DRIVER MAGICIAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2292, 21 June 1921, Page 3

DRIVER MAGICIAN.

TOWN HALL, TO-NIGHT

After an absence of several years, Driver, magician and illusionist, re-appeared before a local audience in the Town Hall last night, and his performance indicated that “his hand had not lost its .cunning,” and he succeeded in mystifying his audience. Driver is wellknown throughout Australasia as an opponent of spiritist tricksters who trade on the gullibility of susceptible people, and successfully performs by trickery every manifestation which spiritists attribute to the supernatural. In performing these tricks, Driver keeps up a running commentary on the methods and practices of well-known mediums whom lie does not spare. His clever manipulation of coins, cards, etc., is capped by the cabinet mysteries, iu which. lie enters with his arms securely bound and himself tied to a chair. In a short space of time hands appear through small apertures in the cabinet, bells ring, and gongs bang, and from the interior other weird noises emanate. On reopening the cabinet lie is found still securely tied up, but with his coat turned inside out, and the seals on the cords still unbroken. One of the committee, blindfolded, entered the cabinet with Driver, and after a few minutes what appeared to be a wild conversation was taking place within the cabinet, and upon the doors being opened, the committee man was observed with his coat inside out, the log of his nether garment exposed, and his head decorated with unorthodox gear, and Driver gazing upon him, still bound fast- to bis clmir. The audience rocked with laughter at the ludicrous spectacle.

We can confidently recommend the entertainment to any one who enjoys hearty laughter. To-night there will be a complete change of programme, and on the merits of last night’s performance there should be a full house.