Word: illusionality
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By the strict classifications of his strict and jealous calling Mystifier Dante is both a prestidigitator (he does sleight of hand) and an illusionist (he does tricks which require elaborate props to help the illusion). Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an...
Now 57, Harry Jansen prides himself on being one of the line of magical great ones, is known to his intimates as "Pop." He has been Dante since 1922. Born in Copenhagen, he went to the U. S. at the age of six, started out as a magician in St...
Jansen now creates all his own illusions. His inspirations come to him in flashes, but the work of putting a trick together takes many months. In order to keep his methods secret, he farms out a piece of an illusion to one assistant, another piece to another, then puts them...
Every tongue in Japan rolled this Konoyism with great relish, though no one knew precisely what it meant. It was variously used as a sales slogan, an expletive, a philosophic concept, even as an excuse for nonpayment of debts. But the most common interpretation - the one on which Prince Konoye...
Having seen one revolution succeed after Russia had cracked under the stress of war, Trotsky acquired a lasting faith in the virtues of conspiracy. He never recognized, even when the world revolution failed to materialize, that most of his plotting was futile. His Fourth International (formed in Manhattan in 1928...