Noel Clair had developed an item in which he told a “Sam the
Bell Hop” type of story. It was a great story, dealing cards from the deck to
illustrate words in the story. Then,
using something as ordinary as a paper bag, he put coins into the bag, and
vanished them, then from the same bag he produced nests of flowers.
Back in the May meeting, David Whitson had done a similar
item to the card story told by Noel Clair.
Now he had developed this more, using Giant cards – which showed up very
effectively – and now he had also developed a romantic theme, which worked
well. Another item that used prepared
cards was a mentalism item - a frame spelling “Teamwork” (like the item “Perspex
Prediction”, for those that have it).
Al Hirschel, with the “Packet Trick” theme in mind, had brought along
a packet of cards with pictures of beautiful women. However, when the volunteer tried to choose a card, they always
get a surprise - a card with a picture of a very ugly woman! Al described this as “a bit of harmless fun”.
“Deckstress” is a packet trick developed by Tim Ellis of
Melbourne, and John Ferguson performed this.
He went on to do Gordon Bean’s “Entourage”, in which the spectator
always chooses the correct queen of the four that might be there in the packet
(but there turns out to be only that one queen, and the other 3 are
jokers). He did the classic trick
“Chicago Opener”, and also “One More Chance”, invented by Morte Smith (“I’ll
give you one more chance to add a few cards…. when you wake up at three in the
morning, you’ll wonder ‘what would have
happened if I had agreed to add a few more cards?’”).
Two more magicians concluded the evening.
Tom Blunden read us an interesting
story. Please remember, that if you
have not had a chance to prepare a magic item, we would be delighted if you
told us a joke, or read a story that impresses you – thank you, Tom.
Elliott Copping asked a question. He was working on a trick that uses the “Impulse Change”, and was
finding it hard to work out how to do it.
Please can anyone help with this item?
Let Elliott know at the next meeting.
