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Issue Number: #1608
Date: Sunday 28th February 2021
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. Wanted Performers For Masters Of Illusion
3. Genii The Conjurors Magazine March Issue
4. The Magic Word Podcast Reaches 600 Episodes
5. Mac King Has A Brand New Digital Talk Show
6. Dual Caantrol - John Carey #112
7. No Stone Unturned
8. Ye Olde Magic Mag
9. Potter & Potter Auctions
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/2021-Jan-to-Dec-2021/1608-Feb28-2021.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. Wanted Performers For Masters Of Illusion
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Message by Steve Moyer (US)

There are still a few openings for magicians who would like to be considered as performers for Masters of Illusion, Season Eight, hosted by Dean Cain, airing on The CW Network later this year.

Filming for Season Eight will commence in Los Angeles, California in late March 2021.

Interested magicians are asked to please submit video links of new magic and/or classic tricks done from a new perspective to Gay Blackstone via E-mail at gayblackstone@icloud.com as soon as possible.

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3. Genii The Conjurors Magazine March Issue
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Message by Richard Kaufman - Editor Genii Magazine

Subscribe to Genii at www.geniimagazine.com for as little as $35 for 1 year and receive free access to every issue of Genii ever published and every issue of Magic magazine as well.

This month we dig into a mystery. Jamy Ian Swiss returns to Genii for an investigation into a demonstration that took place in the basement of a house in Brooklyn in the 1940s, where the so-called Phantom at the Card Table, Walter Scott, bamboozled a bunch of the smartest guys in our field. How? Why? And where was Dai Vernon? I'm sure you'll find this tale of magicians, con men, and sleight of hand fascinating.

* David Regal's second "Material Concessions" column pops up this month, and a bill flies through the dark.

* John Bannon brings his style to bear on Bro. Hamman's "Magic Cards."

* Jon Racherbaumer exhumes; Hannibal reflects; Lambert looks ahead; Ward examines.

* Chloe Olewitz looks around for the latest news; Jonathan Friedman brings you three tricks in "Magicana." The talented pro magician Ryan Plunkett of Chicago joins our rotating staff of reviewers this month - he'll be dealing with tricks. Also this issue, Nathan Coe Marsh reviews videos and Elliott Terral reviews books.

We also have full obituaries for Siegfried Fischbacher, Mark Wilson, David Roth, Bev Bergeron, and Joe Porper.

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4. The Magic Word Podcast Reaches 600 Episodes
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Message by Scott Wells, M.I.M.C. with Gold Star

The Magic Word Podcast Reaches 600 Episodes - Max Maven

We don't often blow our own horn, but this week is kind of significant. This week's episode is our 600th podcast episode. After nearly 10 years, we have reached another significant milestone. Every 50th episode we try to offer someone that is universally known in our community. For example, episode 400 was with David Beglas, episode 450 featured Gene Anderson and episode 500 was Uri Geller. So it is appropriate that we finally get to offer you an outstanding episode featuring the one and only Max Maven.

Max just celebrated his 70th birthday and has been featured on stage, in print, and on television around the world. Even if you are not a mentalist, we suspect that you have at least one of his books in your library. This week Max joins us behind the microphone as he fills our brain to the max (Phil to Max - get it?) with delightful conversation in celebration of our significant milestone. Please join us by downloading this episode wherever you get your podcasts. But for more content, video, photos and more, please visit our website at: https://www.themagicwordpodcast.com/scottwellsmagic/600-max-maven

And be sure to sign up for our weekly podletter. We are less than two dozen subscribers away from 1,000 and you could be the one to push us over the mark. Also, we have occasionally been posting videos of our conversations with conjurors. Although we did not record this week's episode with Max on video, you can enjoy the last couple weeks of guests (Tim Wise and Suzanne the Magician) on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/texasmagician and please subscribe so you receive notices when we do post upcoming podcast videos and we go "live" with our weekly Magic and Martinis Thursday Virtual Happy Hours.

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5. Mac King Has A Brand New Digital Talk Show
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Message by Vinny Grosso (US)

Mac King has a brand new digital talk show, "Don't Everybody Leave". Join the man Penn & Teller called "the greatest comedy magician at least alive today, and maybe who ever lived" each week to see what it's like hangin' with Mac and his hilarious Vegas showbiz pals Michael Goudeau, Jason England, Vinny Grosso, Jacob Jax and Nick Diffatte.

New episodes on YouTube every Tuesday, at 10:AM PST!

Click here to subscribe:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-eXHjdgTLofZB9WPIO3rvw

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6. Dual Caantrol - John Carey #112
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Message by John Carey (UK)
http://www.johncareymagic.co.uk/

Dual Caantrol is one of my current favorite effects with two decks. Methodology simple, but nevertheless very deceptive. You also involve two spectators in the action which makes it interactive and strong. You will require two different colored decks, say red and blue. The blue deck is unset. The red deck has the two Jokers on top followed by a nine spot. Place any eight spot on the bottom of this deck and your preparation is complete.

Bring out and remove decks from their respective boxes. Table the red deck and hand out the blue deck for shuffling. Upon return start dealing and dropping three cards at a time into a tabled packet. Once you have dealt twelve cards ask the spectator to call out stop. If they stop you on the seventeenth card, perfect. Have them pick it up, sign it and show it around as you look away. As they do you pick up the sixteen card packet from the table and place it back on top of the deck, securing a left pinky break beneath this packet. Dribble the cards to your break and extend your left hand and have the card dropped onto this packet. Then drop the right hands cards on top, square up and the execute any deceptive false cut. Hand the deck to your helper.

Note if they stop you on say the fifteenth card have them take that card. Casually deal two cards on top of the tabled packet and then pick these cards up as before. If however they stop you say on the twentieth card have them take it and then pick up four cards one at a time from the packet and add them to the cards in hand, commenting that they could have stopped sooner or later. Then pick up the remaining cards and add them to the deck, securing a pinky break beneath them as before.

Address a second spectator as you pick up the red deck. Deal the two Jokers face up to the table and then execute an in the hands riffle shuffle, retaining the position of the top and bottom cards. Hand the deck to your second helper as you comment on how important numbers are in our lives, giving examples. We will now segue into Karl Fulves classic Gemini mates to force both top and bottom cards. Ask the spectator to start dealing face down into a tabled packet and to stop on impulse. Pick up a face up Joker and drop it on top of the dealt cards and request they place the talon on top. Have them repeat this deal down once more, stopping wherever they wish and then you once more dropping a face up Joker onto the dealt cards and then the remaining cards being dropped on top. The eight and nine spots are secretly beneath each Joker and from a method point of view the work is done, but from the audience perspective the effect hasn't even begun. My favorite kind of magic...

To bring the trick home spread the red deck and take out each Joker and the face down card beneath them and table them. Pick up the Jokers and place them back into the deck. Set the deck aside. Ask your helper to turn over the two cards they 'stopped' at revealing an eight and a nine. "Remember you dealt and you stopped twice wherever you wanted. One card less and one card more and everything changes. Added together we get seventeen." Direct your attention back to your first spectator and ask them to deal seventeen cards into a face down packet. Pause a beat to build suspense and then turn over the last card dealt to reveal their signed card.

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7. No Stone Unturned
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Message by Paul Stone (USA)

I am shortly starting to produce a podcast - (video) which is aimed at the general public but the title is a good one, and I'd be happy to also use it for you. It is 'No Stone Unturned'.

This would allow me to talk about all the great magicians I've booked or worked with, shows I've produced, theatres I've produced shows in, the Las Vegas Magic scene past and present and other different yet related topics.

More details to follow shortly.

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8. Ye Olde Magic Mag
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Message by Marco Pusterla

Editor, the new issue of Ye Olde Magic Mag (Vol. 7 #2 - March 2021) is now available for download and purchase!

A study on The Conjurer, attributed to Hyeronymous Bosch, introduces an investigation on the image of magician in the Renaissance.

Another bumper issue at 64 pages, with articles on Deodato, an Italian magician friend of Houdini, on the mis-doings of Glenn Gravatt, on a magic trick that has eluded historians, magic auctions, current magic history events. Do not miss this issue!

https://yeoldemagicmag.com/

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9. Potter & Potter Auctions
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Auction Saturday

Select Secrets Rare & Important Magic Memorabilia
Auction This Saturday
February 27, 2021 o 10am CST

Bid Live At www.potterauctions.com

Live Video From Auction Floor

View Highlights Below

LOT 1 Alexander "The Man Who Knows." Gold Rush Diary of Alexander, Dated 1898.

LOT 26 Chung Ling Soo "Pallette" Poster. 1910.

LOT 29 T. Nelson Downs. King of Koins Poster. 1905.

LOT 35 Al Flosso's Coin Wand. Circa 1925.

LOT 37 Al Flosso's Punch and Judy Puppets.

LOT 45 Portrait of Leon and Adelaide Herrmann. 1898.

LOT 49 Theater Program for Houdini's Final Performance. Detroit, 1926.

LOT 80 Cabinet Card Portrait of a Youthful Servais LeRoy. 1900.

LOT 111 Jacob Daley's Sleight-of-Hand Notebook. 1936.

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

Trevor King - QSM: "The Master" - The story continues

One day Henri Roland (Jack Doyle) said: "Trev', It's time to head off to Australia!" but Trevor told him that they didn't have a show that was good enough, yet, to compete with the 'Big International Stage Productions' that were showing in Australia. While having a drink in a hotel bar somewhere, Henri met up with some carnival/sideshow promoters who told Henri that they could take him to Australia - they filled him up with booze - he believed them - and gave notice to Trevor to quit! Trevor was most upset, apart from all the hard work that he had put into the venture with Henri Roland, for the best part of one year (actually 10 months), he and Jack had shared hotel rooms/motels and had become good friends.

Terribly hurt by Henri's abuse of their friendship and lack of judgement, Trevor sadly said goodbye to Jack Doyle. He then headed back home to Christchurch and rejoined Amalgamated Theatres Ltd. as the manager in four Cinemas. Henri's deal with the carnival folk fell through - he never got to Australia, so he went up to Christchurch to ask Trevor to rejoin with him - but Trevor was happy to stay in the cinema business. "Jack rang me many, many times Tommy," Trevor told me, "Wanting me to return to him but I declined his offer - his walking out on me really caused an upset to my health." Jack went back to Auckland City and purchased a 'War Assets Shop' in Queen Street (the main street in Auckland city central) and gave away the hypnotist act. 'Henri Roland, Hypnotic Marvel And Master Mentalist' quietly vanished, as have so many others over the years, never to be seen or heard of again - that is, until somebody, such as myself (with the aid of Trevor King), reminds the world of their momentary 'fame'!

Three years later, Jack Doyle rang Trevor from Auckland to say, "Trev', I am coming down to the South Island for a holiday and I would love to meet up with you - take you out for drinks and a meal…." -- etc, etc. " I waited to meet up with him" said Trevor, "but tragedy struck poor Jack - he had a fast 'Million Dollar Car' - and loved to speed! He had been down south and was on his way up north to Christchurch to meet me - then somewhere near Timaru, he apparently became frustrated from being stuck behind a milk tanker truck - he recklessly pulled out and passed him and, smashed head on into a tourist bus!" "It was a shocking accident Tommy - the police contacted me to visit the morgue to identify Jack's body - I was 'not myself' for months after the accident. Jack and I had not been just Promoter/ Artiste; Even though we had parted company, we were still, good mates!"

Getting back to (the late) Jack Shannon (The best publicity man in show business), he had made 'Franquin' a household name with his fantastic publicity… - he rang Trevor to tell him that he had found another 'hypnotist' - he was called 'The Miracle Priest', it turns out that he was actually a dry-cleaner who came from New Plymouth. According to Jack, he was very good as a dry-cleaner but no good as a hypnotist. They opened his show at Invercargill and closed in Gore! He was so bad as a hypnotist that Jack said that he had put the subjects to sleep! Obviously Jack had learnt a thing or two after all his years with 'The Fabulous Franquin'. Jack had always wanted to join Trevor in a partnership (they never did) - he just loved promoting hypnotists and spending money on publicity - 'Somebody Else's Money'!!!

Harry Wren, International entrepreneur, gave him his next job in Australia - $1000 a week! Jack handled the publicity for all the big Japanese shows/productions from Tokyo that toured 'Down Under' as well as major Australian variety shows for several years then, Jack then went back to N.Z. and worked for Kerridge - Odeon Theatres, doing the publicity for Big Movies like "Laurence Of Arabia" and "Ben Hur" etc. With his health failing, he returned to Australia, and worked on the Stage Door of the Sydney Opera House as a security guard. One night Jack's wife phoned Trevor: "Jack died last night backstage during a Rolf Harris concert…." In a letter to me "Trevor said: Tommy, we have lost a great showman!"

'Dormia', The World's First Lady Hypnotist, is how she was advertised! From Auckland, N.Z., her real name - Rhona Robson, was taught by Walter Braemar, the man who taught Tex Morton Van Loewe and, who claimed to have also taught Franquin, although Pat Quin vehemently denies this!

Continued …..

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11. E-zine Archives
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