VAN LOEWE, THE MAN WITH THE MIRACLE MIND
Hypnotism has long produced a feeling Qf scepticism, but Van Loewe, renowned hypnotist, who is to make his first appearance here on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week, in the Grand Theatre, illustrates"'that it a fact as well as a means of providing hilarious entertainment. Obviously, of course, there is nothing experimental about Van Loewe’s technique—he is clearby a master of this particular form of the science of psychology. The experimental element remains wholly with the people selected as subjects—how they will react, and how the audience will react to their reactions. The show is exactly what the audience makes, it through its co-operation, and they are generally not slow in overcoming their inhibitious when called upon to take an active part in the experiments. Simple tests on the audience provide the men and women selected to join Van Loewe on the stage, and the experiments which follow are full of absorbing interest in the sheer ‘unexpectedness of the subjects’ reactions. There is one point which might be ’stressed. The subjects might do the most ludicrous things while “under the influence”, but the laughter which greets them is obviously sympathic. ,%The audience laughs with them rather than at them and there is no embarrassment for anyone.
Some sceptics insist that this is all some sgrt of optical illusion. Their attitude might well be linkened to the old story of the Kentucky mountaineer who, when (confronted with the first elephant he had ever seen, studied* the beast carefully and then announced flatly: “There ain’t no . such animal.” Whether or not one believes that “there ain’t no' such animal” as hypnotism, a visit to the Grand Theatre during the three night season will offer food for thought as well as scientific and hilarious entertainment.
Van Loewe shows clearly his powers of the mind over'matter in his intriguing and entertaining demonstrations.!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 73, 7 December 1949, Page 5
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