Show v v BEHIND HIS BACK A Trick That Will Amuse an Evening Company Immensely Public entertainers of all kinds are always anxious to get on good terms with their audiences Ono of tho surest sur-est methods of attaining this Is to deceive de-ceive the spectators with some apparently appar-ently genuine trick and to then ar It were allow them to discover that he feat Is really a bogus one A good example of this is afforded by a conjurer who putting a plato on top of pedestal places a billiard ball upon It Facing tho audience he steps In front of the pedestal then steps aside again and lo and behold j the billiard ball has disappeared rue performer searches for the ball and noon pretending to see It dropping from tho clouds he catches it and holds It aloft In his right hand for all to see In reality the performers led arm fixed In front of himIs from elbow downwards a dummy one and It Is with his real left hand that ho picks up tho billiard ball behind his h back Soon In tho search tho ball Is seT PLACED lost aiMC PLATE nttul0 o IM IMAlll T TRICK AND ITU EXPLANATION The Trick Illustrated crotly transferred to his light hand and the trick neatly finished A shout of laughter Invariably arises as after bowing low the performer retires up the stage his left forearm and hand now of course showing plainly against his black cloth coat |