actually do. First cut out two matching fluttering
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