Word: magician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: For the public's information regarding the "Levitation" trick in TIME, June 29, under Science-it is not a Scientific phenomenon but simply a magician's trick and TIME is very misleading by presenting it under Science and for the public's sake this impression should be corrected. This type of levitation trick was sold by Martinko & Co., 635 Sixth Ave., New York City, 35 years ago and was discarded by magicians because of its crudeness and as explained by TIME any person not totally blind could easily see through the trick. For a "consideration...
...retired magician I salute a fellow member of the ancient art of magic who performs in India under the name of Subbayah Pullavar and who thoroughly mystified P. T. Plunkett, the tea planter, and Pat Dove, the camera man, as well as the editorial staff of the Illustrated London News...
This "scientific" effect has been discarded by the Coney Island sideshow ballyhoo merchants. ... I don't know a single magician in the U. S., or even a carnival sideshow fakir who would dare to attempt this feat today, for every 16-year-old youngster probably knows how it is done. Actually what happens is that the fakir wears a harness, or corset-like arrangement. . . . Enclosed herewith are photostats from the most famous book of magic ever written-Modern Magic by Professor Hoffman, which was written in England in the early 1890's. . . . Note that...
...their signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore "Biscuit" or "Wangi Bischoff" (Yankee bishop). For the trombone they could think of no descriptive word. A practiced sleight-of-hand artist who claims he once could do with one hand a flag trick which Magician Howard Thurston needed two to perform, Song Man Rodeheaver performed legerdemain for the Africans, taking care not to let them think that magic had anything to do with...
...Died. Magician Howard Thurston, 67; in Miami Beach, Fla. His most adroit tricks often embarrassed people of : In Washington he once removed a genuine bottle of whiskey from Andrew J. Volstead's pocket. At the White House, he smashed President Coolidge's watch with a hammer, produced a loaf of bread, cut it apart, pulled out the watch, ticking and whole...