International Brotherhood of Magicians The Gimmick St. Leon Ring, Sacramento, CA - July 2017 Issue Number 7 From Page to Stage David Wright, President Who reads books anymore! Some of the best magical effects m Our performance theme for the next magic club meeting can be found is Packet in a book. and At least Pocket that has Tricks. been true Be for prepared many generations of magicians. It goes back as far as 1489 when to produce your effect out of your pocket and Gantziony first wrote Natural and Unnatural Magic, which amaze describes us and with explains your old-time performing tricks. At skill. our next Pocket club magic is meeting a basic we tool will be of looking our trade at magic and books something and effects we that all can should be found be in books. able to Come produce to the meeting without prepared a second to discuss thought. your favorite Seeing magic books. everyone s Better yet, favorite come prepared pocket to effect show us a magical effect you learnt from a book. What do you will make for a fun event. consider to be the best magic book on the market? What is the best trick ever revealed in a book? Our next club meeting should be a lot of fun and very educational as we discuss and perform magic found in books. The performance theme is From Page to Stage. I hope you can make it. IBM 192 Meets at 7:00 p.m. 2nd Wednesday of each month at Mission Oaks Community Center 4701 Gibbons Drive Carmichael, CA 95608 http://magic1.org/ibm192/ Officers for 2017 David Wright, President Scot Smith, Vice-President Harry Mossman, News Letter Editor harry_mossman@yahoo.com Dick LaVergne, Treasurer Al Skinner, Sergeant at Arms Rick Hill, Member at Large John Iacono, Member at Large Q: What do you call a dog who does magic tricks? A: A labracadabrador. Close-Up Competition - See Page 3 Contact: David Wright, President wright.davida@sbcglobal.net http://magic1.org/ibm192
- ST. LEON IBM RING 192 ~ Calendar for 2017 Date Performance Theme/Event Additional Meeting Activities Location July 8 th Magic Party Grand Illusions July 12 th From Page to Stage Social Mixer Mission Oaks Aug. 3rd - 6th Golden Gate Gathering goldengategathering.com Crowne Plaza Hotel Foster City, CA. Aug. 9 th Annual IBM/SAM Stand-Up Competition Contact Josh Ray or David Wright to enter contest. Mission Oaks Sept. 13 th Gambler's Dilemma Teach a Trick Mission Oaks Oct. TBA Multi-Club Magic Community Show TBA Oct. 11 th Eat, Drink and Be Scary T.I.P.* Mini-Lecture Mission Oaks Nov. 8 th Gene Anderson Lecture Mission Oaks Dec. 13 th Joint IBM / SAM Holiday Magic Meeting Dec. TBA Dale & Elaine Lorzo s Annual Holiday Party Lorzo House *T.I.P. = To Improve Performance Thanks Murphy's for the gift certificates! Most 2nd Saturdays
Close-Up Competition by David Wright Photos John Iacono Congratulations to the four contestants who performed at our Annual Magic Close-up Competition on June 28. They were Jacques Lord, Harry Mossman, Mary Mowder, and Joshua Ray. All did a fantastic job and showed an audience of about thirty people what quality magic is all about. Jacques Lord took first place and Mary Mowder took second place in this year s competition. Joshua Ray won the People s Choice Award for best performer.
June Performances Photos John Iacono
June Performance Notes by David Wright The performance theme for this night was Magic with Music. Rick Hill opened the evening s entertainment with Smart Water, an instant change effect where with bottle of water. Rick took a sip from his water bottle and complained about the water inside was too warm. He then proceeded to shake the bottle until ice appeared inside. He let people in the room feel the bottle to prove that it was now ice cold. Amazing! Dale Lorzo was up next and produced a flower bouquet from group of silk handkerchiefs after showing each of the handkerchiefs separately. Next he performed a diminishing card routine to music where he showed a fan of playing cards and proceeded to shrink then down in size until they were too small to see. Scot Smith came up next and performed a couple of entertaining card tricks. He first had a card selected and returned to the packet of cards. He then spread the cards on the table and pulled out a mechanical pet snake from a box that he let sliver across the spread out cards. The snake stopped at the selected card. Next Scot had a spectator pick a number from 1 to 52, count down to that number and hold the card. From a small box he produced a slip of paper that correctly predicted the card selection. Our next performer was Mary Mowder who showed off her magical skills by performing a torn and restored newspaper routine to music. David Wright was up next and performed an ace assembly routine to music where three aces vanished from three locations and reappeared together with the fourth leader" ace. Our newest member, Josh Oldes, performed his club introduction effect, an ace assembly routine where the four aces vanished from four locations and reassembled together in the middle of the deck. Our next performer was Pepe Puglisi who performed a levitating glass routine where a wine glass magnetically stuck to a glass frame, turned in all directions. A silk handkerchief was removed from the glass as it hung suspended upside down on the frame, thus proving that the glass and frame were not attached to each other. Up next was Dave Fiscus who performed a cute magic effect to the classic tune How Much Is That Doggy In The Window. He showed us pet store glass window containing a picture of a dog. He removed the dog picture which turned out to be a jumbo card and showed us all the other animals in the pet store, mostly cats pictures on jumbo cards. All of the cards had a hole at one end. Dave showed us how to magically reinsert the dog card while the stack of other cards were around a spectator s finger. Dave then proceeded to tie the dog card onto a long rope, cut the rope into six separate pieces and magically restore them to one long rope again. Impossible! Jaques Lord closed out our evening s performances with his own personal version of "Sam The Bellhop, a full deck card routine where he continuously shuffled and cut a deck, turning over cards one at a time as he recounted a story about his four daughters sneaking out of the house to go to the 524 Club with four young men. Jaques routine was a significant improvement over other versions in that he did not try to rhyme his patter but told it in a natural voice as if it happened yesterday. Very persuasive!