Marlo The Final Cut - Third Volume Of The Marlo Card Series - Book

Hardcover, 312 pages. ISBN 978-0-9729263-9-3

MARLO The Final Cut is the broadest and most ambitious compilation of Ed Marlo's work ever published. Spanning more than thirty different published sources released from 1941-1974, it covers hundreds of tricks, moves, routines, subtleties, musings, and thought problems. Not only does this volume compile thirteen distinct books, but it also reprints his contributions from a myriad of other publications - magazines to books to newsletters.

In this book, you'll discover material of all kinds-from close-up to stage, from semi-automatic to knuckle-busting, from complex routines to simple tricks. Learn modernist masterpieces like Devilish Miracle, practical worker's material like Cardician Makes Good, ornate dances like New Elevator, and elemental concepts like the KM Move.

Compiled and edited by N. C. Colwell with more than 300 endnotes and notations providing historical, literary, and clarifying context and foreword and remembrance by two of Ed Marlo's most prominent students - Jon Racherbaumer and Allan Ackerman.

CONTENTS

Introduction by N. C. Colwell

Remembering Eddie by Allan Ackerman

Foreword by Jon Racherbaumer

PART ONE: BOOKSChapter 1 - Card Fan Productions (1941)

Introduction
The Instruction

• Producing Multiple Fans of Cards
• Sample Routine

A Bad Technique
Types of Cards-One
Types of Hands
Types of Cards-Two
The Hat Steal by Mort Abrams
Painted Card by Hank Nowoc
The Card Clip
A Net for Catching the Cards
Two Types of Fans
Gloved Productions
Hand Care

Chapter 2 - Deck Deception (1942)

Foreword
Double Vanish and Recovery

• Casanova Card Trick by Martin Gardner and Ed Marlo
• Marlo's Double Vanish and Recovery

Torn Deck Mystery
A Good Number
Number Transpo
Marlo's Running Cut
Marlo's Lessinout System of Cull and Stock Shuffles

• Lessinout Cull
• Lessinout Stack

The Spy
Divining Hanky
Marlo's Card to Card Case
The Magical Gambler
And in Conclusion...

Chapter 3 - Future Reverse (1945)

First Method
Second Method

• Center Reverse/Future Reverse

Method Three
Method Four
Method Five
Method Six
The Bonus Effect

Chapter 4 - Havana Deal (1948)

First Method
Second Method
Third Method

Chapter 5 - A Devilish Miracle by Ed Marlo and Carmen D'Amico (1948)

First Method
Second Method

Chapter 6 - Ed Marlo's Lecture Notes (1951)

Sudden Aces
Cutting the Aces Routine
Ace Opener
Cardician Makes Good
Follow the Leader
Mr. Black Comes Back

Chapter 7 - The Future Classic by Ed Marlo and Carmen D'Amico (1953)

A Future Classic

• Card Addition by Fred Braue
• Turnover Change
• Hit Method
• Left Hand Palm/Dealing Position Palm/Future Classic Palm
• Summary

Streamlined Classic
Comedy Classic
Final Observations

• Alternate Set-Up
• Alternate Count One
• Alternate Count Two
• Glide Double Handling

Chapter 8 - The Magic Seven (1954)Magical Seven

• Phase One
• Phase Two
  The Glide
• Phase Three
• Phase Four
• Phase Five
• Summary

Opening Phase

• Alternate Methods

The Climax Phase

• Alternate Methods

Chapter 9 - Classical Foursome by Ed Marlo and Carmen D'Amico (1956)Foreword
A Classical Quickie

• First Method
• Second Method
• Third Method
• Fourth Method
• Fifth Method
• Sixth Method
• Seventh Method
  The Open Reverse
• Eighth Method
• Ninth Method
• Tenth Method

The D'Amico Spread
Doubly Ambitious
Chameleon Queens
Marlo-Curry Change
Double Transpositions

• The Repeat
• Straight Presentation

Combination
Marlo Pivot Spread

• Basic Principle
• First
• Second
• Third
• Fourth
• Fifth
• Sixth
• Note on Sixth Method
• Triple Pivot Spread

Chapter 10 - Marlo Meets His Match (1959)Foreword
Matcho

• Matcho Methods I-VI

Matcho Notes

• Variation of the Method II
• Possible Stage Presentation
• Matcho II-Single Deck Version

Marlo-Curry Change Variation
Double Thought-Single Deck

• Stooge Version
• The Exchange Version
• The Key Card Version-First Version
• The Key Card Version-Second Version
• Memory Version

Red and Blue-Spectator Coincidence
Double Coincidence
More Matchos

• Matcho Methods VII-IX

Double Thought and Two Billets
Gaffed Matcho

• First Method
• Second Method

Marked Matcho
Unmarked Matcho
Memory Matcho
The Fake Change

Chapter 11 - The K. M. Move by Ed Marlo with Tony Kardyro (1962)

Introduction
The K. M. Move-Forward Fingering Action
Two Closing Actions
Reverse Fingering Action
Reversal Effect
Card Face-Up, Deck Face-Down
Righting a Reversed Card
Multiple Cards, Forward Fingering Action
Foreshadowing Later Ideas
Multiple Cards, Reverse Fingering Action
Multiple Out/Multiple Turnover Cleanup
Off the Face Changes
Ambitious Routine
Further Applications of the Reverse Fingering Action with K. M. Move

• All Alike Count
• The Transposition

Use of the K. M. Move in Devilish Miracle
K.M. Move Follow Up Aces
Another Exchange Procedure
The Four Ace and Four King Transposition