Early Earle.pdf

Early

Earle

A collection of routines from Lee Earle’s

early lectures, performances, & publications

Early

Earle

Early

Earle

A collection of routines from Lee Earle’s

early lectures, performances, & publications

reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in

any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,

photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior

permission of SYZYGY Press

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Table of Contents

Foreword and Introduction

Manila Miracle

Five manila coin envelopes hold four nice prizes for participants. After a totally free

choice, all four helpers get the prizes - lottery tickets - while the fifth, unchosen envelope

left for the Mentalist has a large denomination bill.

Corsage Clairvoyance

A woman from the audience thinks of a randomly selected word. The Mentalist reads

her mind to tell her the word. In thanks for her help, he presents her with a gift - a

corsage made with her favorite flower accompanied by a sealed greeting card bearing a

poem which includes both her actual name and her Zodiac sign.

Telephone Bill

An audience participant writes his phone number on a bill, folds and seals it in a coin

envelope and retains the envelope. He’s invited on stage and the Mentalist tells him not

only the serial number on the bill but the telephone number as well!

The Prettelus Principle

A series of routines using variations of easily modified UPS Overnight envelopes.

Three different ways of quickly gaffing these for predictions, divinations, etc. This was

originally a $35 manuscript and now includes photos and graphics you can print to use for

your own presentations.

Supermarket Suprise

In an imaginary trip to the grocery store, a participant selects any item and takes it to

a cash register to have it scanned for price. Mentalist opens large envelope and removes a

panel inside with that price inked in digits four inches high!

Foreword and Introduction

Each of the routines

you’re about to read have,

at one time, been parts of

my personal performing

repertoire. Two of the

items, The Pretellus

Principle and Supermarket

Surprise, were also

released as commercial

items a few years ago.

For one routine,

Prettelus Prime, some

graphic materials for your

use have been appended.

You will find a set of full-

page handwriting samples

for one routine and ten

pages of 8 x 10 photos and

‘blow-ups’ of newspaper

articles for another effect.

Just print them to use as

mentioned in the

instructions.

Supermarket Surprise also has full-page graphics to employ for

that routine as well.

In case you were curious about the cover illustration, it’s a hint

about the material inside - every routine in this publication uses, in

one form or another, envelopes!

If these routines are half as successful for you as they have been

for me, then I know you’ll be delighted.

Regards,

Lee Earle

Phoenix, June 2002

Manila Miracle

This is a great opener

which allows for a lot of by-

play with the audience,

establishes your bona fides as

an intuitive individual, and

packs a very strong punch.

Essentially, the performer

shows a fan of small, manila

coin envelopes each of which

bears a number in the series

one through five. He explains that four of the envelopes contain gifts intended for the

audience and in the best tradition of “Lets Make A Deal’s” Monte Hall, the fifth envelope

contains a ‘zonker.’ In fact, it contains something which the performer would truly rather

the audience not get.

The entertainer approaches four people among the spectators and gives each of them a

choice of the remaining envelopes in his hand. They are cautioned to keep the envelopes

closed until instructed. One by one the choices are made until the performer holds but one

envelope. He tells the new owners of the envelopes to open them and remove what is

found inside each, demonstrating with his own envelope.

All four participants find a lottery ticket within their envelopes. The performer has a

ticket in his envelope as well. Just when the audience begins to wonder what the big deal

about the zonker was all about, the performer explains, “I told you that one envelope

contained something which I really didn’t want anyone to have. And here it is...”

He approaches someone in the front row who is asked to stand and hold out his hand.

Dumping the contents into his hand, the entertainer asks him to describe what he sees. It

is a one hundred dollar bill! Indeed, that is something which the performer did not want

the audience to get.

The working of the effect is simplicity itself. All five envelopes contain lottery tickets.

None of the envelopes is sealed. The hundred dollar bill is placed

in the remaining envelope in the act of demonstrating how to

open the envelope and remove the contents. This is a very easy

move and looks absolutely innocent. The hardest part is dealing

with the guilt about the very simple move.

You must number the envelopes in VERY LARGE digits, as

large as possible so that the folks in the last row can see what is

going on. Stack the five envelopes one atop the other. Fold a

piece of currency in eighths (about the size of a postage stamp)

and place it beneath the flap of the top envelope. The large fold

of the bill should be toward the bottom of the envelope. This is

the side which will go into the envelope first. The large fold goes

in first because there is less possiblility of an edge catching

during the move.

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