The sun., 1910-06-03
DO MIRACLES AFTER DINNER
TRICKSI WIZ tRDS KEEP HOTEL
MATTERS STARING.

Once a Year They Feast With LitlIe Red
Devils and Applaud Each Others
New Trlcks-N Coed Many ef the
Amateurs Are Doctors Of Medicine.
A hatless youngster about 10 years old
approached tho clerk Of the Hotel Mari
borough last night about 10 O'Clock and
asked the clerk 10 give him a 81 bill for a
silver dollar The clerk handed over the
bin. but before the youthful person had
relieved himself Of the silver dollar in
exchange be tore the hill in half.
The clerk stared. Then the youth folded
the halves of the torn bill together and
ripped them some more. Finally only
tiny pieces of bill were in his fingers. all
rolled up into a very small wad. A. the
clerk was about to get his breath the
youngster unwound the wad Of green
and showed the admiring onloOkers that
the bill was quite a. untOrn and as whslly
sound ~ Il had ever been.
The hoy handed his cards around then
and they told in pink ink that he is Max
Heir. Magician. Merry Moments Of Mod
ern Magic. Mirth and Mystery
oh said the clerk. who had been
thinking a second before about iele-
phoning 20 the psyohOpathic ward az
Bellevue for an ambulance. you're one
ofthe crowd having dinner here tonight. >
There wpre about $50 men and women
magicians Just on the lobby. and they
were Celebrating the sixth annual banquet
Of the American Society of MagiciAns.
The masters Of black magic who dine
together once a year number few pro-
fesRional performers, hut by FAR tho
greater part II the membership IL made
up Of amateurs. And Il seemed last night
that about half Of these dilettantes have
the degree oFM. d.
William A Ransom, a professional
who is president Of the organization.
presided Back of him was an ornate
gilt table that once belonged IN Her
mann the Great and which the first oi the
Hermanns used on the stage. 4 fourteen
vear-Old miss. who said she h Mildred
RouClere. -Jr was one Of the star en-
teTtainers of the evening. Other pro-
fessional magicians who dincd and
stunted were Harry Rouclere Howard
Thurston, Elmer Ransom Harry Hatton.
DR. r. Heuel. an amateur. who was
chairman u the dinner committee.
A. YOU came into the dini ing room Dr.
ROuclere. wearing a small red devil In
his coat lapel, ppeaented YOU IN a way
of his own with a magic lead pencil. At
tached To the pencil was a short loop
~ blue silk cord. In some way that only
masters of the magic ART know the doctor
in a flash had showed the end of the luop
of string through your buttonhole and
had pushed the pencil through the loop.
thus leaving the pencil dangling.
II all looked simple enough until later
on YOU decided o. take On the perfectly
good lead pencil and make lt work for
its living Then you found that the
string Was 30 short that u was impossible
10 reverse what you supposed had been
the doctors proCess. that II 20 push the
pencil point back through the loop and
~ unfasten II from your coat. The cord
was too short TO allow for this.
Get your friends ~ take u ~. said
the doctor when asked about the mys-
terry. And az a late hour last night re-
and cutting the string.
The magicians put PINK handkerChiess
into bottles of water after their dinner
and then fired revOlvers at the bottles,
whereupon both handkerchief and water
suddenly disappeared leaving an empty
bottle on the table. And they did many
other wondrOus things that appealed 10
the audience II experts and which caused
many dark skinned waters who were
SUPPOSED 10 be- at work IN the adjoining
dining room 10 !inger wide eyed az the
dCorways watching the maTvels