2 JANUARY 1953, Page 14

Christmas Magic. (Fortune.) THE magic is of illusion and fantasy

both. Murray submerges Mascar in a container of water and locks him in so securely that not even a lad from a training-ship in bell-bottoms could see through it.

• But the illusion of fantasy is,touching as well as fascinating : Windy Blow, the " Balloonatic," creates a world of delight in which the bursting of balloons draws for once no tears. B.