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Issue Number: #1601
Date: Sunday 20th December 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. Information On The Magic Endowment Fund Camp Scholarships
3. David Copperfield Inducted Into Philly's Jewish Museum Hall Of Fame
4. Penn & Teller - Jamie Allan's Illusionarium
5. Succeeding With Magic On Zoom - Online On Zoom
6. Broken Wand John Star
7. Giacomo Bertini Online Lessons
8. Potter & Potter Auctions
9. Look at You! - John Carey #105
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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IMPORTANT MESSAGE: This will be the last issue of Magic New Zealand for this year. The next issue will be published on Friday 15th January 2021.

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-2020/1601-Dec20-2020.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. Information On The Magic Endowment Fund Camp Scholarships
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Message by Trudy Monti (USA)

The S.A.M. Magic Endowment Fund was established in 1986 and is a charitable foundation dedicated to the advancement of the art of magic.

In keeping with this objective, it provides scholarships annually for young people to attend magic camps.

More information on scholarships may be found at www.magicsam.com.

Scholarship application forms may be found at the following website: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.magicsam.com/resource/resmgr
/docs/magic_camp_application_2021.docx

Deadline for submission of applications for Tannen's Camp scholarships is February 20, 2021.

Please note that applications submitted electronically will not be accepted.

For more information, please contact Trudy Monti at TrudyMonti@aol.com

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3. David Copperfield Inducted Into Philly's Jewish Museum Hall Of Fame
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The Philadelphia Inquirer (USA)

By Lauren McCutcheon, for The Inquirer, posted: December 11, 2020

Magician David Copperfield is being inducted with Harry Houdini into Philly's Jewish museum hall of fame.

In 1981, magician David Copperfield made a Learjet vanish. In 1983, Copperfield, née David Kotkin, disappeared and reappeared the Statue of Liberty. The Metuchen, N.J., native has also walked through the Great Wall of China, levitated over the Grand Canyon, escaped Alcatraz, and sawed himself in half.

Copperfield also owns 11 Bahamian islands and a major private museum of magic memorabilia in Las Vegas, where he has a residency at the MGM Grand.

On Saturday, the world's richest illusionist and his industry predecessor Harry Houdini will join Golda Meir, Albert Einstein, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbra Streisand, Irving Berlin, Emma Lazarus, and Steven Spielberg in the National Museum of American Jewish History's "Only in America" hall of fame.

A free virtual gala will livestream at 8 p.m. Eastern time from Philadelphia and Vegas (details at nmajh.org), where Copperfield and some magician buddies will induct Houdini and perform a trick or two. He spoke to The Inquirer this week.

Congratulations on becoming the newest member of the National Museum of American Jewish History's hall of fame.

Why, thank you. It's humbling. It makes me think: Maybe I'm on the right track. Maybe my mother was wrong.

https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/magician-david-copperfield-harry-houdini-jewish-museum-hall-of-fame-20201211.html

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4. Penn & Teller - Jamie Allan's Illusionarium
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"Through the magic of modern technology, we are thrilled to be able to be a part of Jamie Allan's innovative Illusionarium"
- Penn & Teller.

https://www.facebook.com/illusionariumto/videos/434668771024718

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5. Succeeding With Magic On Zoom - Online On Zoom
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January 26th - February 9th, 2021

Taught By Paul Draper

This class will be on Zoom and will run on three consecutive Tuesdays for at least 90 minutes each January 26, February 2 & 9 from 5-7 pm (Pacific). The classes will be recorded and available for 1 month after the original class so you can catch up if you miss it.

Registration cost is US$195.

From Paul:
I want to see more performers succeed on Zoom! I'm offering a class teaching everything I know about performing Zoom shows from setting up the studio to selecting the effects, how to train a stage manager, how to book the shows, and get multiple repeat bookings. I'm going to cover multiple income streams and even have celebrity guest speakers.

Since March 2020, I've presented hundreds of online events, more than any other magician in the country. I sometimes perform as many as six shows a day for groups as small as 20 and as large as 2,000.

My virtual shows have been experienced online by the CEO of Burger King, the inventor of Siri, and many corporate groups like Nokia, HP, Sotheby's, the American Association of Neurology, and national healthcare summits.

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6. Broken Wand John Star
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Message by Scott Wells, M.I.M.C. with Gold Star

So sad that we lost yet another magician and friend, John Star. Though he resided here in Houston, Texas, he was another transplanted Brit with a twinkle in his eye and a funny quip on his tongue.

I enjoyed working with him in close-up situations and I loved the times we unwound and he let down his hair, what little he had.

He was a good friend and will be missed by all of us both locally and internationally.

Aloha, my friend.

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7. Giacomo Bertini Online Lessons
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Message by Giacomo Bertini

Giacomo Bertini Online Private Lessons and Lectures
Hi everyone! I am now available for Online Lessons with all my magic! You can download your lessons to improve your magic!

Each of you will have the opportunity to take single or group lessons, both complete courses for beginners and advanced.

Everything takes place live online, from the comfort of your home connected with me. For information:

https://mailchi.mp/e4d134e750e9/giacomobertinilessons

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8. Potter & Potter Auctions
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Message Rebekah Kaufman (USA)

I am excited to share the results of Potter & Potter Auctions' December 2020 magic sales event.

This auction included vintage and contemporary props, mementos from the careers of legacy performers, and outstanding collections of century-spanning magic books, posters, and archives.

Gabe Fajuri, President, Potter & Potter Auctions, is happy to speak with you in greater detail about this sale. He can be reached at gabe@potterauctions.com or 773-472-1442.

My contact information is below if you need to see the press release and high resolution photos, or if I can be helpful in any other way.

Thank you for your interest!

Best, Rebekah Kaufman
Potter & Potter Auctions
Rebekah@potterauctions.com
617-955-7215

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9. Look at You! - John Carey #105
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Message by John Carey (UK)
http://www.johncareymagic.co.uk/

I love effects which create the illusion of empowering a spectator to do something amazing. It takes the spotlight away from me and people don't say look at me, but look at you?! The following thought of card spectator as mind-reader piece was developed exactly with this objective in mind.

From a shuffled deck in use remove the AC, 4H, 7S, 10D and KC and arrange them in that order from the top down. Display the faces and then ask one of the group you are working for if they would like to try a little experiment in telepathy? "Ava, I'm simply going to think of one of these
cards and in a few moments we will try an experiment that some call mind-reading, others call telepathy and many say simply can't be done."

After this introduction you fan the faces of the packet towards you and cast your eyes back and forth across the cards as if thinking of a card. Actually this is just a bluff but act it out well. "Right, I'm thinking of one so let's give them a little mix." Execute a casual down under deal, dealing the first card down and the next card under the packet. Continue this mix, dropping the last card on top. The order of the packet from the face is now AC, 7S, KC, 10D and 4H. Easy enough to remember this.

Hand the packet to your helper and state that today you will be the sender of thoughts and she will be the receiver. Ask her to spread the packet widely in her hands like a hand of Poker. "Just relax Ava and get ready to receive my thought. It's coming your way right about now!" Now for a devilish way of closing the routine successfully using a beautiful idea I saw the late Chan Canasta use.

Simply ask the spectator to remove the card she 'received' and table the other four cards face down. You will instantly know which one it is of course. If she removes the middle/third card it's the KC, or if she removes the second card from top it's the 10D and so on. Comment on how you merely thought of a card and never told a soul. Then name the appropriate card and have her reveal that the card she holds is that card and congratulate her on her amazing ability.

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

Abe Phillips, the Eulogy continues
Thunderbird Valley Inn, Glenfield….
Our main reason for going was because my friend Abe had entered the talent quest and, not surprisingly, was through to the Grand Finale. The immense bar was packed! I couldn't tell you what its capacity was, but it was well in excess of 1,500 people! On quietish nights, huge folding doors divided the bar in half so it didn't look empty, or private functions could be held in one half while the other still functioned as a public bar. If a show was on, to which an admission
was charged, by law, there had to be an alternative bar where patrons could drink. The dividing doors solved the problem!

That night is as clear to me now, as if it was only yesterday. We were sitting at a long table, which was on the left side of the room - second from the front, facing the stage. I was sitting right next to Abe, who was on my immediate left. On stage were the Mighty 'Impressions' Show Band, a fantastic show in their own right - they were backing the various singers who were in the big final. I was most surprised when Abe told me that he was - "Now singing professionally - nearly four months". I guess the prospect of World Fame, Fortune and the 'Bright Lights', had finally got to him!

Noticing that Abe was becoming very edgy as his turn in the 'Grand Finale' approached, I asked him if he was all right, " I'm just feeling a bit 'nervy' Tom"! He replied. "You have to be kidding!" I said, knowing that he had been singing for years. "I've never had to compete before" he replied "Well" I said, "I can 'Fix' that if you like?" - knowing that he had seen me perform my hypnotism show at the Mayfair on occasions. "Do you mean the 'Eyes' bit? " he said. "Well,
sort of" I replied, "all you have to do is to close your eyes, and listened to me for a couple of minutes." "Okay" he said, hesitantly - "If you think it will work!" "No problem!" I said.

The 'Impressions' were playing/backing some singer, and both are 'belting' it out at a hell of a volume - not the ideal conditions in which to be giving hypnotic suggestions; I practically had my mouth 'glued' to Abe's eardrum so that he could hear me! However, two or three minutes later, Abe was calm, relaxed and, raring to go! I wouldn't have the audacity to suggest that the 'hypnotic suggestions' that I had installed in his subconscious had anything to do with it -
because they didn't (maybe helped a tiny bit), but - big Abe won - The Schweppes $2000 Talent Quest!

It is now one month later! December the 18th - Saturday morning. We are getting ready to head up North for a 2pm show at the Helensville War Memorial Town Hall? Switching on the radio, I got the tail end of a newsflash - something to do with a car smash and Abe. I rang the
station. Abe was dead, killed at 5am that morning! Totally devastated and grief-stricken, I cried my eyes out all the way to Helensville. The Show Must Go On! It did, in spite of my bloodshot eyes giving the audience the impression that that I was about to do a 'Dracula' Impression'!

Next morning, the Sunday News, December 19, 1971 - page 7, had a great photo of Abe, taken while he was on stage at the Thunderbird winning the talent Quest. (We were only feet away when it was taken) The headline says - new singing star ABE dies in head-on crash!

All of the following is taken from- The Hawke's Bay Herald -Tribune! On Monday, December 20 - page 15, they displayed a huge photograph of Abe's coffin, surrounded by his immediate family, with two large headings: 300 file past body of singer. 'More than 300 people, Maori and pakeha, have filed through the flower - decked marquee at Waipatu marae where singer Abe Phillips's body was lying in state today. Mr Phillips, 34, married with two children, died in a head on car smash with an aerial topdressing transporter truck on a mist - shrouded road between Waipukurau and Waipawa about 5am on Saturday morning'.

The second heading reads: Show - Business People Coming. 'Top entertainer Howard Morrison (now Sir), is expected to be among the number of New Zealand showbusiness personalities who will attend tomorrows funeral. Entertainer Max Cryer, and The Impressions Show Band, who backed Mr Phillips when he won the $2000 Schweppes talent quest last month, will fly from Auckland for the service. The Shadracks, a top Hastings group with whom Mr Phillips sang for some years, and Prince Tui Teka, will lead the Hastings contingent of entertainers'.

'There were emotional scenes in the Carousel Bar of the Mayfair Hotel, Hastings, on Saturday night when the entertainer Prince Tui Teka made reference to the death of Abe Phillips. Scores of men and women wept as Prince Tui sang "Unchanged Melody," a song Mr Phillips helped to make popular'. 'Telegrams of sympathy have been received by Mr Phillips family from numerous New Zealand entertainers - including International Star, John Rowles'.

'Between 300 and 400 men from the Whakatu freezing works, where Mr Phillips worked before turning to a professional singing career about three months ago, will finish work at noon so that they can attend his funeral. This means that the massive freezing works will virtually close down!

Mr Phillips's former manager, Mr A. Karauria, said that 1971 would be the first time in the last five years that Abe Phillips had not led the men, working on the chains at Whakatu, in Xmas carols'.

Abe was of the 'Ngarauru' tribe, Waitotara, near Wanganui. He came from a large family, as became evident when the newspaper reported that: "15 brothers and sisters and, 40 nephews and nieces are expected to attend the funeral service. Six brothers will be pall bearers."

Incidentally, I'm of the 'Ngai Tahu', the Maori tribe of the Southern Islands of New Zealand! My ancestors came from Waimate, a small town south of Christchurch, between Timaru and Oamaru, on the East coast of the South Island.

This has been quite a long episode and yes, perhaps there was much I could have cut out but - it would have been an injustice to the memory of my late friend 'big' Abe Phillips, if I'd done so! I purposely went to some length in repeating the review from the Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune, as they did a wonderful job in describing the love, affection, admiration and respect that was held for him, not only by his work mates but by his peers also, in all areas of the entertainment industry in New Zealand, as was evident by the huge number of people who attended his funeral!

Although Abe was well known in the Hawkes Bay area, and to many New Zealand entertainers, it was not until the release of his first and only record "Don't Think You Remember Me", together with his success in the talent quest, that he became known to the general public throughout the country. In the space of just three or four short months, he had won the hearts of all New Zealanders with his fantastic voice! Abe wasn't a magician (although he loved watching magic) but he sure was blessed - with a magic voice!

I'm very proud to have known 'Big' Abe, and to have been able to call him, my friend! He was, without a doubt, one of nature's gentlemen! Veronica summed him up beautifully the other day with three simple words, when she said that he was - "A Lovely Man".

"I'm so sorry Abe, that I wasn't able to attend your funeral. Perhaps, nearly 32 years later, my telling of your story may, in some small way, make up for that! One thing's for sure, over 4,000 magicians around the world, now know who you were!"

It is such a shame that 'the world' was deprived the pleasure of hearing Abe Phillips sing. if you had experienced his incredible voice, you too would have said - "MAGIC!"

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