Word: magicianly
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...HEADLESS LADY-Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Merlini, magician, can't let circuses or murders alone. Visiting the Hannum Bros. show, he starts to prove the owner's fatal car smashup a homicide. Then State troopers find a decapitated brunette in his own car. Lots of Big-Top jargon...
...Harry Jansen prides himself on being one of the line of magical great ones, is known to his intimates as "Pop." He has been Dante since 1922. Born in Copenhagen, he went to the U. S. at the age of six, started out as a magician in St. Paul, Minn., after watching The Great Herrmann do his stuff at the opera house there. Besides operating a show of his own, Jansen at one time ran a magic shop in Chicago. Eventually Jansen helped Thurston produce his shows. Shortly thereafter, Thurston and Jansen formed a corporation named Dante the Magician...
...fashion, tend to create a social compulsion not unlike state edict in its effect, while a brief look-see at the "God Bless America" excesses should convince anyone of the impossibility of maintaining this type of emotional patriotism within non-ridiculous bounds. (At one show currently on Broadway a magician pulls 20 Starred-and-Striped chorus girls out of a hat; they're honeys, but would Professor Elliott approve...
This year Republicans base their hopes not on a single explosive issue, but on a change in the political complexion of the entire U. S., including the South, accomplished by no less a magician than Franklin Roosevelt himself...
Good intrigue in Tzembia (the Balkans), involving troubled Senator Stephen Lucat, his wife and his mistress. Simon Brade goes over from London with Sir Jeremy Dantry of His Majesty's Intelligence Service. Gaetana, the mistress, runs off with a magician. Simon, who collects Chinese porcelain, runs off with the honors...