MALINI AND A "MUG."

NZ Truth, Issue 680, 29 June 1918, Page 5

MALINI AND A "MUG."

(From "Truth's"' Dunedin Rep.)

Malini, the "magician," is m Dunedin. He was preceded and accompanied by a groat reputation. His reputation, however, was questioned, so to say, by a -clever "mug\ at the King's the other evening, when 'the "mug" endeavored to know as much as the "magician" knew himself. This was not, of course, part of Malini's game, fpr, if the "mug" tumbled to the secret of the magician's make-believe it was all up with Malini. Malini's right eye was wide open, and because the "mug's' 1 was quite as wide awake, he (the "mug") got ordered off the stage. Then Malini got the opportunity of launching out a warning to "Chows" m general, and incidentally, he preached a sermon/ "It was this class of sad person," said the man of magic, "who was responsible for the killing of Chung Ling Soo during a performance m London recently. The trick on that occasion was the one m which the conjurer is supposed to catch m a china plate a bullet from a gun fired point blank at him (a humanly impossible feat, of course). The bullet m this case is cleverly abstracted from the gun while apparently being rammed home prior to the firing. But a would-be clever individual, while examining the gun surreptitiously inserted another bullet, with the result that Chung Ling Soo was shot dead.