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Lloyd S. Gilmour '50, an amateur magician, will undertake the most difficult assignment in his career as an entertainer when he dons his ghoulish garbs tomorrow and tours the metropolitan area to whip up Hallowe'en excitement for settlement house boys and girls...
Like Leahy, 180-lb. Johnny Lujack is a perfectionist. Every fake has to be a magician's maneuver. He knows the blocking variations of every basic Leahy play-not only for himself but for every man on the team-and frequently refreshes a forgetful player's memory in the huddle. An expert field general, he clicks with typical Leahy strategies: calling running plays in passing situations...
Down & Out. In Creston, Iowa, carnival magician Thomas Mays made a quarter disappear all right, then underwent an operation to have it removed from his stomach...
...from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...
Variety doped it as a white elephant, for which there are no stables on Broadway. But it was coming this week, anyway-a huge (36 scenes, nine carloads of props) staging of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. Producer-Director-Actor-Magician Orson Welles would not be in the Broadway cast, though it had taken all of him to keep the show moving on the road...