The Prince and the Pumpkin – Theo Dore / Supreme Magic

The principle used is different to the usual methods employed during the traditional Type ‘passé-passé’, sucker effects.

On display are two colorful Castle Holders. Holders are in grey, black:, blue and white.Holders have a cut out window right through them. In front of the holders are two colorful 14″ x 10″ cards. One of the cards depicts a wicked old witch, the other one a Happy Pumpkin The magician explains how the pumpkin is really a prince, turned into a pumpkin by the witch. The witch card is placed into the castle, and to stop her from getting out a clip is placed over the top. Similarly, pumpkin is placed into the other castle and a clip is placed over. Telling of tales of the strange happenings which occur after dark, the magician partially covers one of the castles with a cloth, so that the window is obscured When he replaces the castle on the table, the children see him craftily turning this around Magician takes the remaining castle with the witch looking through the window, and passes this swiftly around his back. Immediately it is seen that the witch has gone, and there looking through the window is the Pumpkin. When the castle on the table is uncovered there is the witch! The effect is repeated, the witch and the pumpkin ‘repeatedly changing places. The children lose no time in telling you that the pictures are really double-sided. – There’s a pumpkin on the back of the witch and vice versa; Now the cards are removed completely from their respective castles (which are seen to be empty, apart from these giant cards). Magician appears to misunderstand the children’s request to turn the pictures around. He turns them upside-down and then back: again. Finally, he does turn the cards over. On the back of the witch card is an ugly frog, on the back of the pumpkin, a handsome young prince.

What really makes this unusual and a fooler, is the castles have a hole in place of the window, so when you pull the entire cards out of the castle, they are seeing completely thru the castle, and out the other side. And the magician is left with two thin placards depicting the changed items, takes Hippitty Hop Rabbits leaps and bounds ahead, and what’s more, the props are far more colorful, done in the excellent silk screening that was the signature of Supreme Props.