Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring
Meets 7:00 pm, 1st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC
LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.
Our August theme was Liquid Magic and Lee Woodside kicked off the meeting with his “Captain Lee’s Magic Medicine Show.” Lee left out the gags and bits of business he usual employs and focused on liquid magic effects. He began by telling how he collects the magical waters used in making the miracle fluid from a small mountain spring on land held sacred by the Shoshone (small lota pitcher). Next he demonstrated how he tests the waters for the special magnetic properties necessary (hydrostatic glass). He stacked three small tumblers and showed how the magic elixir goes straight to where it’s needed. For a belly ache, the liquid accumulated in the middle tumbler, for a headache, it went to the top tumbler, and for a big toe sore from gout, it went straight to the bottom tumbler. Lee ended by showing why one may need to buy only one bottle of the medicine. He poured a dose of the medicine into a small glass and then proceeded to pour from that glass into progressively bigger ones (multum in parvo). Throughout the presentation, he used a large lota bowl as a running gag. Lee fielded questions about the various effects.
President Cassidy Smith demonstrated how to produce a liquid load in a cups and balls routine. He then performed Will Golden’s “Super Aerial Glass,” where he poured wine from a bottle into a goblet and, when he released his hold on the goblet, it floated.
David Teeman showed off a gospel magic routine where red liquid turns other liquids clear when they are mixed together.
Cassidy Smith stressed the importance of one’s entrance to the performing area. He invited each member to demonstrate his or her entrance. David Hira and Howard Hale were mentioned as magician who know how to make an entrance.
David Teeman demonstrated his quick coffee brewing machine. He showed the ground coffee in the top of the apparatus and when he placed the cover on and removed it, he had delicious brewed coffee.
Professor Ludicrous (AKA Rick Martin) made a cone from a sheet of newspaper and poured milk from a pitcher into the cone. When he unfurled the newspaper at the audience, the milk had vanished.
Brian Tabor rolled a dollar bill into a cylinder and placed it on a credit card. He visibly poured liquid into the small cylinder, but when he unrolled the bill, the liquid had vanished.
The names of all the performers were placed into a hat and one name was drawn. Lee Woodside became the proud new owner of John Bannon’s “Call of the Wild.”
Lee Woodside