The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

Annemann’s Enigma

Author/Editor: Annemann, Ted (edited by Todd Karr)

w/dust jacket

Introduction: Embers (Max Maven)
Preface (Todd Karr)
Trickster Fingerprints (Steranko)

ANNEMANN: LIFE AS AN ENIGMA (Todd Karr)

I. ANNEMANN ARTICLES

1. 1924
The X-Ray Act
An Additional Effect of the X-Ray Eyes
Argamasilla’s Super-Vision (?)
“Emerson, Master Mystic”
A Sealed Letter Test with Cards
Another Force
A Different Color Change
A Mind-Reading Mystery
Improvement on “Secret of the Swami”
A Si Stebbins Kink
The Devil’s Four Aces
Another Four Ace Maneuvre
An Original Tray Vanish

2. 1925
The Ghost Card
The Better Yet Box, Rod, and Rings Challenge
A New (?) Reverse Card Trick
A P & L Four Ace Suggestion
A Club or Stage Mental Number
A New Slate Writing Wrinkle
A Subtle Poker Stunt
“To Satisfy an Argument”
The Cigarette and Dollar Bill Again
The East Indian Needle Feat
Three Card Monte Outdone
Attention, Mentalists!
My Original Swami Test
A Mediumistic Stunt
The Master Mind
An Idea

3. 1926
Mentalex (?)
The Simplified Telephone Mystery
“Letter on Ballot Box”
Improvement 8000
My Doll Production
Wanted – For a New Effect
The Supreme Book Test
Coincidence
A Good Coin Vanish

4. 1927
A Couple Card Wrinkles

5. 1928
“A Little Article Regarding ‘Copped’ Material”
No Title at All
A Radio Publicity Feat
“Let’s Be Different”
Annemann’s Book Test

6. 1929
A Monster Master Mysterious Mystery
A Single Sitting Billet Reading and Slate Test
Just Think of a Card

7. 1930
Slate Writing Par Excellence

8. 1931
The Annemann Torn Card Method
The Passe-Passe Cards

9. 1932-3
A Dead Name Duplication
How…? (Unpublished version from Sid Lorraine’s files)
Ne Plus Ultra Reading Method
Number, Please (Second Version) (1933)

II. ANNEMANN ESSAYS Articles for the Public

1. “Inside Secrets of False Mediums and Their Marvels” (1931)
2. “Magic’s Fatal Jinx” (1938)

III. EXCLUSIVE MANUSCRIPTS

1. Master Subtleties with Cards (ca. 1928)
Annemann’s Single Card Location
Annemann’s Cut Pack Card Location
Annemann’s Ne Plus Ultra Card Location
Annemann’s Five-Card Thought Trick
Annemann’s Five-Card Stab Trick
Annemann’s One Way Set-Up
Annemann’s One to Ten Detection
Annemann’s Pair Detection
Annemann’s Audience Location
Annemann’s Alternate Detection
Another Card Discovery
Red and Black
Odd and Even
Improvement on the Pair Detection
Another Presentation of the Alternate Detection
Another Reverse Move
Faces or Backs, Which?
Different Reversible Backs

2. Exclusive Secrets of Annemann’s Conception (The Fifty Dollar Manuscript, ca. 1930)
Anneman’s Stop Trick
Another Stop Card Effect
Cards in the Cases
Anneman’s Four Ace Routine
The Thought Mystery Card
With Back Towards Spectator
Anneman’s Own Pellet Trick
Red and Blue Decks
Color-Changing Deck
You Took the Selected Card
The New Spelling Card Trick
A Deck of Cards and Two Envelopes

3. Various Manuscripts
Annemann’s Color-Changing Back
A Mulholland and Annemann Pet
Annemann’s Original Sympathy Effect
The Red and Blue Back Color Change
Annemann’s Two-Card Transposition
Wire Release

IV. THE BOOKS WITH A NAME

1. Card Miracles (1929)
Editor’s Introduction
The Five-Card Stabbing Mystery
The Eye-Popper Card Feat
Poker Player’s Dream
The “You Spell It Yourself” Feat
A Day-Time Nightmare

2. Mental Miracles (1929)
The Premier Book Test
The Mentalist’s Card Staggerer
The Psychic Writing
Instantaneous Card Memory
“Phantasma” – A Mental Card Feat
Addenda: Traveling Thought Card Trick

3. The Book Without a Name (1931)
Introduction (Al Baker)
Foreword
The “Really New” Locator Card
An Original Set-Up Discovery
One in Fourteen
A New Thought-Card Spelling Effect
Whichever You Please
Count Your Card!
Telepathy in the Audience
The Red and Blue Back Mixup
The Gambler is Person
The Gambler is Back Again
Psychic Sympathy
The Four Pile Location
The Genii Cut-Deck Location
The Mystery Card Reading Method
A New Apparatus for the Pellet Switch
Find the Lady
The Improved Magic Square Presentation
The One-Man “Genuine” Magazine Test
Mental Coloring: Telepathy in Silk (Stuart Robson)
The Color-Tell Billiard Balls
Seeing in the Dark
Seven Keys to Baldpate
A Prophecy of the Koran
Jimmy Valentine Opens a Safe

4. 101 Methods of Forcing (1932)

5. Strange Secrets (1932-3)
1. Insto-Transpo!
2. “Stop”
3. The Dollar Cigarette Challenge
4. Remote Control Improved (Orville Meyer)
5-6. The Accessory
5. Mental Dollars
6. Number, Please (first version)
7. Sensitive Thoughts
8. The Card Doctor
9. Slates and Aces
11. Poker Plus
12. Thought, In Person
14. A Mental Headache

6. 202 Methods of Forcing (1933)
Second Introduction

7. Climax Card Routine (1933)
Foreword
The Principle
The Magical Application
A Card Location
Top and Bottom Location
Before Starting
The Half-Moon Location
Location Plus
The Improved Version of “Everybody’s Choice”
A Snappy Finish
The Stage Location
The Master Card Speller
The Mystic Cut
Counting by Eye
Odd or Even
To Slick Cards Up After Wearing Off
Re-Slicking Cards

8. Sh-h-h-h! It’s a Secret! (1934)
Introduction as Usual
Call Me Up Sometime
The Borrowed Deck Tragedy
Help Wanted in the Dark
A Thought is Fathomed
Your Nose Knows
A Rule of the Thumb
A Handkerchief is Selected (E. Leslie May)
A Card is Found Once More
Odd or Even, Which?
The Alternate Detection
A New Kink for the Reversing of One Card
Annemann’s Eight-in-a-Row Location
Red or Black?
The Challenge of the Year
The Mind in Retrospect
The Five-Card Thought Effect
The Guessing Contest
The Two-Person Location
A Couple of Cards Get Together
The New Deal Card Code
The Perfect Club Slate Routine
Fair and Square
Dual Sympathy
Another Sympathetic Mystery
Triplets by Chance
The Last of the “Think Stop” Tricks
Your Card
The Tune Detective
The Mindreader’s Dream
Music in the Air
A Quaint Happening
The Prophecy of Occurence
The 203rd Force (Henry Christ)
Nickels on the Brain
Despair of the Devil
The Lady and the Gentleman
The Bell Mystery
Three Cards, Three Numbers
The $1000 Test Card Location
Dead Men Tell No Tales!

9. Annemann’s Complete One-Man Mental and Psychic Routine (1935)
Introduction
Requisites
Billet Switching
Magic vs. Mindreading
The Telephone Drama
The Dead Name Test
The New Nile Divination
Book Mentalism
Telepathy Plus
Addenda: Author’s Note
The Master Mind
The Act
Author’s Note Again
The Mirror Reflector
A Living and Dead Combination
The Sealed Envelope Dodge
The Spirit Pencil
Advance Information
Pencil Reading

10. Annemann’s Mental Bargain Effects (1935)
The Impromptu Mind Reader

11. En Rapport (1937)

12. The Jinx Programs (1938)
Jinx Program No. 1: A Club Act of Magic
Jinx Program No. 2: A Mental Club Act
Jinx Program No. 3: A Magical Club Program
Jinx Program No. 4: A No-Card Mystery Act
Jinx Program No. 5: “No Code” Telepathy

13. Other Books
1. A Newspaper Office Stunt (1928)
2. The Short Card (1932)
3. Introduction to Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937)
4. Find the Queen (1937)
5. The Ambitious Card (1937)
6. Introduction to Encyclopedia of Cigarette Tricks (1937)
7. Introduction on Tips on Thumbs (1938)

V. ADVERTISED EFFECTS
1. Annemann’s Challenge Mind Test (1926)
2. Getit (1928)
3. Answerit (1928)
4. Annemann’s 33 Cent Think of a Card Trick (1928)
5. Annemann’s Nightmare Effects (1928)
6. Annemann’s Diabolo Pellet Reading (1928)
7. Annemann’s 44 Cent Mystery Card Reading Method (1928)
8. Annemann’s 55 Cent Card Memory (1928)
9. Annemann’s Psychic Writing (1928)
10. The Master’s Touch (1929)
11. Annemann’s Mental Masterpiece (1929)
12. 30th Century Television (1929) (William J. Hewitt)
Later Version
13. The Modern Mind Reader (1929) (William J. Hewitt)
14. Fourth Dimensional Telepathy (1930)
15. Eyes of the Unknown (1930)
16. Coincidence? (1930) (William J. Hewitt)
17. Penetrating Vision (1930) (J. G. Thompson, Jr.)
18. Remote Control (1931)
19. The Test of the Tiber (1931)
Annemann Nuance for The Test of the Tiber
Special Addition (1945)
20. Annemann’s New Marvelous Two-Card Slate Prophecy (1931)
21. Annemann’ Card and Pocket Miracle (1932)
22. The New Double Telepathy Routine (1933)
23. A Matter of Policy (1935)

V. ANNEMANN AFTERWARD
1. Mind Over Money
2. Forecast
3. The Window Washer’s Dream
4. Ted Annemann’s Favorite Location
5. Quickie: A Clever “Set-up” Effect
6. Gaglets
7. It Goes Double
8. Aces at Random
9. New Deck Speller
10. Any Deck One-Way
11. One-Way Mark Located
12. Nail Writer Techniques
13. A Couple of Numbers
14. More About Ted
15. Turnover Card
16. Card on the Ceiling
17. Kiddingram
18. The Nerve Test
19. Two-Pellet Routine with One Person
20. Duplicated Name
21. Needle Variation
22. Original Spelling Bee
23. “Annemann on Secrets”
24. Message Reading Par Excellence

Appendix 1: Annemann Quotes
1. Memorable Thoughts
2. About The Jinx
3. Insights into Annemann
Appendix 2: Postmark: Waverly
Appendix 3: The Most Dangerous Trick in Magic (Wlliam Lindsay Gresham)
Appendix 4: The Jinx Bibliography (James B. Alfredson and George S. Daily)
Appendix 5: The Fake Jinx

Annemann Bibliography
Index