Magic New Zealand® E-zine

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Issue Number: #1556
Date: Sunday 9th February 2020
Editor: Alan Watson QSM
www.watson.co.nz
E-mail: editor@magicnewzealand.com
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Hi here is the latest news
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1. Editor's Message
2. FISM North American Championship Of Magic 2020
3. The Magic Word Podcast - Stan Allen and Magic Conventions
4. MAGIC Live 2020!
5. Broken Wand - Roy Walton
6. Monday Night Magic Schedule (February) - New York
7. Monday Night Magic Schedule (March) - New York
8. Ongoing Adventures Of Romany!
9. Gemini SMS - John Carey #70
10. The Real Magic Roadshow - Paul Richards
11. Marvin's Magic And Rubik's Collaboration
12. More Vintage Magic For Sale
13. February, 2020 - Jeff McBride Calendar
14. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
15. E-zine Archives
16. Privacy Policy and Copyright Notice

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1. Editor's Message
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The late Orchante would be delighted with the response that we receive weekly on "The Orchante Saga" being published in Magic New Zealand from all over the world.

If you would like to read the Magic New Zealand e-zine in HTML format
go to:

If you would like to write a regular column for Magic New Zealand or have some magic news drop me a line:
Editor@MagicNewZealand.com

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2. FISM North American Championship Of Magic 2020
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Message by Joan Caesar (Canada)

FISM North American Championship of Magic 2020: May 6-10, 2020 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

The deadline of February 16 is quickly approaching for the last chance to compete at FISM North America. There are still spaces available, but don't wait until it's too late. It's important to read the rules posted on the FISM-North America website before submitting a video. Videos must be of the exact performance you'll give at the convention and must be between 5-10 minutes in length.

There can be no pyrotechnics or confetti used during the performance.
Register for the convention on the web site and send your competition video to JCaesar@sentex.ca

The price of FISM-North America increases the end of February. Register at www.fismna2020.com

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3. The Magic Word Podcast - Stan Allen and Magic Conventions
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Message by Scott Wells, M.I.M.C. with Gold Star

While at the recent S.A.M. National Convention in Las Vegas, we sat down with MAGIC Live! convention organizer, Stan Allen, to talk about conventions. This is not an extended advertisement about his convention, but rather a look at the history of magic conventions, where we are now, and where we might be going.

We also chat about lower attendance for some conventions while others are growing. But the meat of this discussion is Stan's look at what it takes to make a magic convention successful, the "Four C's": City, Content, Cost and Community. This is an interesting look at magic conventions for both attendees and organizers alike.

You can listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts, but we suggest to visit our website where there is additional content plus you can subscribe to our weekly pod-letter. Visit the site at: https://www.themagicwordpodcast.com/scottwellsmagic/545-stan-allen

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4. MAGIC Live 2020!
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Message by Stan Allen (US)

Registration is now open for MAGIC Live, August 2-5, 2020, The Orleans Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Our new online registration system allows you to sign up for just yourself, or you can create a group of up to 8 people. Your entire group will have the same show schedule, yet each member can make their own payment arrangements.

Registration is $455, with a convenient payment plan available. We've also arranged the amazing room rate of just $50 per night (plus resort fee and room tax). When you combine the cost of registration and hotel, MAGIC Live is one of the best deals of the year.

Each registration includes tickets to all performances, plus access to sessions, workshops, special events, parties, and our dealer room, as well as giveaway items and complimentary notes. And there are no extra-charge events!

To find out more about why MAGIC Live is like no other convention in the world, please visit our website. Or better yet, just ask a friend.

Look forward to seeing you in August. Surprise await!

Stan
MagicConvention.com

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5. Broken Wand - Roy Walton
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Article forwarded by Bill Campbell (UK)

The Scottish Sun

Exemplary Human Being

Scots comedy legend Jerry Sadowitz has paid tribute to the owner of Tam Shepherds after his death.

Roy Walton, the man behind the famous trick and joke shop in the centre of Glasgow, passed away aged 87.

A message was posted on the shop's official Facebook page yesterday morning.
It said: "We are so very sad to have to let all our friends know that Roy died peacefully this morning".

Now comedian and magician Sadowitz has paid his own tribute to Walton, hailing him as an "exemplary human being".

He said on Twitter: "Very upset to hear that my friend and hero Roy Walton has died.
"The greatest card magician and the most exemplary human being I ever knew.
"Real giants move quietly among us and this one managed Tam Shepherd's Joke Shop in Glasgow for fifty years.

"Devastated".
The shop, on Queen Street, shop was first established in 1886 by Tam Shepherd.
It's been run by the Walton family, including Roy's wife Jean and their kids, for over 75 years.
Tributes have now flooded in for the joke shop owner on social media.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5250793/tam-shepherds-trick-shop-owner-roy-walton-death/

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6. Monday Night Magic Schedule (February) - New York
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Message by Peter Samelson (US)

Monday Night Magic February Schedule (All Performers Subject To Change)

February 3rd: David Corsaro, Malin Nilsson, Peter Samelson; MC Rachel Wax
Close-up: Michael Chaut, Kevin Kapinos

February 10th: Alexander Boyce, Torkova, Ben Nemzer; MC Mike Patrick
Close-up: Richard Cohn, Rachel Wax

February 17th: Michael Karas, Carl Mercurio, Eric Dittelman; MC David Corsaro
Close-up: Harrison Kramer, Brandon Williams

February 24th: Noah Levine, Devlin, Harrison Greenbaum; MC Todd Robbins
Close-up: Alexander Boyce, Patrick Davis

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7. Monday Night Magic Schedule (March) - New York
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Message by Peter Samelson (US)

for March … Begin forwarded message:

Monday Night Magic March Schedule (All Performers Subject To Change)

March 2nd: Torkova, Eric Walton, Chris Capehart; MC Ben Nemzer
Close-up: Michael Chaut, Kevin Kapinos

March 9th: Lina Liu, Denny Corby, Michael Chaut; MC Todd Robbins
Close-up: Alexander Boyce, Rachel Wax

March 16th: Mike Patrick, Jeff Moche, Jason Suran; MC David Corsaro
Close-up: Patrick Davis, Harrison Kramer

March 23rd: Alexander Boyce, Carl Mercurio, Eric Dittelman; MC Peter Samelson
Close-up: Richard Cohn, Kevin Kapinos

March 30th: Will Shaw, Devlin, Ben Nemzer; MC Todd Robbins
Close-up: Peter Samelson, Michael Chaut

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8. Ongoing Adventures Of Romany!
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Message by Romany Romany (UK)

I'm going to jump in and tell you about my current, right now, right this very minute adventure!
I'm writing to you at nearly midnight. I'm leaving early tomorrow morning to fly from London to Fiji to perform my evening stage show, MC a talent night and then deliver a brand new keynote speech to 250 women who will be at the 'Ultimate Girls Week Away Retreat' in Fjii.

I know I should have written this earlier but I've been working non-stop on my new keynote, sitting friends down one at a time to listen to it and give feedback. I'll print out the final version ready to learn on the plane. It will be fresh if nothing else!

The keynote speaker is Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love and other books. If you're a man, you've probably never heard of her but she is admired and followed by millions of women. She has a great Ted talk on creativity and wrote an amazing book called Big Magic which I highly recommend. You won't find instructions on a double lift but you will find true inspiration to 'dare to live your creative dreams'.

I read it in one hit, and the next morning started writing. When I published my book, I wanted to gift it to Liz as a thank you and jumped off my cruise ship to travel to her workshop in London to do just that last year.

But the receptionist wouldn't let me in with the huge bunch of golden balloons that I was carrying, so it seemed to be an expensive wasted trip. But I'm a great believer in the power of persistence. After all, it took me 17 years of persistence to win my first competition and get a decent magic act together after I went to my first magic class aged 26.

So when I saw an advert for this Fiji retreat with Liz Gilbert as the VIP keynote speaker, I wrote to the organiser to offer my magic show. I asked, "If a magician who was inspired by Liz's Big Magic to write a book about magic, then failed to give Liz her book after jumping off a cruise ship but then flew half way around the world to Fiji to do a show and talk about the magical power of persistence, wouldn't that be interesting?"

I'm going.

And here I am at midnight, 99% packed except for that torn and restorn newspaper that I ALWAYS leave to the last minute to make, grrrr!

I'll write next week from Fiji, almost in Alan's backyard, and let you know how I'm getting on!

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9. Gemini SMS - John Carey #70
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Message by John Carey (UK)
http://www.johncareymagic.co.uk/

Karl Fulves' Gemini Twins is a classic of self working card magic. So beautifully simple and equally strong. My presentation offered here was totally inspired by Peter Duffie's beautiful effect called 4-Some from his eBook 4 Most.

To prepare, take a photograph on your phone of the Ace of Clubs, Four of Hearts and the Seven of Spades lying in a face up row on the table. Take your deck of cards and place two of these cards on top of the deck and the other card on the bottom. You can preset or quite easily set
these cards on the fly between tricks. Execute an in-the-hands riffle shuffle retaining the position of your force cards on top and bottom. Hand the deck to a spectator. Ask for their mobile phone number and send them the photograph but ask them not to look at the message you have sent them just yet.

Ask your helper to use their intuition and start dealing cards back and forth into two packets on the table. After about ten cards have been dealt, ask them to stop dealing using their intuitive sense. Once they have stopped dealing ask them to turn the top card of each packet face-up. If any coincidences or interesting cards show: make the most of it! Request that they drop the deck on top of either packet and then drop those combined cards on top of the other packet and then pick up the deck. Almost as an afterthought mention that they do say all good things come in threes, so would they deal some more cards, this time into a single face down packet. Ask them to turn the top card of this packet face-up and then drop the rest of the deck on top and square up.

From a method point of view the work is done, but the perception is that the effect hasn't really started. Ribbon spread the face down deck and comment on how they dealt the cards and stopped at three random locations and marked those locations with the three face up cards in view.
Remove each face-up marker card and the card on top of it and table each pair in a row. Ask your helper to pick up their phone and open up the message you sent them earlier, revealing a photograph of the Ace of Clubs, Four of Hearts and Seven of Spades. Get them to call out each
card in the photograph. Then turn over each face down card on top of its face up marker card to reveal a triple coincidence!

Notes:

Another nice option is to take a photograph of yourself holding the three cards and use it in your social media. Good publicity!

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10. The Real Magic Roadshow - Paul Richards
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Message by Paul Richards (US)

The Real Magic Roadshow is heading your way for one day only - and you're invited!

Experience some of the world's best-selling magic performed live by a select group of the industry's leading creators and producers. This is your opportunity to see and buy astonishing magic, from the people who know these effects inside and out. Our featured creators include:

Mark Mason: The UK's Legendary Demo Man!
Christian Schenk: Direct from Germany, founder of CardShark and creator of the Phoenix Deck!
Chris Smith: The Man Behind MagicSmith, producer of some of the world's best-selling magic!
Dirk Losander: The Undisputed Master of Levitation!
Paul Richards: Roadshow Founder and his super-secret line of magic sold ONLY at live events, just like this!

We'll also be joined by a special guest in each city of the upcoming tour:

Los Angeles - Saturday March 21
San Diego - Sunday March 22
San Francisco - Saturday March 28
San Jose - Sunday March 29
New York City - Saturday April 4
Boston - Sunday April 5

The cost for this incredible day of magic is ONLY $10 (+ $2 booking fee) and if you register NOW you'll receive a $10 gift card for use on the day of the event! It's like getting in for FREE and it's our gift to YOU just for joining us for this incredible day of magic. And that's not all you'll receive - in fact, you won't believe what we're including for less than the price of a movie ticket!

But space is limited (many locations are more than 50% full) and tickets are ONLY available in advance.

Visit www.realmagicroadshow.com for tickets and complete details

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11. Marvin's Magic And Rubik's Collaboration
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Message by Lorraine Rosi (UK)

Marvin's Magic and Rubik's partnership:

The world's most popular puzzle - the Rubik's Cube - is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

In celebration, Rubik has partnered with the number one magic brand, Marvin's Magic, to create a truly innovative magic set; Rubik's Box of Magic Tricks. This superb magic collection, available Autumn 2020, is presented in a giant cube and contains exclusive tricks and illusions that are guaranteed to amaze, baffle and entertain. With unique Rubik's themed magic props and instructions for 40 tricks, you will be able to mysteriously predict which colours a spectator will choose, shrink and transform the special cubes and even magically perform an 'instant solve' in world record time!

At Nuremberg Toy Fair last week the inventor of Rubik's Cube, Erno Rubik and the creator of Marvin's Magic, Marvin Berglas celebrated their collaboration.

Says Marvin "We are delighted and honoured to be partnering with Rubik. I'm proud that Marvin's Magic has been chosen to combine its rich magical heritage with Rubik's innovative puzzle to create this very special magic set. I was thrilled to meet up and perform our original Rubik's magic personally to the elusive and brilliant man himself, Erno Rubik. He even signed the first edition which we will treasure. The reactions to our specially devised Rubik's Box of Magic Tricks have been truly amazing and are capturing people's imagination from all around the world! "

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12. More Vintage Magic For Sale
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Message by David Haversat Magic (US)

Buying, Selling & Collecting Vintage & Historical Magician Goods
"Own a piece of history with David Haversat Magic"

We Buy Magic

Houdini - Chung Ling Soo - Great Lafayette - Herrmann

-Wanted-

Posters, correspondence, apparatus, books, cabinet photos and more

And More!

100% Confidential Assessments, Cash paid.

Contact David Haversat
(203) 828-8058

Buy - Sell - Trade -haversat@gmail.com

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13. February, 2020 - Jeff McBride Calendar
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Message by Jeff McBride (US)

3 - The History and Mystery of The Tarot
3 - Mystery School Monday - Tarot Cards - with Jeff McBride
4-9 - 6-day Magic & Mystery School Winter Training
4-5 - 2-day Winter Training - Part 1: Introduction to Card Magic
6-7 - 2-day Winter Training - Part 2: Impromptu Magic / Everyday Objects
8-9 - 2-day Winter Training - Part 3: The Basics of Standup and Parlor Magic
10 - Mystery School Monday - TBA
17 - Mystery School Monday - TBA - with John Tudor & Max Howard
24 - Mystery School Monday - Maximum Entertainment 2.0 with Jeff Christensen & Shawn Farquhar

http://www.magicalwisdom.com/events/#625

20 - McBride's Wonderground Las Vegas - http://vegaswonderground.com/

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14. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
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Written by the late Tommy Orchard (The Amazing Orchante)

Dr. Robert (Tex) "The Great" Morton plus Orchante

Before I relate my experiences with 'Tex', here are a few more facts about this fascinating man. Robert Morton was best known overseas (as opposed to New Zealand and Australia), as the 'Great Morton; - one of the greatest attractions ever to tour the World's legitimate Theatres - including Carnegie Hall, New York. Throughout the Universities of Canada and the U.S., he was well known as a learned research worker, and lecturer in the field of psychosomatic and Hypnotic Therapy.

Because of his lifetime hobby of collecting Folk songs, he is still fondly remembered by older New Zealanders and Australians, under his nickname 'Tex', entertainer extraordinaire. Since 1934, he was an Entrepreneur and Producer/Promoter of some of the most successful radio
and stage productions Australasia has ever seen.

In the middle/late thirties, no stage Hypnotist was complete without a beard - Tex was no exception. At one stage, he shaved his off, but when he later did a return tour to French Canada he was obliged to grow it again, as the 'Canadians' stubbornly refused to believe he was the
original 'Le Grande Morton - Hypnotiser'!!

The late Walter Braemer, of Auckland, New Zealand, was one of his early tutors, who in later years claimed to have also taught other well-known hypnotists of the time - Franquin, Van Loewe and Dormia (she was billed as 'the World's First Lady Hypnotist'). Franquin denies, however, ever having taken any lessons from 'the Old Master'. PHEW!! And there's more!

The 'Tex Morton Show' with Orchante - Opening Night - Mon.13th November 1967, Kaitaia, 8.30 p.m. The show consisted of, first half, Tex singing, reciting monologues, sharp shooting, and his Memory act, interspersed with my Yoga, and Magic acts.

The second half was all Hypnotism! Tex liked a drink. Always, backstage, was a bottle of whisky, from which he would imbibe when I was on stage. How did I know that? Well, the very first night, he caught me right off guard - knowing that I was also a Hypnotist in my own right, he took full advantage of that fact. Having got his volunteers on stage - performed his various 'tests', 'popped them off', and got his show going, he then, out of the blue, stops and announces to the audience that 'the Great Orchante, whom they saw performing his marvellous feats in the first half, was also a hypnotist. Would they please welcome back, on stage, the aforementioned Great..........!!!'

I nearly fell over! In a mad scramble, I threw on the suit I used for my Magic act, and nonchalantly strolled on stage, as if this was the 'norm'. Tex shook my hand, leaned into my ear, and whispered 'Good on ya, Mate - I'm off for a drink.' He then tells his subjects 'From now on,
you will obey any and all instructions from the Great Orchante, until he tells you different'. Then, he left the stage. I carried on, using segments from my own Hypnotic show. After he had 'wet his whistle', he waved to me from the wings. I then told his subjects that Tex was again in control, welcomed him back on stage, and the Great Tex Morton finished off the show in style, with standing ovations, as befits a world famous entertainer.

I'll wager that was the first, and probably the last, two man Hypnotism show in history.

In an old newspaper dated 1967, I dug out from my bottomless aluminium trunk, there is an advert in the Entertainment pages. On the left hand side of the Advert, it shows a block of the smiling Tex, wearing his famous hat, and is headed 'Tex Morton plus The Great Orchante - Return Visit Tonight - Tonight - Friday November 17th, At 8.30 Pm, Whangarei Town Hall - One Night Only! Box Plans Completely Sold Out - Again! There are a few door sales left - these will be on sale from 7.30 pm. Saturday 18th - Dargaville' Tex's shows always packed out.

Next episode - Pot-Shots, With Tex! P.S On Page 22 of my Saga, titled 'It Was Fun-tastic' I wrote about Johnny Cooper, a New Zealand Promoter/Singer from the 50s/60s. I have just received an e-mail from Eddie O'Strange, of the Blue Smoke Music Co. in New Zealand, who says Quote 'I'm pleased to update you on Johnny Cooper QSM. Yes, in the Queen's Birthday Honours list Johnny was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for service to the community. There has been a bit of media attention, especially great was the front page article (with photo) in the Evening Post, Mon 4 June 2001.' Unquote.

I know Johnny, that you are reading my Saga, and I just want to say personally, how proud I am for you, as you must justifiably be. It is a well-deserved honour. Good on you mate!

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15. E-zine Archives
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Back issues of the Magic New Zealand e- zine go to:
www.magicnewzealand.com

Click on the red button centre right "Archives"

When you enter the archive the e- zines are in issue order in folders for each year and are Coded, e.g. 001 Nov06 1999.txt first three numbers (001) denote issue number, then the date (Nov06) and the last figures the year (1999)

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