Magic is an art that sometimes instructs, often amuses and always entertains" Wilson. The good Doctor has something there, and his words have been quoted on many a magician's circular. Only last week we came across a bit of information that might provide the source of his inspiration. Edward Livingstone Trudeau founded his Sanitarium at Saranac, N.Y. in 1984. Statistics tell of his success as an opponent of the white plague. The first institution of its kind in the U.S. felled a climbing death rate of tuberculosis patients immensely and to Trudeau's memory is a Gutzon Borglum likeness in bronze.…
We didn't have room enough, last week, to explain that we gave up plans for a daily Jinx some time ago because expenses plus labor versus returns appeared to be a draw match. So, to salve our own hurt ambitions, we've done the next best thing by offering you a Daley Jinx. On the air over WOR and Mutual Broadcasting System stations at 8:30 P.M. on Saturday nights, is Who Knows?, the latest effort to dramatize true occult happenings and experiences. Hereward Carrington is furnishing the material for the scripts which leave you dangling for a possible solution. The best,…
Bill Larsen has been putting baby and hand pictures in Genii so you, you and you might see how famous magi looked when mother was the only critic. We have just received a picture of how we must have looked and it is a great pleasure to append it here. Faith Hope Charity Harding, the 4 1/2 years old seeress and miniature Oracle of Delphi said in a N.Y.C. interview that when she grows up she wants to wear a green silk dress and be a magician. J.B. Rhine is supposed to be interested in her case, but, like the…
Mail bag : "The Clever Coins in #78 is swell and open to many variations. It could be worked with each set of coins different; or checkers from a checker board; two different colors of poker chips; even the small marbles from a Chinese Checker set. A careful fixing and "Coco-Cola" tops could be used. Even two brands of cigarettes may be used. But why go on ? There's material in this effect to supply a new trick for weeks. Even the force could be any of a dozen known methods." R. C. Buff. Dear Ted; Am driving the locals…
What intrigued me most (I suppose that I'll always be more or less partial to any book or manuscript on mental work) about the new Calostro Radio-Vision Mindreading Code is the 3 year research and tabulating job that Bob Doidge put into it. Over a 20 year period his collection of secrets picked up about a hundred systems of all sorts. From these Bob picked the best 25. Then, tacking up a big sheet of ruled paper he broke them all down to discover that certain words were used more than others. Several words found use in 21 of the…
We've been delayed regarding our reply to the daily Jinx inquiries and therefore must move our date for the showdown up to #85. Back in a 1915 mag we found a picture of Nate Leipsig entitled "The War Lord of Card Tricks." Nate was entertaining Britishers during the last great fracas. And from the same source came an effect that could well be brought out again by the dealers. A miniature brass cannon with a plug to be screwed into the open end served as a container for from one to six steel balls. The mystic could immediately tell how…
The occurrence for which eastern states magi had sort of given up expecting is now practically existent. Joseph H. Fries, M.D., the rope genius who never (well, hardly ever!) was seen with the same feminine armful twice has succumbed to the charms of Miss Marilyn Wetstone, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and soon will discover a "knot" which can't be vanished by a pass. Abril Lamarque sent a wire reading, "Confucius say - Magician who fool around with neat trick - often marry her." We sent an inter-office memo to Humdrum the Mystic about this, and that practically erstwhile purveyor of pseudo…
One thing that is very apparent these days is that Jean Hugard is thinning down the margin and may become the world of magic's most prolific writer. Burling Hull has advertised for years that his number of text books was the greatest. There comes a time, etc., etc., etc. --- In The Nation for Jan 6, and by Franz Hoellering, 'tis written -- "The illusion his voice creates over the radio is destroyed by the demonstration of its mechanics, and by the bad acting of Mr. Bergen." The man meant the exposure of Charley McCarthey's inner parts as per the…
Last September's (1939) issue of TOPS contained a photograph of Winston Freer presenting a purported levitation of a girl over a dining table with people sitting all around. A hoop was in the process of proving "no support". In Percy Abbott's own words the illusion had previously been done "on an unprepared nitery floor, with absolutely no setting, scenery or assistance." Also "the volunteer assistant had obviously not expected to be called upon." A girl had been intimidated onto the floor to undergo the test. Mr. Abbott finished by saying "you may see what may be accomplished by the application…
Mail Box : Same delivery - An anonymous note from Springfield, Mass., "You would have had a lot of subscriptions from here if that article about I.B.M. Ring 10 hadn't appeared in the Jinx. Get wise." The other, but signed, "Editrivia column I enjoy very much. It may be painfully frank to some but why hide the truth. We need more and more to put ethics back in the art and you are doing more than anyone else to help it." If the paragraph in #66 hurt anyone real badly we're sorry. But we still can't see why amateurs and…