Word: magicianly
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...master at writing Puccini-like melodrama and composing melody with Puccini-like appeal. His hair-raising stage directions-touches such as the smashing of a window-pane-startled listeners more than once. And he had not lost any of his flair for the macabre: in one scene, a magician hypnotizes his fellow visa-seekers, commands them into an eerie waltz in the consulate office. In Magda's dying dream, the same characters dance again in coffin clothes...
This second annual sophomore-junior dance will also boast a speakeasy to make the barmaids feel at home, a tinttype photographer, a magician, Jeanne Dinsmore '52 teaching the Charleston, the Harvardians and the Dunster Dances...
Anywhere from 35 to 50 gamins are expected to be guests for the Yuletide entertainment, which will feature the inevitable Santa Claus and magician, plus a two or three piece band. Refreshments will be served, and, when it comes to present giving, the committee will follow the PBH standard of giving one practical gift and one useless toy to each guest...
Balding Sam Snead, 37, barely missed winning golf's biggest prize, the U.S. Open. But he won enough assorted other tournaments this year to be far & away the game's leading money winner, with $30,893. Last week, with the poise of a magician about to perform his tricks, Sam stepped to the first tee of the Pinehurst (N.C.) Country Club for one of the last big tournaments of golf's fiscal year: the North and South Open...
...third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot (Queen of the Swans) and her flock (the corps de ballet) huddling and quivering in terror before the evil magician...