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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...
Monte Carlo is only in the picture for about five minutes, and the rest of the time is spent in Mr. William's courting of the Duchess, (Miss Del Rio), who has somehow got transplanted from Mexico. They have the best time together going to the English equivalent of Coney Island and masked balls, and probably other places too. The reason we are uncertain is that the sound mercifully failed at one point. The audience took the blow manfully, however...
...design for the seal, made by John Coney, Boston silversmith, in 1693, is so well done that it was adopted last June as the model for the new type of A.B. and A.M. diplomas...
Michael Strauss ("Mike") Jacobs is a fat, pink-shirted promoter who started his business career selling newspapers on a tough and highly competitive corner in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid...
...making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer; and a bronco-rider named Sol Schneider who has spent his life in Brooklyn where his experience with horses began as lead-boy in a Coney Island pony ranch. Manhattan rodeo audiences, whose familiarity with bronco-riding has been gained from newsreels which show riders only as they are falling off, are inclined to suppose that to fall is the object of the event. Consequently, Cowboy Schneider became a hero with the gallery. More accustomed to piebald...