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...Paul, Robert Heger invited friends to a performance of the Hindu rope trick, most baffling of magical feats. On a dimly lighted stage a coil of rope stiffened at Heger's command, rose slowly into the air. A Hindu boy clambered up the rope, vanished. Armed with a sabre, a second Hindu swarmed up after him, tossed down arms, legs, head, torso. Finally Magician Heger enfolded the bloody members in his robe, then opened it for the Hindu lad to step forth...
...Magic Circle Society of Magicians in London for successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered to see an arm left oozing on the stage after the whole boy had reappeared. Magician Heger announced that he would...
...just over an hour a double line of sleek Manhattan socialites, confined by a red plush rope, edged down a long corridor, edged past the receiving line, edged on into the Grand Ballroom for dinner. After dinner Mrs. Morrow made a little speech about the initials Y. W. C. A., thought of all the nice things she could which began with Y (Youth), with W (Wisdom), C (Charity) and A (Alertness). To close the program, 500 Young Women trooped in, presented a pageant of Y. W. C. A. activities...
Tossing the Fox film overboard in a sealed can, Captain George Fried of the George Washington, famed for his sea rescues, trailed it behind his ship. Circling around the ship Pilot Marion Grevenberg let down a grappling hook, grappled again & again until his rope broke...
...Reed (Portland, Ore.) the rope snapped between Nos. 4 and 5 on the freshman tug-of-war team. Nos. 1 to 4 gamely held tight while howling sophomores dragged them through a muddy, 75-ft. slough neck-deep with icy water. As they emerged a newshawk approached spluttering Freshman No. 1, asked why he was there...