Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

President Cassidy Smith introduced David Teeman as our featured performer for December. David began by showing that it’s easy to tie a square knot, especially if you have a square rope. He then showed a red rope, a green rope, and a yellow rope. He tied the two red ends together, the two green ends together and the two yellow ends together. Instead of ending up with three rope rings, however, he ended up with one giant ring.

David showed three different colored ropes tied in rings. He magically linked the three rings together. David showed us his wonderful method for “getting ready” for the performance of the Hindu Beads right in front of the audience.

David brought out a cord and a croquet ball with a hole drilled through the middle. He threaded the cord through the ball and demonstrated that he could cause the ball to stop at any point along the cord. He then invited Bruce Rodesney (AKA Murphy Villa) to try it, but of course he couldn’t make it work.

Cassidy Smith showed us a variety of rope magic tricks that are available. He showed us the “Tide” gag, a rope with magnets, the cut and restored rope, false knots, the one-handed knot, and the William Tell knot. He stressed that a very good pair of scissors should be used for the cut and restored rope trick. He also showed us a fake Elmer’s Glue bottle that could be used as a comedy way of restoring a rope.

Jonathon Meyer generously offered the use of his new Magic & Comedy Theater for our December Holiday Party and Stage/Parlor Magic Contest. A vote was taken and everyone welcomed of the idea.

Cassidy Smith led off our member performances by asking Derrick Beeson to select a playing card. The card was returned to the deck and with a “spap,” it flew out of the deck and Cassidy caught it. Cassidy also showed the new Popschticle gag item from Pop Haydn. Pulling an ice cream bar from one’s pocket, taking a bite out of it, and returning it to the pocket is a great laugh getter.

Lee Woodside performed the “Square Knot in Square Rope” that he uses to open every performance of his “Captain Lee’s Magic Medicine Show.” He gave tips on making this a memorable magic trick rather than just a “throwaway” bit. Lee then gave pointers on the performance of the Professor’s Nightmare. He said that he prefers 3/16 inch blue Dacron rope rather than the traditional magician’s rope. He also offered tips on the Fred Kaps move and the false count that turn the trick into a miracle. Lee emphasized that it is important to make eye contact with every member of the audience during the opening trick.

Bruce Rodesney invited David Teeman and Rick Johnson to each hold one end of a rope. Actually, it appeared to be a long rope and a short rope tied together. Bruck grasped the knot and moved it to another point on the rope and untied it to show two ropes. He retied the knot and again move it along the rope. He again untied it and retied it. Bruce borrowed Lee Woodside’s three ropes and performed his version of the Professor’s Nightmare.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

Grant Vinson kicked off the October meeting as our featured performer for the month. He showed posters of six bands that he said he really liked. He asked Cassidy Smith to choose any one of the bands. Each poster was sealed into a large envelope and the envelopes were mixed. Cassidy chose where each envelope was attached to a bulldog clip on a cord held by Grant and Ashlee. Once all the envelopes were in place, Grant said a magic word and all but one of the envelopes fell to the floor. Cassidy opened that envelope and found that it contained his selected band: AC/DC.

President Cassidy Smith led a discussion on predictions. Lots of good ideas were presented.

Jim Green showed an obviously empty clear latex balloon. As he slapped his open hand onto the side of the balloon, a sponge ball appeared within the balloon. He graciously offered to teach this to anyone who was interested.

Cassidy Smith gave a review of the soft opening of the “Magic Comedy Theater,” which occurred two evening prior to the meeting. Jonathon Meyer, the owner of the theater, was assisted at the opening by Cassidy Smith, Grant Vinson, and Rick Johnson. We all hope that Jonathon’s venture is a rousing success.

David Teeman handed a small envelope to Derrick Beeson and asked that he put it in his pocket. David then brought out three old TIME magazines, which he said he got from a missile site in South Dakota that was being decommissioned. Derrick chose which of the old issues was to be used. David riffled through the pages and asked Derrick to say, “Stop.” He then asked Derrick to put his finger at any place on the page and pick a word near that location. Derrick chose the word “executive.” David handed Derrick a dictionary and asked him to look up the word, but the page containing that word was missing. Sure enough, the page was found in the envelope in Derrick’s pocket and the word “executive was circled.

Lee Woodside said that he had mailed an envelope to David Teeman a few weeks ago and asked David if he had the envelope. Lee opened the envelope and dumped out a piece of paper with a prediction: “Israel and Hamas to meet in Egypt.” Lee then showed the headline of that day’s paper and it agreed with the prediction.

Lee told about his late Aunt Clara, who used to have “psychic flashes” of things that would happen. He said that her attorney had contacted him last week and gave him a box from his dear departed aunt. Inside the box were a deck of cards, an audio cassette tape, and a letter. The letter asked that Lee hand the cards to an audience member and have her deal the cards face up onto his hand, stop dealing whenever she wished, and then Lee would play the tape. Ashlee agreed to deal the cards. The tape predicted that she would stop on the nine of hearts, which was exactly right.

Brian Tabor told about his method for handling a disruptive child at a kids’ show. He said he no longer does shows for children. Bruce Rodesney added his thoughts on the subject.

Bob Caldwell reviewed a magic convention in Baltimore that featured John Bannon. He then performed a John Bannon card trick. He asked for numbers from two audience members and created a four-digit number. He then divided a deck into four parts and had each talon shuffled by an audience member. Ashlee decided which talon to use and Bob named off the cards she held. As she verified he was right, he wrote the value of the card on a piece of paper. When an audience member added all the numbers, they matched the number created earlier.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

In lieu of our normal September meeting, we were pleased to host a lecture by South African magician Trevor Duffy. Trevor began by borrowing a five-dollar bill from Andrew. He folded the bill and when he unfolded it, it had become a ten-dollar bill, which he handed back to Andrew. He said that doing this gets the audience on your side and makes others more willing to interact with the magician.

Trevor rolled up a piece of flash paper and pulled a lit match from his pocket. When he lit the paper, it turned into a silver dollar. As a climax, the coin turned into a jumbo silver dollar.

Derrick selected a four of diamonds from the deck, signed it, and replaced it in the deck. When Trevor threw the deck onto the table, the four of diamonds turned face up, but it was not signed. Trevor took a wallet from his pocked and, sure enough, the signed card was in the wallet.

Trevor demonstrated an ingenious apparatus he developed for producing a deck of cards at one’s fingertips. He said it was ideal for use in an “Invisible Deck” routine.

Trevor brought out a paper sack that he said contained a food item. He showed a deck of cards that had different food items on the back of each card. A card was selected and the word “Pears” was written on it. He removed a can from the sack and it was “Peas.” However, when he opened the can and poured out the contents, the result was “Peaches.”

Trevor showed us a very visual diminishing cards routine that he developed. The final fan of cards was tiny indeed.

Trevor told us a story involving himself, his brother, and a bloat of hippos on a river in Africa. He then presented Lee Woodside with a signed hippo carved from ironwood.

Trevor lead a brief discussion on what to do when something goes wrong in a show. He offered us his advice on how to handle it based on his years of experience.

Trevor had Derrick initial a coin and then he initialed the other side. He placed the coin on the table and had Derrick hold his hand over it. Trevor then removed a drawstring bag from his coat pocket and placed it on the table. He picked up the coin and vanished it. When Derrick opened the bag, he found a small, locked wooden box. Trevor handed him the key and when the box was opened, there was the initialed coin.

Trevor performed his “Phil Plus Outdone” routine, which he based on Phil Goldstein’s “Phil.” Trevor asked that someone think of a card and he would name the card. He said the name of the card was “Jane.” He showed that each card in the deck had a different name on the back and asked the audience member what card he was thinking of. Sure enough, it was the card with “Jane” written on the back. Trevor next wrote a card name on the back of his business card and placed it on the table. He asked someone in the audience shout out a girl’s name. “Lois” was the response. Trevor found the card with “Lois” written on it and turned it over to show that it was the queen of dimaonds. He then showed that “QD” was written on his business card.

Trevor asked Justin if he would volunteer for a dangerous trick. Trevor placed two drops of “antiseptic” on Justin’s arm. He then brought out a large folding knife and made a cut on the arm, drawing blood. With a magical gesture, he wiped off the “blood” and Justin’s arm was restored.

Trevor finished his lecture with a very nice routine using “Rocky the Raccoon.” The animal came alive in his hands. He placed the raccoon into a small box on a table and flipped the box open to show that the animal had disappered. Except, one could see a telltale tail hanging from the bottom of the table. After some comedy byplay trying to hide the evidence, he tore the cloth off the table top to show that the Rocky had truly disappeared.

We heartily recommend Trevor Duffy’s lecture to any Ring that has the opportunity to book him. We were very glad that he got the chance come to Oklahoma City.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

Our August meeting was devoted entirely to our annual swap meet and appraisal auction. Lee Woodside was again our auctioneer and a lot of cool magic props and books found new homes.

The appraisal auction format means that there are no minimum opening bids, which often slow down an auction. Instead, when the gavel falls, the seller has the option of actually selling the item or paying the high bidder fifty cents for “appraising” his item. Amazingly, no one opted to use this option. Every item was sold.

We were pleased that a boy with an interest in magic was in attendance along with his dad. One of our more generous members bid on several kid-friendly tricks and presented them to the young man to encourage his journey into the world of legerdemain.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

Our Pandemonium of Magic public show on June 14^th was a crowd-pleasing success. We had a great audience. President Cassidy Smith emceed the show and also performed the classic cups and balls. The other performers were: David Teeman and his lovely young assistants Brynna and Braylee. Grant Vinson, Rick Johnson, Lee Woodside, Michael King, Solomon Strauss (AKA Brian Tabor), and Kevin Brasier and his daughter, Mollie.

Mark Cristiano made balloon animals for the kids before the show and during intermission. Kevin Brasier brought a popcorn machine and a cotton candy machine. Michelle Tabor took numerous professional-quality photos of the event and Kallie designed and printed programs.

The featured performers for our July meeting were Lee Woodside and Michael King. They began with Lee donning a blindfold and facing away from the audience. Michael handed several playing cards to each of five participants and asked each person to remember one of his cards. He then collected the cards, shuffled the deck, and named several cards in this new random order. Lee was able to correctly identify each playing card being thought of.

Michael then donned the blindfold and Lee went through the audience and asked Michael to identify objects owned by audience members. He also had audience members write dates of special events and Michael was able to identify the dates and the type of event. As a finale, Lee showed Justin Teeman a dessert menu and asked him to point to one item. Michael correctly identified the dessert as Amaretto Cheesecake.

Lee Woodside presented a brief lecture on developing a two-person act. He said that the hardest part was finding and keeping a partner for the act.

President Cassidy Smith showed a couple of different color changes, where one playing card instantly changes to another. He gave pointers on how to do it convincingly. Michael King showed us a very nice color change that he has perfected.

Cassidy led a discussion on problems with magic props. One problem is that many magic props don’t look like anything anyone actually uses anymore.

David Teeman showed a packet of playing cards to Ashlee and asked her to select one. He then showed that it was the only card that had a blue back. All the others had red backs.

Cassidy Smith performed a very nice production of four half dollars. He then performed a coin roll, a muscle pass, and a penetration of a coin through his hand.

Kevin Brasier passed around some regulation Smith & Wesson handcuffs. He had his daughter, Mollie place the handcuffs on him. He dipped his hands under the tablecloth very briefly and showed that he was no longer wearing the cuffs.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

Vice President Justin Teeman called the June meeting to order. He then gave a recap of Lance Pierce’s “Pebblepalooza” magic weekend that he and his dad recently attended. He praised the lecture by Chad Long and name dropped Michael Weber and Bill Malone as attendees.

June is the month of our annual Close-Up contest. Members compete for cash prizes and bragging rights.

Cassandra Crowe selected playing cards randomly from a deck and asked Grant Vinson to tell her whether he believed them to be red or black. Cassandra placed the reds and blacks into different piles. At the conclusion, it was found that Grant had one hundred percent success! It was out of this world.

David Teeman brought out two decks of Fox Lake playing cards. He spread the cards from one deck and invited Rick Martin to touch the back of one card, which proved to be the three of clubs. He then asked Rick to take the other deck out of the box and spread it. There was one face-up card, which was also the three of clubs. David then showed two decks he had purchased at Dollar Tree: a “Batman” deck and an “Avengers” deck. He performed the same effect he had shown with his Fox Lake decks.

Grant Vinson had Rick Johnson take a card, sign it, and return it to the deck. Grant returned the deck to the card box. He then introduced us to his “bad ass” stuffed rabbit and removed a switchblade knife from it. He stabbed the deck with the knife and pulled it out of the deck sideways. The three of spades that Rick had signed was stuck on the blade of the knife.

Lee Woodside told the story of Timmy’s encounter with a Leprechaun. The wee one changed Timmy’s copper coins into silveer, but alas, the next morning the coins were again copper. Lee then performed his “Leprechaun Seance,” where a card chosen by Grant Vinson was divined using a leprechaun’s business card, but only after holding the little guy’s feet to the fire.

Shaun Clark showed a stopwatch with a rotating bezel. He demonstrated how the watch worked and, after moving the bezel, asked Rick Johsnon to hold the watch face down and start, then stop the stopwatch. Sure enough, the hand lined up with where Shaun had set the bezel.

Rick invited Jim Green to select a card, with was returned to the deck face up. Rick removed the selected card and the two cards on each side. Rick then invited Grant Vinson to look at a social media post that Rick had created hours ago. The photos matched the cards. Rick then performed an ACAAN (any card at any number) routine.

The scores were tabulated during the break. After the break, Justin announced that Rick Johnson won third place, Lee Woodside won second place, and David Teeman was the contest winner.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

Our theme for May was “May the Force be With You,” which proved to be a very popular theme. Cassidy Smith started the evening’s magic by having David Teeman select a card, show it around, and return it to the deck. Cassidy showed the Queen of Spades as the “Mona Lisa” card and placed it onto a matchbook “easel” with the back of the card towards the audience. After a wave of his magic wand, he turned the card around and showed that it had changed to the previously selected Two of Hearts.

Lee Woodside invited Joe Comet, David Teeman, Shaun Clark, and Bob Caldwell to join him for a fantasy dining experience. Lee passed out menus from four different Chinese restaurants and invited each participant to choose one course of a four-course dinner. When the prices were totaled, the final number matched the value of a gift certificate from an envelope that was on display at the beginning of the routine.

Michael King instructed Cassidy Smith to draw a different symbol on each of several pieces of paper. He mixed the papers and had Cassidy select one. Michael then showed several coasters from a local pub and tore the corner off one and vanished it. He invited Cassidy to look under an item on a table at the back of the room. There Cassidy found the torn-off corner with his selected symbol drawn on it.

David Teeman showed a mesh bag containing plastic Easter eggs of different colors. Joe Comet drew out eggs one at a time and each proved to be empty. David showed that the final, unchosen egg contained a prediction of the color not chosen.

David invited Kallie to select one of three Time magazines, a completely free choice. He then had her select one page and a word on that page. The word she picked was “executive.” David handed her a Roget’s Thesauras and asked her to look up the word. The page was missing from the book. David asked her to open the envelope on the table. The “missing” page was inside the envelope and the word “executive” was circled.

Shaun Clark showed us a trick he had purchased at a magic shop in Italy. Six playing cards were placed into a bag. Bob Caldwell shook the bag and dumped out the cards. The face-down cards were eliminated. This was repeated until only one card remained. Sure enough, it was the predicted ten of diamonds.

Bob Caldwell removed one card from a deck of playing cards and placed it face down on the table. He then had audience members verbally eliminate cards until the eight of clubs was arrived at. He slowly turned over the card on the table and it turned out to be the eight of clubs.

Rick Johnson had audience members name colors and each time he spelled the color as he dealt off playing cards onto the table. After this was completed, the top card of the deck matched his prediction.

Tom Todd shuffled and cut a deck of cards as he cut to each of three aces. He then had David Teeman cut the deck a final time and David cut to the last ace.

Following a break, Cassidy Smith asked members to demonstrate and explain forces that they use. Joe Comet demonstrated the cut deeper force. Michael King gave tips on utilizing the classic force. He said that he practiced by doing tricks that did not rely on the force.

Cassidy Smith refreshed our memories on the cross-cut force. He then showed the Hoffinzer spread force. Joe Comet showed us what he called the “slop force.” He started tossing blocks of cards off the top of the deck until shomeone said “stop.” His force card was then on top of the deck.

David Teeman demonstrated the PATEO force and then performed and explained the clipline force. He used a movie theme and the spot where the list of movies was cut showed “The Ugly Little Mermaid.” David had a poster of an ugly mermaid.

David laid out drawings of six voodoo dolls with injuries to various parts of their bodies. Joe Comet picked a number from one to six (inclusive). David brought out a drawing labeled “Cure” and showed that the band aid covered the site of the selected injury. David pointed out that he never needed to spell the selected number.

The names of all the evenings performers were placed into Cassidy’s pork pie hat. Jim Green drew David Teeman’s name and David became the proud owner of Richard Oseterlind’s “No Camera Tricks” mentalism DVDs.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

We were pleased to host a lecture by Gregory Wilson. Gregory began by causing the appearance of a poker chip. He then invited James Schoonover to join him and proceeded to “vanish” the chip by placing it on James’ shoulder.

Gregory showed a ball point pen and repeatedly cuased the writing end to jump from one end of the pen to the other. He calls this “Pointless.”

Gregory asked if there were any golfers in the house and Jerry Bowzer stepped forward. Gregory brought out a box of golf balls, placed them on Jerry’s hand and asked him to guess how many balls were in the box. Jerry, an avid golfer, immediately said, “Three.” Gregory proceeded to remove four balls from the box. He put three of the balls back into the box and then took out four more balls. By the time the routine was over, there were at least eight golf balls.

Gegory showed a golf tee in each hand and then caused one tee to jump to the other hand. After he showed the secret, we all had trouble believing the “move” fooled us. Gregory asked someone to name a number between 1 and 100. He immediately reached into his pocket and removed exactly that much change and showed his pocket to then be empty.

Gregory showed a credit card on both sides and in a flash the card turned into bills. He called this “Cash Flow.”

Using Rick Johnson as his victim, I mean volunteer, Gregory performed a very entertaining pickpocket routine. During the routine he kept handing me items he had stolen from Rick. By the time it was over and he introduced me as his “partner in crime,” I was holding Rick’s folding money, keys, credit card and phone. He did not explain this routine.

Gregory very cleanly showed five one-dollar bills front and back. He then changed the bills to twenties. When everyone thought the trick was over, he changed them to one-hundred dollar bills.

Gregory performed a very nice ambitious card routine using a blank deck. He started by having Rick Johnson sign one of the cards and proceeded with a very fast-paced routine. At one point he held the deck in one hand with a blank card at the face and with a quick flick Rick’s signature appeared.

My only concern with Gregory’s lecture was that he bragged about using magic to get out of speeding tickets. My opinion is that this is a bad message to send. Otherwise, it was a very enjoyable and informative lecture.

The theme for our April meeting was “Let’s make magic.” Brian Tabor performed a “Bank Night” routine where each participant opened his envelope to find a one-dollar bill. Brian opened the unchosen envelope and removed a one-hundred dollar bill. He then passed out materials and taught everyone how to construc the stand he had used for loading the hundred-dollar bill.

Lee Woodside brought out three of his “friends” and place a rock by one, a pair of scissors by the second, and a piece of paper by the third. He invited three participants to switch the items around and then read his prediction as to who would win the game. It was spot on. Lee then gave everyone a pair of folding scissors and taught the routine.

David Teeman led the member performances by showing a pop-out microphone gag. He then showed a wood and plexiglass stand for performing 20^th Century Silks. He said that a friend had made it for him out of materials David scrounged from the trash bin.

Jim Green demonstrated a “Newton’s Nightmare.” He showed a long tube and a steel ball that fit into the tube. When he dropped the ball into the top of tube, it quickly fell out the bottom. However, when he invoked his magic spell, the ball took several seconds to traverse the tube.

Rick Martin, who has built several beautiful magic props in his workshop, showed us a couple of neat things. One was an accelerator for super glue. He said that when it is sprayed on one surface and super glue is put on another surface, the two will bond almost instantaneously. The other item he showed was a tape that can be applied to greatly reduce friction. Rick then showed a stand make from wood that does the same thing as the one Brian Tabor taught us how to build from card stock.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

The first half of our March meeting was devoted to “Spring Cleaning.” Members were encouraged to bring magical items they were no longer using and turning them into cash. We had great particiapation, with many boxes of props and books for sale.

Our theme for the month was “Green Magic,” so naturally our featured performer was Jim Green. Jim handed Kallie an empty two-liter soda bottle and a balloon and asked her to place the balloon into the bottle and stretch the balloon’s opening around the top of the bottle. He demonstrated and was able to blow up his baloon inside the bottle. Not only that, the baloon did not deflate. Kallie was not able to blow up her baloon.

Jim closed with his “Stupid Bean Trick.” He filled a can with beans and briefly covered the can with a paper sack. When he reomoved the sack, he poured blue liquid from the can into a wine glass.

David Teeman showed a green cyclinder which was hinged along one side. He opened it to show that it was empty. However, when he closed it, he was able to pull two long multi-colored silk streamers from the end of the “empty” cylinder.

Lee Woodside invited Kevin Brasier and his lovely daughter, Molly to join him on stage. He introduced them to his three tree frogs, Monte, Thelma, and Louise and said that the object of the game was to keep their eyes on Monte. Molly won all the candy bars and her dad got a consolation prize, a jumping frog.

Bruce Rodesney told the story of how he had six dollars when he got to church, put three dollars into the collection plate, but still had six dollars when he got home. He repeated this several times with the same result. He had Jim Green select a playing card and then he played a video on his notepad that predicted the card Jim would choose.

Joe Coover showed us some magic that he said he had done 10,000 times, in several countries. He borrowed a wedding ring from Rick Martin, put the ring on his finger, and then removed it. However, the ring appeared back on his finger.

Joe invited Shaun Clark to join him “on stage.” He brought out a piece of string and performed a multi-phase routine with the ring and the string. The climax was when he placed the ring on the string and had Shaun and Daniel Buster hold the two ends. Joe was able to free the ring from the string.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

We were very pleased to host a lecture by William Rader. William is a past president of Ring 46 and had moved to Denver, then Hungary, then Georgia (the country). He started his own company: Artisan Tarot.

William began by challenging Grant Vinson to a best two-out-of-three game of rock-paper-scissors. After the game, William removed a prediction from the envelope that had been in view the whole time. It correctly predicted that William would lose the game with his scissors being beat by his opponent’s rock.

William handed pendulums to several audience members and instructed them on how to use the pendulum to answer a “Yes/No” question. William then used his pendulum to divine an ESP card chosen by Brian Tabor.

William asked John Shack to think of a person he is close to and write the name on a blank business card. The card was then shuffled face down into a pack of business cards. William now went through the cards one at a time and placed each card onto the table, asking John to say stop at any time. When John said, “Stop,” William asked him to verify that the card held the name he had thought of. William then divined the name.

William asked Derrick Beeson to think of a phobia that he has and to write it on a piece of paper and fold it twice. He told Derrick to imagine that the fear is shrinking. He told him to put the folded paper in his pocket and to bring it out twice during the break, each time folding it one more time.

After the break, William asked Derrick to remove the paper from his pocket. The phobia he had written was no longer on the paper. William then named the phobia.

William asked Rick Johnson to join him “on stage.” He performed several experiments showing that a coin with the fourth and fifth Pentacles of Mercury would provide Rick with super-human strength.

William shuffled a deck of Major Arcana Tarot cards and offered them to Justin Teeman to cut. He then had Marty Ludlum, Shaun Clark, and Keven Brasier each take one of the Tarot cards. William offered a reading for each of the participants and then divined each card.

We highly recommend William’s lecture to anyone desiring an introduction into the world of pendulums, ESP cards, Tarot cards, billets and body magic. Even those magicians who do not intend to perform such effects would do well to include them in their knowledge base.

Solomon Strauss (AKA Brian Tabor) kicked off our February meeting as featured performer. Using two sets of five ESP cards, he had Cassidy Smith make several decisions, yet when pairs of cards were turned over, they all proved to be matching symbols.

Mr. Strauss laid several playing cards in a circle and placed the card box on one of the cards. He said that counting would commence from that point. He handed Rick Johnson a pair of dice and asked him to roll them several times to be sure they weren’t loaded. He then asked Rick to roll the dice one final time and the dice came up as a one and a four. He gave Rick the choice of the one, the four, or the total of five and Rick chose the number five. Solomon counted five places and turned over the card thus chosen. He turned it over and “Rick” was written on the back of the card. The other cards were turned over to reveal that there was no writing on the backs of them.

Solomon showed a deck which contained a different symbol on each card. He invited half a dozen audience members to each take one card and remember it. Solomon collected all the cards and mixed them. He was then able to divine the symbol chosen by each participant.

Michael King gave a glowing review of the magic show recently performed by Jen Kramer in Stillwater, OK. Cassidy Smith led a discussion on romantic magic effects. He then demonstrated how to make a napkin rose and produce a Hershey’s Kiss from it. He said that the multiplying rabbits effect was also a great trick.

Jerry Bowzer handed out decks of playing cards to those who did not get one at the January meeting. These were the Bicycle “Black Tiger” decks.

Cassidy Smith announced that he would like to come up with a magic effect with a ukulele. Several members offered suggestions.

David Teeman showed a four-sided, open-ended prop that looked like a traffic signal light. Red, yellow and green silk scarves were threaded through holes on opposite sides of the device. And end view showed the middles of the scarves blocking the passageway. However, David was able to place the device down over a soda bottle without disturbing the scarves.

David showed seven tiny plungers, each a different color. By a process of elimination, he and Derrick Beeson arrived at the pink plunger. David invited Derrick to reach into a sack full of the plungers and bring out one. Sure enough, the plunger was pink. (Yes, these would normally be used for a card routine like the one that fooled Penn, but not Teller on “Fool Us”.)

Lee Woodside asked that everyone look back in time and think of a year that had special romantic significance for them. Cassidy Smith volunteered that he had a year in mind. Lee asked him to write it on the back of a business card and hand it back to him face down. Lee placed it into his business card wallet without looking at the year. Lee then removed another card from the wallet and began writing. It turned out that he had written numbers into a 4 X 4 grid. Lee asked Cassidy to sum the numbers in any row, column or diagonal. The sum was 2014, which Cassidy said was the year he had in mind.

Cassidy Smith shared a two-ring linking ring routine that he has been working on. He said that the routine is a metaphor for relationships. He performed the beautiful routine to the music “Time After Time, by Cyndi Lauper.

Lee Woodside