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Vol. 13 Issue 6 June 2016
We meet the first Thursday of the month at Beth Sholom, 1050 S. Tuttle Ave. Sarasota FL. 34237 Workshop at 6:00 pm. Officers meeting 6:30 pm. General meeting and presentation 7:00 pm.
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Bring those ropes and your thumb tips and show us what you’ve been practicing but never had the opportunity to perform. This is your chance. We are all here to learn from each other in a friend-ly and non judgmental environment. We all have these items. Why not bring them to the meeting and show or learn what can be done with them. Where else would you get this opportunity to perfect something that’s been in the back of the closet.
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Memorizing a Deck Joshua Jay Amazing Book of Cards
No set up required: Performance: Announce that you will memorize the deck after it has been shuffled by the spectator. While the deck is being shuffled get a look at the bottom card any way possible without the spectator seeing this ac-tion. If card was not see get a look after the deck has been returned to you. This will be the key card that you must remember. (Assume it to be the five of Spades.) Holding the deck ask the spectator to cut off any number of cards and hold them in their hand. Have spectator look at the top card in your hand and remember it. Have the selected card placed on top of the packet in her hand. In order to bury the card place in your hand on the packet in the spectator’s hand. (The se-lection is now next to your key card.) Take back the deck and state that you will now attempt to memorize the deck. Fan through the cards, right to left, pretending to memorize the cards when in fact you will be looking for your key card. The card to the immediate right will be the selection. Including the selection count the re-maining cards, to yourself, as you continue to scan the deck. Let’s assume that the selection is 18th from the top. Hand the deck back to the spectator, face down, informing her/him that you’ve memorized the deck and ask the spectator what was the card selected. You now act as you were recalling the location of the selection. After a pause state that the card is the 18 card down. Have the spectator start dealing cards to the table. When she reaches the 16th card have her stop and state that the next card should be the five of Spades. (The key card) and the next card should be your selection. Knowing the location of two cards reinforces the idea that you’ve memo-rized all the card locations.
Immediately shuffle the cards in case someone ask you the location of another card.
Trick of the Month.
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Jack Gwynne When I was a teenager looking at pictures of magicians in the magic magazines, Jack Gwynne stood out as looking like what I thought a magician should look like. He had a thin face with a mustache and goatee and an in-tense fixation in his eyes as he passed the hoop over the floating lady. He was born as Jack McGwynne on April 12, 1895 in a town near Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania. From the time as a child when he saw a magician doing the die box in a tent show, he was hooked on magic. When illusionists Harry Kellar and Howard Thurston brought their shows to town, Jack's interest in magic was intensified. In 1915 he married his high school sweetheart Anne (she was 19, he was 20) and while he worked in a steel mill by day, Jack (who had changed his name to Gwynne) spent his evenings working on his act and building mag-ic equipment. With Anne as assistant and musical accompanist, the act grew and so did the family. As their children grew up, they were quickly added to the act, as well. In 1927, after a successful appearance at the IBM Convention, they headed for New York. Their act at the Franklin Theater in the Bronx netted them a fifty-week contract with RKO and its string of theaters all over the country. But, by 1933 vaudeville was slowly dying. More and more the movie theaters were driving live shows out. Jack Gwynne realized he had to make some changes. So he adapted his illusion show to fit the nightclub audiences, possibly being the first per-former to do a large illusion performance virtually surrounded by his audience. The Sword Cabinet & the Doll House were effects he popularized, as well as the Super X and various livestock props. As a kid browsing through the Ab-bott's catalog I saw Jack's name attributed to many such effects, and, as an adult, I purchased them. In 1941, the Gwynnes moved to Los Angeles and Jack appeared in two films: Dark Streets of Cairo and Model Wife. He had also made several ap-pearances on the television show Super Circus. During World War II he worked for the USO, performing for army bases and military hospitals. After the war, Jack and Anne settled in the Chicago area with their (now grown) children who still performed with them, earning them the title of the Royal Family of Magic. In the years that followed the Gwynne family suffered a shattering se-ries of tragedies. Jack suffered a heart attack on December 7, 1969 and died at the age of 74; in the next few years both a daughter and son passed away. Jack's wife, Anne, died in 1979 at the age of 83. They had been the Royal Family of Magic and their career had spanned more than forty years, a most amazing achievement for a most amazing family. Abridged & edited by Gale Molovinsky, from The Greats of Magic by Gerald Schiller.
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Prince Charles is the most famous member of the Magic Circle. After having performed the famous Club & Balls tricks for members he joined the Club in 1975.
One of the most famous phrases of the artistic world, “Died on stage” was extremely put into practice by Coulew of Lorraine in 1963, when an angry audience member clubbed him to death.
The biggest magic club in the world is the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and it is the largest as it counts its members at around 25,000.
When Christianity became the dominant religion in the 4th century, magicians were outlawed. Many were condemned to die, because they were thought to be witches or devil worshipers
One of the most famous illusionists was Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen. In 1770 he de-vised an automated chess player that took on all challengers. Benjamin Franklin played against the machine in 1783 and lost.
From the days of ancient sorcerers to the present-day feats of such master illusionists as Harry Blackstone, Jr., Doug Henning, and David Copperfield, magic as entertainment has surpassed the appeal of magic in religious ritual. There are ancient Egyptian records giving details of performances before Pharaoh Cheops, who died about 2494 BC.
Fred Astaire’s signature look of a tuxedo with tails was inspired after Astaire saw a per-formance of the legendary sleight of hand magician Cardini.