Word: magicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, too, there are the scales, dagger, and document used by Edmund Keane in his portrayal of Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice," a candle snuffer used by Ellen Terry, and a bronze statue of Sarah Bernhardt presented to her by the magician Houdini...
...Joseph W. Valentine '38, Lee H. Wendell '38 MANDOLIN CLUB To a Wild Rose MacDowell Serenata Toscelli Song of the Volga Boatmen (with the Vocal Club) Russian Folk Song BANJO CLUB Twelfth Street Rag Bowman Margie Conrad and Robinson Jugglers John C. Develin '38, Whiting L. Brewer '37 Magician Edward L. Barnes '38 Football Medley Fair Harvard...
...last year, is Dr. George B. Winter, author of a book on wisdom teeth, famed authority on extracting. He has a research laboratory on the farm near St. Louis where he raises sheep, turkeys, dogs, ducks. A man of broad humors and skillful hands, he is a proficient amateur magician, a rabid wrestling addict who calls most topflight wrestlers by their first names. He likes to be photographed wearing chaps, boots, spurs, cowboy hat and holster pistol, .although he cannot ride a horse...
When Camilo Aldao announced the production of a play starring Cardini, the famed magician, there was considerable apprehension in "the circles" as to just what sort of drama could be erected about his suave but untested histrionics. The apprehension was justified. "The Ascending Dragon" is good entertainment when Cardini is performing his wondrous slight of hand with cards and cigarettes. As a mystery drama it doesn't excite much praise. Slow moving, not particularly clever in construction, weighted with a burden of dull lines it looks like the season's first "also...
...present job of building radio shows, Riley started training at the age of eleven, when his magician's act made him a sort of boy wonder in Henderson, Kentucky, his home town. Roughing it later as a minstrel end-man and a showboat entertainer, he departed the tinseled and shabby byways of trouping to enter the University of Kentucky. There he began a one-man show, starring Tom Riley, Pi Kappa Alpha. He produced student revuea, directed the university players, the Strollers; announced over WHAS. University of Kentucky station; and found time to go to movies and review them...