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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 23 Jul 1975, p. 21

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._ Chilie featured â€" at tonight‘s show The Federation of Students at the University of Waterioo is just one of many student groups sponsoring a Do Not Forget Chile night on July 23 at 8 p.m. at the Kitchener Public Library . While a guest speaker has not been scheduled, the group plans to have Latin American poetry, music, dancing, Chilean food, photoâ€" graphs and a numismatic collection at the library. Aug. 7. 8 and 9 have been chosen as the dates for the second _ annual _ regional junior tennis championship to be held at the Waterloo Tennis Club. a The tournament, sponâ€" sored by CHYM Radio. will feature six categories CHYM sponsors regional tennis championship h_‘ mmpmenouuummpomeliuppmme } KITCHENERMWATERLOO L1MITED Lâ€"â€"â€" a W e e uc ie Waterloo Kitchener NOTICE TO RESIDENTS ON PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY You are asked to follow the lawn watering regulations as approved by your area municipality. Please conserve water now to lower your utility bill and reduce the Regional requirement for additional water supplies. â€" Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, Juty 23, 1975 Weare again approaching the season where available water supplies can be overtaken by imprudent consumer demand such as that caused by lawn sprinkling. WATERLOO REGIONAL MUNICIPALUTY Ontario & Duke Sts. Issues in human sexuality will be Dr. Michael Carâ€" rera‘s topic during a lecture on July 23 atâ€"8 p.m. in room 116 of the arts lecture hall on UW campus. Deadline for entries at $3 per person. is July 30, Dr. Carrera, an associate professor of health educaâ€" tion at Hunter College in New York city, is at the university in _ connection with St. Jerome‘s family life and sex education courses. for boys and girls in three age groups. The categories includes competitors, either boys or girls, under 16 years of age, under 14 and under 12 years of age. Waterloo Square J.D. Pawley, P. Eng., Director of Water Supply 579â€"3710 Donna Walters takes it easy as she enjoys that midâ€"air feeling as magician Gerard Dietrich performs his special spell to keep the young lady up in the air. This illusion is just one of many performed by the duo as they travel in the region for 50 shows a year with as many as four in a day. & She helps create illusions â€"â€" He said that a good maâ€" gician can really promote his show with good showâ€" manship and about 70 per cent of the show is just showmanship. ‘"I really didn‘t want to know how it (magic) was done," said Mr. Brietrich, "I enjoyed the showmanâ€" ship."‘ While she has only been with the act for the past year Mr. Dietrich has been inâ€" volved with magic since his high school days and about three years ago beâ€" gan to pursue his hobby in earnest. ‘"‘The first show I did was in Elmira at the fair," said Miss Walters. ‘"Gerâ€" ard put too much lighterâ€" fluid in the cone and it burned off my eyelashes. I wouldn‘t do that act again.‘‘ If Waterloo‘s Donna Walâ€" ters is not disappearing then she usually is just hanging around in midâ€"air. ‘Miss Walters, an honâ€" ors dance student at the University of _ Waterloo, spends some of her free time working with Gerard Dietrich, a magician from Kitchener. It is not all glamour for the 23â€"yearâ€"old woman as there is some danger inâ€" volved. She told about one illusion where a cone was placed over her head and then set alight. While Miss Walters never shared the same interest in magic as Mr. Dietrich, she does add a lot to the show as she has her own dance rouâ€" tine during the performâ€" ance. ‘‘There‘s not really anything dangerous," said Miss Walters. _ ‘"It‘s not that (danger), we know it‘s safe but you wouldn‘t want to do it. ‘"I enjoy â€" performing, that‘s what I get out of it," she said. "I like to see One act that Miss Walters does not enjoy is the guilloâ€" tine. Here two carrots are placed on either side of her head and a head of cabâ€" bage is placed below. When the blade falls everything is severed except her head. "It‘s not a very agreeâ€" able sensation having someâ€" thing come down on your He then started to learn the secrets of the illusions and began to build his own equipment. . Mr. Dietrich feels that _ commercial equipment, which is built for portability, lacks some of the strength of his own equipment. Today he owns about $10,000 in specialized equipment and props. Mr. Dietrich said his hobâ€" by really developed during his high school _ days when _ another magician shared classes with him. ‘"At the end of the dove act,"‘ said Mr. Dietrich, ‘"‘there‘s eight doves in a cage with a silk placed over the cage. I carry the cage to the edge of the stage and throw everything into the air. The only thing left is the silk." ‘‘People get very upset. They think you‘re hurting the animals," said Miss Walters. ‘"They don‘t think about, the poor girl getting her head _ chopped _ off. They‘re worried the poor dove may get his feathers ruffled." What magician would be complete without a rabbit for the rabbitâ€"outâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"hat illusion. Mr. Dietrich uses rabbits, ducks and doves during his performance. Presently Mr. Dietrich uses â€" illusions, levitation, escape tricks, disppearing acts and separations, sawâ€" ing persons in half. His most current act is sawing a ‘"T‘ll _go _ and _ watch another _ magician _ and come away amazed at some of the illusions they perâ€" form,"‘ he said. â€" you know all the answers or they say they know how an illusion is done," said Mr. Dietrich. "I learned how to do the rings," said Mr. Dietrich, ‘"‘"and then a friend of mine showed me some other tricks." . He said that he needs about 15 minutes practice a day with the rings to mainâ€" tain the proficiency he wants. ‘*A lot of people think that because you‘re a magician ‘‘I‘ve become more interâ€" ested in it now, I can apâ€" preciate how things are done. I watch things more closely," said Miss Walters. While neither one: would explain how the illusions are created, there is still a lot to be learned for any magician. things done well as far as the showmanship goes. in half with a jig

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