Not the Great Herrmann, not Kellar, not Thurston, not Houdini was able to make a good thing of a magic show on Broadway, and for the past 13 years Broadway has seen no full-size illusionist's performance. Undaunted, a miraculous hoodwinker who looks a little like Satan on stage and a little like Buffalo Bill off, who used to call himself The Great Jansen and who now bills himself as Dante, sailed into the Times Square district last week and set up Sim Sola Bim, a "mystery spectacle." Widely advertised as meaning "thanks to you" in Danish, Sim Sala Bim is actually...
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