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Houdini. The man of mystery is in town for a limited engagement in a show all his own. There are, to be sure, certain interludes for singers and dancers and comedy while Houdini is upstairs changing his strait-jacket for the next escape. But the magician is the main spring of entertainment, and powerfully so. He gets out of the most hideous torture machines and performs the most incredible miracles. He includes a revelation of the practices of fake mediums (all mediums are fake according to Houdini). The show will be on the road all the rest of the season...
...begun with the idea of how uncomfortable the poor dears must be in stiff collars, boiled shirts, dragging trousers, "kidney-exposing waistcoats", and everything else that makes the male a pleasing object, at least to himself; and ends with the suggestion that, discarding all such modifications of the strait-jacket, men attire themselves in gaudy jumper blouses, short fur coats, bright colored pajamas and shoes of vivid leathers. The desideratum suggests nothing so much as a musical comedy's presentation of a street scene in Russia...
...beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic as the boat-billed toucans on the book's jacket, ranges from the masterly English of Galapagos and Jungle Nights, to sloppy jargon. In the midst of Author Beebe's spells, one is continually jerked up by the wish that, on his present trawling trip to Galapagos, he may lose the word "adumbrate" forever overboard...
DRUMS - James Boyd - Scribner ($2.50). "Watch James Boyd," declared John Galsworthy - a hortative which, unless it was addressed as a warning to some gentleman who had contemplated inviting Mr. Boyd to dinner, has a decidedly complimentary turn, and is reproduced on the dust-jacket of this 490-page novel of the American Revolution concerning the adventures of John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence...
...Manhattan, a tall gray-haired man in a dinner jacket followed a small brunette into the night club of one Texas Guinan. Waiters gaped. Broadway brahmins stared at each other with a wild surmise. "It's Harry Thaw," they said. The famed slayer, onetime maniac, rabbit-fancier, danced with the brunette, entertained many at his table, sent incredible tips to orchestra-players, listened to a song composed in his honor...