Word: magician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reporters from Berlin who sought out tall, handsome Municher Mann found him quietly working at his latest novel, Joseph and His Brothers, a first venture into Biblical fiction. He would not talk of it, was lured to speak of his newest book, Mario and the Magician, which he wrote last summer in a wicker bath chair on the brim of the Baltic. "I find it quite possible," he gossiped, "to write a novelette while surrounded by noisy folks on a beach." Solemnly: "I am sincerely delighted with this great honor. I welcome it the more because I have always been...
...away from Columbus, Ohio, hovered about racetracks, sold papers, learned how to bum. Then he was converted, went to a seminary in Northfield, Mass. Prepared for the ministry, he was on his way to Philadelphia when he saw the Great Herrmann, master magician, and followed him to Syracuse. He joined a roadshow, a circus, organized a show of his own, toured the country, toured the world, joined Kellar as junior partner, succeeded him. Now he is 60, successful, reminiscent...
Trixie Friganza, a survival of the age which the Almanac lampoons, floats laughably about the stage, an hilarious Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated...
...Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who breaks into a New York society composed of retired truck-drivers. A truck-driver's debutante daughter lures the magician, but his old flame and vaudeville partner gets him back by misplaying their best act. The act: blindfolded, the girl stands on the stage holding a plate in her hand. Four men inspect marked bullets and regulation rifles, proceed to the gallery, shoot at her. A terrific explosion titillates hysterical...
Miltiades III is a teddy bear's head. The eyes roll, the head turns, the head rises in midair. When a member of the audience took a number of cards at random from a deck presented by Magician Mullholland, the jaws of Miltiades III clicked the number of cards before the recipient had counted them himself...