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tainer, but the way that you do it. The specialties that
performers do, are simply means to an end. Whether you
tell jokes, dance, sing, do memory feats, acrobatics or bird
imitations is unimportant, as long as you entertain your
audience.
Although my main reason for teaching you the memory
stunts is that the ideas used in them can be applied for
practical purposes in many ways—I also feel that the best
way to learn the systems, is to give you an incentive by
giving you something with which to showoff for your friends.
So, if you want to use the stunts to entertain at your lodge
meeting or church affairs, feel free to do so. However, be
sure that you know them well enough so that you do credit
to yourself and my system.
There are unscrupulous characters in show business as
well as in other fields, who would do anything they feel
will further their careers. There is one "culprit" who steals
a new act every year or so. Last year, he did me the "honor"
of stealing my entire act, leaving out only the difficult
demonstrations.
People who "steal" material are common in show busi-
ness, but to take someone's entire act is almost unheard
of. However, this fellow did it, but what annoys me, is not
so much that he is doing my act, but that he does not do
it well. This is to be expected because if he was a good
entertainer, he would never have to resort to using an act
or idea that someone else has already built up.
No, I don't mind creating competition for myself by
exposing these memory feats—as long as the competition
is good. As a matter of fact, the rest of this chapter consists
of stunts that I have used, and some that I still use occa-
sionally.
One of the stunts you can use, is remembering objects
and initials. First have your friends call any object and any