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Show II 5 THE REAL MAGIC. ' Thurston, the magician, says he wonders at times .why people 1 ;rome to 'h's show wlien there is so much free magic all about them. "Ill 3 c urst'"C bud i t'lc growing child, the nesting bird these arc 1 manifestations of the real magic, yet who takes but passing note of f uthem? he asks. And man's own wizardry has become but a coimnon-fplace coimnon-fplace of his everyday life. '' 1 ' A bell rings at one's elbow and one places an instrument to his li mouth and talks Lo a man who may be a thousand miles away. i I 1 tragic indeed! But it thrills no longer, any more than the eawial I Conversation one had with his neighbor on the street in the morning J 3, A slight pressure of the hand on a lever lights up a city. A spark I 2? electricity ignites a vapor ar.d sets in motion the wheels of a vc- L J licle. The touch of a finger on h key sends messages through air ji,f 91 nd overseas. , liJ tl Ifc is rclate in the story of Aladdin that he had but to rub his I1 Svondcrful lamp, express a wish and it would lie forthwith magically I fulfilled. I T The fainy-talc of yesterday is the faci of today. ( , r One man makes a wish today and on the morrow another man Km ."invents some new marvel that fulfills that wish. i |