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Show i Fleming Mystifies ; Receptive j Logan Audience Dr. Paul Flemming. magician suberb and a university economics econ-omics professor, Monday night played the role of the magician and held a large audience of USAC summer session students and townspeople completely spellbound by his complete mystery of the art of conjurinf. rabbit was given to the bov but the rabbit turned into a canciv bar. Other interesting numbers in eluded the dance of the. card" getting silver dollars from nearly everywhere, tests in mind reading, read-ing, spiritualistic manifestations and the Hindo gong. In his concluding con-cluding act he transformed hia assistant, "James'' into a charm ing young lady. Mrs. Paul Flem" ing and Walker Fleming appeared in the company of the evening magic program. For two hours the magician showed difficult feats of magic and bewildering mysteries, running run-ning the gamut of trickery to great lengths. Supplementing his remarkable re-markable display of magicism was an enormous fund of witticisms wittici-sms and good humor by the professor prof-essor which added much color and interest to the program. Dr. Fleming began his program with a puzzling performance of phanthom handkerchifs, Imaginary colors rapid transit, the fight of time and East Indian magic, one of his classes of magic was the East Indian "Mango Tree", an illusion in which a small sprig developed in a few moments into in-to a full-grown mango tree. In his version of this trick a common flower pot was filled with soil, and the slip of rose bush planted plant-ed therein (said the magician). This , is moistened with a little water. Almost immediately the sprig began to grow and soon it was a rosebush with leaves and buds growing obout two feet above the top of the flower pot. The roses were then distributed to persons in the audience. A genteleman's hat and a lady's wrist watch were secured from the audience for certain trickery, the magician frying an egg in the hat and pulling a dissappearing act with the watch. The egg turned turn-ed out to be candy and the watch was found inside the coat of a young boy in the audience tied to the neck of a small rabbit. Upon Up-on completion of this trick the |