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"Disregarding for the moment, which is a difficult task, both Keith Clark’s masterful skill and extraordinary showmanship, it can be said most truthfully that the magic itself was outstanding. While everything that happened was both a surprise and a mystery, it also was exactly what an imaginative author would dream that a magician would be able to do."
- John Mulholland

Silks Supreme

When it comes to routining magic, few have ever done it better than Keith Clark. Silks Supreme is no exception. Clark transforms the classic Sympathetic Silks plot into an eight-phase masterpiece that will delight any audience.

Here's what the audience sees...

The magician, after lighting his cigarette with a paper “book” match, studies the match for a brief moment -- then, carelessly flicking the match away, a yard square silk appears at his fingertips! Surprised, he tosses away the cigarette and attempts to tie a knot in the silk. The first attempt fails; nothing daunted, he tries again -- and fails again. Gathering himself for a supreme effort, he tries once more and succeeds, for a knot appears in the center of the silk; his moment of triumph is brief however, for the knot dissolves when he shakes the silk! Gravely displaying the silk on both sides, he throws it over his right fist as he mutters the magic words “squeegie squeegie,” something is seen to materialize under the silk. Excitedly he snatches the silk away -- and discovers the index finger of his right hand, pointing toward his forehead! He pulls the silk through his right hand, twirls it into a loose rope while he patters about splitting it along its fourth dimension, and forthwith takes from it a second yard square silk identical with the one he has been using!

He ties the two together, tosses them into the air, and a contrasting yard square silk appears tied between them! Untying the three, he counts them -- one, two, three, FOUR, FIVE, SIX! But the count is greeted with a laugh, for to the audience it is obvious that there are only three silks. “Six!” persists the magician, as he holds up the silks, appears to “split off” another bunch identical with the bunch he holds, and slowly and fairly counts out six silks!

He places three of the silks on a chair at his right, then knots the other three together in a string and places them on a chair at his left. The knots mysteriously pass from one set of silks to the other, and the audience fails in an attempt to guess where the knots are, for they vanish entirely. Once again the silks are counted and seen to be separate, but when they are tossed into the air, they descend tied together by a single knot, and the performer catches them, taking a bow. Smiling, he strokes the silks with his hand, and from them removes a second bunch of six silks of contrasting colors to the first six! Counting these, he “splits off” another bunch of six silks -- and counts again -- eighteen silks -- yard squares -- produced from nowhere!

Surprise has been added to surprise; the audience has been well entertained by a fast moving, streamlined routine of magical effects climaxed by a most amazing production of silks. There, in very truth, is the kind of magic the idealists dream about, for it is produced on a bare stage or in the middle of a night club floor; the magician enters and with him comes surprise, color, a deft touch of comedy, and a generous measure of mystification!

Now available as a downloadable PDF
To make this routine easier-to-study, we've reset the type and reformatted the booklet for output to your 8-1/2" x 11" (or A4) format printer. Edited by John Braun with the Introduction by John Mulholland, Silks Supreme features concise text and over 40 incredible, crystal clear Nelson Hahne illustrations. 22 pages.

NOTE: Routine can be performed with silks from 18" to 36" in size (none supplied with download).

Also available, Keith Clark's Celebrated Cigarettes.

GENERAL FILE SPECIFICATIONS
PC/Mac Compatible
Requires: Free Acrobat Reader (5.x or later)
"Preview" in Macintosh is NOT supported
File size: 1.84 MB
Pages to print: 22
Format: Outputs to both US 8.5 x 11
and European A4 desktop printers