A Tip for The Waiter's Tip
By Sid Lorraine

Personally, I'd have the five prepared napkins planted in various pockets. I'd have the plate in my inside coat pocket. It would get more laughs if you took the plate out of your pocket and also mention that you brought along a napkin front the Waldorf-Astoria.

I'd use eight unprepared boxes of cereal. While the coin is being marked, remove the plate and the required napkin. The coin is wrapped; the spectator feels the sewn-in coin through the cloth; you steal the marked coin.

Pick up the selected box of cereal. The fingers of the right hand press the coin against the back of the box. With your left hand, pull away the napkin from the spectator. The coin has vanished! Put the napkin aside and tear off the top of the box in your right hand. Start pouring the cereal. When about half is on the plate, release the coin. It will be seen to fall, apparently from the box, in the stream of breakfast food.

Step back and let the spectator verify the mark on the coin. Take your box and have the spectator return the coin to its owner. Meanwhile, pour the cereal back in the box and present it to your assistant for his kindness in helping. If you could produce a bottle of milk at this point, it would be a fitting climax.

I like the effect and think an audience will like it, too. George DeMott is to be congratulated for a novel clothing of the passing of a marked coin.