MAGICIANS’ TRICKS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4857, 24 July 1925, Page 3

MAGICIANS’ TRICKS.

RECEPTION AT LONDON CLUB. AMERICAN ENTERTAINED. Conjurers' playing tricks on each other was the feature of a reception the members of the Magicians’ Club of London gave at the National Hotel to Mr George Heller, of the American Society of Magicians (says the “Daily Mail”). When a playing card was torn solemnly in small pieces by a member of the audience Mr Heller craned his neck to watch. When the officiating magician borrowed d cigarette, from a man in the front row, lit it, and found the missing card taking the place of the tobacco inside the paper cylinder,, Mr Heller began to clap. When the chairman, Mr Arthur Prince, discovered the pieces of the torn-up card inside a matchbox he had lent to light the cigarette, Mr Heller applauded still more. “We in the States admire your magicians very much,” he told a reporter. “Naturally we have some very good magicians of our own, but the stuff you send us is wonderful.”