Word: magicianly
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...time saw a zoo. (The parrot called "Good-by.") For the Dionne Quintuplets the week was memorable. The eight-year-olds and their entourage took over 15 rooms in Toronto's King Edward Hotel. They held audiences, raced up & down the halls, were baffled goggle-eyed by a magician, submitted their black, Indian-straight locks to a hairdresser (curls in front, ringlets in back), traffic-jammed the streets outside the hotel and outside the barnlike Maple Leaf Gardens where the Quintuplets bravely put on a special act for the Victory Loan drive. The act was an old-fashioned Hippodrome...
...magician trying to pull a hat out of a rabbit, a seaman shaving in a hurricane, slapsticky Lou Costello is a successful clown. But most of it is South Sea stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...
...COFFIN FOR THE CORPSE-Clayfon Rawson-Little, Brown & Co. ($2). A rich spiritualism devotee sees the ghost of a blackmailer he slugged and buried, and is later himself found slain in the locked and weaponless room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...
...like this?" Says The Raven, without batting an eye: "I feel fine." Before The Raven finally meets his maker and cashes in his sins at the Hays office, he has punctured a number of other citizens, both deserving and undeserving, met straight-haired Veronica Lake (a torch-singing magician employed...
...Germans. In 1914, aged 35, he was wounded in a French bayonet attack near Charleroi and left for dead on the field. Captured by the Germans, he made his first escape via Holland to England, aided by his fluent German, variously disguised as a butcher, stableboy, coal man, and magician in a traveling circus. At one point he was helped by Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1915 he was back with the French Fifth Army...