NOVEMBER 17, 1923 Edited by MARK HENRY k A A Ci» Pmarct H O i (COMMCVICATIOm tO OCS tfvrr TOBK OfTlCES.) MAGICIANS I HAVE SEEN Koowing as I do tbe method, tad tbo staR. PROP. LAHAIE PLAYING FAIRS HITCHCOCK SEES GHOSTS nevertheless I marvel even today at tne very rapid accompllshmeot. Heudiai next intro¬ rrofessor Labaie, who formerly waa in The ghost has failed to walk for Raymond (Contlnnod from l*Bt week) <iduced card tricks and manipniations in hia vandevilla, is now playing fair dates with the nitcbrock, the actor, many a time, but In bis act. He la very expert at cards, and had Greater Sheesley Shows thru tbs Carollnas. Altbo I had SPPn many card arta nrmn the ‘ home at Great Neck, Long Island, recently he so elected could easily have made a snccesa nis program Includes card and coin sleights, Rfaw prfvlonaly, nevi-r wa« I linpr»“''<vl la not only one ghost walked, hut sereral. They at thia branch of tbe art alone. The cards a hat production, tbe dieboz (worked dif¬ miif-b a« whf‘n. for tbo flrat tim*. I saw Howard ' were, however, not at the finanetal. bat the ferent!, the dovepan, using a guinea pig and Thiir^tnn. No wonder they kept him at the ’were discarded however for the development •pook variety and were called forth from ths of escapes. To list them all would take a concluding with tbe vanish of the pig. and a Palace in Ixindon for nine montha! *■ •’vasty deep" by Mr*. C. H. Tomsou, a Chi¬ book. Needless to say, be Is. aad baa been, ■umber of other effects. Hypnotism also plays In eard manipniatlona *rbur>-to« wai the ^ cago medium. Before twenty gue-ts. Including aa imitortant part In the professor’s program. acme of polished ad lre«a, de leate tectinical *at the top of the ewape ladder for many years J. Malcolm Bird, associate editor of Tbe He has a pleasing personality and keeps bis a*<nmnee, and praeeful ml“dlreetlon. Out* •and hat oMaiaed mure free newspaper apace, Scientific American, and Dr. Walker Franklla and Is still obtaining It. than any other three audience In rare good humor. , etandioR was of eonr«e hla Rialny Card Trick, ‘ prince, Mr*. Tomson gave her demonstratlona magicians In the vandevllle game. Appeared whleh to me aa a yonnR fellow waa absolutely * WILLARD DOES WELL IN TEXAS as a prellmlnury to an appearance before tbe ineipIlcaWe the flrat time I aaw It. I thouRht ’In a number of photoplays and produced some snb-eomniittro of The Scientific .\merican. as of hla own. one being "’The Man From Be¬ the effect the aery heat with card* I had erer ‘ Willard, tbe WUard. acconpanied by bis a contestant for the $2,500 offered for genuine seen—and think ao yet. The ehoaca carda 5yond". Has one of the greatest private 11- wife and Master Willard, Jr., Is playing in¬ rommonicatlona with the spirit world. hraripa. At present appearing moat niccesa- rising Rraeefnlly thru the air ia really a bean- * dependent dates thru Texas to the best returns Tbe medium wn* physically examined by fully on the Orpheum Circuit. tiful piece of work. I.ater Thnraton aennired ^ for years. At tbe Grand Theater, 9an Marcos, Dr. C. M. Siesley, of Manhasset, and clutbed I attended a burlesque show at Miaco't In a giaas top table; thia waa all In addition retH'itly, they packed ’em In. and at Kyle only In a kimono helunging to Mrs. Hitch¬ Chicago and in tbe olio there was a magician to the rarda the next time I aaw him. A ^ duplicated their former success. cock; with BO other clothes on, the waa who waa billed as Clive. Whether thia wan comparative'jr short time after that ha ap- ’ ■Willard makes his Jumps with a "modern led to a curtained corner of tbe drawing room the same Henry CIve I saw later or not I pcared in randeville with an illnaion act which * home on wheel*", furnished with many con* and aubse<)ueat1y produced alleged ectoplasmic do not know. The Clive with the burlesque he dereloped into qnite a prodnetion. Tie did ' venicBees. He will mike a tour of tbe figures and forms. It is reported that one show, however, bad a eomedy makeup, did a revolving Aga. a black-art levitation In ' Bniithwest in the near future. Woman insisted sha recognized tbe face of which a maa revolved from the waiit laterally , her dead mother and was kissed by her. and from the feet la a bewildering variety of •'Hltchy" is said to have remarked that he poaltiOBS and mavement* There waa later recognized an uncle and later a grandtatber. the irrodnctlon of epRa and live chickens, ap¬ Aoctiher woman said the white material which parently from an asalKtant'a body, and a ver¬ presto-d against her fe.^t like ordinary tulle, sion of a Galatea In which a live girl was and the face was that of tbe medinaa. i'>arri'd Into a statne and vice versa, fimlly DOLLARS AND SENSE Mr*. Tomson la to appear again before tho being made to vanish. Thttraton also developed snb-coinmitte* In tbe near future. hla water trick from one receptacle to several. < until now la his own show It is a produc- | IN THESE days of commercialized magic, nnfortnnately, too mneb attention la given to money and too little to art. With ruthless abandon tricka and lllnslona POWELL HONORED tion of Itself. I are stolen, paper* and magazines carry pages of extiose*. and everyone eeems He then appeared In aaaociation with the hectically bent on ‘‘beaflng the other fellow to it." with no other purpose In view AT SWARTHMORE late Harry Kellar prior to hla ancceaalon to than that of endeavoring to pile dollar upon dollar, irreapectlve of whether the tho Grand Old Man of Magic. aecumulatlon no gained is really honestly obtained or not. No tbonght of tho Frederick Engane Powell, “Dean of Amer¬ Thurston had an opening effect In the early ethics of the procedure, no consideration of the after-effecta, no contemplation of the annihilation of the fowl which create^ the egg of gold. ican Magicians", who recently appeared with days of hla assumption of the mantle of bin Let a member of a magic society rite in protest against the exposes done by Wonderful snecest on a lyreum program at predecessor. It was a large album, which another magician; let the editor of a paper devoted to magic point out the error; Swarthmore, Fa., was preaeuted at the eon- neat appearing girl assistants opened. Hle- let Magicland expose the exposer, and immediately there ensues a fiend of pro¬ elusion of his performance with a large basket tnrea of VBrlon!l eonjtirera from the time of testing letter* from th<«e who ahonld know better. "Who are the greatest ma¬ of flowers. The basket, presenKHl by Mr. ■Robert Houdln np to Phlllipe, Heller, Herr¬ gicians in tlie world todayt So-aod-8o makes thousands of dollar* a year," and ‘•Suoh-and-Sucb received citib contracts for more money than any other magicitn Moore, was over three feet high and came mann and Kellar were shown. The last leaf in America," etc. Everything weighed in the scalepun of dollars and cents, but in tbe nature of an absolute surprise to Powell. turned revealed Thurston himself in the nothing in the balance of dollars and SENSE. Dr. Pearson, bead of the Swarthmore tours, flesh. Tt was indeed a neat device. Today Just hecanne a certain amount of money is made doea not prove that tbe one is negotiating with Powell for an extended Howard Thurston is at the top of his pro¬ wlio makes it is In any nense great. Irving Berlin made more money from lyreum tour. fession with a wonderful show, which waa de¬ “Alexaniler’s Rarttme Band” than ^ethoven ever did with all hi* syraplioniea—tme tailed In Magicland not a great while ago. would hardly, even in his wildest moments, call Berlin a greater mnslotan than Beetlioven. Bud Fislier, with his Mutt and Jeff cartoons, made more money In ORDER OF GENII HOLDS DANCE Howard has a wonderful per*ona'lty, a draw¬ one year than Rembrandt ever posae-sed In his wnole life—and yet, could one ing-room elegance and a gentlemanly bearing honestly even intimate that Fi'-her is a greater artist than B-mbrandt! both on and off. Of course, we must get the dollar*, but let us have a SENSE -and the best The Order of Genii, of Toronto, Canada, bold Servaia Le R<*y first came to my attention sense I* common sense. Above*nll, Instead of oeiita let us have a SENSE OF TUB its first annual entertainment and dance at when 1 saw him perform at the old Bijou in FITNESS OF THINGS and ‘‘the dollars will take care of themselves.” Earlsconrt Comrannliy Clnhlionae October 27, PhQadetphia. Le Roy at that time did a the date having Ix'en postponed from October number of small effects brilliantly preceding 24. an illusion the name of which I eannot at this The change In dates was due to the fact that moment recall. It consisted, however, of a the former eluhmoni* of the society were not very mystifying series of ap!>earances and available, the new quarter* at the I^rDconrt small magic, and produced a carrot which he “UNMASKING MEDIUM" A HIT dlstppearanees from one ea“ket to another. Veterans’ Club, 1542 Itavenport road, now be¬ (■ailed “Tlie Mystic Fruit".