Word: magician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Spiritual Church of New York went Magician Howard Thurston. Magician Thurston had been quoted as saying that he could do anything with a watch-size instrument that mediums say they have done with supernatural power. One Arthur A. Ford was to contest the point in debate. Police had been called to prevent violent outbreaks...
They need not have come. Prof. Thurston, pleasant-spoken gentleman soon won over his audience, told how many a so-called medium had asked him for tricks to fool gullibles. "But," admitted Magician rhurston, "I was quoted incorrectly. All spiritualistic phenomena cannot be reproduced with a small watch. There is an intelligent psychic force which can manifest itself but everything done at a stated time and for money is likely to be trickery." Thus mollified, the spiritualists beamed kindly up at Mr. Thurston in the pulpit. A collection was about to be taken when a member of the magician...
...sense of humor and the American might not have colored Psychologist Aveling's conclusions. Is all laughter "ugly . . . hard . . . selfish?" Is a father "ugly" when he manifests delight at the cunning or courage of his small son ? Is it "selfish" of children to chortle and bubble when the magician yanks the rabbit from the hat? Are those people "hard" who sometimes burst out laughing even when they are all alone, for no reason that they could tell you except that "it seems so good just to be alive on a day like this?" What about "Jovian laughter...
...Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen." So reads a placard in the New Art Gallery, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, where Merton Clivette, 79, is having his first one-man show of paintings, his first artistic renown at all, but enough of it now to make one of the most amazing stories in the annals of art. Within three days from the opening of his exhibit, 30 paintings had last week been sold, at prices ranging from $200 to $2,000, and famed sculptors Jo Davidson...
...Magician (Alice Terry). A small pitcherful of maiden's heart blood will restore a corpse to life, thinks Dr. Haddo, sinister magician-hypnotist. Margaret Dauncey (Alice Terry) is elected as the source of supply for the experiment. While breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, under the hypnotic direction of the doctor, she meets sympathetic Dr. Burdon who understands how hard it is for a girl to do as she wishes under these conditions. Somerset Maugham conceived the tale. Rex Ingram directed the film, tried hard to make the gruesome fantasy appear real, succeeded partiallv...