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Our Most Illustrious President, Harry Houdini, has just informed the Editor that he is giving members of the S. A. M. an opportunity to perform in their own home
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towns at his show wherever he happens to be playing, and to that end the following itinerary is being published : Week of Nov. 23, Opera House, Providence, R. I.; week of
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Nov. 30. Parsons Theatre, Hartford, Conn.; week of Dec. 7, Opera House, Worcester, Mass.; week of Dec. 14. Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Un flDemoriam Everett W. Herman Once again a member has answered the call of the Mighty Magician. This time one of our youngest and most promising Compeers. Everett W. Herman. Age 22. Born July 1, 1903. Died October 30, J925, at the home of his parents, at Union Hill, N. J. Joined the S. A. M., June 4, 1921. Card number 817. He was well liked by all on account of his pleasing personality. Always willing to assist in any way he could. The writer perhaps knew him better than any other member, hav-
Charles Joseph Hagen
ing met him first when he was a schoolboy. At that time he was forced to remain home on account of a bad attack of asthma. His father, William Herman, was a (Government clerk in the same department I was in at that time. He told me about his son's illness and asked me to visit him sometime as he had bought the boy a box of tricks and his son did not know how to do them. When I did call on him I found young Everett Herman a wonderful student, he learned the various moves and gradually increased his apparatus, until in later years he had quite an outfit,
New York City, Thursday, October 29th.—Charles Joseph Hagen, first life member of the S. A. M., and founder of the N. C. A., passed away in a hospital here at 6.20 A. M., after an illness of three weeks. Bro. Hageu had been in poor health for some months, but only became seriously ill on October 8th last, when he was immediately transferred to the hospital in which he died in his forty-ninth year. Hagen was a native of Austria, having been born in Vienna on March 9th, 1877. He migrated to this country in 1894,
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