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Center Tear

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Center Tear is special technique used by magicians in Mentalism routines for secretly reading a message written on a piece of paper.


Published Record

  • "What Is It?" manuscript by Joe Ovette (1929).
  • "Ne Plus Ultra Reading Method" in Thayer's Trick of the Month brochure by Annemann (August 1932) credited to Ted Arnold (reprinted in Annemann's Mental Bargain Effects (1935) )
  • Two Mindreading Publicity effect describes the center tear with a word circled in a newspaper, Jinx #6 March 1935.

In Jinx #74 (January, 1940, page 495), Annemann introduces a Dunninger center tear trick as follows "Back in Jinx No. 6 I used this principle with a torn out piece of newspaper. Previous to that, I supplied Thayer's Trick of the Month Club with the effect as eventually made quite popular by Mogul. Previous to that Joe Ovette sold the idea in a slightly different form via the mss. route. Previous to that Martin Sunshine used it for private readings. And Martin told me subsequent to all of the above that he had learned it from Dunninger."

Variations

  • "One-Handed Center Tear" by Al Koran
  • "Umbrella Move" by Al Baker
  • "Surrounded Slow-Motion Center Fold" by Richard Osterlind

References