ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2291, 18 June 1921, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

DRIVER'S “SPIRIT MYSTERIES”

The entertainment to be given by Mr T. W. Driver, in the Tcuwn Hall on Mondajrand Tuesday night next will embrace many new and novel illusions in magic as well as include quite a number of “spiritualistic mysteries and manifestations,” entirely new to Foxton, amongst them being the passage of matter through matter, automatic writing, the marvellous table-turning seance, the hand with the human brain, and the miraculous spirit paintings. Referring to these spirit paintings, a contemporary says: “The more you probe this subject, the more interesting does it become, To start with, you are here face to face with a mystery, and in Driver’s mystery of his spirit paintings you see the thing happen before your eyes. Then you are invited to solve the riddle. How is it possible to take an unprepared canvas, and in full view cause a beautiful reproduction of an old masterpiece to appear in lasting colours on its surface? That’ is the mystery, and' it is presented by this master-magician nightly, before a critical and astonished audience. Is it any wonder, then, that “the unknown world’ casts its weird and fascinating spell over us? »Do disembodied spirits exist and manifest themselves to man? Do they, or can they, paint upon a canvas with unseen fingers in a few minutes? View this great mystery for yourself. Witness the ‘phenomena’ from your own angle, and then find a suitable solution —if you can.”

Now that the compulsory school age has been raised to 15 years, the change to operate next year, there must he some modification of the primary system. Mr F. 11. Bakewell, chief inspector of schools, told the School Committees’ Association in Wellington this-week that a post-primary course would he established and the primary course would be shortened to the fifth standard. A child should get through the primary course at about 12 years of age, and spend about three years in the post-primar.v courses, of which there would be ‘four or five, including agriculture and commerce.