Word: magician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case of And Stars Remain, however, the revue's loss is definitely the drama's gain, for Webb has the best Oxford accent that ever came out of Indianapolis, the most ingratiating stage personality to be rescued from musicals since Magician Fred Keating was coaxed away from his collapsible bird cages...
...categories of "Entertainments" and of "Music" anything may be found from a magician to a fencer, a Lyric Tenor to a Concert Planist. Curtis Beach, Ben Bar and others offer a marionette show; Kingsley Perry performs feats of ventriloquism...
That Rumania, ruled by a King who is a Hohenzollern, should ever since the War have been pro-French, has long been a mystery in which the chief political magician looked like a tall, ungainly Mongol with high cheek bones who answered to the name of Nicholas Titulescu...
Mildly eccentric. Publisher Mitchell built his own home on Rhode Island Avenue by working on Sundays and in his spare time. He also constructed a small fiddle, played on it with a homemade bow. In addition, Mr. Mitchell got to be something of an amateur magician. Last week it was revealed that in future Publisher Mitchell will have all the time he wishes to devote to architecture, music and prestidigitation. Control of his magazine was shifted to an editorial group who planned to prod Pathfinder along a new journalistic trail...
...Topeka excited newshawks asked Alf Landon if he would attend. "Well," said one, "the magician has pulled another white rabbit out of the hat." Governor Landon started to smile, quickly thought better of it. Said he gravely: "If there is any meeting anywhere at any time of benefit to Kansas, I will attend. . . . My work as Governor of Kansas comes ahead of anything else I am doing...