DAVID WHITSON started the magic with the item Two Ropes
Become One, and moved on to Professor's Nightmare. He continued with the fascinating item,
Pavel's Knots on Rope. David could make
the knots appear and disappear, and then showed they were real, because to
remove them he had to untie them !
JOHN FERGUSON did a rope item called "Zip stitch". Winding a rope around the fingers of one
hand, he told a story of a farmer's conflict with a thief. The rope tie, known as Zip Stitch, which
appeared so firmly attached to his hand, was magically removed in one pull. The
farmer prevented the thief stealing his grain by using the rope, whipping him
and binding him up.
NOEL CLAIR (our host) performed a bottle cap matrix, and
then showed us how it can be turned into a story – "Escape from Alcatraz",
in which bottle caps representing prisoners are magically transferred from the
prison across to boats on the dockside.
In "Random Aces" he asked a spectator to use a coin to push some
cards out of the pack. This was repeated
four times. The four random piles were incredibly
shown to have aces on top of each pile.
In another transference effect, coins moved from his left hand to a
glass in his right. Again, he took a talon of cards, and then he rubbed one
card with his hand on the table, and the card vanished.
He performed another matrix in which coins were covered with
playing cards, and the coins moved across one at a time. He again took cards – four of them this
time, and first showed all the cards were identical, then showed all the cards
were different. Finally, using a Boston
Box type effect, he passed coins through the table. We regret that it is not possible to give
detailed descriptions here of the massive amount of magic he performed for us.
STEVE IRWIN used the Stiff Rope (surmounted by a Mickey Mouse)
to entertain us, and next he produced many paper flowers from thin air, throwing them into a receptacle – a very
smooth illusion.
JEFFREY CLARK also displayed the Stiff Rope, changing it
into a normal soft rope. He performed
his version of Professor's Nightmare, and his version of the Vanishing Knots.
It is helpful to see how different performers approach the same trick !
