Volume 68, Issue 3; September 2013 Visit the Ring 47 Web Site at: www.ibmring47.com

Wizards of Wichita

Ring 47 of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Wichita, Kansas

NEXT MEETING: Tue. Sep. 3rd

6:30 pm @ The Golden Corral 616 South Ridge Rd., Wichita, KS 67209

The Theme this month is:

‘Mentalism’

Our very own mentalist extraordinaire, Curtis Waltermire will emcee an evening of spellbinding & mesmerizing mentalism magic...

but of course, you already knew that!

September Business Meeting: 6:30pm, Tue, Sep 17th

at Rick Pugh's house

801 N. Emer., Wichita, KS Ph# (316) 729-0827

2014 Combined IBM/SAM Convention

Next year the IBM and SAM are having their combined convention from July 1st-5th, 2014. Because St. Louis is where the Midwest

Magic Jubilee takes place and it is only a month apart, organizers of the MMJ decided not to have MMJ in 2014. There will be one the following year (in 2015).

During the 2013 MMJ, we were told that there are 1400 ‘spots’ available for registrants and currently, they have over 800 registered already, so if you think you might want to go, be sure to get registered ASAP.

Wizards members Rick Pugh and Tony Cortest are already registered for the 2014 convention.

The website is www.ibmsam.com

Midwest Magic Jubilee

Cleo Rucker and Anthony (Tony) Cortest attended the 2013 Midwest Magic Jubilee in St. Louis, Missouri from August 15th-17th. It was three days and nights of great lectures, competitions and evening shows.

Headliners included, John Shryock, Sean Bogunia, Lee Alex, Oscar Muñoz, Levent, Boris Wild, “Diamond” Jim Tyler, Michael Dardant, Sonny Fontana and more.

Tony competed in the Close-Up contest and took fourth place. A great follow up to his sixth place finish at the IBM Convention in Phoenix last month.

http://www.ibmsam.com/

Derby Summer Fest 2013

Well, another Derby Summer Fest has come and gone. You really should come out to these as it gives you a great opportunity to showcase your skills and you get to try out some new stuff you’re working on. Remember, it’s much easier to fool laypeople than it is a group of magicians. Ron Margolis, Melton Francis, Cleo Rucker, Bubba (Granville) Brooks and new member Kyle Bruggeman all showed up to put on a show for the masses as they strolled around High Park on a warm summer afternoon.

Ron Margolis (l) and Kyle Bruggeman (r)

perform magic for the masses

Curtis and Tony got up on the amphitheater stage and each did a couple of short routines. Tony performed the Linking Rings and the ‘Miser’s Dream’ and Curtis did his mind-numbing ‘Triple Prediction’.

Tony performs the Linking Rings for an

audience of ‘muggles’

Curtis Waltermire on Street Rodding American Style

Curtis Waltermire, performed his signature blindfolded driving stunt on the television show ‘Street Rodding American Style’. The show was filmed Friday, August 24th during the Blacktop Nationals which took place here in Wichita, Kansas on Friday, August 24th.

Curtis addresses the crowd before gunning it blindfolded around the autocross track

Curtis drove a red, custom Chevy II hot rod through the “Autocross” course at Lawrence Dumont Stadium. The show will air this fall on the public television station KPTS. Thanks Curtis, for doing such a superb job representing The Wizards!

Curtis assesses the situation before his blindfold drive

August’s Raffle Winners

Ron Margolis (l) won the video “How to Swim with the Card Sharks… Without Being Eaten Alive!” and Ed Stevens (r) won the Philip Breslaw book “Breslaw’s Last Legacy”

Magic at our Last Meeting

We had a great turnout for our August meeting where the theme was ‘Teach-A-Trick’. Emcee for the evening was Rick Pugh, our Treasurer, who taught everyone how to do the jumping rubber band. Next up was club President, Rondini (Ron Margolis), who taught everyone how to do the ‘Unlinking Safety Pins’.

Ron demonstrates how to unlink the pins

Kyle Magic (Kyle Brueggeman), our newest, and youngest member, taught us how to do one of the illusions from his initiation show a couple of months ago. He came out with a purple and black handkerchief and a classic black & white magic wand. He placed the hanky on his left hand then poked his finger down into his fist making a hole for the wand, then he proceeded to push the magic wand all the way through the handkerchief.

Kyle Magic teaches the ‘Wand thru Hanky’

Cleo Rucker did a great version of ‘Silk in Egg’, where he demonstrated how to vanish a red silk from his closed hand and changed it to an egg. In keeping with the ‘Teach a Trick’ theme, he offered to show the audience how the trick was performed and showed everyone that he actually stuffed the red hanky into a hollow egg shell. As he was demonstrating, he noted that if you really want to perform some true magic, you can simply remove the hole from the egg and he then cracked open a real egg into a glass. A truly ‘egg-celent’ effect.

Cleo produces a real, raw egg for the finale of

his ‘egg’cellent ‘Silk to Egg’ routine

Magic Bubba (Granville Brooks) did some great levitations. He first placed a large, heavy candlestick on his performing table, then he grabbed a cloth and covered the area in front of the candlestick. Moments later, the candlestick floated up, peeking over the top of the cloth like a zombie ball. Next, he did a miniature version of the zombie, by covering a clear, Lucite box. but without a ball. When he was through floating the zombie ball, he covered the clear box again and when he removed the foulard, a ball had appeared in the previously empty box.

Bubba floats a large candlestick

Bubba unleashes his invisible zombie

Club secretary, Nelson Schmitt,

demonstrated and taught everyone the floating pencil, stuck to the palm of the hand. If you’re not familiar with it, ask around. He then showed how you can reveal the trick to your audience, but still fool them again by either using a second pencil, or table knife and your watch or you can simply hold the pencil or knife with the hand that is holding onto your wrist to fool your audience again.

Nelson Schmitt ‘gets a grip’ of the situation

Under the guise of showing some of

the evening’s guests the Coin Through Table, Anthony Cortest taught everyone the salt-shaker through table. A great and very underused trick in his opinion.

Tony (l) tames a ‘knotty’ silk

He also taught a great trick using a large ladies head scarf. After rolling the scarf into a long tube and making a loop with it, he had a spectator hold the ends of the loop while he stuck his fist through the loop and double-wrapped it around his wrist. He allowed the spectator to pull tightly on the ends to ensure the scarf was wrapped tightly around his wrist, when they were satisfied that it was tight, Tony cleanly pulled his wrist sideways, penetrating right through the silk

scarf. A great trick taught to him by Gary Darwin on his last trip to Las Vegas.

Curtis Waltermire performed a mental miracle with cards. After placing a prediction card on the table, he had a spectator call out stop and he showed a freely chosen card to the audience. He announced that the card everyone saw was just a thought that he mentally ‘skipped’ across the room into everyone’s subconscious and to prove it, he turned over the deck of cards and spread them out to show that every card in the deck was in fact, blank. The only printed card on the table was the prediction and it matched the card that everyone thought they saw.

Curtis skips the thought of a card into a

spectator’s mind

We also had new guests in attendance

who shared some of their magic with us. Bill Fry did two effects for us. First, he took two quarters and visibly welded them together with his fingers. Then, he did a demonstration of escaping from thumb cuffs. Nick Farmer, a first time guest, did his version of ‘Lie to Me’. He had a spectator select a card, then lose it in the deck and after allowing the spectator to lie about the card’s identity, he was still able to divine the chosen

card. Lastly, a return guest, Alex Edwards demonstrated the classic rising ring on rubber band where a borrowed ring slowly creeps up an incline of rubber band that he was holding between the his hands.

~ by Tony Cortest

Alex Edwards demonstrates a borrowed

ring ‘climbing’ a rubber band incline

Meeting guest, Bill Fry, welds two

quarters together with his bare hands

Rene Small (l) shows Ann Waltermire (r)

that she can do the ‘Safety Pin Unlink’ after Ron’s instruction