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A few years later I started working for the owner of the “Arcade” selling magic in the Greyhound bus station. During this period I worked out a routine with the color changing
knives to fool the “smart” kids that came to the counter.
Then Jay Marshall hired me to work the counter at Magic Inc. and gave me my very first close-up gig performing with Jim Ryan and
Steranko. At the gig I performed my knife routine for Carmen D'amico who then brought Ed over to see “The Kid” do the
knives. Ed said it totally fooled him and it was the very best knife routine he had ever seen. Vernon, Charlie Miller, and other great magicians made similar comments over the years.
Note: Ed Marlo was the only one I ever taught the routine and he wrote it up saying that ‘if it were his routine he would not sell it for less than $100 a copy”. He loved the routine and performed it while working at a bar.
Last year Doc Wayne helped me rewrite my script to make the routine more entertaining. Doc sells patter tapes for standard tricks that I recommend.