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--- misc:multiplying_bananas [2014/05/23 03:36] – stephenminch
+++ misc:multiplying_cigars_and_bananas [2015/09/01 08:37] – Page name changed from misc:multiplying_bananas to misc:multiplying_cigars_and_bananas denisbehr
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-====== Multiplying Bananas ======
+====== Multiplying Cigars and Bananas ======
-This variant on Jack Chanin's "Multiplying Cigars" was originated by Al Cohen. He marketed it as "It's Bananas". Later Dan Garrett made arrangements with Cohen to manufacture and sell the bananas with Garrett's expanded routine. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37388/Genii/14|Genii]]//, Vol. 71 No. 5, May 2008, p. 14, for Cohen's recounting of the story. He gives no date.
+The effect of a continuous production of cigars from the hands--through the manipulative recycling of two imitation cigars--was developed by G. W. Hunter and marketed in 1936 through Max Holden's Magic Shop (see ads in the May 1936 issues of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37708/Linking+Ring/100|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 16 No. 3, and //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38354/The+Sphinx/32|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 35 No. 3) as [[http://askalexander.org/display/10853/Sid+Lorraine+Files+Folder+10+Cigarettes+Cigars+Pipes+Etc/46|"G. W. Hunter's Cigar Production"]].
+Jack Chanin was well known for his manipulations with cigars in the early 1930s. In 1937, he published a booklet on the topic, //[[http://askalexander.org/display/23302/Tops/388|Cigar Manipulation]]//, which included a handling of [[http://askalexander.org/display/29116/Chanin+The+Man+With+The+Magic+Hands/191|Hunter's cigar production]] (uncredited) followed by a [[http://askalexander.org/display/29116/Chanin+The+Man+With+The+Magic+Hands/193|variation]] that Chanin claimed.
+The Banana Bag, widely known to magicians by 1925, was a cloth bag constructed like an Egg Bag, from which bananas made of rubber (usually six) were produced. Chanin, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/29116/Chanin+The+Man+With+The+Magic+Hands/208|Cigar Manipulation]]//, suggested using rubber cigars in place of the bananas.
+Al Cohen, familiar with Chanin's performances of the continuous production of cigars, combined these ideas by adapting the Hunter production to sponge bananas, c. early 1980s, in his marketed trick "It's Bananas". Dan Garrett made arrangements c. 1986 with Cohen to manufacture and sell the bananas with Garrett's expanded routine as the "World Famous Banana Trick". See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37388/Genii/14|Genii]]//, Vol. 71 No. 5, May 2008, p. 14, for Cohen's recounting of the story. He gives no date.
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