South Shore Joeys
Book Reviews
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"Clown Skits for Everyone"
by Happy Jack Feder
© 1991 Meriwether Publishing, Ltd.This is a collection of skits, some for single and some for multiple clowns. Skip the opening chapter "The Road to Clown Town" (it's weak and a really poor exmple of clown makeup; it's also not indicative of the quality of the skits) and jump right to the skits. Honestly, I haven't finished this entire book but kind of picked through what looked interesting (hey, that's how I use a resource book :-).
For example: Pool Ball Prankster and Unbalancing Water Balloons are variations on established skits with a new presentation method. Everywhere props are used their construction is also discussed. I like a lot of what I read here and would recommend this book for anyone doing skits.
This book is in the Joeys library.
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"Now you see it, now you don't"
by William Tarr and Barry Ross
© 1976 William Tarr and Barry Ross. This is a book of over 200 lessons in sleight of hand by Bill Tarr.
I've had this book out from the library a couple times and it's been on my buy list for a while. This book focuses on the sleight of hand aspects of magic tricks. Loaded with illustrations and descriptions of how to do the tricks long associated with magic; i.e. card, coin, and ball tricks. He also includes flourishes, and gimmicks where appropriate that aren't really magic but go along way towards convincing your audience that you are a master of magic.
This was just recently added to Richard's Memorial Library collection with a call number of 793.8 T176. There is more than one copy of this in the library system.