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MagiCurrents i Sal1 Dl Honest Sid Gerhart Ring 76 Volume XVI No 3 March 2002 Two IBM Rings Help Replace Stolen Props The North County Ring 292 wanted to help out so their Thursday October 15th 2001 is a day that magician and members formed car pools and came to San Diego and college freshman Joel Ward of Encinitas, will never paid their money for the lecture. That ring also put a forget. That was the day that someone stole the most crisp $100-dollar bill from their treasury in an envelope important "tools" Joel needed to perform his award for Joel. All told we were able to give Joel Ward $330 winning magic act. dollars toward replacing his missing props. He had just finished a good rehearsal at the Sunshine Joel, is putting himself through college doing magic. He Brooks Theater on Hill Street in Oceanside where his and his girl magic act was being featured in a drama built around friend Kristi magic and magicians. Joel was loading out the stage door are currently behind the theater. He left his props for 20-seconds to go developing a back into the theater to get one last load. It was then that full evening some thoughtless person picked up a green tackle box that show. They contained Joel's, Hummingbird reels, 4 dove bags, his have created silks, flash paper and flash pot, and a dozen other little but several new costly gimmicks that make his stage act work. and original stage illusions. After filing a police report Joel began calling friends in They hope to the North County for help. Jack Evans had a present one of hummingbird reel Joel could use. Andy Amyx had a their new couple of dove bags; Josh Hall had two more dove bags. illusions in Joe| Ward and Krjstj and her There were others who filled in with needed props. competition grandfather, magician and He ended up doing an entirely different act for the show Yoshida in Oceanside. The new act went over well and the Convention at audience never knew for a moment the stress this young the Town & Country Hotel. magician had been put through by the loss of a little green box filled with magic equipment. The members of Rings 76 and 292 have proven that ours is truly a "Brotherhood" of Magicians and we do Joel says he is a sadder but wiser magician these days. care about each other and we will help each other in times He has learned you never leave your props unattended of crisis. Just ask Joel Ward! even for a minute. Second you have a back up for your act packed up at home and ready to go incase this sort of thing happens. He has also learned that magicians are the Membership Ratifies Constitution: best friends you can have when you are in trouble. When members of Ring 76 heard about Joel's bad luck After 8-months of work and rewriting the membership of they began putting an event together that would raise Ring 76 ratified and adopted a new Constitution and By- some funds to replace his stolen equipment. Ring 76'er Laws. The vote was 18 for ratification, 3 against Gary Salisbury met with Jim Pace, magician and magic ratification and two people returned their ballots but did shop owner from Oregon and asked him to come to San not vote. This vote now means that Ring 76 is legal and Diego in late January, and do a lecture free of charge and the money collected at the door would all go to Joel. Jack has a set of rules to operate and live by in the years ahead. White donated the facility for the lecture. Those against ratification have the right to amend those portions to which they object. Page 2 MagiCurrents February Close-up Contest: The February 11th meeting was called to order a few Mrs. Lopez minutes before 7 because of a huge schedule of events selected one from and a very large group attending. Guests included Walter the pack. But that Lorden, Martha & Jenny Lopez, Charlie Chang, Margo name was not Ruly, Patti McCain, Lewis Barber, John Hughes, Fred acceptable, so she Noce and Michael Oliver. A total of 52 people attended continued to the meeting. select cards. At this writing David Announcements included upcoming lectures. Ron and his wife London on March 13lh, Ice McDonald on April 10th and Martha are Paul Gertner has confirmed for April 20th a Sunday The Lopez Family considering a new Afternoon. stratigity to select a name. Fred Kaplin a member of Ring 76 and the Society of American Magicians is forming up a Junior Magicians Diane Lane did a super job selling raffle tickets for the group with the sanctions of Ring 76 and the IBM. Fred four new magic tricks we had to raffle off for this talked briefly about what he wants to do and his request meeting. Each trick carried for help from the ring membership. a retail value of 10 to 20- dollars. Raffle tickets are six We had two for three dollars. It's a great auditions; way to support the ring. Howard Harris began by We thanked Don Holcomb producing a bird who has given the Ring 76 from an empty Library a vintage copy of one box. The large of the greatest magic books white bird flew in print. "Greater Magic" by around the room John Northern Hilliard. It is several times a very welcome addition to finally coming to our library, which is being Charlie Gott & Howard Harris rest on Jeff used on a regular basis by our Don Holcomb Marcus' arm membership. where the bird stayed for the rest of the act. Howard then brought up an assistant for a card routine. Richard Ustick our Entertainment Vice President took over the meeting and presented one of his magic songs to The second person to audition was Charlie Gott, who's get the evening started. Richards son Alex helped his table is made up to look more like an alter than a father by running the tape recorder. The music was magicians table. Charlie does Gospel Magic. Charlie "Oklahoma" from the Broadway show of the same name. told his audience he works mostly church shows. He But Usticks words were "Okito Coin Box, where the obviously knows the Christian Bible because his stories magic waves and the trick brings raves."OOO.. were from scripture and his tricks complemented his It was another winner from the musical and magical mind patter. of Ustick who then became the Master of Ceremonies for the Ring's Annual Close-Up Contest. Both men were asked to leave the building while the membership voted to invite them into the ring as Andrew Sabat was our first contestant doing the same act members. that he won 3rd place in the Junior Competition in Las Vegas in January at the World Magic Seminar. His Next David Lopez passed out playing cards and routine includes fire, coins, and cards. This act brought a introduced his pregnant wife who is expecting a little girl lot of "ah's" from the audience. in the next month. David was asking the membership to come up with a name for the baby and write the name on Next was Jim Thayer, who began by doing a commercial a playing card. Then the Lopez collected the cards and for product known as the "Polly Bonder" it sticks MagiCurrents Page 3 anything together. In this Ted Dunning did a series of close-up coin manipulations. case it stuck some pieces of Ted is an excellent performer and we would all have liked rope together. But there were to see his act go a little longer. knots in the rope so Jim launches into his next Josh London, one of our newer, younger members who commercial for a product has started a new column in this edition of MagiCurrents called "Knots Away" and the was next. He opened with Twisting the Aces but instead knots fell off the rope. Then of Aces he used the four Queens. In the end the Queens came a trick with money and turned to Aces. His next effect was a stunning torn and cards. He closed his act with restored card that was signed by a member of the something called the "Black audience. Josh enjoys doing magic and that is very clear Hole" a very clever routine with Dean Dill's "Box". from his presentation. A nicely done set. Michael E. Johnson took center stage next with his brand Armando Torres has shown us that he has a great stand-up of magic. Michael is a working pro and is in big demand magic act. This time he presented an equally exciting and it was very clear by his stage presence and the close-up act. He opened with a Giant 3-Card Monte that commercial effects that he does that he works a lot. He was a welcome routine for the folks in the back of the began by introducing a 1-thousand dollar bill and does room. That was followed by a missing coin in a deck of some clever work with the bill, coins and a couple of cards. He closed with a very different Chop Cup routine members of the audience. He also does some funny that ended with a lime, a glass and a bottle as the final stuff with his wedding ring and ends his act with the loads. Armando works with color and humor in his production of a giant coin.

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