AL HIRSCHEL was hosting the evening, with the theme “Card
Tricks with a Borrowed Deck”. He commenced with the Seven Card trick, which
he is very keen on. He also laid out
cards in a matrix – aces, jacks, spades and others while he told us a story of
a storm swept island. Good entertainment !
NOEL CLAIR then took the floor, starting off with “Dr
Jacob Daley’s Last Trick”. In another
item, he managed to switch a group of indifferent cards for the four aces. Next, he vanished all four aces and then they
reassembled together.
He then moved in to a demonstration of some card manipulation
– the one handed Charlier cut, the double fan, and a double card waterfall. Smooth and well practised !
“Handful of Aces” was the name of a card item from JOHN
FERGUSON. All four of a kind were
produced from a borrowed, shuffled deck. The item came from the lecture notes of Sean
Taylor, who has devised so many imaginative items. John also did “Flip Card”, in which the
chosen card, reinserted in the deck, which is circled with a rubber band, is
caused to flip out on the top of the hand holding the deck.
DAVID WHITSON gave a demonstration of card
forcing. This is a very useful technique
for card magicians, and David is well proficient in it. We need to learn multiple ways of forcing!
STEVE IRWIN performed a very neat “Any Card at Any Number”
trick, in which the chosen card was returned to the deck, and then the
spectator picked a number – the chosen card was found at that number in the
deck.
GRAHAM HOLSTEIN, our club’s patron, recalled with
obvious fondness the first card trick he had ever learned, and he demonstrated
it. He took a deck of cards, held it in
dealing position inside a towel, and offered the towel to a spectator for him
to cut the deck. Graham retained the
bottom half, and the spectator rolled up the top half inside the towel. Graham was able to predict what the face up
card of the spectator’s half deck would be when the spectator unrolled the towel.
This had a big impact on the club members – even more so, when Graham kindly
showed us how to do this item.
Members commented afterwards that this evening was one
of the best club evenings they remembered!
