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MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN-Thoma Mann-Knopf ($1.50). If Thomas Mann ever turned his hand to ghost stories, Bram Stoker's Dracula would soon have a rival. Mario and the Magician is not a ghost story, but it should bring up duck-bumps on many a reader's neck...
Told like an actual occurrence, in the first person, Mario and the Magician starts out quietly enough. The writer and his family, vacationing at a little Italian resort, take their children to what is advertised as a sleight-of-hand performance. Before the show is five minutes old, the parents realize they are seeing an exhibtion of hypnotism. Before the evening over the whole audience is under the hypnotist's sway. Before the final curtain murder has been done. But luckily the children think it is all amusing, delightful. A little book-hardly more than a long short story...
After the address by President Lowell two motion picture numbers will be shown: a comic and a sports reel. The last event on the program is to be an exhibition of magic, as staged by the magician. A. H. Stafford '26. Refreshments will be served afterward and 1934 ash-trays given away...
Concerning family life in New Ireland: "The selection of a mate is a simplified matter. . . . The young swain (usually about twelve) calls in a love magician . . . [who] casts a spell over the girl. ... If the spell works the girl comes to the man. ... If it doesn't work no fault is found with the magician's services; it is assumed that some enemy magician in another village is casting an evil spirit over the pair to thwart the match...
...last, during a lull, M. Tardieu by raising an eyebrow signaled one of his Deputies who quietly proposed that the Prime Minister make the next vote one of confidence. He did so, won by a majority of 48, not astounding but sufficient. Quick as a magician producing a rabbit, M. Tardieu drew from his pocket and read to the Chamber an executive order signed by the President of France, genial Bachelor Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue, adjourning Parliament until November...