Show I Magic for Everyone Growing Fad in U. U S SAN JOSE H If you sec see your neighbor lock his wife In a o trunk and walk nonchalantly away dont don't call the police Even if It the neighbor returns with an armful of ot swords and begins stabbing the trunk in murderous frenzy y think e before scream scream- ing The rhe chances art ar are your neighbor Is merely one of ot th growing legion of ot Americans who fancies who fancies himself i as asa a magician that that like like nine- nine tenths of ot he uses his wife as asan asan asan an assistant The job Is ts n U bit hard on the little woman Owing partly to 10 the nOu influence influence ence of ot the th late harry houdini the escape magic nowadays Involves es hing h ing handcuffed sewn up in a sack locked into a medieval pillory n up in tn a n packing pocking box or having ha 1 g ones one's head hend apparently lopped fT It by a guillotine A sl 51 and looking good girl may muy ven look forward to 10 being sawed sawed in halt half Magic has had Its followers as far lar farbak larb back bak b k as history goes but it has taken industrial thuds Mi-thuds Ui 0 h put pul it 1 itin in ill reach of everybody The butcher or baker buker who wants to lo astound a his hi friends at a Saturday night part party can buy an Illusion paraphernalia sand and and instructions as casually as hp he buys a package jl 01 Ji I I From a playing card that its spots tu a big bl ft ff Ii v. v I a live horse disappears Into thin air everything's available nyu lIable His lis pock pocketbook pocketbook pocketbook Is the only limit Its It's a rare city efty that hasn't one or more clubs where magicians moo meet frequently to see sec and discuss thi th latest tricks Iricks A recent convention here of ot the thi Pacific Coast Association of Magi clans cilins attracted persons Dele Delegates Delegates ele gates stood In line to buy the latest Inventions The chief Issue before magical mag so societies Is the exposure of at tricks tu the general public To magicians this breach of ot secrecy is a crIme crimI comparable to manslaughter bu but since the government has not writ written ten It Into the criminal code the worst penalty that can be inflicted Is ostracism by ones one's fellow per lr formers |