Word: magicianly
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...stay for the stage show, you will see New York's idea of things vaudeville. Not least offensive are the Six Rosebuds, a chorus of circus fat ladies who indulge in amorous by-play with midgets. Cardini, a suave and silent magician, is on a higher plane than these. But it would take more than a clever magician to induce us to sit quietly through the antics and old jokes of Milton Berle, the genial master of ceremonies...
...seems at first sight"--so he appeared to the Elizabethan dramatist--"to belong entirely to the Arabic scientific tradition," for since he was aware of the possible misuse of science, "like the Arabs he believed that science was power and that the scientist was a wonder worker and a magician...
...knows that any sane insurance actuary would agree with him that chance is ruled out. To rule out other factors he has taken elaborate measures. And whenever possible Dr. Rhine had witnesses present?departmental colleagues, skeptical or friendly, frequently Dr. McDougall himself. He even invited Wallace Lee, a professional magician, to observe some tests and explain the scores if he could. Magician Lee came and observed but did not explain...
...magical feats. On a dimly lighted stage a coil of rope stiffened at Heger's command, rose slowly into the air. A Hindu boy clambered up the rope, vanished. Armed with a sabre, a second Hindu swarmed up after him, tossed down arms, legs, head, torso. Finally Magician Heger enfolded the bloody members in his robe, then opened it for the Hindu lad to step forth...
Delighted at his success, Magician Heger proposed to go to England, collect the $25,000 prize offered by the Magic Circle Society of Magicians in London for successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered...