Johnny Thompson - The Cups & Balls on The Magic Palace

terrific terrific audience we've got here at the magic Palace and ladies and gentlemen we happen to have a terrific entertainer for you right now he's going to do some close-up magic for you and believe me he's terrific at it would you please welcome from Hollywood mr. John Thompson thank you I have it my sides Chris is it Christina Christine and March they're from the audience and we just expedited things by having them up here quickly I'm gonna perform a very old piece of classical magic there are some sugar cubes would you take two and would you also reach across and take two we'll put the rest back inside here you have your two you have your two I'll put this away may I have these that's one that's two three and four watch very closely this was called chinco Chinese in origin and I will do it very slowly in the only magic words I will say is a watch carefully a change sometimes it doesn't always start off correctly a you have to get them going for a second here we go Gingka I'll do it once again watch it gets harder because you pay more and more attention watch it this is the hard way it's called the bank shot watch shrinkage shrinkage Inc one two you may keep those ladies now this is an even older mystery this is the oldest magic trick in existence it's called the cups and balls I'm just showing you the cups in a second I will add the balls the trick has been done with goblets paper cups dixie cups chinese tea cups these happen to be copies or replicas of 17th century drinking goblets would you look inside there is there anything in there say no good is there anything in there say no what kind of show the camera as well and also this one is there anything in there now they used to judge a magician's skill by how well he did this and I see I've been a lot of trouble I forgot to close the trapdoors you probably think I'm kidding but if I don't Christine you see what happens one falls right through the other so let me tighten them up a little bit like so and I'll tighten this one up see then they won't fall through one another of course if I don't tighten this one up Marge you know what happens the other one falls right through it so let me tighten it all so now you're gonna have to pretend you don't know about the trapdoors now you need a magic wand for this and we spare no expense here at the Dale Hani show and I mean no expense whatsoever you may see these misused in closed closets here in this country but this is a metal polish magic wand you ought to see what we hang our clothes on anyway unlock by the way I don't know if you can do on camera I'm sure you can see these look deeper on the inside you see this deeper on the inside than they really do on the outside it's an interesting optical illusion didn't you see there looks a deeper on the inside I will prove it you see it measures almost 2 inches deeper on the inside than it does on the outside of course I never argue because that's how the trick is done now along with this you need crochet covered balls now because we have three cups we will use three crochet covered balls one two three there have been many great great cup and ball workers and I'm going to deal with only those in the 20th century probably the finest one died in 1946 his name was max malini max malini was a Russian Jew short fat squat wore courtly dress velvet frock coats blossomy shirts and vests brocade vests performed before all the crowned heads of Europe had this very deep Russian Jewish accent and I will try and give you an example of what max Max's work was like by name is possible any letters gentlemen I will do a very good trick for you what is your name my dear right very good I'm your name Christine are you right or left-handed put your right hand on top of the cup like so I have two other cups Marge which one would you like me to do the trick with that one there watch closely I show you nothing in the hands I rub them together put the one here remember my name is Max Malini I'm going to do a miracle I place the ball under the cup tap put your finger back on top lift the cup lift the cup darn this thing you ever say my I do it again once we use this cup the first time now we're going to use this one what's very closely show you there's nothing in the hands watch underneath we do that one to lift the cup please here is the last one whoa where is closely right from their hand like this go on lift the cup my dear lift the cup darling that was max malini there is another gentleman who used some patties one of these phases is called a pass I will do another pass for you this is Jo spaz 17th century magician but it was performed by a 20th century magician named pop Krieger pop Krieger was a New Yorker had a heavy Jewish accent that he performed like this hello my name is pop Krieger bought your name mine you didn't forget good what's your name Christine you didn't laughs all right Christine watch very closely is a very wonderful trick done what becomes wrong to say watch very closely attack the ball like this watch the ball go 1 2 and I've only been doing the two weeks my friend watch closely I'll do it again second ball it's gone one two I thought one more time watch closely here's the last one I know about your thinking you say it's not here it's already over there that much say yes good girl I didn't do it really there's nothing here you concede that absolutely watch I do it one more time watch very closely darndest thing you ever see one two three thank you another marvelous performer who's still alive 85 years old he's the Dean of magicians his name is diver Ninh Dai Vernon at 85 is probably still one of the most marvelous performers and he works something like this good evening ladies and man there is a badminton and there must be a few magicians out there that recognize my voice and anyway we're them going to do is an old Egyptian trick watch very closely what is your name very good and yours Marge I'll take a guess thank you my desk what's go see 1 2 3 cups nothing in their hands I take the ball away from the cups all together watch it it disappears like magic I'll do it one more time keep your eye on a second one right here gone before your very eyes I'll do one more what's very very closely last one did you see it no interestingly enough they always jump back to their own little houses 1 2 3 Thank You Barry no I'm gonna stand and do another phase and this is a phase a dear friend of mine Charles Earl Miller Charlie Miller is a little heavyset looks like this hi Charlie Miller hi and Charlie doesn't use the cups at all what Charlie does is he takes them and he puts them out of play altogether he puts one here in his back pocket you see then what he does is if he's taking one away go take a second one away you see that will only leave one over here you see keep your eye on it watch very did you see this one come back over here I cheat but only a little bit so you must watch closely when I put it back over here you're watching me fumble with my pocket reality it jumps from over there to over here you see how many are over here do you recall Marge tough question no no there's there's one there you'll have to take my word on it watch was there one there a second ago there sometimes is three but it really doesn't matter one two three that's the way Charlie Miller there's one other gentleman and his name was dr. Jacob daily and dr. Jacob daily had a most unusual he would take all the balls now he could do this by the way with the balls on top or with him underneath when he did it with him on top he put all three in his pocket whatever one you touch they will appear underneath I guarantee it with a wand oh it's alright no try another one I'll give you a hint no it really doesn't matter you see this is the first one you touched was it see I could make it appear underneath there it's really no problem whatsoever gets a little bigger you see but Jacob daily when he did this had a wonderful thing you didn't believe they were trapdoors then it goes right on through the dark after I'll do it once again look at that isn't that the damnedest thing you've ever seen people say how can you do that I said simply did she you know how do you know how this is done simple you use four of these things the only what happens each and every time thank you very [Applause]

Channel: Magicana

Views: 21,038

Rating: 4.7236362 out of 5

Keywords: Johnny Thompson, Cups and Balls, Magic Palace

Id: KE0pw3Dlymo

Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Fri May 24 2019

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