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Ring #170
The Bev Bergeron Ring
Our September meeting was on a rainy night just before the autumn solstice. We had three guests and twenty-six regulars. Guests were Anthony Arevelo and Jason and Debbie Atkins from Birmingham, England. Announcements were made about ring members performing magic around the Orlando, area. Kerry Pierce will again be presenting the Apopka area haunted house for Halloween.
Phil Schwartz ,our ring's nationally known Thayer magic expert and collector, began what we hope will be a continuing series on the history of magic. This first presentation was called 'Magic Moment #1' and featured a compact and fascinating talk about Floyd Thayer and his magic company and the succeeding company ,Owens. Phil also announced that he is collaborating with Dr. Robert Albo to do a two book series on Thayer. Phil also had a 1949 copy of Genii Magazine that had senior ring member Richard Berry on the cover. This was shortly before Berry went to work for Harry Blackstone, Sr.
With the business meeting concluded, President Craig Fennessey turned the meeting over the Mark Fitzgerald who emceed our monthly ring show. The theme was rings. Mark started out with a rapid and slick Ring and Rope routine. The ring was on and off the rope. First on was Professor Knox with a very clever and well done Coin Matrix assembly. He ended with his finger stabbing one of the coins! Mystana had a ring and ribbon effect. The rings came off a tied ribbon and became linked. Charlie Pfrogner brought a seldom seen classic . It is the clever "metal bands to shapes" effect. One metal hoop turned to a triangle. Another turned into a square and finally three were transformed into a giant hoop.
Dan Stapleton first showed a chain made of red plastic rings and by flipping the top end a single chain would cascade down. Dan then followed up with a spectator assisted card trick. A selected card was the same card that Dan had selected from another deck with a different color on the back. Mark Fitzgerald was back with the classic Linking Rings assisted by a spectator. Chris Dunn had a mental effect with small white cards with three different colored dots on each card but the same yellow colored dots on the back. Mysteriously a spectator was able to correctly locate each color. Wallace Murphy did a fine ring and rope routine with his own personal moves.
Dennis Phillips, presented Abbott's classic mental effect created by Bob Mason , Predicta Total. Nine numbered white discs are randomly placed on pegs on a board by three spectators. When the numbers are added, they match the predicted total. Dennis thanked Dan Stapleton for his advice and suggestions on developing the routine.Dennis provided a giant novelty calculator to the spectator to add the numbers and at the conclusion of the effect, JC Hiatt showed and impromptu calculator trick where a numbers seems to fall to the bottom of the display! Mark Fitzgerald put the finishing touches on the show with an effect with small rings. It was another fun night.
Good things are always happening in ring 170.
Dennis Phillips
Ring #170
The Bev Bergeron Ring
Our September meeting was on a rainy night just before the autumn solstice. We had three guests and twenty-six regulars. Guests were Anthony Arevelo and Jason and Debbie Atkins from Birmingham, England. Announcements were made about ring members performing magic around the Orlando, area. Kerry Pierce will again be presenting the Apopka area haunted house for Halloween.
Phil Schwartz ,our ring's nationally known Thayer magic expert and collector, began what we hope will be a continuing series on the history of magic. This first presentation was called 'Magic Moment #1' and featured a compact and fascinating talk about Floyd Thayer and his magic company and the succeeding company ,Owens. Phil also announced that he is collaborating with Dr. Robert Albo to do a two book series on Thayer. Phil also had a 1949 copy of Genii Magazine that had senior ring member Richard Berry on the cover. This was shortly before Berry went to work for Harry Blackstone, Sr.
With the business meeting concluded, President Craig Fennessey turned the meeting over the Mark Fitzgerald who emceed our monthly ring show. The theme was rings. Mark started out with a rapid and slick Ring and Rope routine. The ring was on and off the rope. First on was Professor Knox with a very clever and well done Coin Matrix assembly. He ended with his finger stabbing one of the coins! Mystana had a ring and ribbon effect. The rings came off a tied ribbon and became linked. Charlie Pfrogner brought a seldom seen classic . It is the clever "metal bands to shapes" effect. One metal hoop turned to a triangle. Another turned into a square and finally three were transformed into a giant hoop.
Dan Stapleton first showed a chain made of red plastic rings and by flipping the top end a single chain would cascade down. Dan then followed up with a spectator assisted card trick. A selected card was the same card that Dan had selected from another deck with a different color on the back. Mark Fitzgerald was back with the classic Linking Rings assisted by a spectator. Chris Dunn had a mental effect with small white cards with three different colored dots on each card but the same yellow colored dots on the back. Mysteriously a spectator was able to correctly locate each color. Wallace Murphy did a fine ring and rope routine with his own personal moves.
Dennis Phillips, presented Abbott's classic mental effect created by Bob Mason , Predicta Total. Nine numbered white discs are randomly placed on pegs on a board by three spectators. When the numbers are added, they match the predicted total. Dennis thanked Dan Stapleton for his advice and suggestions on developing the routine.Dennis provided a giant novelty calculator to the spectator to add the numbers and at the conclusion of the effect, JC Hiatt showed and impromptu calculator trick where a numbers seems to fall to the bottom of the display! Mark Fitzgerald put the finishing touches on the show with an effect with small rings. It was another fun night.
Good things are always happening in ring 170.
Dennis Phillips
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