Nov 06 - Ring Report

Ring Report Ring #170 The Bev Bergeron Ring

This Halloween season provided a great theme and fun meeting for the ring. Thirty members were present as President Harvey Brownlow brought the meeting to order.
We has two guests, Patrick Oliver and his fiancé, Ashley Fianse. In a generous gesture, Charlie Pfrogner made the announcement that he was donating video tapes of a number of classic magicians. Our Lecture Chairman, the hard working Craig Fennessey, announced a great lecture season is upcoming and he gave us a few names that will be lecturing to us in the future. The business meeting adjourned and Harvey was this month's MC for our ring show.

Ravelli lead off with an old favorite, the Chain Puzzle. Actually it is an old con game from the streets of a big city where a spectator can never guess where to put his finger in the loop of a chain. It is entertaining and a fooler. Charlie Pfrogner managed to create another trick for this month's meeting. We don't know how he does it!
This time he had a wonderful cure-all medicine elixir called "Icmag". It cleaned a table knife, restored hair, and dissolved all health troubles away. The bottle label even changed into "Magic" as it floated out of its box. Charlie enchanted us and left us guessing if medical insurance covered his new product.

Paula Large and Jerry Darkey demonstrated Paula's art skills in a delightful quick sketch routine where she transforms off shapes drawn by a spectator into their cartoon portrait (click here to view the caricatures). Finally she showed a cartoon montage that included a a drawing of everyone present! James and Joe talked about their adventures in Ohio working the renaissance festival and visiting with Ken Klosterman and seeing his magic collection. James showed the latest Tenyo trick where a dollar bill is put into a small origami box and survives. Mark Fitzgerald turned a $1 into a $100 bill and concluded with a nice Linking Ring routine using the magic words, "Hocus Pocus Chicken Bones Choke us!" . Wallace Murphy used a Crystal Silk Cylinder to produce Halloween candy and then did a skilled sleight-of-hand routine with candy pumpkins. They moved from hand to hand and finally all vanished.

Dan Stapleton presented a Halloween "Living and Dead Test" where a dead person's name was selected from a grid chart and when a napkin was touched with a match the dead person's name mysteriously burned into the napkin. Closing out the show was J.C. Hiatt. He had a spectator select a card and it suddenly became the largest card in the deck. He finished with his Spooky Halloween version of the Professor's Nightmare.

Following the show many of us made our way to the local watering hole for more fellowship and others went off to Trick or Treat! Be with us for our regular monthly meeting. Good things are always happening in Ring #170.

Dennis Phillips