
- 550 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Home Fun
About this book
First published in 1910, "Home Fun" is a guide to entertaining guests in your own home, with chapters on everything from holding amateur performances and odd experiments, to indoor fireworks, parlour games, and beyond! This fantastic volume is full of interesting ideas, and it would make for a wonderful addition to any home collection. Contents include: "Amateur Theatricals", "Mysteries of Make-up", "The Quick-Change Artist", "Character Impersonations", "the Universal Hat", "Some Suggestions in Black", "Tableaux Vivants", 'Charades", "The Possibilities of the Musical Sketch", "Vamping Simplified", "An Evening at the Phonograph", "Musical Glasses", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
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Yes, you can access Home Fun by Cecil H. Bullivant in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Acting & Auditioning. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Prefatory Note
- Contents
- I. Amateur Theatricals
- II. Mysteries of Make-Up
- III. The Quick-Change Artist
- IV. Character Impersonations
- V. The Universal Hat
- VI. Nigger Minstrelsy
- VII. Some Suggestions in Black
- VIII. Tableaux Vivants
- IX. Charades
- X. The Possibilities of the Musical Sketch
- XI. Vamping Simplified
- XII. An Evening at the Phonograph
- XIII. Musical Glasses
- XIV. Hand-Bell Ringing
- XV. The Art of Drawing-Room Singing
- XVI. Drawing-Room Recitals
- XVII. The Art of Whistling
- XVIII. Bunkum Entertainments
- XIX. Ventriloquism in a Month
- XX. Conjuring for All
- XXI. Some Knotty Points
- XXII. Black Stage Mysteries
- XXIII. Concerning Ghosts
- XXIV. Some Stage Illusions
- XXV. The Room of Mystery
- XXVI. Mechanical Second-Sight
- XXVII. Papergraphy
- XXVIII. Juggling
- XXIX. Plate-Spinning and Waltzing
- XXX. The Tight-Rope
- XXXI. Clog Dancing
- XXXII. Shadow Shows
- XXXIII. Lightning Cartoons and “Fake” Sketching
- XXXIV. Frictional Fun
- XXXV. Some Electrical Effects
- XXXVI. Safe Scientific Experiments
- XXXVII. Safe Chemical Experiments
- XXXVIII. Odd Experiments
- XXXIX. More Experiments
- XL. Photo Pastimes
- XLI. How to Make and Work Marionettes
- XLII. Living Marionettes
- XLIII. The Home Circus
- XLIV. How to Make and Work a Peep-Show
- XLV. The “Mechanical” Peep-Show
- XLVI. How to Make and Work a Punch and Judy Show
- XLVII. Dissolving Views
- XLVIII. Indoor Fireworks
- XLIX. How to Make a Telephone
- L. Telegraphy at Home
- LI. Elementary Hypnotism
- LII. The Powers and Mysteries of Clairvoyance
- LIII. Table-Turning
- LIV. Palmistry
- LV. Phrenology
- LVI. Telling Fortunes by Cards, Dice, Dominoes, Etc.
- LVII. Graphology
- LVIII. A Successful Children’s Party
- LIX. Parlor Games
- LX. Parlor Tricks and Puzzles
- LXI. “How Would You——?” (Puzzles)
- LXII. Some Optical Illusions
- LXIII. Ciphers and Cryptograms
- LXIV. Secret Signs
- LXV. Games and Amusements for the Blind
- Index