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Adjutant William B. Plews of the Volunteers of America (Salvation Army offshoot) was once a vaudeville magician called "William the Great." For the last nine years he has been preaching in his spare time, without much success. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., his announcement that he would perform tricks (to help religion meet "pretty bad modern competition") filled his Volunteers chapel. Adjutant Plews's first stunt was to impersonate St. Paul in prison at Philippi, in padlocked chains and an unscriptural mail-sack. He prayed for God's aid, escaped in a couple of minutes from...
Edgar Bergen is a 34-vear-old Delta Upsilon from Northwestern. Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture...
...Great Gambini (Paramount): Akim Tamiroff as a murderous magician helping the police solve a crime which he has predicted and committed...
...magician has waved his wand! Now there is no fleet here at all! No damned fleet at all, damme...
Macfadden had referred to Mr. Oursler thus: "This Fulton Oursler came into our employment about 14 or 15 years ago with only $50 to his name, but with an abundance of shrewdness through his former work as a magician and hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity...