MAGICIANS AT DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 3

MAGICIANS AT DINNER.

The wizards who gathered at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet Street, London, 011 December 3 at the seventh annual banquet of the Magic Club, under tho presidency of Mr; Nevil Maskelyne, boro themselves like ordinary citizens for the greater part of the evening. Their real and extraordinary nature came out, however, at last. Tho magicians began cbmpetinp among themselves in the performance ot wonders. Mr. Cecil Lylo started lint-triinming by magic,' causing an . ostrich plume and somo white fox trimming to drape itself on an untrimmod hat without tho agency .of human hands; Mr. Chris Hilton manufactured Union jacks and other flags out of plain-coloured handkerchiefs; Mr. William Dawkes fused a number of billiard balls into one; Mr. Herbert Collings produced out of an empty, sealed envelope replies to advertisements taken at ■ random from a daily newspaper; while Dr. Herschell carried out a series of uncanny tricks With cards. In an interval, when the normal reigned for a time, Miss Sybil Goodchild sang one or two charming songs. Immediately afterwards, however, the magicians recommenced competing one ngainst the other in bewildering exhibitions of magical skill. It was now getting 011 for midnight, and as one of the magicinns dropped a hint about the possible transmutation of gold into baser metal—and not vice versa—our representative took an early opportunity to depart as unostentatiously as possible. It was self-ovident that evening dress, so far las modern magicians arc concerned, is a mere deception. Even without the wand, tho pointed shoes, nnd the cnbalistic signs upon their clothes, there are unquestionably magicians still.—"Daily Telegraph."