Newsletter: 112 for December 2005 Martin opened the meeting by welcoming the members and guests. He reminded members tonight is the last chance to order tickets for the ACES Annual Dinner on Saturday night. Next meeting is the Christmas Party and the theme for the buffet is “American Supper”. Can people please bring along a plate of food and also a raffle prize. The evening started with a Bring and Buy sale and “Fire Magic” followed in the second half. Andrew Jeffrey started off the magic by burning thoughts into the audience’s minds. He asked for the help of two visitors, Patrick and Lin. Patrick was asked to think of a famous person and Lin a place, then both of them wrote these down on a small piece of paper and fold them up. Steve was given the pieces of paper and asked to mix them up and hand one back to Andrew, which was then burnt. Steve held up his fist containing the second folded piece and Andrew wrote a prediction which he handed to Martin. Andrew opened Lin’s original piece of paper and read out “London”. Martin opened the prediction which also read “London”. Andrew turned his thoughts back to the burnt piece of paper and wrote a second prediction and passed it to Martin. Patrick was asked to say out loud who his chosen famous person was and he said “Maurice Chevalier”. When Martin opened the prediction, you guessed it, it read “Maurice Chevalier”. Bob Rickard performed next and introduced us to the Whispering Buddha. He was very famous and rich but had come across hard times and couldn’t afford to pay his taxes. Buddha whispered to Bob saying he wanted to see some fire, so two sticks were lit. Luckily the Buddha is a magician and wanted to win some money. After shuffling the cards Martin was asked to select one and show the audience (six of hearts). Martin was given some coins but if Buddha guessed the chosen card correctly he would win the money. There were four glasses on the table each containing six cards. The cards in each glass were shown to Martin and a coin placed in the glass if it contained a card of the same value as Martin’s chosen card. The process was repeated looking for cards of the same suit. A coin was placed in the first, third and fourth glass. Buddha then whispers to Bob and tells him the chosen card was six of hearts. Mike Pettitt was the next performer and asked Felix to assist him. He got Felix to cut the pack and take the next three cards, take a look at them and keep the one card he preferred (four of clubs). The card was then sealed in an envelope and the initials FB and four of clubs were written on it. Mike then took out three books, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes and Robinson Crusoe. Felix was asked to take away two books which left Pride and Prejudice. The value of the two cards that were cast aside earlier were then multiplied together (a ten and picture card worth ten) making one hundred. The book was then opened at page 100 and Felix read out the first and last word on the page “from” and “no”. A prediction Mike had written earlier was opened and shown to the audience which read “4 clubs”, “from” and “no”. A piece of paper was then burnt on top of the envelope with Felix’s initials and he was then asked to open the envelope and remove the contents. He pulled out a half burnt card and page. They turned back to page 100 and it now showed a half burnt page and card. This month’s challenge was “Levitations” but unfortunately David Lambert wasn’t at the meeting though Mike performed his effect. Mike placed a five pound note on his hand and placed his other hand above. He then made the note float in mid-air moving it up and down. New challenger for next month is Robin with “pancakes”. The final performer was a visitor, Lin. She took out a hanky and placed it in her hand and pulled the middle out the top of her fist. Lin then took out a lighter and burnt the middle of the hanky and pushed the burnt part back into her fist. When Lin opened up her hand and the hanky was shaken out it was restored. Written by: |
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