AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 672, 27 May 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES

To-night's programme at the Encprees Theatre includes a wonderful variety which is bound to appeal irresistibly to all classes. Something altogether new is the melo-dramatic masterpiece. "A Chinese Death Thorn," and those to whom the sensational and dramatic appeals will find a new thrill for every scene. An entirely different characterisation is that of "Scrooge," which is placed before ths Te Kuiti public for the first time. Any character limned by the magic pen of Dickens is worthy of study and "Scrooge" as portrayed by Seymour Hickß electrified the London audiences. The other come, industrial, and scenic features of tha production are up to the usual high standard, and the programme is one which is rarely presented to a country audience. PRINCE RANJI GANZI.

In England the subject of mesmerism attracted little attention until some ten years later, when Dr John Elliotson began to make experiments. He doggedly continued hia researches, and in 1843 founded a paper called the "Zoist," a journal for the diffusion of information connected with mesmerism. Dr Esdaile, of Calcutta, waa deeply interested in the much-condemned mesmerism, his investigations in India having convinced him as to the truth of the subject, and that western nations had much to learn of the great mysterious art that had been so long understood and practised—under other names —in India. Esdaile continued to writo on the subject until his death in 1859. Prince Ranji Ganzi, is the son'of a personal friend of Dr Esdaile, and possesses the rarest of gifts in mesmerism. He has studied all the mystic history handed down to him by bygone Hindus, and followed closely the master minds of the great white doctors who were so earnestly searching for truth. The Prince will make his only appearance in Te Kuiti on Monday next.