SOI-DISANT HYPNOTISTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1936, 19 December 1913, Page 7

SOI-DISANT HYPNOTISTS.

. UPPER IIUTT SCENE. Unrehearsed events at entertainments *ro always enjayod, yet strange to say nre almost invariably accompanied by a demand from the audienco to have their money ba?k. Upper llutt was die scene of an unrehearsed ' entertainment on Wednesday night, when two hypnotists appeared.. Interest in'thorn had been stimulated by glaring show bills, and quito a largo crowd had assembled in the local .Town Hall by the time that the curtain was rung up upon the two personages, who, with tlio magnetic influence of the eye and the sinuous evolutions of the hand, wero to pluck forth tho will of their subjects and mould it to their liking. Somehow, however, tho hypnotic irilluenco failed to work. In vain tho hands of the performers described mysterious movements in the air; in vain the eye glared into the eyo of the subjcct beyond. The subjects absolutely refused to "take," and remained' tho same 'healthy, self-willed individuals as when tho professors invited them 011 the platform. 0110 sympathetic subject at length feigned to go to sleep, but laughter seized him ero many moments bad gone by, and his* loud explo-. siolis of mirth formed .the last straw. The local medical mail came forward hnd gave his opinion that the two persons on the 6tago wero not hypnotists, and instantly tliere Were long and persistent cries,- "Wc want our' money back!" The local constable, a sturdy Irishman, then came on tho sceno, and after some difficulty persuaded the "hypnotists" to give back.the entrance money to their dissatisfied patrons. Disturbance was thus avoided, and tjio hall was soon emptied, and with the audienco wont tho modest Is. and 25.. wliich wero to have gone to help to swell the purses of tho "professors.