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 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