4. PRETENDED THROWS
The pretended throws are comparatively easy vanishes. You can feign to throw the ball into the air or into the other hand, and the throw can be made with either the back of the hand or the palm toward the spectators.
Into the Air
Stand with your right side to the front and show the ball between the first finger and thumb of the right hand. Drop the hand and make a preliminary gesture of throwing the ball upwards. Repeat the action and, as the hand reaches its lowest point, rapidly palm the ball in the regular palm and bring the hand sharply upwards to shoulder height, separating the fingers, as the motion of the hand is stopped, as if releasing the ball and follow its supposed flight with your eyes. The change over palm, to be described later, can then follow to show both hands empty.
Into the Other Hand
Turn your right side to the spectators and hold the ball between the thumb and fingers of the right hand; place the left hand, palm downwards, about a foot above the right hand. Throw the ball up into the left hand, bringing the two hands almost together in the action. Drop the right hand to its former position and let the ball fall into it from the left hand. Repeat the procedure several times; then, at the last throw, palm the ball in the right hand in the upward movement. Stop the motion of the hand at the same height as in the previous throws, open the right fingers, and immediately afterward close the fingers of the left hand in exactly the same manner as when it really received the ball. Move the hand away, puffed out, and finish the vanish in the usual way.
With the Palm of the Hand to the Front
This vanish can be used only when a dress suit is worn, for it depends on the use of the large pocket known as the profonde, in the tail of the coat. Standing with the left side to the front, the right hand with the ball is brought backwards in the preliminary action of the throw and the ball is dropped into the coat pocket, the pretended throw being made with the empty hand as in the first throw, “Into the Air.” After a certain amount of practice the ball can actually be thrown to the rear and into the pocket, so that there is no stoppage at all in the whole action.
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