JUNE 2008
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Peoria Magicians Assembly meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of
the month at Bergner’s, second floor meeting room, in Sheridan Village in
Peoria. Please visit the Web site for
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welcomed at no charge for a limited number of visits. Membership is available for $20 per year and
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This Month:
June Meeting
– 3rd Monday, June 16 at Bergner’s in
Last Month:
May
Meeting, Monday, May 19, 2008
This
month’s meeting focused on non-magical fields that entertain audiences in a
magical way such as ventriloquism. Mike
Tate performed several routines with vent figures including a boy figure which
wore various hats such as a fireman’s hat with a few humorous lines for each
hat relating to each profession. He also
brought the larger figure Dr. Odd (with a large head) dressed in medical attire
and with accompanying medical jokes relating to questions asked by people such
as the lady who wanted advice on a bone broken in two places. Dr. Odd replied that she should stay out of
those places. Allan Adcock brought a
black felt easel and showed a few versions of rag pictures, an older art form
where various pieces of colored felt are added to produce a natural scene such
as the woods and sky with accompanying birds and a horse.
Ron
London Lecture, Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Ron
London presented some of his tried and true effects such as a large kitchen
match which splits into two and a card effect where ten or so cards are counted
and upon recounting, there is a missing card each time. There was also a
book test with two one-digit numbers being chosen forming a two-digit page
number. The first word on the chosen page was correctly revealed.
There was an effect with a spiral notebook where it appeared that a
drawing of a closed door magically changed to show an open door. In
another effect, a bottle cap placed in one of two match boxes magically jumped
to the other box.
In
the second half, Ron demonstrated some dealer items including a mentalism
effect where three colored balls (yellow, red, and white) are placed into various
pockets by a spectator (Brad Borland). Ron correctly revealed as to
which pocket they were placed. He also demonstrated a bill to matchbox
effect, an effect where a red silk travels to one of his pockets and then
transforms into a cane, and a prediction effect where a chosen color
(green) from a few colored cards is correctly revealed.
In Checker X, one of four colors is chosen from red, green,
yellow and blue and when the corresponding large wooden checkers
are threaded onto a rope and tied behind a volunteer's back, the three
unchosen colors are removed, leaving the chosen color remaining (red). He
also tied a square knot onto a rope and removed it, performed rope
through the body, sliding a long piece of rope (entering the front and
leaving the back), from the middle and out his left
side, did a color changing knot effect where a knot changes from white to red
and then to blue, and an effect where two knots untied from a
rope appeared back again. Ron reprised his performance of the effect
where a volunteer holds the ends of a wand between his two outstretched hands
balancing a coffee cup and a washer tied onto a long string. When the cup
is released it drops but falls short of the ground as the string and washer
wrap around the wand. Assisting with the effect and several
other effects was young guest Michael Stoens from Lostant. Ron also
performed an effect where several gold coins placed into a stand vanished from
the stand and appeared inside of a clear glass. He concluded with
a very nice effect using a glass goblet and a deck of cards placed into it. As a transparent silk was whisked over the
goblet, the face card changed to one the aces each time as all four aces were
produced.
Coming Up:
July Meeting
– 3rd Monday, July 21 at Bergner’s in
Calendar:
- Monday, July 21 – regular
meeting, 7 p.m., Bergner’s in Sheridan Village
Magic on
TV in June:
Look for
the continuation of Celebracadabra on VH1.
Club dues are $20.00 for 2008. Dues are payable to: PMA, c/o Jerry Tupper,
2029 W. Rohmann Ave., West Peoria, IL, 61604 for the 2008 calendar year. For new members, club dues are prorated for
the remaining months of the current year.
For questions regarding club dues, please e-mail Jerry at [email protected].
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