Eddie introduced Roger who presented a lecture on Jesse Demaline - The Man and his Magic.Roger explained that when he was young student Jessie was a great mentor to him and led him into the world of magic. Roger spoke of Jesse’s book Demagic and explained how Jesse had always kept note books on his ideas, thoughts and effects. Roger talked about Jesse’s involvement in magic throughout his life and particularly of his encouragement of others. He was a generous man in the giving of advice, ideas, tricks and hospitality to those with a serious interest in magic.

The lecture included a PowerPoint presentation which showed pictures of Jesse throughout various stages of his magical and family life and career and gave a real flavour of the kind of person that Jesse was. He was certainly knowledgeable and an original thinker as evidenced by his copious notebooks of not just his own ideas but notes on acts he had seen. They were fascinating.A selection of Jesse’s tricks was demonstrated, including his card routines Curing Gamblers, Sympathetic Cards from Pocket, Reversed Card Between Glasses and an amusing effect which Jesse performed when he visited the Hull society in the Seventies, Grandma’s Tea Pot.Eddie also persuaded Roger to talk a little on his latest book Showmen or Charlatans? The Stories of ‘Dr’ Walford Bodie and ‘Sir Alexander Cannon. Written in collaboration with Brian Lead (ex HMC member) who wrote the section on Cannon.