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Turning hobby to business no hat trick

By LINDA HAMLIN Correspondent "The Amazing Sammy," president of Miami's chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, with a little sleight of hand, turned a hobby into a business. Many other magicians in South Dade have turned semi-professional also, using their hobby to perform at birthday parties and club meetings for extra money. "The Amazing Sammy," or Samuel Chiput, became interested in magic when he was 14, but after a career in electronics, he's come back to magic, opening a shop at 9734 Bird Road. "Money-wise, this is tougher than my other job, but you always look for something better," Chiput said. Public interest in magic is the highest it's ever been, according to Chiput, "because of the special shows about magic on television." Don Schrager, 229 SW 11th St., who is a teacher and semi-professional magician, agrees with Chiput. "After World War II there were no magic shops in Miami; there are five or six now." Schrager has performed birthday parties, but he also donated his time by teaching magic to children in day camps during the summer. He also used to perform at PTA functions at his school to help raise money for the group. "Magic is a wonderful hobby," Schrager explained. "There's even a psychological use for magic. Children who are shy can get interested in magic and performing gives them confidence. They can do something others can't do. "It's helped me," Schrager related. "I used to be really shy and quiet." In some of his past shows, Schrager has sawed a woman in half, escaped from locked trunks, used a guillotine and, for his biggest trick, the Azra Levitation, he passed a hoop over a woman while she was floating in air. "But it's too expensive and time consuming to display these tricks. It takes a whole day just to set them up," Scharager said. Schrager is a past vice president of Miami's International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM), and he said that mental magic, like ESP, is one of the most popular forms of magic. In IBM, where the minimum age for membership is 14, there are a lot of young beginners. These beginners must perform before an admissions committee of the club in order to join. One young member of the club, Roberto Masud, 16, 2221 SW 23rd Terr., has joined the semiprofessional ranks of the birthday party magician. Last May he also won first place in the teenager division of the IBM convention in Miami. He performs at different parties as a hobby, but he would not like to go into magic as a career. "There are really no jobs for magicians," he said. "I never saw Houdini," Chiput said as he waved to autographed pictures of magicians lining his wall," and a lot of people don't know the really good technical magicians. And according to Chiput, there are a lot of good magicians in South DAde that perhaps the public has never heard of.

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