THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1979
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Magician and illusionist Andre Kole left his audience in won
der as he demonstrated the art oflevitation Thursday night in
the A&M Consolidated High School auditorium. The World
of Illusion, featuring Kole, was sponsored by Campus
Crusades for Christ.
Battalion photo by Jeanne Graham
By ROY BRAGG
Battalion Staff
The magic of magic is that it’s
magic.
It’s no fun going to a magic show
and knowing that the tricks are just
tricks. Unless you have a profes
sional interest in magic yourself, it
defeats the purpose to know how
something does or doesn’t work.
When a magician lets his audience
in on any aspect of the trick, the ul
timate effects of the show cannot be
achieved. The mystery is gone.
Everyone knows that there is a
trick to everything a magician per
forms on stage, but it’s nice to put
my cynicism at ease for a change.
For example, when a performer
pulls off his top hat and then
empties thirty pigeons and a box of
panatella cigars out of it, I call it a
“neat trick". However, if the guy
tells me beforehand that he has a
collapsable bird cage and a secret
compartment full of cigars in his
jacket, I am disappointed. It’s not
magic, but illusion.
That was the main problem with
Andre Kole’s World of Illusion
Thursday night. The show, pres
ented by the Campus Crusade for
Christ, was full of neat tricks, but
Kole continually reminded the au
dience that they were tricks. Be
cause his illusions served as a show
case for the religous message he de
livered after the intermission, Kole
downplayed the magic. At one point
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in the second part of the show, he
even asked the audience to pray
with him.
Kole made his entrance Thursday
night by appearing “out of nowhere”
into a large globe centerstage — no
thing new, just a typical magician’s
entrance.
He followed that with an old
standard in the world of modern
magic which he calls “The Crazy
Lady“. This trick is the one where
his female assistant, in this case his
Review
Then he and two other assistants
perform the ritual rotation of the
box on stage. This is to show the
audience that there’s no trick in
volved. There is nothing wrong with
that, except that very few other per
formers would tell an audience that
they will see an illusion and then
rotate the box around to show that
it’s not an illusion.
If his attitude toward the tricks
themselves had been a little more
helpful, perhaps the show
would’ve been more enjoyable. It
was apparent from the crowd re
sponse that I’m probably alone in
my opinion.
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The box has holes in it that leave her
face, hands and toes uncovered.
He then inserts two blades into
the box (and into his daughter for all
I know) and slides a large section of
the box out, thus making it look as
though he has dismembered her
and that a sizable portion of her
body has disappeared. Pretty neat
trick, eh?
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