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Visit our Web Site at HTTP://www.ibmring81.com
Vol. 12 Issue 12 December 2015
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.
December Meeting
Election of officers, Website discussion with our webmistress Dottie Wolfgang,
Program — Your favorite magic effect (not close up) Dust them off and show them off. Think Holiday theme.
Square circle, Mental magic, zombie, 20th century silks, etc. One item only.
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From the
President
“Stevie “Dee” Parties, Conventions,
Graduations. You name it, He does it.
Steve can be reached at: 941-752-9123 or
FAX 941-727-7410
CIGAM HOUSE OF MAGIC
1834 Tamiami Tr. 14 St W Bradenton FL 34205
JONTI Head Magician Slight of hand, DVDs,
Lessons Phone: 941-746-3200
Email: [email protected]
Dec. 3rd Holiday Magic and Web Page Jan. 7th Michael Ammar Feb. 4th Geoff Williams March 3rd Flea Market
Support Our
Members
This may help you someday.
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Our theme for the December meeting will be “Holiday Magic.” It can be any holiday you want. If you don’t have anything in that area, bring another effect and after we go around and do the Holiday Magic, we’ll go back around for other performances. This will be my last letter as President of Ring 81. To prosper, the Ring needs more members willing to volunteer, more members who will bring in new prospective members, and more members who will perform at our meetings. I wish you all Happy Holidays! Arnie Kropf (aka The Great Arnoldo)
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BURLINGTON HULL
When I was a kid, one of the first items acquired was a deck of cards called a “Svengali Deck.” It’s a deck with one card repeated, alternating with different cards and the repeated card is trimmed short so many fascinating effects can be done with it. Pitchmen at fairs & carnivals made a living presenting effects with the deck and Marshall Brodien in the 1960's creat-ed a sensation with his "TV Magic Cards" commercials'. In 1909 Burling Hull patented this trick and claimed to be its inventor. There has always been considerable disagree-ment about his claim and many of his detractors say that the
trick was around long before he was born. Hull, however, did come up with the idea of using “roughing fluid” so the duplicates would stick and the effect could work more smoothly. He also invented more than 50 tricks that could be performed with the deck. Some still said, however, he should have called himself “Hurling Bull”! He was born September 9, 1889, as Burlingame Gilbert Gault Hull. He lived much of his life in DeLand, Florida. In his teens he called himself Clif Westfield and performed a manipulation act as well as doing ventriloquism, chapeaugraphy, shad-owgraphy and even dancing. His career blossomed and he also began to write about magic and invent and perfect many magic effects. He wrote extensively about card effects, mentalism, escapes, razor blade swallowing, billiard ball manipulation and also publicity and showmanship. Over the years he used a variety of names: “Volta,” “Volta the Great,” and “The White Wizard.” (He used this name during his early ca-reer when he performed dressed totally in white.) Hull was shrewd as a businessman and often could be found at magic conven-tions doing presentations about business methods for magicians. He was also ex-tremely active as a proponent of the use of patents and copyrights to protect original magic gimmicks and written work. Ironically, Hull was not averse to lifting material from other magicians and publishing it as his own — if he felt they had stolen from him! Among his 52 published books was the popular 33 Rope Ties and Chain Re-leases, still a classic among escapists though it was written in 1915. He was also au-thor of Sealed Mysteries and Sleights; The Encyclopedia of Stage Illusions; and How to Answer Questions for Crystal Gazing and Mind Reading Acts. Much later in his life he published another classic: a three volume The Ency-clopedic Dictionary of Mentalism (1961). The book was (and probably still remains) the largest compilation of every aspect of mentalism, including gimmicks, effects, specific patter and special sleights. Hull had an ongoing feud with the dealer mental-ist Robert A. Nelson and in his written work would lambaste Nelson for teaching men-talism tricks to gamblers and racketeers to enable them to cheat the public. Late in his life his eyesight began to fail although he continued to work on books, dictating the text. His good friend Bev Bergeron (who worked as Rebo the clown on Mark Wilson’s television show) helped him move out of his house and into a nursing home. He died on October 19, 1982, after reaching the age of 93. Abridged and edited by Gale Molovinsky from The Greats of Magic by George Schiller.
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November 5th Meeting
Hilarry is having a problem with the woods man
Gale getting ready to woo the crowd
Windy demonstrating his possessed match box
Arnie with his magical dollar bill
Our snow birds are coming back. Welcome
Bob making a half dollar stand on end
Wes with the help of Steve’s hair moves a ring up an incline
Jont first makes a dollar then tames it
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Want More Magic? Tuesday evening’s magical get
together is held at
Evies
1560 Main Street, Sarasota
Betw. N Orange & N Lemon
For more information contact:
Dave Pitchford [email protected]
Arnieism of the Month
Your suggestions and submissions are not only ap-preciated they are sought. Share a trick, an event or
anything that’s relevant to Ring 81.
Officers Ring 81
arniebaby-wants you to know that the smoothest thing about a used car salesman
is the salesman---
President, Arnie Kropf Secretary, Scott Hertrick [email protected]. [email protected] Vice Presidents, Gary Roberts Treasurer, Mike Sedita [email protected] [email protected] Past President, Gale Molovinsky Newsletter Joe Floersheimer [email protected] [email protected]
Steve performing ring on a string. Good to have him back
Mike with the help of Hilary mysteriously removes a ring
Let’s not forget the ladies who come to the meeting with their husbands.. Thank you.
If you’ve never seen Ed Marlo this is a film from the early 70s.
http://magicclassroom.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
An apropos magic act for the times we live in. Beautifully done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh9GaDgRWX4&feature=youtu.be