Devon Magic Circle 2013
Newsletter June
Bristol Day of Magic
Quiz Answers
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Calendar 2012 -13................
Trix in the Stix
May “In the hand” Meeting
Jan Logermann
New Close Up Cup
Show for Churston Ferrers
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Quiz Answers
1. In 1983, which magician appeared to make the Statue of Liberty disappear on live
television? David Copperfield
2. Randall James Hamilton Zwinge is a stage magician, debunker, and scientific
skeptic who performs under which name? Randi
3. Considered to be "The Father of Modern Magic," this French magician performed
his mesmerizing tricks in Europe during the 1840s and 1850s. The "Light and Heavy
Chest" was one of his most famous tricks. Name this magician. Robert Houdin
4. Dante the Magician first popularized this magic phrase in the 1940s. It definitely
has an Arabic flavor to it, which is possibly why it was also used by cartoon
character Hadji in "The Adventures of Jonny Quest." Which magic phrase am I
thinking of? Sim Sala Bim
5. What P is the French word for a magician? Prestidigitateur
6. Who won the 2013 stage competition for the DMC? Malcolm Norton
7. This magic word is possibly the most powerful of them all, but it is rarely used as
an incantation. In an elegant and simple manner it can transform a demand into a
polite request. Parents for generations have repeated the question: "what's the
magic word?" Please
8. Pilot in 1975, The Cars ins 1984, Ben Folds Five, Bruce Springsteen and Olivia Newton
John in 1980 all did what? Sang a song called Magic
9. Janet Leigh played the part of Houdini's wife in the popular 1953 movie "Houdini,"
but can you please tell me who played Houdini? Tony Curtis
10. Exotic animals have been used in magic acts before but Siegfried and Roy,
originally from Germany, became known for their acts using exotic lions and tigers.
At which Las Vegas hotel did they work their magic? The Mirage
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Future DMC Meetings
Friday 28th June - DMC Barbeque - Dawlish Warren EX7 0PQ
[Please note change of date] Please confirm by 24th June if you are coming.
[email protected]
Wed 10th July - DMC - Malcolm Norton lecture - dem.
Exonian Magical Society
Thur 27th June - Lecture American Mark Byrne
Contact Ozzy if you want to join their 100 Club raising funds for the One Day
Convention at Langstone Cliff, Dawlish Warren.
Sunday 22nd September - One Day Convention
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Follow up questions
1 Who are these?
Vanni Pule
Shimada
2. a Where was Houdini born on March 24, 1874? Budapest, Hungary
b What was Houdini's occupation before he quit in 1891 to pursue his career in
magic? Worked in a necktie factory.
c. How old was Harry Houdini when he got married? 20 years old
3. Which film?
a. 2006 American period drama film written and directed by Neil Burger and
starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, and Jessica Biel. It is based loosely
on Steven Millhauser's short story, "Eisenheim ". The film tells the story of
Eisenheim, a magician in fin de siècle Vienna, who uses his abilities to secure
the love of a woman far above his social standing. The Illusionist
b. a 1954 horror film starring Vincent Price and Eva Gabor. In 1987, it became
the first movie shown in3D on television. Vincent Price plays Gallico the great,
an inventor of stage-magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own
right. Just before his first performance, his act is shut down by capricious
manager Ormond (Donald Randolph), who wants Gallico's
brilliant buzzsaw effect for the act of the Great Rinaldi (John Emery), an
established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his
wife Claire (Eva Gabor) to his rival, Gallico goes insane and uses the buzzsaw
to decapitate his manager. The Mad Magician
c. is a 2006 British-American mystery thriller film written, directed and coproduced by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher
Priest's 1995 novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and
Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century.
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Obsessed with creating the best stage illusion, they engage in competitive oneupmanship with tragic results. The Prestige
4. Who sang ?
a. Black Magic Woman Fleetwood Mac (1969) or Santana (1970)
b. Could It Be Magic Barry Manilow (1975)
c. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic Police (1981)
5. Which Societies ?
Wessex
6.a. On what day and year did Houdini die? October 31st 1926
b. Houdini always said the world would forget him as an escape artist but remember
him for his aviation feats, but it is his spectacular escapes and magic that keeps
Houdini's memory alive. What memorabilia was made available on July 3rd 2002
and cost 37cents ? A Stamp
c. Why was Harry's wife the only immediate family member not buried beside
Houdini? His mother, father, sister and brothers are all in the same Machpelah
cemetery, Because she was a catholic and all the others Jews.
7. Words
a. Which Wizard from a film sounds as if he lives in Australia? Wizard of Oz
b. Which female magician used used the magic word
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS in her film? Mary Poppins
c. Paul Daniels created a cartoon magician in the shape of a yellow triangle. What
was his name.? Whizbit
No one sent in the answers!!! Does anyone read the Newsletter.
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Trix in the sticks
The four Devon Magic Circles were well represented at this 2 days of Magic
on the English - Welsh Border near Wrexham!! You could tell by the painted
vans that it was a children’s magic convention and was excellently organised
by Jeremy of Practical Magic with big inputs from Kimmo, Pat Fallon and
Gary Dunn.
Terry Herbert lectured and his work and inspiration to a generation of
Children’s Magicians was rightfully celebrated. There was also a US link up
with Silly Billy in New York!!
A fun mixture of lectures, dealers, food and just hanging out together!!
Jeremy is now planning to repeat the dose in 2014.
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In the hand - may meeting
I am afraid that it is a long time since I wrote the notes to the May meeting and they are
difficult to understand even for me!!
allowed Roy to suffle the cards and the cards were then dealt with each card
being turned face up. He stopped when he came to the first picture card. Simon then
accurately predicted the next picture cards which were dealt. The cards were shuffled
again by Roy and the feat repeated!!
(I think this was said to be from an effect by Dr Rein in 1947 using Zenner cards)
opened with a swizzling wand - folloed by a chosen card spun in the fingers.
(Think this is called Chicago Web or Red Hot Mamma?).
He then performed his version of the Symphony of the Rings using an assistant.
started with the spooky turn over eye-glasses in the spectators hand.
(Invisible loop). He then performed his Morcombe and Wise trick which is a signed card
is torn and restored only to find the restored card (like Andre Prevue!In M&W) was not
necissarily in the right order. The final reveal of a chosen card used the card chain - first
card says Look in my pocket - this card says - Look on the table - this card then says Look
in my mouth! - Where the chosen card is visible!!
then performed the Roy Walton Cascade with surprising turn overs and then
impossible ending!
I cannot find who else performed that evening - sorry...
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Jan logermann lecture
Wednesday 12th June 2013 will be remembered as one of the
best lectures we have had at DMC. Fortunately some visitors also
joined us for the evening.
Jan Logermann is a FISM Grand Prix Card winner and although
the evening focused on a range of effects which mere mortals
can also achieve it was clear Jan’s skills and flourishes which were
interspersed int the leture almost as asides.
Jan introduced himself with Moyne moyne - a Germanic Hello!!
He then started on his laid back approach opening his
Carlsberg Light can - accompanied with a “bright flash” Delite.
After emptying the contents into his glass and quaffing some, he
explained that all the effects he was sharing this evening are
effects he performs regularly. He then dented the empty can ald
left on the side with the glass from which he occasionally took a
drink.
where
He then opened with a card effect he calls
he had pre-show asked someone to think of a card (not known to
the rest of us). In performance he then ask this person what card
they are thinking of and after shuffling(!) the deck, using the
noise from a sound box, causes the deck to open with top half bowing one way and the bottom
half the other. From the gap he extracts a Joker saying that the person’s card has turned into the
Joker. The assistant is then asKed to look through the whole pack for their card but it is not there!
From this point Jan moved into his
- it originated from a David
Williamson effect.
He chose a person from the audience.
Need to learn to palm 4 cards.
Get 4 Queens on the top of the deck - first of all offer the pack to the assistant face up pretending
he will choose a card. Use this opportunity to get a break under the top 4 cards.
When turning pack down and bringing hands together always
take the cards to the palm not the palm to the cards. Achieve
this with the ring finger (remember for Germans this is on the
right hand!!) Inserted into the break and the 4 cards raised into
the palm. Assitant then is given the rest of the pack and asked
to go down through the pack and give me 3 cards from the pack.
After the second card is put onto the hand then the palmed
cards are secretly added. The last card frm the assistant is then
placed on top. This means you have 7 cards in the hand.
Do an Elmsley Count. (Push off 1, then the block of 5 (adding the
one back to the original hand) then counting on 3 and 4). Do the
count pulling the cards downwards to hide the 5 card block you
are counting.
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Now count two cards into the right hand and separate the top card in the left hand - show as two
cards in each hand. (Actually a block of 4 on the bottom in the left hand fixed with the middle
finger).
Give the assistant one card and show the 3 cards. Now do the Elmsley again counting 4 cards!!
(First surprise). Can do the Ascanio Spread if you want to again
show the 4 cards. Then to same move with two in each hand giving one to the assistant!! Again do the Elmsley and Ascanio and then for the last time give one card to the assistant (3rd
time).
Now do an Elmsley counting the 4 cards as 3.
Tent vanish
You say “You gave me 3 cards and there are now (slide the 4th
card into view under the other hand’s cover) 4!! “
Again put a card to the assistant. Now do an Elmsley counting 3
as 4.
Now say “ I am going to do this again and again until you
applaud!”.
Put one more on the table - you have now 2.
Ask audience how many card do they think you have......often they say 4. (If you have put a 4 clubs
at the third position down from the top at the beginning you can now say yes 4 cards but there are
actually only one.
Show the double as a single card using the diagonal corners hold.
The assistant now gives you 2 cards again and you do a one hand Ascanio spread of the 4 as 3.
Locking the 2 on the bottom as one with the pinkie. Now you show the value of the cards.
Put the two block of cards on the top and hence the top card is a card they have not seen.
Glimpse that top card. Give the assistant the 4 cards saying - “now 3 cards for you” and pick up the
whole deck. Mis-call the top card of the deck as the glimpsed card.
Apparently put this top card on the table - (but using the thumb as you turn the left hand pull it
back onto the top of the deck using the 3rd finger as a pivot, as you apparently cover the card on
the table with the right hand. (Rub-a-dub vanish). (Like a retension vanish).
Jan often does this on his knee rather than the table - apparently fixing the card on the knee.
So the card has apparently vanished from the magician’s hand to appear in the spectator’s. Even
highlighted as they see that the card which has appeared is the one you named.
At this moment Jan palms a further about 20 cards!!
Take the 4 cards off the assistant to explain the miracle. Add the palmed cards and immediately
take off the top card to give back to the assistant. Now fan out the “lots of cards” in sets of about 5
seemingly lots of cards are appearing. Jan holds on to the top 3 cards of the palming so flourising
these individually at the end of the production!! (
People are now quite convinced you have one huderd cards with all those which have been added
since the start of the trick.
Now pick up all the cards from the table - pushing them into shape - he then does the Gerry
Andrews move which pumps up the volume of the cards. Bow the cards with finger and thumb at
the short opposite ends of the pack, allowing air between, and grab the centre of the pack by the
sides of the pack. (Thumb and middle finger.) Do not show horizontally but at an angle. Show
against the empty box and it won’t fit. It looks as if you have 100 cards!!
Now do the “tent vanish” at the same time as you allow the air to disappear from the pack.
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Magical gesture for the vanish. (Good time if you want to use smoke!!)Pretending to put the
invisible cards on the assistant’s hand.
Now pretend to squeeze the rest of the cards into the box.
Go to the pockets for the invisible card box for the assistant to put their cards in - a great
opportunity for you to switch packs - which Jan does for his “memorised” deck which is given
to the assistant.
(If working with children tell them to put the invisible cards under their pillow at bedtime)
Hopefully the parents will then add a real pack for the child to find in the morning!!
The memorised deck is then used later in the show!.
Jan then shared his
which as with some other tricks had a situation where
the start and end of the effect was separated by other effects.
Borrowed Finger Ring - put in the glass on stage and left for a while.
(Actually the ring was switched as it was collected) and gives him 3 chances to win the ring
back.
Go to the back row to take a ring - duplicate finger ring in right hand.
Pick up ring off hand - your fingers shield the duplicate from the person from whom you
borrowed it.
On stage is a gift bag with a Lion Bar sticking out. This is a feke and a load tube to a small bag
of Haribo sweets in a large Haribo pack. These have both been treated with rubber cement to
seal when the tube comes out. The gift bag is given to someon to look after.
Now other effects are continued with.
In fact he went back to the pack he had switched and did
producing the thought of card which is now in the pack.
again this time actually
Later the ring was vanished into a paper - press into paper to make impression etc. Get a
member of audience to apparently feel the
ring. Warm it up then - torn up. (Old but
effective vanish)
Supposed to end up in the ring box in the bag however in this box is one wrong ring and a
sweet. If the sweet is in the ring box then
perhaps the ring is in the sweets. All of this
reveal can be done by the assistant.
Finally to end the half he picked up the empty
bent Carlsberg and went in to the
Healed and Sealed effect!! The can loses its dent as it is
blown into. The “hole” on the top of the can becomes resealed and Jan then opened the can
and poured out the refilled contents!!!
We were all fooled!!! (Well I was at least....) No one spotted the switch - he showed it was
important to keep taking things from the case he had on a chair and at an opportune time
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when two assistants were returning to their seats and he was clearing the rest of the sweets he did
the switch!!
When we returned from the break Jan shared how Anders Moden (who originated Healed and
Sealed) had heard about Jan doing the effect and therefore sat in the front row on an occasion to
watch for the switch!! When then Jan picked up the bent can Anders Moden said No way!!! I
missed the switch!!
one card in the card box. Taking risks but. Having in the
Jan opened the second half with his
interval asked someone to think of a card but not found it he asks the same person to name a card
they were thinking of. Ususally they do name the card from previously. Jan then opened the pack
took out the card. However it was not the card names - the card then visibly changed into a second
not thought of card and finally into the named card.
effect. In essence a £10 note was borrowed. The
Jan then shared his very effective
owner was told he could win it back if he could read out and then recall the serial number. The
serial number was noted by someone (
and a the original donor was asked to remember the
number - usually fails - as they only remember a part of the number they
are allowed to tear off the corner and keep.
The £10 is now changed into a £20
The person is given
the £20 to confirm it is real - check it against the serial number to see if it
theirs - clearly it is not and therefore it must be the performer’s .
A bottle of cheap white wine is then offered as a prize instead only for a
£10 note to appear inside this apparently unsealed bottle.
The bottle is then uncorked the assistant is asked how he
could get the wine and his
note out!! Before he drinks it
the bottle of wine is emptied then the bottle is put into a
plastic bag - a hammer and
safety gloves produced. The bottle smashed and with
long tweezers the assistant retrieves the note - washes
any class shards off in the wine and then confirms it is
the original note with the serial numbers matching.
The details of this effect were available in Jan’s excellent notes and DVD.
An excellent evening was had by all!!
Jan said his sound boxes came from a German dealer.
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Thanks to Roy Gable
We have always felt the Ken Savage Close Up Cup lacked stature!! Now
it has its own plinth with space to record the winners. We have Roy
Gable to thank for enhancing this cup. Thanks Roy.
The first to adorn the plinth is Zak Stone.
Show for Club Funds
We are also very grateful to some members who received a
cheque for £150 for the Club for a Fund Raising event at
Churston Ferrers Grammar School on Friday 17th May.
The performers were Bob Collyer, Ozzy and Barry Crompton
and they did some close up during the dinner and then a
stage show
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