DeLAND’S Among mental effects, DeLand’s most elaborate was one which appeared as “DeLand’s Card Puzzle” in a booklet called “Did The Devil Invent a Deck of Cards” and which was marketed sep rately as THE MILLION DOLLAR Nine lary andience, each chart bea ing cards, thirty to a sh of five each, Somebody was told to think of a card and hand the performer all charts which showed that eard on them, ‘This done, the performer named the n card ‘The first seven charts enabled the per former to learn the position of the chosen card on one of the last two charts which were “key” charts. Which- ever of the first seven were handed to the performer, he noted th value of the card in the lower left corner, adding the total of all such cards Given a “key” chart which showed the chosen card, the performer simply counted to thaf number and found the selected card, which he promptly named. Example: The Que peared upon tio of the first seve and the value of the cards in left was four plus eight, or twelve. On the key chart showing the Queen of charts were handed to the small play By WAL RB. GIBSON fENTAL MYSTERIES Ee sole okea je ole oofs o Saisetenlent sale clecle~ sale alecleat i ages aes ea ee i seototasels SARE Hearts, that card appeared second from the left in the third row, or at number tveelve position. Sinee space prevents the reproduction of the full charts, they are listed here- with in form so that performers ‘ean make up their own charts with mini- ature cards or use larger charts with full-sized playing eards for presentation before an audience. However, we are reproducing two versions of a later, singlechart mental mystery which was based on the “Mil lion Dollar” idea and which was proba: bly the last trick DeLand ever marketed. This was Aleta SANAERRRMESECAAMIErpN laalela slalajalaialalalalsioisisalalalelelel hleKaiels r4]6l8|i0} QM Al STI 7/O1JIK BMA] 3|7]S11K] #|elel¢| |s|4/4/4\o fm vl ¥lelvivivie mol elalelala| lalzisie 5}4|7 (815) BS ARRBRRE lelelele| |s|+14i4, wiv fe |olelela) 3) Al2|3/4]5/6 KWo] 7|8]9}i0] Jah] [bi] 4/44) + 4) 4) | AlAeI7 [eS OM lel7 [sik RBA 5 10/0161) +|4|414) | \alelol FRDRCIEIITG 31415) lolelelolelelelelolele! alalZlJ}IK Mm alz|5|4)5| RBA 5 |o| 6] 4/0 M+) 4/4 +/+) vv io 4/4) aista)}el lel oil Q ralzisiais) [a |o|¢| 4/6/46] / 4/0/14) |o|4|4/9/6, pialelsiaisiel7|aigwoly Sil iv vivivivly¥i¥ivi¢y |o|¢/o|¢| 0/0 e1¢! tebe sieteroy RADIO MIND READING Showing the chart to a person, the performer asks him to think of a card, then look for its index, row by row, fon the chart. He is to state the letter or number of the row in which the in dex of his card appears. Alll the performer does is add men tally the numbers of the rows whieh the spectator names. The card will appear in only one of the lettered rowa: A or B. The performer counts along that row to the total of the numbered rows named and at the proper position, he finds the chosen card indicated. ‘The horizontal numbers at top and bottom of the chart enable the performer to do this very rapidly, He does not mention these numbers when perform: ing the trick, but simply uses them for Both versions of this trick appeared at about the same time and though the principle is the same in each case, it will be observed that the total number of rows is different in each ease and that the arrangement of the card indexes varies as a result DeLand prod) when radio was another proof that DeLand was about twenty years ahead of his time. Our next article will cover other effects devised and marketed by DeLand, along with further sidelights on his ‘THE CONJURORS’ MAGAZINETHE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY (See opposite page for instructions) Chart 1 Chart 2 Chart 3 4D 5D 6D 7D oD 3H OH 70H JH 3H SH TH OOH JH sD 9D 1D yD QD | 2H AD Qc SD oD | QC) KH oD 4 oD KD AS 2S 3848 wb KD AS 4S 8D 10D QD AS 3S s 9 We JC OC SS aS 9S QSOS 7H 7S (9S JSKS. KE 3D 9D 1D 28 SC) ac sel eee | 3c 6C 8c 106 oc 48 58) 4D SD 2 8 AD 4S lob | AH 10D 3S 7H SH Chart 4 Chart 5 7S 8S 108 JS, SH oH 7H KH QH | SD wD ss 48 38 6 QS KS Ac 2 4H AD «2D 7D gD | 2S 10D 9D aD OKC sca SC. op wp 2 3 4 | Qe JC we %« sc 9c oe IC 55 10S JS KC QS | 45 35 25 AS KD Kc 7S 8 9 ws | KS sc oc 7 ac | QD JD 10D 9 3D AG “ac: ge iS 2 3 AD 4 | 7 sD 4D sD op Chart 7 Chart 8 Chart 9 oH 10H JH QH KH ac 9G 6S SS | AH OOH OSH OH SH gH AD 2D JD QD ls JS QS KS | oH 7H SH 9H 10H KD AS 2 38 48 2 sc csc | SH oQH KH AD o> SAC aE at ac we ac 9 oc | wD wD sD oD OD sc 6c 7c ac 6s | Jc ge. KC ss «68 | wD oD wD oD wD ac WH 38 HOS | IS Ss os cS | KD AS ss as MAY, 1946 23