Word: magicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lopokova). The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...
...sentence of death. He had killed a cat, although the cat had unmistakably struck him first. A few years ago he had saved a child from drowning, but nobody counted that. Bobby was a 13-year-old greyhound, rich in the love of Charles Harold Stuart Parsons, optician and magician of Sheffield...
...macerates a boozy song around his cigar butt and puts on his achingly funny pool exhibition with warped cues. Donald O'Connor continues to prove himself a Mickey Rooney with some unspoiled, big-Adam's-apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing I'll Get By over the short waves, soothes...
...cheat yourself at craps-use the correct odds. This is the advice of John Scarne, professional magician and gambling authority for Yank magazine, who worked out the mathematics of the armed forces' No. 1 sport. By last week he had sent copies of the odds (printed on cards small enough to paste into helmets) to more than 2,000,000 servicemen. Scarne's table...
Following a buffet supper to which all members, wives, and guests are invited, Stephen Simpson, well-known professional magician, will stage a show at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. This will be the second week-end in succession that a touch of the stage has come to Harvard's only officers' club for undergraduates briefly revived HPC's theatrical traditions for the benefit of guests and journalists last Saturday...