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Other featured performers who pick up a frequent spot of extra cash include Chandu Shad, "Magician and shadow man," a Sophomore handwriting analyst, several musicians, and a twelve-piece jazz band. Thomas F. Bartlett '44, a traveller who has spanned over 100,000 miles as seaman and stevedore, is well-prepared to talk on "Sea Trail Blazing of War Zone Voyages," and many other equally able lecturers are on call for any kind of occasion...

Author: By Paul C. Sheeline, | Title: Employment Bureau Handles All Jobs | 11/14/1941 | See Source »

...Less agile than Acrobat Frees was A. L. Bedel, built like the beer barrels he formerly inspected for the U. S. Government. To attract crowds he hired "The Great Chandu," a magician. A Chandu come-on: to tear up a picture of a bass, unfold the torn bits to exhibit an intact picture of a bigger bass, and announce: "If you like this trick, vote for Bedel instead of the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Three Against Incumbent | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...which to appear together for the first time. Between them they have played all of the more awful whatnots and macabre personages of the past few years, Karloff in The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Old Dark House and The Ghoul; Lugosi in Dracula, White Zombie, Chandu the Magician and Murders in the Rue Morgue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...Chandu (Beechnut). A blood curdler. Chandu sends explanations of his magic tricks to children who write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Poor | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...Started last March, the Chandu radio pro gram (Beechnut Coffee) is top-ranking in popularity, getting 8,000 letters a week. Chandu. played by Gayne Whitman in the Freeman-Lang studio in Hollywood, is sent over the air by electrical transcription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

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