Milton Kort is a legend of sorts: a magician who has rarely traveled outside the Detroit area, a magician who seldom performs at magicians conventions or lectures, yet a man whom the professionals and greats in magic came to see. Paul Rosini, Dr. Daley, J. B. Bobo, Charlie Miller, Cardini, Dai Vernon and many more sought out Milt Kort and shared secrets with him.
But why? Milt was a pharmacist by trade. Although he loved to perform magic, and did so often, he never became a professional. The key word aboveand the answer to that Why?is Love. Magic has been Milts abiding passion since he was a child, and he always did it for the love of it, for the fun of it, not for the money in it or the fame.
For decades he has read every magazine and book published on the subject. And like most of us, he has played with and practiced every new trick that crossed his path. Only Milt did it with a devotion to magic that exceeds almost all of his peers. And it was that great love of magic, and the tremendous knowledge he gained in pursuing it, that drew the greats of magic to him. That and the fact that Milt often fooled them with devilishly clever tricks of his own invention.
These tricks are in great part what this book is about. They all fall within the realm of close-up magic, Milts main love, and they use such mundane items as playing cards, coins, dice, balls, razor blades, eggs, handkerchiefs, pens and toy elephants. What happens with those items, though, is anything but mundane.
Using skills and techniques generally within the range of the average close-up enthusiast, this book teaches forty-six of Milt Korts most baffling and entertaining tricks and routines; ideas from one of the greatest magic hobbyists ever to live, offered to his fellow hobbyists, his fellow lovers of magic.
By the way, professional magicians can use Milts magic, toobut there is one rule, Korts First Principle of Magic: Have Fun!
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