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Secret of the Wizard of Oz is that there is no such person: there is only Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), a kindly, bungling old carnival seer. But the resourceful Professor has a bit of homely chicanery for each of his applicants, gives them all what they desire. No children's tale is Hollywood's Wizard of Oz. Lavish in sets, adult in humor, it is a Broadway spectacle translated into make-believe. Most of its entertainment comes from the polished work (aided by Jack Dawn's expert makeup) of seasoned Troupers Lahr, Bolger and Haley...
Last week in Cardiff, Wales, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told 10,000 followers that he was no seer, that if they wanted to know what the future had in store for Europe they might as well go to Old Moore, the astrologer-author of a popular British almanac, as to ask the Head of the British Government. Others with far less opportunity for knowing what was going on in Europe were not so modest...
...which the Japanese had first shown him. When Raymond arrived in Tokyo, he soon found out that Japanese master carpenters knew more about architecture in wood than he did. He also learned that the tradition of submitting building plans to an astrologer was not superstitious but practical. The seer turned out to be an expert on such matters as drainage, prevailing winds. the varying angle of sunlight through the year-a subtle factor that Architect Raymond now scrupulously studies...
Throwing caution and the regulation seer's turban to the winds, Walter L. Hyde '41, and Edward P. Edmunds '41, both of Leverett House, climaxed their palm-reading career with a tail-coated seance at the Bali Ball in Boston's Hotel Somerset...
Cassandra was always right, but nobody believed her. A great many people, however, believe Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., who last year predicted that the bottom of Depression II would come in the first half of 1938. Last week tycoonry's favorite seer gave his followers a lavish exhibition of his powers by predicting practically everything for the coming year except the dew point in Wall Street at midnight on Friday, June 23. Excerpts...