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Sometimes I shudder, when I realize that I have been banging out this column longer than many of the readers have been alive. . .Thirty-Five years. . . ugh! So, if any of these comments, from month to month, aren't up to what you feel they should be, please remember they are the rambling rumbles of an old man.
NEWSBITS AND PIECES TO START OFF THE NEW YEAR: Philatelists who are also phoolers and origamians (paper pholders) may be interested in a series of stamps, featuring folded animals and such. They celebrate the Universal Postal Union centenary and were issued on August 29 by the British Solomon Islands. Obtainable from your favorite stamp store.
Would you like to go to Japan for a magic convention? The P.C.A.M. are thinking of such a locale for their 1976 gathering. Cost would be $850 plus registration. That would include chartered round trip fare from San Francisco, 14 nights in first class hotels, transportation to and from the airport, plus other miscellaneous goodies (like a life-membership in your local poor-house). All kidding aside, this sounds wonderful and very reasonable. . .Just a little more than an average month's rent in my part of the world. . . Or the price of that illusion you've been saving up to buy. If you are interested and can state that you definitely will attend or even if you feel that you will PROBABLY make the trip, write to Ernie Nassimbene, 157 Escobar Ave., Los Gatos, California 95030.
Bruce Armstrong, the actor-magician who
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operates in the Halifax, N.S. territory, has been getting excellent newspaper publicity for his entertaining activities in the parks of the area. Featured in the Nova Scotia Festival of the Arts and booked solid for the Christmas season, Bruce is reaping the benefits of his hard work establishing himself in a community where this type of entertaining was unknown. Here's wishing him continued success.
Ed Fernandes is constantly working. Jumping up to Labrador and east to Newfoundland and back to Toronto. . .But always working. I caught him on a recent Global Television show where he discussed magic; suspended the lady interviewer; did some close-up trickery and featured "Thumb Fun.". . .Even mentioned my name, which was kind of him. I understand he has two or three more such talk show interviews. . .All of which is great for Ed and for magic.
Dirk Gingell, 20221 Gilmore St., Canoga Park, Calif. 91306, is on the lookout for a set of Nesto type Multiplying Candles (for the right hand). So if you have such a set and would like to sell them, drop Dirk a line and get them off your hand (right hand).
If all the money you accumulated during that rush of Christmas shows is wearing a hole in your shoe box, tea caddy, or sock. . .wherever you hoard it. . . Here are a number of things that may help to lighten the load and save wear and tear on the cash container:
A new magic magazine called, of all
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