The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-23

WHO'S NEWS
i THIS WEEK.
BY Lemuel F. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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NEW YORK.-American magi-
clans aren't doing so well.
There are leaks, lawsuits and lam
entations. In California, there is
drive to GUST Juli-
Leaks Are en- j. Proskauer,
Plaguing New York head OF
Magicians the Society OF
American Magi-
clans, for spilling trade secrets. Mr..
Proskauer enters vehement and
vigorous denial.
In the New York federal court,
Horace Goldin charges that a tobac-
co company has let everybody in on
his patented technique of saving
woman in two and therefore made
worthless the illusion out of which
| he used to get $4,000 week.
He brought the same suit for the
same amount against Victor A. Per-
ey in 1923 and against tobacco
company in 1888. There is war on
several fronts as the magicians fight
to safeguard non-illusory dollars.
Sacrifices wealth to marry pref
| ty proofreader" was a headline
when Julien j. Proskauer married
Miss Cornelia Grant in 1915. The
wealth was a big family printing
plant in New York city, but he didn't
sacrifice it and is today vice presi-
don't of tho copopanv
He was elected president of the
magicians in 1885, as an amateur,
and he still keeps
Proskauer his amateur stand
Leads Fight ing, leader in
on Fakers the fight against
frauds and takers.
eve don't want to deceive the
public; we only want to fool them,"
he said when he was elected. He
was the only amateur ever to do
Houdini's underwater milk can es-
cape. He broke a brace of ribs do
ing it, something which Messrs.
Eden, Delbos and Ribbentrop will
never do, and seems to think the
price was well paid.
A solid, stocky man of average
stature, running big business be-
hind hexagonal glasses which give
a keen CLINT to his eyes, Mr.. Pros
kauer is apt to slip visitor
couple of red sponges to hold tight
! in each hand and then make them
Jump from one hand to the other or
! disappear altocether, with the fists
tightly clenched.
Meeting the depression, he got up
Stunts, Inc.," rigging magical ad-
vertising tricks,
Money Rolls and this year his
in From turnover is some
"Sfunfs. Inc" where around ST.
100000. He in
stalled in the firm Dexter Sinsa-
bough, who doubles in psychology
and philosophy. Mr.. Sinsabough
gives proposed new trick the psy-
Geological once-over and gauges the
popular reaction with astonishing
accuracy. The money rolls in.
Stunts, Inc" seems to have
started the trouble. Mr.. Proskauer
insisted that be has spilled nothing
but "kid tricks" and never under
any circumstance has or would re-
lease a professional secret. He
doesn't like the word tricks" as
applied to real magic. He says the
illusions are rather experiments in
magic"
He has a passion for such illu-
sions, which, he says have been
cart and not trickery," ever since
| Moses threw the canes on the
ground and turned them into SER
penis. That, by the way, still seems
to be tops in magic.
w HAT the well-dressed iron man
w will wear: black knee pants,
green flannel shirt, yellow belt, and
a white arm band with green
! swastika. Such is
Iron Guard the latest fashion
Plans Coup note on the cos
in Runnonio tune of Corneliu
Zelea Codreanu's
| Iron Guard, which threatens to seize
Rumania.
M. Codreanu, most virulent anti
Senate in Europe, has made puz-
| zling alliance with the democratic
cally inclined DR.. julius Manu-. He
| is frank about his desire to help
clear the way for Germany's march
to Mosul oil and the Ukraine.
within 48 hours of my party's
achieving victory, Rumania will
have concluded an alliance with
Berlin and Rome" he says.
He is thirty-seven years old. In
1924, when he was a student in
Jassy university, he shot and killed
the project of police who suppressed
| anti-Semitic riots. He was acquit-
ted, and later was tried and freed
for alleged completely in another as
sassination.
For years he has been cunning
for the Little Entente and has pow
er enough to force cabinet shake
up every once in a while. There's
nothing trivial about his hatred of
Magda Lupescu. King Carols
| friend.
Dressed as above, with revolver
in his belt, he leads his followers on
white horse. They ride the coun-
tryside, each with a little bag of
the sacred soil of Rumania' tucked
in his shirt, tanning up the peas
ants and spelling for a fight. His
following has been mainly made up
of university students, but they say
his Iron Guard is now recruiting
some powerful adult interests which
may declare him in in big way.
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