Mr. White was seated at a green felt covered poker table.  After thoroughly shuffling a pack of cards, he looked up and asked a young lady to merely think of a card.

He began dealing the cards face down onto the table one by one.  He asked her to stop him at any one of the fifty-two cards she wished.  When she stopped him, he turned that card face up and it was the card she had in mind.  Mr. White smiled and said, "Well, young lady, I got lucky that time!" Then he went on to bewilder his audience with cards, coins, dollar bills, and other familiar objects.

Should you ask Bob White how long he has been doing magic tricks, he will jokingly answer, "Well, I am nearly fifty-nine years of age and I have been doing magic for fifty-four years.  You see, I wasted the first five years of my life."  In a serious conversation he will admit his profession began as a boyhood hobby.

"Since I was a boy of five, I have been passionately interested in magic, particularly that branch utilizing cards, coins and other familiar objects.  It was my good fortune to have had a father who developed a keen interest in the art of magic.  From the time I was a youngster, he encouraged me to become a serious student of magic as an art.

"One of my early ambitions was to become an expert with an ordinary pack of playing cards.  In the pursuit of closely guarded secrets about cards, I met gamblers, card sharps, confidence men, and other colorful characters.  Some of these people of questionable integrity served a useful purpose in my early education in the principles of deception.

"Most magicians make the terrible mistake of completely underestimating the intelligence of the audience.  An entertainer who depends on 'apparatus' to create a magical effect or relies on a 'cheap laugh' rather than some humorous situation, finds the enlightened audience knows far too much for him.  However, there are now, and always have been, professors of magic who revere it as an art and practice it as such.  They are recognizable from the way they stand out among the pack.  Furthermore, there is something about a good trick, expertly done, that always plays well with a perceptive audience.

"People enjoy the Egyptian Cups and Balls, and classic stage tricks like the Chinese Rings, Egg and the Bag, and Cards Up the Sleeve, because the props are simple and may be examined by members of the audience.  When well done, these tricks will defy logic.  This type of magic derives its beauty from the fact that it is almost entirely dependent upon pure sleight of hand and wonderfully thought out psychological principles, facts that most discriminating audiences are never slow to appreciate.

Mr. White offers his services as a professional sleight of hand expert for any size audience.  His audiences range from large banquets to smaller gatherings in homes and at exclusive private clubs.  Corporations hire him to entertain their guests with his sleight of hand with cards and coins at cocktail parties, receptions, and hospitality suites.  On stage, in a banquet room, or seated at a poker table, his performances never fail to charm an audience.

Mr. White is nationally recognized as a sleight of hand expert.  Among fellow magicians, he is an author, a teacher, and a lecturer.  However, when he begins to do a trick for you, he looks at you squarely in the eyes and says, "In the old days, they used to rely on the quickness of the hands to deceive the eye, but I am going to do everything slowly and deliberately and I will disprove that old theory.  Now, I want you to watch very closely."

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