THE ANNUAL MAGIC CIRCLE DEALERS’ DAY, popular with magicians at the beginning of their busy social season, takes place this year on Saturday 1st November. It is staged again at the The Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, Bloomsbury WC1. in the Edward and Alexander rooms from 10.00am until 5.00pm. Early indications suggest that over 50 dealers [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by John
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LAST NIGHT, RICHARD MCDOUGALL GAVE A MASTERLY AND COURAGEOUS LECTURE at The Magic Circle. He commanded immediate silence by declaring to the assembled one hundred plus practitioners of the ancient art that magic in Britain today is in his view “lamentable!” He asked the audience to consider when did they last witness a magic performance that truly made the [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by John
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EVERYBODY DOES THE LINKING RINGS at some time in their magic career. Some presentations are serious a la Ching Ling Soo some are funny a la Whit Haydn. But either way, in the right hands it is a great trick – which is why so many of us do it.
The usual climax is the mass linking [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by John
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