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LoC No.: 11000485
Title: Home Fun
Contents: Amateur theatricals -- Mysteries of make-up -- The quick-change artist -- Character impersonations -- The universal hat -- Nigger minstrelsy -- Some suggestions in black -- Tableaux vivants -- Charades -- The possibilities of the musical sketch -- Vamping simplified -- An evening at the phonograph -- Musical glasses -- Hand-bell ringing -- The art of drawing-room singing -- Drawing-room recitals -- The art of whistling -- Bunkum entertainments -- Ventriloquism in a month -- Conjuring for all -- Some knotty points -- Black stage mysteries -- Concerning ghosts -- Some stage illusions -- The room of mystery -- Mechanical second-sight -- Papergraphy -- Juggling -- Plate-spinning and waltzing -- The tight-rope -- Clog dancing -- Shadow shows -- Lightning cartoons and "fake" sketching -- Frictional fun -- Some electrical effects -- Safe scientific experiments -- Safe chemical experiments -- Odd experiments -- More experiments -- Photo pastimes -- How to make and work marionettes -- Living marionettes -- The home circus -- How to make and work a peep-show -- The "mechanical" peep-show -- How to make and work a punch and judy show -- Dissolving views -- Indoor fireworks -- How to make a telephone -- Telegraphy at home -- Elementary hypnotism -- The powers and mysteries of clairvoyance -- Table-turning -- Palmistry -- Phrenology -- Telling fortunes by cards, dice, dominoes, etc. -- Graphology -- A successful children's party -- Parlor games -- Parlor tricks and puzzles -- "How would you——?" (puzzles) -- Some optical illusions -- Ciphers and cryptograms -- Secret signs -- Games and amusements for the blind.
Credits:
Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé, Linda Cantoni and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
https:
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(This file was produced from images
generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Author: Bullivant, Cecil Henry, 1882-1981
EBook No.: 61685
Published: Mar 27, 2020
Downloads: 93
Language: English
Subject: Amusements
LoCC: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
LoC No.: 11000485
Title: Home Fun
Contents: Amateur theatricals -- Mysteries of make-up -- The quick-change artist -- Character impersonations -- The universal hat -- Nigger minstrelsy -- Some suggestions in black -- Tableaux vivants -- Charades -- The possibilities of the musical sketch -- Vamping simplified -- An evening at the phonograph -- Musical glasses -- Hand-bell ringing -- The art of drawing-room singing -- Drawing-room recitals -- The art of whistling -- Bunkum entertainments -- Ventriloquism in a month -- Conjuring for all -- Some knotty points -- Black stage mysteries -- Concerning ghosts -- Some stage illusions -- The room of mystery -- Mechanical second-sight -- Papergraphy -- Juggling -- Plate-spinning and waltzing -- The tight-rope -- Clog dancing -- Shadow shows -- Lightning cartoons and "fake" sketching -- Frictional fun -- Some electrical effects -- Safe scientific experiments -- Safe chemical experiments -- Odd experiments -- More experiments -- Photo pastimes -- How to make and work marionettes -- Living marionettes -- The home circus -- How to make and work a peep-show -- The "mechanical" peep-show -- How to make and work a punch and judy show -- Dissolving views -- Indoor fireworks -- How to make a telephone -- Telegraphy at home -- Elementary hypnotism -- The powers and mysteries of clairvoyance -- Table-turning -- Palmistry -- Phrenology -- Telling fortunes by cards, dice, dominoes, etc. -- Graphology -- A successful children's party -- Parlor games -- Parlor tricks and puzzles -- "How would you——?" (puzzles) -- Some optical illusions -- Ciphers and cryptograms -- Secret signs -- Games and amusements for the blind.
Credits:
Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé, Linda Cantoni and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
https:
//www.pgdp.net
(This file was produced from images
generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Author: Bullivant, Cecil Henry, 1882-1981
EBook No.: 61685
Published: Mar 27, 2020
Downloads: 93
Language: English
Subject: Amusements
LoCC: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.