Word: sala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus spoke Dante--prestidigitator, illusionist, showman par excellence, whose so-called mystery spectacle, "Sim Sala Bim," is now causing worried frowns and bewildered head-scratching at the Shubert Theatre in Boston...
...only and rightful successor, to the long line of Kellers and Thurstons. Not only is his wizardry completely baffling even to the wiseguys in the first row, but Dante has the knack of setting off each illusion with settings as grandiose as Little Egypt or Barnum and Breley. "Sim Sala Bim" is not just a series of card tricks but a continuous spectacle. One minute Dante draws gallos of beer from a dry keg, the next he is producing ghosts from empty cabinets and making one of his chorus (let's call it a chorus) girls vanish into thin...
...little like Buffalo Bill off, who used to call himself The Great Jansen and who now bills himself as Dante, sailed into the Times Square district last week and set up Sim Sola Bim, a "mystery spectacle." Widely advertised as meaning "thanks to you" in Danish, Sim Sala Bim is actually a phrase from a Danish folk song, is roughly translatable as Ta-ra-ra-boom...
...lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets and livestock summoned out of nowhere, Sim Sala Bim provided plenty of pleasantly stupefying hokum...