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The Secret of Magic Somewhere in the dim past, a human mind discovered that "the hand is quicker than the eye," and that the power to work "magic" was the power to work people.

People feared magicians because these Merlins of old were credited with possessing supernatural powers.

Today you know that the secret of magic is not the supernatural, and yet a magician's illusions can be so mystifying that there seems to be no other explanation. So the questions asked most of magicians and answered least by them is, "How do you do it?"

Emil Jarrow, known throughout the world as the Humorist Mystic, answers that question.

"The secret of Magic," says Jarrow, "is misdirection. The audience's attention is made to center on motions that have no other purpose than to cloak the secret of the trick."

Jarrow came to this country in 1891 with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. At seventeen he astounded the country with feats of strength.

He got the job by lifting with one arm a Lancer who had dropped dead from his horse during the show. The Lancer weighed over two hundred

pounds, but young Jarrow tossed him over his shoulder like a sack of meal and carried the body from the arena.

He left "strong man-ing" when the stage of a Chicago theater collapsed under him and broke his leg. Jarrow then turned to juggling and finally to conjury.

The originator of the world famous "lemon trick," Jarrow toured the United States as a top notch star on the old Hammerstein and Keith circuits, as well as appearing in many Ziegfeld productions. London packed the Palace Theatre to be mystified by his tricks and amused by his banter. Berlin saw him at the Wintergarten; and the Circus Carre, Amsterdam, billed him as "Great." The footlights of the Alhambra, Paris; the Zentral Theatre, Zurich, Switzerland; the Empire in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Tivoli, Sidney, Australia; and practically every other large theatre in the major cities of the world have at one time or other shone upon him.

Now before your very eyes, you yourself will see the Great Jarrow perform. Then—a privilege never before bestowed upon a magician's audience—he will take you backstage and expose the secrets of each of twelve rope tricks that have amazed and mystified the audiences of the world.

The curtain goes up and with no further introduction we give you . . . JARROW—the Great!