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Issue Number: #1589
Date: Sunday 27th September 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. Editors Message
2. October Genii Magazine
3. Magic Auction - Museum
4. Blackpool Magic Convention 2021 Postponement
5. Steve Beam On The Magic Word Podcast
6. Broken Wand - Ken Bates GMM
7. Positivity - John Carey #96
8. Ongoing Adventures Of Romany! #26
9. Masters Of Illusion Friday, September 25, 2020
10. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
11. E-zine Archives
12. Privacy Policy and Copyright Notice

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1. Editor's Message
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If you would like to read the Magic New Zealand e-zine in HTML format
go to: http://www.magicnewzealand.com/ezine-archive/2020-Jan-to-Dec-2020/1589-Sep27-2020.html

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. October Genii Magazine
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Message from Richard Kaufman - Editor Genii Magazine

Subscribe to Genii at www.geniimagazine.com and be eligible to purchase the $150 book Charlie Miller's Magicana for only $25 plus postage.

Let's delve into the wonderful day that unfortunately will be celebrated only sporadically this year - Halloween. Most kids won't get to go for tricks or treats in October, more's the pity. But we can enjoy this most orange and black holiday in the pages of Genii.

Steve Bryant, he of the Little Egypt Gazette, leads us on a shivery path through tingling séance magic and the poetry of the season in a multi-part cover story which incorporates many performance pieces.

Our ode to the season continues with Rob Zabrecky's tour of the séance at The Magic Castle, then Jim Steinmeyer gives us a peek at the new séance that will premier when The Castle reopens.

We take a detour from the season but stick with the Academy of Magical Arts for Dustin Stinett's wrap up of the annual awards ceremony.

"Magicana" takes a leap into the heart of terror with three Halloween-themed tricks. * Our other columns include "Exhumations," "The Eye," "Cardopolis," "Artifices," "Chamber of Secrets," "Expert at the Kids Table," and a special installment of "Conjuring" that teaches a new standup version of Three Card Monte. Reviews of Books, Tricks, and Videos from David Britland, Brad Henderson, and Joe M. Turner end the issue.

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3. Magic Auction - Museum
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Haversat & Ewing Galleries, LLC

Magic from The Gary Darwin Museum of Magic

The Brad Jacobs Collection
Past National President of The S.A.M.

& items from many other notable collections and museums from around the World!

-October 16 & 17-
(Preview One Week Before Auction)
Haversat & Ewing <haversat@gmail.com> Galleries

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4. Blackpool Magic Convention 2021 Postponement
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Blackpool Magic Convention Statement (UK)

We are sad to announce the postponement of The Blackpool Magic Convention 2021.
After much thought and consideration, due to the current pandemic we realise that we simply can't produce an event for 2021 that would guarantee the safety of our valued customers.

Anyone who has already booked tickets, can hold them over to the 2022 event and still guarantee their seats. You can of course be given a refund and then book again nearer the time.

Contact registration@blackpoolmagicconvention.com

If our Registration Hub does not hear from you by the 1st December 2020, we will presume you are happy for tickets to be held over to the 2022 event.

Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to welcoming you back in 2022. The dates for Blackpool 2022 are Thursday 17th February to Sunday 20th February 2022.

Booking for 2022 opens on Monday 5th April 2021 via our website:
www.blackpoolmagic.com

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5. Steve Beam On The Magic Word Podcast
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Message by Scott Wells, M.I.M.C. with Gold Star

Author of the long running "Trapdoor" journal for underground magicians and also the "Semi-Automatic Card Tricks" series, Steve Beam, joins us as the guest this week on The Magic Word Podcast. His humor and magic performances has been enjoyed by thousands over the years as he has emceed magic conventions and corporate events. In this week's episode, Steve talks about publishing "Semi-Automatic Card Tricks" and how it led him to the current 12th book in the series. He also chats about scripting, performing at magic conventions, and more.

You can listen wherever you get your podcasts. But for more information, but sure to visit: https://www.themagicwordpodcast.com/scottwellsmagic/578-steve-beam Don't forget to sign up for our weekly podletter that keeps you up to date on who is on each week, who is coming up next week, and suggestions from the archives.

And to enjoy the video side of our podcast, we have been live streaming Magic and Martinis Thursday virtual happy hour for the last 19 weeks. This is a fun time of friend sitting around the virtual bar talking magic. You can join in through YouTube or Facebook by typing in your comments and questions as we recognize everyone who cares to join us. If you "Like" our Facebook page at https://facebook.com/themagicwordpodcast then you will receive notifications when we go LIVE! Join us each week for a virtual happy hour…because it's better than drinking alone!

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6. Broken Wand - Ken Bates GMM
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Message by Paul Bates GMM (New Zealand)

My Dad Ken Bates died in the early hours of this morning, Thursday 24 September, peacefully in hospital. He was 87 years old.

He had a long illness battling a disease called Myadisplasia, where bone marrow is not making enough platelets, and once a week he had to have a top up of blood to recharge the battery.

This advanced rapidly over the last 8 months to 2 to 3 transfusions per week and then the Haematologist told us it wasn't working anymore. The past 12 days he's been in hospital and this morning left us to join all the other magicians in the great top hat in the sky.

A funeral celebrating his life is on Friday 2 October at 11am at Dempsey and Forrest Funeral Home, 208 Guyton Street, Whanganui 4500, New Zealand.

The funeral will be live streamed on the day from their website and we will advise when more information becomes available.

Mums address:
Shirley Bates
149 Harrison Street
Whanganui 4500
New Zealand
Email: Kbmagic@xtra.co.nz

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7. Positivity - John Carey #96
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Message by John Carey (UK)
http://www.johncareymagic.co.uk/

The following piece was inspired by a Juan Tamariz effect called Black Days in his magnificent work Sonata. My approach is sleight free, relying on verbal control and ambiguity - otherwise known as Equivoque. You will require five black spot cards and a red Ace. Take these cards sight unseen from the deck with the Ace being the uppermost card of the packet as the balance of the deck is set aside.

"Mary, today I'd like to try an experiment in positivity with you. I guess most of us try to remain as positive as possible most of the time. In fact I'm going to send you positive energy right now. Just hold your hands out palm up. I will rub my hands together rather briskly and now hold them
over yours for just a few seconds. Believe it or not, everything you do today will now be positive! I've got a handful of playing cards here that we can conduct a little test with."

So as per above, we set the scene and are now ready to work. Run the red Ace to the bottom of the packet with an overhand shuffle and then retain it there with a simple slip shuffle. Hand the packet to your helper and have her further mix the cards by dealing left and right forming two face down three card packets, our Ace being the top card of the right hand packet. "Six cards on the table Mary, but we don't need them all. Please pick up either packet." This is where the first equivocal step begins.

If they pick up the target packet we casually push the other packet aside without fuss. However if they pick up the X packet you ask them to set that packet aside. Continue by asking them to deal the three remaining cards into a left to right face down row. Request they mix them around a little, you of course keeping track of the red Ace. "Mary, please pull two cards towards you. Using classical Equivoque once more, if they pull the two X cards towards them casually ask them to discard with the other three cards, leaving our Ace ready for the final revelation. But of course, if they pull the Ace and an X card towards themselves we would casually drop the remaining card aside with the earlier discards. Then, with no hesitation, ask them to hand
you one of the two cards they pulled towards themselves. If it's the Ace, they discard the other card. If it's not you discard it with the other four cards. The key is to keep it flowing and be relaxed.

"So through random choices made instinctively by you, you decided to keep this card Mary. At the outset we discussed the power of positivity. I even tried to channel some positive energy to you. Let's see how we did. The Gypsy fortune tellers consider the black cards as dark, negative images, worth avoiding, and the red cards bright, vibrant and positive images. Let's look at the ones you didn't want." Pick up the discarded cards and slowly deal them face up onto the table in a row revealing each to be black. Then ask your helper to turn over her card to reveal a red Ace.

"Wonderful outcome thus proving the power of positivity!"

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8. Ongoing Adventures Of Romany! #26
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Message by Romany (UK)

Hello from the Magic Cottage!

I'm choosing to turn my attention away from the news that our government has announced today that they will continue to NOT give many artists, event organisers, theatre staff and self-employed any financial aid in this crisis. It's difficult to keep an open heart and calm mind, but after so many months with the Buddhists, I have a basic training that we can choose our reaction and in any case, everything only exists in the mind.

But really? GRRRRRRRRR!

And yet, if I keep my attention away from the news and social media my life is blessed. Since I started work full time on my Manifest a Million readers challenge I've worked full days and started getting results.

Today Spun Into Gold - The Secret Life of a Female Magician is ranking 18th on Amazon's Biographies for Teens and Young Adults! Hoorah!
Since you might not be following it - and why not? - and since today's blog is magic related, I'm going to share Day 17 with you here and now!

https://www.romanymagic.com/post/where-is-your-heart-day-17

This morning clad in full wet gear on this morning's rainy walk, I got to thinking.

Last night, I watched a much admired female magician Carisa Hendrix talk about how she managed to make such creative progress with her three year old character Lucy Darling. You can marvel at her at www.thelucydarling.com .

As you'll know if you've read my story, I've had the dream of creating a world class magic act for three decades. It was so important to me that twenty years ago, I left my husband to go to Las Vegas. Don't worry, we're still friends.

Last year at a big magic convention in Florida, I performed that act in front of 800 magicians including many of the top names in the business. It went well and I finally thought to myself, yup, that worked. Of course, as we say in the business, every show is only as good as the last. This is true. But still, that yearning I'd carried for so long was answered.

On Connie Boyd's YouTube show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZQW1VQzIc
Carisa Hendrix said that she had achieved so much in a relatively short time because she only does what she wants to do. Since she wants to develop material for Lucy Darling she puts in 40+ hours a week and gets things done.

This made me question what I'd really like to achieve. Like Carisa, I have no kids or other demands on my time. I can do whatever I want.

As I walked past the sheep on the windswept hills, I pictured an old fashioned pair of scales. If I put a new improved Romany magic show on one side and the vision of my book read throughout the world on the other, there is no contest. The idea of reaching out to a young woman who doesn't know how to break free from feeling desperately unhappy, has the whole weight of my heart behind it.

Or to be honest, let's say, 70% of my heart. I'm still in love with showbiz and spotlights. Plus, this is a new venture for me, I am stepping out of my comfort zone onto new paths.

But even so, it's good to be clear.

This Manifest a Million readers isn't about making money. I can spend money as well as anyone, but if someone came along and put the profit from a million books in my bank, I would put it straight back into finding more readers and getting the book translated into as many languages as possible.

It's the same with magic. Tax wise, magic for me has been an expensive hobby. I've always spent the profit on nicer costumes, artistic direction from the best creative minds in the business and on a few ridiculously expensive illusions. Like Carisa, this is what I love.
Let's carry on then shall we? Still a way to go. But remember, FUN and EASY, FUN and EASY!

Love, love, love

Romany

So my friends, here is my challenge.

I will share Spun Into Gold - The Secret Life of a Female Magician with over a magical million readers.

It's available worldwide in paperback and on audiobook, narrated by yours truly and has received 97% 5 star reviews.

Amazon UK
Amazon USA
Amazon Australia
Book Depository FREE SHIPPING Worldwide
Audible UK
Audible USA
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9. Masters Of Illusion Friday, September 25, 2020
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Message by Steve Moyer (US)

Hollywood, CA (September 25, 2020) - Masters Of Illusion, produced by Associated Television International and hosted by Dean Cain, will return for Week Nineteen of their seventh anniversary season on The CW with two 30-minute episodes airing back to back on Friday, September 25, 2020. Masters Of Illusion features amazing magic performed by 45 acts, including 46 diverse national and international cutting-edge illusionists, escape artists and performers, 10 of which are women.

This week's episodes will include:
Masters Of Illusion
"Brick Walls, Plexiglass, And A Fish Hook Tonsillectomy" - (8:00-8:30 p.m. ET) (Content Rating TBD) (HDTV)
Houdini's Brick Wall - Hosted by Dean Cain, Masters Of Illusion features amazing magic performed by cutting-edge illusionists, escape artists and performers displaying skills ranging from perplexing interactive mind magic to hilarious comedy routines - all in front of a studio audience. Magicians featured in this episode include: Jeki Yoo (Diamonds and Blank Cards), Anna DeGuzman (Fish Hook Tonsillectomy), Shoot Ogawa (Two Tricks In One), Jason Bishop (Houdini's Brick Wall Illusion), Eric Jones (Incredible Transforming Coins) and Alex Ramon (Plexiglass Magic Box). (#714) Original Airdate 9/25/20.

To view performance highlights of the September 25th episode airing from 8:00 - 8:30 p.m., please visit:
(Highlight Clip of Anna DeGuzman) https://vimeo.com/459766584/ba09c50f3c

Masters Of Illusion
"Copycats, Magical Matrimony, and Moments in Time" - (8:30-9:00 p.m. ET) (Content Rating TBD) (HDTV)
Air Cannon Card Trick - Hosted by Dean Cain, Masters Of Illusion features amazing magic performed by cutting-edge illusionists, escape artists and performers displaying skills ranging from perplexing interactive mind magic to hilarious comedy routines - all in front of a studio audience. Magicians featured in this episode include: Kyle Marlett (Copycat Magic), Ed Alonzo (Sword Swallowing Colonoscopy), Matthew Laslo (Tee Shirt Canon), Angela Funovits (A Moment In Time) and Douglas "Lefty" Leferovich (Magical Courtship). (#712) (Encore Presentation) (Original Airdate 8/28/20).

To view performance highlights of the September 25th Encore episode airing from 8:30 - 9:00 p.m., please visit:
(Highlight Clip of Kyle Marlett) https://vimeo.com/430083250/af6e1250f4

Please note, the television show, Masters Of Illusion will be preempted on Friday, September 25, 2020 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., or 9:30 - 10:00 p.m., or 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. in several U.S. cities due to sporting events. As a result, Masters Of Illusion will be broadcast instead in Dallas, TX on KDAF on Saturday, September 26, 2020 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., in Indianapolis, IN on WISH on Friday, September 25, 2020 from 12:30 - 1:00 a.m.; in Columbus, OH on WWHO on Friday, September 25, 2020 from 10:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.; Chattanooga, TN on WFLI on Friday, September 25, 2020 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. and in Johnstown, PA on WJAC-D4 on Saturday, September 26, 2020 from 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Masters Of Illusion is produced by Associated Television International (ATI) with returning Executive Producers David McKenzie, Gay Blackstone, David Martin, and Al Schwartz, along with Co-Executive Producer Jim Romanovich. For more information about ATI, please visit www.associatedtelevision.com

For more information on Masters Of Illusion, please visit:
Website: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/masters-of-illusion/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cwmastersofillusion and https://www.facebook.com/MastersofIllusion
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cw_illusion and https://twitter.com/Mastersofillus
.@cw_illusion
#MastersOfIllusion

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

More of Timaru -Intro' to the 'Family Variety Spectacular '74'- tour

Now it just so happens that Veronica had mentioned in the past that the door latch was getting sticky - difficult to open, and it chose this particular night to finally stick tight in the striking plate. With all the pushing and pulling, and the consequent foul language, the bloody thing still refused to open. By now I was fuming with the sheer frustration of John Cleese's portrayal as 'Mr. Fawlty', in the TV series 'Fawlty Towers' so, when Veronica calmly produced a long screwdriver from out of a drawer, I attacked that goddamn door as if it was a living thing! Bloody door, it just 'laughed' in my face and stayed put! I defy anybody not to admit that they haven't sometime in their life, kicked an inanimate object in total frustration, as if the object in question had deliberately set out to test their mettle. A flat tire in the middle of nowhere - without a repair kit, would be a pretty good example I would imagine.

By now I was fuming as I dragged Veronica's table away from the door, got into the lounge then through to the kitchen and arrived at the other side of the kitchenette door. Once again I attacked the door with the screwdriver trying to force the door away from the latch but all I managed to do was to leave deep gouges in the doorjamb. I was beginning to hate that door with a deadly hate - storming back through the lounge and into the kitchenette - I again vented my pent up fury
on that bloody door with the screwdriver, resulting in more 'decoration' on the doorjamb, with grooves and deep scratches; then suddenly, like a well-oiled piece of machinery, the door on its own volition, slowly swung open! I stomped off to bed, expanding the vocabulary of my second language at a great rate of knots as I went!

The next afternoon 'Tangles', the first of the band up out of bed after a late-night gig somewhere, came down to the kitchenette for coffee. Veronica said it to him, "Were you and the other boys in my workroom (the kitchenette) last night? "Tangles replied, "Sure, we came in for a coffee, why?" Deciding to 'Pull His Leg', Veronica said, "Did you notice or did anything strange happen?" "Funny you should say that" said Tangles, "The door wouldn't open when we wanted to go to bed, but we noticed that your table had been moved so we went out that way - into the lounge and through the kitchen". "The same thing happened to us" said Veronica, "Something' slammed the door SHUT" then, lying through her teeth added, "Something' - wouldn't let us open it"! Tangles shivered.

Pointing out the scratch marks that I had made the night before with the screwdriver, trying to get the door open, Veronica says to Tangles, "When I came down this morning, all these terrible marks were all over the door jam - on both sides of the door, and I thought you blokes might have had something to do with it". "No way" Tangles said indignantly, as he closely inspected the deep grooves and scratches in the wood "We didn't do that". Then his overactive imagination took hold, no doubt boosted by the genuine phenomena that we were all experiencing within the house, - "Oh My God" Tangles whispered, "They Look Like Claw Mark"! Poor Tangles, he was going to cop a lot more of the same, from all of us, before the up-coming extensive South Island stage tour was over!

Looking around walls of our spare bedroom, which is where the 'workstation'- computer etc. is set up, and where I spend several hours each week working on the weekly 'SAGA' (apart from flying around the world to various exotic destinations in my Lear Jet 45, via my Microsoft Flight simulator 2000 - Professional Edition which is incidentally, good enough for Naval and commercial air pilots to practice with, at home), most of the available space is taken up with
several posters. The oldest is dated July/August 1960, the latest probably 5-6 years ago, about the time I was forced into retirement - God, how I hate that word! The largest - in full colour, measures a whopping 5ft x 3ft - this, one of several, cost in excess of an equaling whopping - £125 each (N.Z. $375), glad I wasn't paying for them!

Directly in front of me, up where the ceiling joins the wall, there is a red A2 size poster displaying six black-and-white photographs. The names - top row from L to Rare: Craig Scott - N.Z's.No.1 Television & Recording Star, - The Sensational 'reflections', Girl Duo, - Angela Ayers, Resident Star of TV's. 'Happen Inn' - bottom row: - Brendan Dugan, Country and Western Personality, - The North Islands No.1 at group, 'prentice' and, N.Z.'s Amazing International Star - 'Orchanté' (with his beautiful stage hostess, Veronica).

This then, was Eddie Brook's - 'Nod' to his friends, latest venture - Galaxy Enterprises Ltd, proudly presents - Family Variety Spectacular '74!

- continues -

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11. E-zine Archives
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