HOW MAGICIANS DINE.

Bruce Herald, Volume L, Issue 57, 27 July 1914, Page 4

HOW MAGICIANS DINE.

The Magicians' Club, which is composed of all the most celebrated trick-" makers on the English stage, held its first; annual dinner, followed by an entertainment, at the Hotel Cecil on May 10. "

It was a marvellous evening. The dinner itself was shrouded with .magical effects difficult of discernment, so quick were happenings, but one got an impression of new potatoes that turned into forks, and of waiters folding up the thick soup and putting it neatly into their breast pockets. After the dinner wonders grew. By way of speeches real journalists conjured with words, and then Mr S. C. Maurice dazzled one with kaleidoscopic card-turns, a trio sang a quartette, the Zoniahs told the secrets of all the watches in the room, and then Mr Houdini—

Mr Houdini took a bag and took an egg, and smiled, and the world seemed a simple, understandable place. When Mr Houdini bad finished with the bag and the egg, the solid ground had faded beneath one's feet.