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Lovell and Kumar perform for PA#1

New York, New York

As usual over the summer magicians gathered on Fridays at 12:30 for lunch at the S.A.M. Magic Table in the Edison Hotel Café on 47th Street. Many of the regulars brought guests. Jerry Oppenheimer brought our Dean Sam Schwartz, Ken Krenzel brought card expert Dr. Bill Nagler, and Sal Perrotta brought Kumar Pallana who performed a Kumar the India opening for the Rat Pack in Las Vegas in the 1950s. Kumar’s late in life second career is as an actor appearing in the films Rushmore, Ten Items or Less and in 2004 with Tom Hanks in Speilberg’s film The Terminal. The Table was quite lively and well attended.

We gathered for our monthly meeting on Thursday September 7, 2006 at Mount Sinai at 98th Street and Madison Ave. in Manhattan. Although our meeting was to start at 7:30 we were all there a little earlier to catch Harvey Berg’s Teach-a-Trick at 6:30. The over 20 people attending loved this latest offering by Harvey. It soon was 7:15 and we broke up to hold our general meeting. As things came to order MI President Ken Schwabe opened the meeting. It was announced that in the July Board meeting Tom Klem was elected Chairman of the Board. Business was discussed and reports were given in this well run meeting. The meeting ended on time and soon our aftermeeting event was to start.

2nd VP George Silverman, who also was the MC, was our producer. The theme of the show was “Your Favorite Trick”. First to perform has Rene Clement with a flawless handling of the Professor’s Nightmare. Picking Mike Nguyen daughter Jessica to help him Ronnie Reckseit masterfully charmed us all as he had her assist him with his “Choice or Chance” card effect. Harvey Berg selecting Dr Jerry Waye did one of his amazing “never touched the deck” mentalism effects called “Remote Control”. Doug Edwards performed his classic Dollar Bill Penetration and other effects with great flourish. Special guest for the night was Simon Lovell whose presentation and effects raised the bar to the professional world. He did a very funny beautifully executed card effect. Six cards were selected and signed and then buried in the deck. He then offered six different wonderful ways of producing the selected cards. Our closer was the legendary Ken Krenzel. Ken did two card miracles from his upcoming book. It was a great night.

reported by Tom Klem, Reporter, Chairman of the Board, and Trustee of the S.A.M. Parent Assembly Number 1 - Septmeber 25, 2006