MAGIC FOR SALE
The depression has had some queer reactions in the world of entertainment. None more amusing, to the onlooker, but tragic for the vendor, than magic for sale. Business is very bad with the
magicians, writes our correspondent in Paris, as you may well discover from
a visit to an intriguing emporium on the left bank displaying a sign with the words "Academy of Magic." Trices have been reduced to the most fantastically low lovck, and yet. the effects of the economic crisis arc keenly felt in this mystic world. You may learn, for example, the rule for divining any person's ago for a fee of less than twelve cents and acquire the necessary ap|£J*atus for "A Divorce in .Space" for 160' dollars. Business is so bad, the proprietor declared, that in two days he sold but a couple of pounds of marvellous herbs and one seance table specially adjusted for private conversations with Napoleon. Machinery for performing the famous levitatiou trick can now be had for a' mere 100 dollars.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1932, Page 12
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