20 APRIL 1962, Page 23

An Entertainment

Your attention please: because this remarkable chap, • Whose conjuring tricks have sold us all such a laugh, And can make it snow florins at every snap Of his pianist's fingers, or saw girls in half, Or (less engaging, really not quite nice) Can uproar demons in a cone of fire To grin at us from little blocks of ice, Or ride toy tricycles along a slack wire, Will next (would you stand back a little, please?) Do a trick much harder than you might suppose, It's starting now, snap down his arteries,

Look ! . . . His .eyes open. Touch him!

His blood flows.

Pay at the door. Leave as quietly as you can. And tell your dead friends )tou've seen a living man.

JOHN HOLLOWAY