Stage Magic Night

Special guest this month was Past National President, Jann Goodsell from Utah. She is our Regional VP of SAM. Welcome! This month we had Stage Magic night where our members taught us fun things from ropes, rings, silks, TNR paper, and mentalism. Gene taught us a rope through the neck routine, how to make a one handed knot, fake knots, false knots, how to make various vanishing knots and a fun routine with these ropes that are perfect for parlor or stage work. False transfers were taught and where to find it in an Abbotts rope book. “Mysto”, Mitch Harwood, explained his method for counting Linking Rings that looks so much better and believable than we have been doing with most of our routines. He also taught us a nice way to set up the rings in your hand and then a clean way to unlink the rings. Past President Matt taught us his version a TNR napkin and how to set up, load pockets, and perform a fun and useful routine that is guaranteed to fool lay people and magicians alike. Dave Neighbors exposed his silk routine using an 18” silk and explained why he choose this size silk over others. He vanished the silk and then it ended up inside an egg and finally he pulled the silk out of his forehead! His handling was very clean and something we should all strive for. Our Editor William Rader showed us a book routine on how to pick up any book anywhere at anytime and predict a word on a page! It is easy to do and easy for us all to learn.