The Washington herald., 1918-04-27

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Heraid.
New York. April 26.-Magic has
came to Broadway. 1t brings a
touch of the old town hall. Car
ter-"the eminent prestidigita-
teur"-has opened at the Belmont
Theater in a one-man show. He
does all the black art tricks HIM
self and the first night was a
notable one.
The best critics were there in
evening clothes and sprinkling of
those in the Blue Book were in the
boxes. The magician goes in for
all sorts of deluding exhibitions. in
cluding Spiritualistic readings, mind
reading and various forms OF hocus-
pocus. some of it long familiar and
u portion of it novel.
The performance is opened with
some rare hospitality. Carter en-
ploys a bottle that will give forth
any brand of liquor for which a
patron may ask. After all wants
have been supplied. including the
Partisan looking fellow who got
his absinthe frappe. the bottle was
broken and a squealing guinea pig
fell out.
In the process. however. a fTag-
ment of glass cut the guinea pig
and caused the blood to flow and
the tender hearted to gasp. The
magician is an oily-tongued. hand
some chap who did not split in
finitives and talked necessarily.
He winds up his performance by
making a sure enough lion one
that roared fearfully-vanish ap-
parently into the air. Nobody be-
lievcd that bored Broadway could
be interested in magic. But even
the critics kept their seats until
the curtain fell. This is real magic
itself.
The amazing part of II was the
cock -sureness of the magician. He
is advertised as a globe trotter. For
years l have been interested in
magic myself There is a quaint
little old magic shop within the
rumble of the elevated on Sixth
avenue. The man who waited on
me and showed me the inner secrets
of the art was a man of unusual
address.
He reminded one more of the
suave diplomat. the director of
large affairs than a seller of magic
whatnots. Imagine my surprise
when the curtain went up at the
fashionable Belmont to see that the
suave magic salesman was none
other than-the Great Carter Him
self. And when he passed up the
aisles he smiled at me as much as
to say. We'll, you see L have az
rived"
The Lady in Pink Tights gave Wall
street thrill the other morning.
She was borrowed from the circus
now playing 1T the Garden to arouse
interest in wa stamps. Never was
there such cushing jam in Wall
street to see her walk on a tight
wire.
One end of the wire was fastened
to the sub-Treasury and the other
to the nobby little offices of J. p.
Morgan and Company The wire sim
ply could not bust. Perhaps it was
just as well that Gen. Washington
was present Only in the bronze. in
asmuch as the lady was present in
the fleshingS.
eral that he remained on his pedes-
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and consequently above and away
from the lady. For awhile it looked
as though the crowd had spread so
far westward that there was danger
of several brokers being crowded
into the MONDAY services of Trinity
Church. Nobody could tell what
might have happened then.
There is one type Of young ran
and young woman who sends or
chids, sits in n box, does his or her
letter-writing in the best hotels, eats
on revolving stool and sleeps in
n hall bedroom. That Is, this type
once did those things. But. alas.
comes the scent postage rate
and by all signs available the hotel
writing rooms once more are 10 he
used partly oy the hotel residents.
Such hotels a. the Waldorf. Plaza
and Astor hired efficiency expects
10 determine why less stationery was
being used IN tho writing rooms. Tho
extra cent postage n said TO lie re-
sponsihle for the lull.
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