SAM Assembly 23

OUR NEXT MEETING AUGUST 16, 2006
The Theme: Ticket to Ride

DUES ARE NOW PAST DUE
If you have not yet paid your dues for the 2006-2007 period which were due in May 2006 you are now past due. Please either bring your dues to the next meeting or send a check payable to Larry West Assembly No. 23 to: Noland Montgomery, 3621 Dunnington Rd.,Beltsville MD 20705.

LAST MEETING

The new officers were installed by Phil Milstead, they are: President - James Munton; Vice President - Hugh Turley; Secretary - Ray Eyler; Treasurer - Noland Montgomery, Eggbag Reporter - Dwight Redman

The president announced that Assembly 23 now has a web page. - www.assembly23.blogspot.com, this should allow our members to be better informed as to Assembly information and magic info in general.

Barry Taylor made a plea to our members to help where they can to try to save his shop at its present location. For further information on how you might help you can contact Barry at magic@erols.com

The themes were chosen for our new magic season they are:

Meeting themes for 2006 - 2007 - Subject to Change

August:-- Ticket to Ride
September:-- Penny Lane
October:-- Help!
November:-- Fixing a Hole
December:-- Helter Skelter
January:-- Here, There and Everywhere
February:-- All You Need is Love
March:-- Across the Universe
April:-- Taxman
May:-- Twist and Shout
June:-- Please Mr. Postman

The assembly is trying to compile an updated roster of its members. We wish to include the following - please take time to return the information to ceyler1026@aol.com:

Name
Address
Phone Nos. (H) Home (W) Work or Business if you can be contacted there and your Cell phone number if you have one and can be contacted via the cell phone.
E-Mail address

Thanks!

WELCOME TO OUR NEW FACES & PERFORMERS: - George Bradley, Jessica Gilkey

MONKEY BUSINESS:

The social/magic portion of the meeting brought forward a full number of performers (it usually does since one of our rules is that all who attend must perform). The theme for the night was, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." which brought out an unusual number of Hot Rod presentations.

Noland Montgomery was first to perform as he provided us with a very good Ambitious Card routine; the spectator signed card was repeatedly lost and found in the deck.

George Bradley gave a spectator an empty tube and a roll of lifesavers to put into the tube. A dollar bill was borrowed, torn in half. Half was vanished and the other half was put into an envelope and burned. Spectator opened tube to find lifesavers gone and half of the dollar was inside. George reached into his pocket and removed the other half of the dollar.

Christian Virdru provided us with a mental effect. He wrote the initials of his friend on a piece of paper, he asked a spectator to guess what his friend’s initials were and he wrote that down. He wrote his friend’s height and asked the spectator to guess the friend’s height. Last, he wrote the friend’s age and asked the spectator to guess the age. All of the answers matched. (Christian please excuse the spelling of you last name as it was hard to read on the list of performers.)

Lee Eyler showed his handling of an Al Leech effect, "Ace, Three Five." Lee had a spectator choose a card, showed it to the audience and lost it in the deck. The first two selections by Lee were wrong. The 3rd choice was correct. Lee then removed the pips from the card.

Augie Arnstein regaled us with a trip to the Horse Races - Augie placed 5 cards with horses drawn on the back in a row on the table. These represented the race course for the four Aces. The Aces were placed at the first horse card in a row. The spectator turned over a card from the deck and his Ace was advanced according to the number on the card. The Ace of Diamonds won.

Phil Milstead titled his performance as "Tie one on at the bar" a presentation of the Hot Rod

Dwight Redman showed 6 cards with different backs. All cards represented a different Casino where he lost money. All of the cards were shown to be Jokers and placed on the table one at a time. Five cards were turned over to reveal a Royal Flush and one card that was a Poker score card showing the order of the winning hands.

Lars Klores losing the spectator's selected card in the deck had the card named one step at a time, color- suite-value. Lars showed the card to spectator and slapped the card and the all pips fell off.

Joe Tessmer providing us with his handling of "Coincidental Card Stab" placed a prediction card aside. Spectator chose the Queen of Hearts and lost it in the deck. The deck was turned face up and spread and one card was found face down between the two black queen. The prediction card was shown to be, "Lucy in the Sky--the Queen of Diamonds. "

James Munton performed an undated version of McCombical Prediction where the spectator was given choice from 8 cards. Cards were shown to audience and all the cards were Ace of Diamonds. Spectator selected card and did not show it to anyone. A frame was brought out with a prediction inside. When it was shown, the prediction said Ace of Diamonds but when the selected card was shown it was a Queen of Diamonds. James pulled the Ace out of the frame and it changed to the Queen of Diamonds.

Jessica Gilkey performed her version of the Hot Rod.

Hugh Turley not to be out done performed his version of Zen's cards across-- Two spectators were selected. One counts 10 cards into Hugh's right hand. The other spectator counts 10 cards into his left hand. He hands one set of cards to one spectator and covers those cards with a silk. The other spectators sits on the other set of cards. Hugh waved his magic wand and made one card go from under the silk to the cards under the other spectator. He did this 3 times and when the spectator stood up and counted the cards he was sitting on, he had 13 diamonds.

Matt Hiller showed us his handling of the Hot Rod which he named the LSD Rod
in honor of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."

Eric Redman related a story about "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" using Color Monte to illustrate his story.

Joe Largess told the story of 4 Robbers (the 4 Queens) who broke into a building (lost in 4 places in deck) however when Police arrived and all 4 robbers were found at once.

Ray Eyler preformed the Emerson & West effect "Gems" where in Lord Munton's Blue Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald and Pearls started disappearing from his safe one at a time. When the police are called, all of the gems are found to be safe in the wall safe.

Jim Flanagan following the theme using "Lucy & Diamonds" had a spectator shuffles a small packet of cards. They are placed in two rows and a second spectator chooses a row of cards. Spectator selects a card and Jim removes his wallet and takes out a card that matches the selected card. The card from the wallet has a picture of Lucy from Peanuts on the back.

Steve Javes playing to the theme with a presentation of the Penny/Dime trick placed a penny, dime and box of matches is placed on the table. The matches are placed on table around the penny in the shape of a diamond. The match box is placed on top of the penny and matches. The box is removed and the dime is in the diamond on the table and the penny is in the match box.

Larry Lipman provided comedy relief by leading members in singing lyrics to ˜Lucy in the Sky". He then performed Butterfly Silks- Used bag to catch some butterflys (silks). One black and one white. He took out the silk and it was now one black and white caterpillar. He put that back into the bag and removed a large colorful butterfly (silk).

Since the net and hook had been brought out it thought that we had a perfect time to adjourn.

The gang then retired to the Reliable Source for more magic and camaraderie.

See you on the 16th