MENTAL TELEPATHY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 6 November 1919, Page 3

MENTAL TELEPATHY.

ASTRA.S AT THE LYRIC SATURDAY WEEK,

The Dunedin Evening Star, in reviewing the mystic Astras, in thought transmission, says:—

There were two new-comers into the i bill, and each proved a wonder-worker ■ In his and her particular sphere. The ■worker of the most arresting wonders •was Astras, a young and attractive lady who proved up to the hilt her possession of marvellous psychic powers, and who :pea.d the thoughts of people in the the audience with the ease of a wireless operator taking a message under perfect conditions, Though the exhibition took conventional lines in respect to the prq^ cedure, tb,ere was an ease arid freshness abput it th.at was unusual. That is to gay, former '■ mediums'' have shown or effected a certain amount of strain or even distress while divining the thoughts of others ; but Astras aits calmly (blind' folded, of course) holding by a chain her "familiar," in the form of a beautiful, lithe, restless panther, and answers the question* put to her by.. her partner promptly, smilingly, and no apparent effort. And the replies were startlingly ~— ■* correct. She described a watch belonging to one of the audience, adding that it h^d stopped at 10 past 5. So it had. watch, she said, was § minutes fas.t;. So it was. Trinkets were des T _ cribe§, initials on matchboxes, etc., were disclosed, also th,e initials of persons who bad given those articles to the possessors News, too, was given of absent ones, and anxieties allayed regarding overdue letters. . , „ The other wonder-worker was Silvester whose skill in sleight-of-hand tricks is marvellously developed, enabling him to • make a glass of water, a canary cage, and other. things equally awkward to dispose of quickly disappear into thin —~ -air. But it was his " aerial tableaux " jhat made the audience gasp with astonishment. A lady (w,ho aftew.ards proved to, be £b,e jady qf tl}e panther, the wonderful Astras) was utilised in this £Ct. §he stoqd upqn a stop], h,er fqrejirma resting on rods.- A,ft6r Silvester had " mesmerise.d " h.er th.c stoql and one of the supporting rods were removed, It was impossible for her to find sufficient puppqrfc in the, re.m3.in.ing rod, but with nothing else—nothing, at any rate, that was visible to the naked eye or through opera-glasses —the lady, thus suspended i in mid-air) was posed, decked as ■' Erin,' k r " Hope," etc., finally raised to a Ls^Sying position, still unsupported. The T- effect was decidedly striking, and a solution of the mystery would be difficult to find. Both these "wonder" acts are genuinely good and worth see.jng. •