Effect:
A seemingly impossible prediction of a word in the days newspaper, made several days before! A week before the show, the performer posts an envelope to amember of the audience with a request that it is brought on the nightof the show. On the night, the audience are seated and theperformer states how, “…weeks in advance , I mailed an envelopea member of the audience here and asked that she bring it tonight”.She is asked up on stage with the envelope where she confirmsno one has touched it and it has been sealed the whole time. She isthen asked to open up the envelope and announce what is inside.Spectator: “There is a folded up piece of paper inside”Magician: “Would you care to take it out and read what it says”the spectator does so and reads aloud:“On Wednesday 15th of July , on page 9 of The Daily Mail , third wordalong , the word will be...DEMANDS”A copy of The Daily Mail is shown, the date is confirmed , and is turned topage nine where – sure enough – the 3rd word along is ‘demands’!!
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