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The performer is holding a photo frame in his hands. A black sheet of paper is inserted into it. The performer asks the audience to write the name of any writer or poet on a piece of paper and roll the note into a tube. Then his assistant comes down into the auditorium with a box in her hands - she collects notes from the audience. When the notes are collected, the performer asks one of the spectators to approach the assistant and take one of the notes out of the box. The spectator then returns to his seat and puts the note in his pocket.

Taking a handkerchief from the table, the performer covers the frame with it and immediately pulls off the handkerchief. Framed is a portrait of the Russian writer A.P. Chekhov. The performer asks the spectator to take a note out of his pocket and read out its contents. The note contains the name of A.P. Chekhov.

Focus secret:

The 20x15 cm frame, of course, has a secret. It consists of four slats and glass. Its side strips on the back have grooves 5 mm wide - the same type as in a school pencil case. A curtain made like a blind from 2 mm plywood or cardboard is inserted into these grooves. The side of the curtain that is adjacent to the glass is painted black. Following the curtain, a portrait of some poet, writer, or commander is inserted into the frame, which will be shown to the audience (Fig. 29). His name is written in advance on ten to fifteen notes. The notes are rolled up and placed in a box.

Focus Portrait in a frame
Fig. 29

The box must have a double bottom or a secret partition. In Fig. 29, B shows a box with a hinged lid, like a chest. Secret notes with the name of the writer already known to the performer are placed in the folded lid and they are placed in a secret bottom. Then, holding the lid of the box with the secret “charge” with her thumb, the assistant goes down to the auditorium and walks along the rows, collecting notes from the audience. When, in her opinion, there are enough notes, she closes the box with a lid (at this moment the second bottom will drop freely and cover the spectators' notes, and leave secret notes at the top) and approaches the first rows. Now you can safely let the audience pull out any note - they all have the same name written on them. One of the spectators pulls out a note and puts it in his pocket.

The performer covers the frame with a scarf, and when he removes it, he simultaneously pulls out the secret curtain (Fig. 29, D). Under the glass in a frame is a portrait of the writer whose name is on the note.

Author: Akopyan A.A.

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