Word: harnessers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The trick is really very simple. The pole (probably not the one originally exhibited) has a strong metal core, and fits solidly into a socket in the ground. Onto its upper end, through the folds of the elaborate knot, is rigidly attached a horizontal iron rod, which passes under the...
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...
According to Professor Hoffman's Modern Magic, the trick is done by means of an iron and leather harness worn by the performer which is attached by means of a ratchet to the upright stick.-ED.
In 1925 the Dixieland disbanded. It was no longer a novelty. "Sweet" jazz, heavily orchestrated, was in vogue. And La Rocca, particularly, wanted to retire, go back to New Orleans. Hot jazz cultists who have learned to treasure the Dixieland's out of print phonograph records as classics and...
All blind people who have received dogs from "The Seeing Eye" go to Morristown for a month's course. Mrs. Eustis has found that most of the blind need a "mental housecleaning" before anything else. The eight members of each month's class at "The Seeing Eye," are...