Bill Murray started off the evening of magic with a great psychic detective story that revolved around a card selection being the crime scene. Not only was the story terrific and went very well with the routine Bill had a great ending where the selection had already been known.
Ralph Huntzinger was routining a new magic effect involving a torn and restored card. As always Ralph had put a lot of thought in the story and the club thought the whole thing was going to be a good addition to his show.
Chuck Kleiner gave a quick demo of magical business card printing as well as a review of a recent non-magic book he was reading that had some great thinking that magicians could use.
Dan Kennedy performed a coin prediction effect where he asked the spectator to choose a coin among a selection of coins and the prediction matched the date of the coin.
John Cameron had a great magic test to see if two members were on the same wavelength. After a random mixing of two decks of cards the spectator was able to select a card from one and pick a number, once that number was counted on the other deck the cards the two cards matched.
Roger Sylwester showed off some great card skills with a gambling routine and demonstrated a tabled Faro shuffle that looked very much like a riffle shuffle.
Larry Dimmitt once again demonstrated his psychic abilities with a piece that demonstrated his ability to influence a person’s choice. He had a spectator hold a box with an item in it and select an envelope from a group filled with different ESP cards. The card selected turned out to be the circle and when the box was opened up there was a ring inside.
Mark Paulson performed a nice President’s day effect where a spectator selected a card with a picture of a president on it. Mark then took some paper and scissors and cut out a picture of the selected President.
J.R. Russell performed a very funny five card routine where he was planning his trip to Las Vegas and needed to know what five cards to take. Cards seemingly multiplied over and over as various types of cards were produced.
Jim Earnshaw performed a quick coins across routine for new member Michael Jacobs.