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ffi Magicurrents W San Die Honest Sid Gerhart Rine 76 Volume XV No 11 November 200L October Was Magic Month In San Diego and Ring 76! October was an important month for Ring 76 and its putting the finishing touches on the early planning for next members. This past month we learned that veteran July's 74'h IBM Convention. magician Bev Bergeron has been added to the list of performers presenting a special hourJong stand-up program David's outgoing personality and love of magic was a very at the IBM Convention next summer here in San Diego. welcome addition to our evening of fellowship and entertaining. We look forward to having him back in Bev has been a longtime friend of Ring 76 going back to his January for the convention committee meeting. days in San Diego during this cities 200'h Anniversary and the series of shows he presented in Oldtown during the summer of We were able to meet Maco Ruly a professional magician 1969. He was a mentor to San Diego magician Bob Sheets and and puppeteer from helped him get his start in show business. Mexico who was attending our meeting Bev will arrive a few to watch his friend days before the 2002 r Armando Torres do his Convention and present a : act for our ring lecture for Ring 76 on : program. Both July 2"d. This is a rare 1 gentlemen were treat because he will not i welcome guests and be doing his lecture at ' we look forward to this year's convention. It : having them back . is exciting news to have whenever they would like to join us. this wonderful performer i as a guest lecturer giving October also brought us a very clever lecture by David us a jumpstart on the I Eldridge. It was a "free" lecture sanctioned by Ring 76. ' convention itself. We also had the Our October ring meeting pleasure of again was perhaps one of the best attended and one of our best in meeting Jay Scott terms of talent in a longtime. There is a complete rundown with Berry who gave a pictures of that evening on the next page. If you missed that lecture that every meeting you missed a good one and we urge you to attend the magician should see. November meeting. His clever gimmicks truly give a fresh and We had many guests different approach to in October; one was :nagic. It was the one David Sandy, the lecture you should not have missed. It was truly exciting current IBM Vice for magic fans in San Diego and Ring 76. October is also a President and the busy time for almost every magician in San Diego County. --esident elect in There are shows and events to utilize everyone's talents. It J3. Mr. Sandy was in short "Magic Month". was in our city mid air. In this case he used the October Meeting Features rings newest member Andrew Guests, New Member, and Sabat with Bob Ingalls helping Bazaar Halloween Magic and with the effects. More: Following Jack's lecture 1'r Vice President The October 8'h meeting at Jack's Magic Place started off Richard Ustick with a social hour from 6 to 7 p.m., with a lot of laughs and who dressed in magic at the bar. Paul Thomey, Jeff Smith and Andrew costume took Sabat filled in until Jeff Marcus arrived and took over the over the action for the pre-meeting event. program. Ustick began with what can only be called a most original and President Don Soul called the meeting to order shortly after musical presentation to get the evening started. Using his 7 and briefly made announcements and introduced guests. son and daughter to A special guest at this meeting included David Sandy the sing the chores of an Vice President of the IBM who was in San Diego taking original song the care offinal business on the site for the 2002 Convention. Ustick Family Dick Dale announced that the Jim Pace lecture has been presented a musical postponed until next year. interlude of magic and whimsy that 13-year-old Andrew Sabat is brought a thundering a member of the IBM and round of applause. has now made application to It was the kind of join Ring 76. He was opening act that introduced and auditioned every magic show for membership into the should be lucky ring. Andrew did a very enough to well executed three-coin experience. routine and a clever card routine. After his The Ustick Family opening was a hard act to follow but performance he was asked to Byron McDaniel rose to the occasion. leave the meeting and the Bringing a large membership voted to accept knapsack on stage him into the ring as a with him. He altered member with full rights a privileges. his clean cut U.S. Marine character to There was a brief intermission where tickets for the evening that of a buck toothed raffle were sold. Raffle items included magic videotape Elvis. Then reaching and a poster of Lance Burton. The treasury took in 34- into his knapsack he dollars on the raffle. Sumit Dua the Ring Treasurer produced a very large reported that our treasury is at $1800-dollars and all bills pumpkin and are paid. presented a sensational and again The program began with a brief talk on "Spook or Ghost original routine with a Shows" of the past. Jack White who has presented these surprise ending of the shows in the 1960's talked a little bit about the history of selected card the shows and how such a show was framed. Jack told appearing to have been carved on the front of the pumpkin. some humorous tails of his trooping with the show called Another round of loud applause. "Dr. Blood's Zombie Show" and presented two effects he performed in his spook show. One of which was suspended animation or causing a member of the audience to float in 2 Terry Lunceford one of Ring 76's very busy professionals Then came a very different effect of removing his and a longtime supporter of ring activities showed the assistants'head. This is a small illusion that moved very audience a clever linle bit of business calied the jumping quickly and is very visual. A borrowed $100-dollar bill spider. It can be worked into a routine and add a startling disappeared and found its way into an unopened box of effect to anyone's work. It is accomplished with a piece of macaroni. Then came the Afgan Bands with a lot of invisible string. The stunt had a surprise effect on comedy by play. volunteer Sheny Luft. Phil closed his act with a very beautiful effect called the Lion and Snake. He builds these off of the Osborn plans. Next came Armando They are nicely decorated props and make for a very clever Torres, who lives in routine. Phil is selling all of his magic and moving to San Diego and is a Tennessee. member of the IBM and is from Mexico. Our last performer of the evening was Jim Thayer who Armando much to always tells a good story with his magic. Jim in a deep the delight and voice told about haunted gold and a very interesting card surprise of everyone game in the old west. There were several twists and turns presented a with an unexpected ending. wonderful act set to music. He did some very nice card manipulations, that moved to some clever silk magic that carried over to a three ring routine and ended with a cigarette routine that had smoke coming from Armando's thumb. Armando is applying for membership into the ring. He is also getting ready to do a lecture tour to Mexico. An exciting act that brought lots of applause. Bob Pozner then took center stage with his Houdini SEance for Halloween. Bob puts a lot of funny stuff and October performers included (L to R back row) Byron excitement into this very original routine. Bob can get a lot McDanial, Jeff Thayer, Bob Pozner (front row) Armando of material out of a deck of cards and a frame with Harry Torres, Christina Ustick, Douglas Ustick, Andrew Sabat, Houdini's name on it. Bob Ingalls, Richard Ustick. Bob Ingalls was next with some Voodoo. Bob presented his The October meeting was filled with good magic, and the torn and restored burned voodoo tissue paper. This is a return of a long time past member Rono Freeman who went close-up effect that Bob very cleverly turned into a stand up routine for our rather large audience of magicians. When Ingalls pulls a large voodoo needle out ofhis neck there was a loud gasp of Magical Moments TV Show disbelief. Another big round of applause from Needs A Crew! the audience. Diane Lane host and producer of the popular cable television magic show known as "Magical Moments" needs Phil Stoker a longtime volunteer help in producing the program. Diane tapes professional magician , several programs once a month at Cox Cable Studios. The brought several effects taping takes place between 5 and 9 p.m., anyone interested that he is selling in his in television production and magic will be welcome. garage sale to the Training is available for production assistant. For more meeting to perform. information call Diane Lane as soon as possible at 858- He opened the act with 278-t669. a very clever card stab where three cards were selected and stabbed with three different knives.
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