Professor and Mrs Baldwin.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 26, 29 June 1885, Page 3

Professor and Mrs Baldwin.

About six years ago Professor S. S. Baldwin and Mrs Clara Baldwin, the American Clairvoyants and Mesmerists, created quite a sensation m Australia and ! New. Zealand, and now, after a complete voyage round the world, arc again touring the colonies. They will appear at the Theatre Royal to-morrow and Wednesday evenings', m their laughable an^ peculiar entertainment, comprising thought reading, (or mind revealing, as it is sometimes called), clairvoyancy, mesmerism, and witchcraft generally. Professor Baldwin gives all the .mind reading feats of W. Irving Bishop and. Stuart Cumberland that ha-e recently been attracting so much attention m England, such as finding a small pin while he is blindfolded (the pin having been hidden by a committee of. the most prominent citizens) ; also, telling the numbers on a bank note that is held m .the pocket of any one of the audience. In addition to these peculiar novelties, which have never been given m New Zealand by any one, Mrs Baldwin's clairvoyancy forms a most interesting item. People m the audience are reqnested merely to think of any question they wish answered, and, ak though these queries are not mentioned to any one. yet Clara Baldwin, while m the mesmeric trance state, gives correct answers to these mental questions, and tlien states' the question. It is said that she often tells the whereabouts of lost or stolen articles, gives the addresses of long or absent friends, and other things of ..that nature. Professor Baldwin's talk is of the most untusing nature, and is said to keep the audience. in roars of laughter. In fact, the Professor calls his entertainment "The funniest show m the world," and, judging from the press notices we have seen, it fully deserves the title. Speaking of Professor Baldwin's entertainment while m Ed m burgh, the Scotsman says : — " Professor Baldwin asked the Lord Provost to hide a small knife m

any part of the h.dl. While the Lord i Provot was hiding the knife ; Professor | Baldwin left the room u.ider the charge I of O.iptain St. John. After the Piovoat j li:id hidden the knife iii a corner of.tho j ! iall, distant from thy starts, the Professor i -vas brought m blindfolded. Hetookijic I i'rovo-it'.-t i-ind, placed it to his foreheid, an 1 t!i ;n daslied off at a rate so rapid that, tne Provost coiild scarce y keep up with htm. 'After tiiuirihling over sover.il chairs h-i w^nt direct to the spot and found the knife. The audience applauded heartily." Mr Hector Lacie, the sextuple voiced Indian ventriloquist, is enga«jeji by Professor Baldwin as a spacial attraction, and causes groat amusement: ' :'