Henry is a French Magician residing in Paris where he owns a magic shop. The lecture was full of very novel original ideas, maybe a little bit too much towards a dealer-dem, in as much as you would struggle to make some of the items, which he just happened to have for sale, but Henry didn’t push his products at all, and he explained everything so you could make some of the items if you wished.

A simple idea with a spoon allowed Henry to seemingly take two borrowed spoons and fuse them together, he took this a stage further with an idea for a bending spoon. A spinning top seemingly floated over Henry’s hands supposedly powered by a hand held fan. An idea for a simple coins through table or coins-across looked good, but for me seemed a little too impractical considering other easy to use gaffs would get a similar look.

A sponge ball two-in-the-hand, one-in-the-pocket routine ended with the black sponges changing to different colours. Next Henry showed a card idea using two simple gaffs, which allowed you to mix a deck in a plastic bag and dive in to find a selection. He also showed how to use the idea for a force and a deck switch. A neat version of the Ashes on Arm allowed Henry to divine a selection using Ash, Glitter or Coffee, and have it appear on his palm, or on a saucer. Henry then showed us a card idea using a pendulum where the spectator was able to locate their own card, as it stuck to the pendulum. I am informed by reliable sources that this was put out by Robert Harbin in the 1940s!

Lastly Henry showed us some more of the items he had for sale, a version of Hypno Heat contained in a pen, and a Rose that would allow you to produce a Goldfish.

Some very novel and original thinking made this a great lecture.