Word: fakirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...wife of Dr. Kennicott, and must breast all the bigotry of Williamsburg, a mid-western town. She is unfortunate in her open treatment of the men, secures the whole hearted ill will of their wives, and is ridiculed when she attempts landscape architecture a la Provence. She befriends a fakir of an artist, who misconstrues her attentions as love, but so embroils matters for herself that she leaves town even after the young Eric has been killed on a drunk. To satisfy Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch and other American ladies, she returns to her husband when she has learned that "Main...
...become a reality only when fakers and imbeciles, distorters and stranglers of revolutionary tradition have been mercilessly shot and ruthlessly killed. A Marxist needs no pity. One should pity this Indian critic who prostitutes his intelligence at the University parading his adherence to the senile wisdom of "a naked fakir." K. B. Krishna...
Burlesque paintings are usually popular with the public. Commercial artists joined the Fakirs to try their hand at burlesque and swell the scholarship fund. Since the National Academy makes a great to-do over donating its prizes, Patron Sam Shaw used to give a ist Prize of $25 in pennies and a hot mince pie to the best Fake of the year. The Fakirs Ball was even more appreciated by the public which quickly discovered that the Fakirs, in their anxiety for scholarships, had much more liberal ideas than the Beaux Arts Architects about the proper...
...Shaw owns a fine collection of the earlier Fakes, which he invited the new Fakirs to study. Last week he gave his prize (a check instead of pennies) to Beata Beach, daughter of Sculptor Chester Beach, for a parody of De Witt M. Lockman's Academy portrait, His Ancestor's Uniform. The original showed a baldish gentleman in pince nez, leaning against a colonial mantelpiece in a Revolutionary uniform. Fakir Beach showed the same man, completely nude, against the same mantel, under a portrait...