THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 76

THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES.

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• ' - N j*. 'Shiesday-, v January -2L 1908. .Mr-.G^ Peterson,^ the well-known' representative of Wirth's Circus, advises me pert post-fear'a'? from 'Melbourne- that ~he" will aTrive 'at* the Bluffy by the Marama 'on' Monday -next' to herald the coming ofWirth's big show. The cixcus~ oommences a- season .in-Dunedin on Fe.bruary 8. Amongst recently engaged. star . Artists ia; . Mr • Hugh Patrick 7 Xloyd, . fche "King of "the corde plastique," whose act created a great sensation when produced in this country some '.two or three years • ago. The Messrs Fuller and 'Sons have formed a contract with Mr Lloyd * for three ', -weeks' seasons in each centre. Dunedin |

will be the first town visited by the acro-bat-balancer. He will agoear at the Princess - Theatre at the Beginning of the month. "" J Passengers by the outgoing Melbourne I . steamer on Sunday were the members of • jMr Allan Hamilton's " Home, Sweet ] I Home " Dramatic Company, -which eon- ] eluded its Dunedin and New Zealand tour j • at 'His Majesty's with a performance of ■ " Little Lord Fauntleroy " on Saturday ! evenings The management is well satisfied j with the Maoriland tour, and report ex- , cellent business throughout. iThe company ' visit Hobart, thence on to the mainland, ! where a season will be .played in Melbourne. ■ Mr Fred Duncan, who was in Dunedin last week as treasurer for the " Home, Sweet Home Dramatic Company, will remain with that combination till the conclusion of the Australian tour, when there is a prospect of his visiting America. 1 Included in the recent- engagements of the Fuller firm is that of Mr Fred Graham and Miss Nellie Dent. - The well-known comedian is\ due to 'commence a tour of the circuit next month. ( At its conclusion he returns to Sydney en route to.-England. Mr M. Marcus, who' was here last week heralding/ Mr 'Allah. Hamilton's JDrajnatie • Company, departed for, Hobart by the \ Mahenq. on .Sunday. Mr Marcus returns to Aueiiralia shortly to take up & position svith the' Aquarium Delia Fonti band in a tour of which he. is interested. , If : . it is really true that .coming events do -cast their- shadows hefore,' then we areto have a. 'r-eiuMi « visit of - Abomah the , | Giantess, 1 which ~ inter estiiig personage has • not 'been seen in Dunedin^ for some tihie. A massive' black-on-yellow sign bearing the-! signncant word '"A.bomah" was standing ) out clear cut over" the door -of the Aiham-, ; bra Theatre last week, indicating surely ' that tbe-:lady .is not far off. I 'was at once surprised . and delighted this morning to meet an old friend in theperson of the veteran showman Mr Harry | Lyons, who has not been in these parts for . t a- number of years. 'Mr Lyons arrived by • the Moeraki from Tasmania . yesterday, and i in' «ompany with Carter, the Master ; Magician, -who is undertaking a tour of 5 New Zealand made this office "the first port } of call. I was much impressed with Mr : Carter — a frank, unassuming 1 American • gentleman -whom it is good to know He 'is' making hie first' 'appearance in v this country, and commences 'the New Zealand tour in His Majesty's Theatre in this city on Monday .next, ' January 87. During the World's Fail 1 , the wonderful Chang > Ling Ta, '■magician to ,his royal* highness the Emperor of China, performed ' at intervals Jn the" Chinese Village, .each 1 day, executing some marvellous feats in kma^ric and jugglery which have, heretofore "remained -inimitably secure, ati least so far as the secrets of Chinese magic are eon- - cerned.'" A 4 the solicitation of the ' United States Government the • Chinese Court loaned.'' their^ - -wonderful mystifier to America, and' while jthere he created a. perfect furor. Try as they" would, none could fathom, the^ strange power which this • t Mon,golian was -wsupposed -to 1 possess: Mt ; Carter personally became acquainted with Chahe : . Ling T&j «wd is to-day the only American magician who -ban successfully explain ,*he' artifices employed hy this clever and o-eeauroeful- trickster, . and w_no , not only performs all the , wonderful , tricks of .Chang -Liri^ Ta, but .has improved < upon them- to such "an extent that experts who have --witnessed the- "mysteries declare them ' to be the most inexplicable conjuringeffects that have ever . come within the scope of their experience. Carter makes , up and dresses to represent ' Chang Ling Ta co accurately that no one other than an expert can detect -the" "disguise. Mrs Carter acts ,4s magician "also, and performs ; a number of the simpler feats which other ] .magicians have made features of. She j dresses in an elaborate costume imported -j from China, and impersonates a! high caste woman from the land of sunshine and flowers.- In this most distinctive part of < Carter's entertainment hej fairly enchants j his- auditors' _ ! The -touring companies under tne .J._ *->• ! Williamson management .are -for the time being reduced to two (both in New Zealand), Mr Andrew Mack having completed his most successful season m Perth last week and departed. homewards in the Mongolia, the rest^of the company travelling eastward again to take up fresh engage- \ mente in different companies or to go back ; to their Aine'riean hoinefe. The "Brew- ; ster's Millions" Company are pursuingtheir merry way. through New Zealand, j and, having added Christchurch to their : list, of conquests, are now on their, way ito open in Auckland. . A weelc is the length of 'their projected _ stay, after which they .will give place in that city ( to tne Musical Comedy Company on January 25. That clever combination maintained the enviable reputation' it beeun with in The Blue Moon" in Wellington, and ,the'popularity -of "Lady Madcap," ~"The Little Michfls," and "Three Little- Maids - was •as great as the first-named j At the present time theyKare paying, a. round of brief visits to Palmerston North, New rlymouth, Hawera, arid .other towns in the Dominion. , Keen interest is being taken in the Maoriland tour of Madame Clara Bu^t and the' Dunedin season is likely to constitute a record. Advice has .been received that the famous contralto will give two concerts in His Majesty's in this city on February 5 and 7. Madame Clara Butt, together with her husband, Mr. Kennedy Rumeford, will arrive in Dunedin about February. Death of a'CiTCue Star.— Mr' GeorgeGinnett, one .of the- original' Ginnett family of circus fame, has died "at Brighton, England. The Ginne,tts were the forerunners of Barnum and Bailey, and after £he death of Mr J. F. Ginnett some 15 years ago; his sons, George and Fred, stilly carried 1 on the , business. The family's fortune' was founded at-the beginning o£ the last century by Jean Ginnett, a Frenchmani who was taken to England a prisoner after Waterloo. U« ijecosne p* ,l*OFse far-eaker to ittxe famous Dacrow, the eccentric -proprietor of Aetley's Circus. Andrew Ducrow,- although /so illiterate that -he seldom adventured upon -a epeaking- part, was-«nrivalled as a horse--man, and his taste and talent as a" stage manager r made 'the Westminster^ "-Amphitheatre, as Ajstley's was then ' called, a famous house. of entertainment; while later he extended his scope even to Drury Lane, producing^ -pageants -there. His contempt ] for the literary dsama was great,.- and he | was the originator "pi the famous phrase, I "Cufc the* cackle' and come to the. f osses/ I "Hold hard, '.gentlemen,'* -he -would say tot the actors in the middle- of a long dialogue, f - "Here's » deal o' cackle without any good |in it. I'll show you "how to cut it. ion ' say, 'Yield $hee t Ihea JJOU, *

(indicating the other) answer, 'Never.' Then you say, 'Obstinate Englishman, you" die !' Then you both fights. - There, that settles the matter ; the audience will understand i you a deal better, and the poor 'osses j won't catch •cold while you're jawing." . Mr J. C. Williamson was one of the im- . portant guests at a supper given on No- ! vember 8 by the Friars, an organisation of j newspaper men,' to Mr David Bclasco, in ! honour of the twenty-fifth anniversary of j his advent in New York as a playwright ; and manager. Some unique features were [ introduced at tKIs- midnight festivity, which . the Australian manager must have greatly enjoyed. When Mr Belasco got up to speak the room at the Hotel Astor was darkened, stage thunder and lightning followed, and finally a spot light was turned on the famous manager, . and was kept on him all the time he was- talking. Mr Williamson delivered a, short address, whioh was much- cheered. Belasco is the theatrical wonder at- America, both from the play-producing • and play- writing points of view. •" - i The Royal Comic Opera Company is f to have another addition- to its ranks in the person of Mr Edward Sherras, a baritone of wide experience with the Georye Edwarde's companies in- England and Souft Africa, who is on board the incoming Orient liner the Grota'va. 1 - One of -the chief reasons which took Mr J. C. Williamson to New. York" last month ■was his purpose, of fixing up matters >~ih connection* with, "The Red MjJl.".the copyright of v which he acquired, .some time ago . for Australasia, and of which .it is intended to make one of. the "4pa<liji§f aitrac- ! tHwt* out -here , this year. - He .found -the - mtfsical comedy -still going very strongly. ! not -only in -New York\ but . also ebewhere ,; — half a dozen -companies -beih^ en(*a£ eele cl playing it' t pn the roads.'' -It*-wotßd appear that the piece's /-combination. ,of exceptionally tuneful numbers, a picturesquely quaintDutch setting, and plenitude of comedy, had established it as a lasting favourite, i A. week or .two ago a ~ rumour reached I Australia from some of the smaller Ameri- | ca-n theatrical papers that Mies Martraret i Anglin had decided not to visit +^>p Commonwealth under the ■J. C. Williamson • ma.ng6raent this year. TMs is not so. ; Powerful managerial influence was certainly broueht to bear upon sliss Anjrlin/to induoe her to abandon her projected trip, but though -several very tempting -offers were ■ made' to her she refused them all, and is all eadv .engaged on the - preliminary "preparations for her tour of Australasia, which v^ill commence a.t the end, of June next." - Concerning' Madam Clara Butt, an item for the laddies: Clara 'Butt's ! niarria«re r with TTennerlv , Rumford was celebrated in Bristol Cathedral on June 26, 1900, and over 20.000 saw the, bride arrive. It ,was a true union of hearts and voices.,',.--. . Madam Butt wears a * wonderful gown of mother-of-pearl silver tissue made en princess©. Every sequin of the gown was handrsewn, and round the foot was a handsome border of point., de "Venice lace. > In her corsage she wore two .full-blown roses, , and she* carried a" lovely bouquet ' of lilies -, and gladioli, - the gift _of '/her husband* Madam's jewels were two lorely ropee, of seed pearls, ' the -handsome jewelled gown in hervopiriion needing no other decoration. The ' orders 'which she wore- "on her ' left 1 breast ' were * exceedingly handsome^and of historic imQOrtance. • A diamond monogam," '" C. 8.," was presented V by the cityf ,of Bristol. The Bee'thdven order-was'pre-sented to her by the present" King- when Prince' of Wales on behafi \6i the Philharmonio Society as the most-v.success_ful • student. The'- Victoria badge, \on which ahe sets particular etore,'-*as' presented by Queen Victoria; a miniature gold . and jewelled crown was the grift of the > Prince j 'of "Wales-: and a diamond an 3 ruby mono;/ i gram. "E.R.," the observe side containing" , the King's miniature, was a gift of - his I Majesty King Edward VII. On her right breast Madam -Butt wears a real, butterfly set in crystal. ' Last, hut not least,' her ; kinpfa gifWa brooch- spelling '" dearest,", the' lafet birthday gift of her handsome ; husband — and a- lovely- jewelled bracelet with the same loving sentiment. Of» his engagement to Miss Clara Butt Mr "Rumford tells the following- story. Vhioh has been told before invother words, but comes better in his own: "Our betrothal partook of the .nature of a public function.* I had been on , several,- tours with her, -and we had played quite prettily at being friends for a long time. • At a certain concert "we were singing the' old English duet together, - * The keys of heaven,' in which I had to sine the lines; ; * I will 'give -you the keys of my "heart, and we'll be married until death do ue , part.' tWe 'descended the' steps • the 'platform an engaged couple hand in hand." The- first- singing 'master, of note to deal with ..the "voice of Mr *Kehnerly "Rumfprd was^M. Sbrilgia, a iaiftou'6 Paris -teaoher. It was Sbrilgia whd changed J[ean de % RezkteV voice -from a baritone to a tenor. Mr, Rumford had also ' great encouragement from' Mr George Hcnschel, from Signor Tosti, and from Mr Plunketfc Greene. To the latter he 'acknowledges a -great in : debtedness. One of his firs.t, engagements was given by Mr Arthur S. Chapoell, thefounder of the Monday and Saturday popular concerts-, to whom, Mr Rumford was , presented! ' by Miss Maude Valeric White, who took him to« Mr Chappell" to sing that fine song, "The devout lover."* "The splendid cinematograph show with which the Meesre Macmahon are at the present time regalin« large and delighted audiences throughout New Zealand makes a flyinjr_triiJ through Southland at the conclusion of the present .Dunedin season. The , immediate' fixtures are:-r-Miltoni January 30; Lawrence; January 31: Xaitangata, February 1} Balolutha, February 3; Gore, February 4 end s;'Mataura, February 6; Invercargill, February 7, 8, and 10. The organisation carries a com-plete'and-elaborate electrical motive i>ower and lighting equipment, so that precisely the same -unique exhibition can be given in those towns as in the largest cities of The "baggage smasher," it' seems, is not peculiar to America. Macmaho'n's operator, Mr M'lntyre, -sa-vs that after, vainly essaying every, .persuasion to properly ' upend the various cases containing the instruments of ' their, up-to-date cinematograph show on the various wharves platforms of New Zealand shipe and railways, the bejst solution "of the diflwulty. he can arrive at is to paint "This Side Ijp " on the- "bottom 1 ot ihe oasesi Madam Olara-Butfc to -a eouthern writer*. "!•" think Melba'e voice the most wonderful thing in -the world, and it will be a great pity, if eh© does- tiot 'sinfr here before she return^. It must be' partly the here that helps fa-make such perfect voice? | §gi partly tie Maicbegi training ' March£?i i

teaches her pupils to produce their voices with that clarionet effect. Coming hc;r.e ; from tho last concert we both sans at at J Windsor Castle.' I said to Meiba, 'Your ! =foice never gets any older; it is still I like a boy's.') The American mail " brings news of the death of Clara Bloodgood, the prominent aet-ress, -who shot .herself iv her room at the Hotel Stafford, Baltimo;*. on DccesnbeT 5> Mrs Bloodgcod'e boiy wse found lying on the bed with a bulkt hole through. . the roof of ,zi nioutlh. Near /by lay' a - i book entitled •'How to Shoot Straight," • at^d a. revolver with three chambej-s empty. J She attended _a matinee performance at j Albaugh's Theatre in the afternoon, and ; returned to her hotel seemingly in the bese ,of spirits. Mrs Bloodgood had been aT>- ; pearing in 'The Truth" at the Academy of Music, -and the only motive her manager , can assign, for the deed is that she feared . an attack of nervous "prostration, due to overwork. An intimate friend, ' however, expresses the belief that the fact that the j actress had her fortune, amounting to £50,000, tied up *in the Knickerbocker , Trust Company, which;' recently suspended, r • preyed on ,he)r. mmd; - , I The luck of the snow' business ! Mr T. J J. "W-est, proprietor of West's ar- . jived % New Zealand .direct -from LondonJCn 5 1904 with a. show consisting\of ,a number „_ very .excellent Itinematpgraph jpictures, and . the 'Brescians.— musicians ind^ singers.,.. The, entertainment "caught on"'instanl«.peousV, and has heen. increasing in. popularity ever , -with "surprising. je3uTte."* To-day Mr -J, West has^no lewer thaii'iive distinct 'picture.' ,-f shows ruining -in t his u^terestV '-the » capital entertainment at the- Town Hall, no ' ; initiated; «.,show which ran for 178 con£ecu> ! tive nights _at the Lyceum Theatre, Sydney, I and only left that house of entertaraxoc'.nt . I when ytpioyrnek decided to "reconstruct. Then j the pictures^' were, 'transferred '.to the< .Glaci1 arum,, in 'the same city, which has beentJcased by .Mr :West for- five months. ." In [Melbourne, thai 'enterprising manager, lias leased Wirth'^llippodrGirjei and is shpwing j his pictures , there. There is another show \ (which includes the- Brescians) touring., in I Tasmania, "and Mr West has another which 1 puts in, the winter season at Edinburgh and | the summer 6eaeqn at >Ir i West 16 also interested, in c. London fLcin which manufactures. kinematographufilms. by •i the mile. Great is the charm of the'liviijg i picture ! , * , A beautiful dancer/ lllle, Ha Papimtadja, ; died on the stage, of the Apollo" Theatre, - Duesseldorf "one -night laat. month,, at the close of her turn, La Papimitade. was the star of.'nie variety; programme given At the ! Ap01307 and on this occasion, as every timo ■ she appeared, she had. fascinated *the awdl- , ence by her~ beauty and grace and .exquisite j dancing. Just as, she was executing .the I laet> rapid , steps of ■ her performance/ -which I lasted about 15min, and the audience -burst 1 into applause, she sank -on the , stage with a low cry. of pain. Her 'death, which-oc-curred almost instantaneously without » struggle, was watched 'by the crowded-audi-ence, • which had no idea that a. .tragedy ; had, been enacted ( . before. their eyes^ . Most 1 spectators thought" the, dancer t had 1 fainted when, the curtain jwas lowered. J The manager, however, - came to- the front and stated 'that Mile." la Papimtada was'Sead, -jyhere- ' TOon the audience jjuietly dispense^ „ La, t was 23 'ye&ia ' old. >, ' Tie functipn -known as "a quick .lunch,'* , peculiar American nation, has beev, t ridiculed' rttnsee^ out/ of number in -that * country's./ comic journals until ~the<-Außtra-> lian has ' come to regard it as a fearsome " ceremony, in which the,, average s Jf«w Yorker daily braves the jdanger of' ; dyspepaia .and ruins his digestion by frantio ; efforts to get his food .and drink consumed 1 ; iii the shortest possible time. , But / there '! is another and much 'pleasanter type .of - "quick lunch,' if. one is to iujJw bv ; ,thb recent experience of, Mr-J. O. Williamson., in t New York: ' One day he rang: up tho Witmark Brothers, the. big music publishers, 1 with the Idea of making arrangements for "* i a business interview abdbt Mill" ! and other matters, andVwas promptly, iri- ' vited to lunch by Mr Isidore Witmaark. i That .was at a quarter past, 12, jand. the ' hour of the lunch was fixed for l" o'clock. Mr Witmark immediately "got busy," sent out invitations by/tihone, engaged *. private room at ttie Navarre, a .well known city hotel, had a piano brought in, gave the . hotel people carte blanche, and altogether ' spent a very full 45 nvjuitee. His activity ' was rewarded by Mr Williamson's astonishment when he entered the room. .It looked as though days^ of thought and hours of , preparation had been spent on it. The American and Australian flags hung, in folds j'down every wall, the table was gay witjEi ■ . ■flowers, by- each plate was <a squvenji.. witlr a kangaroo prominently displayed on.. Jit, , and 'the menu was an epjenreast dream. After 1 lunch' Victor. Herbert, tie contposer of "The Bed .Mill," -and Henry Blossom, another prominent - York musician, played and sani;, selections from their own musical .play's, 1 besides a -number of 'popular , ones by other composers. + Infortnal speeches i were made, and after lunch the party adjourned to the,Witma.Tk "building, where the impromptu was 'continued through mos£ 'of bhe, afternoon, "Victor Herbert sitting 'in his ehirt sleeves and havinsr the iime.^of I. his life aoeompanjring HenrY Blossom when. [' the ► latter sang. ' Altogether the w'hple function wae an immense success, .and none enjoyed it more heartily and expressed Jus,' appreciation of it moce cordially; than did. Mr Williamso"h himself.. ' ,<-t* ' Mrs Annie Yeomans, who is described in America- as "the jrrand old woman'^ of tika ■theatrical profession, is about to retire fromthe stage. She is 72 v-ears of age. and has been behind the footlights for 62 years. Born in the 'isle of Man, she came out to Sydney with her parents wJhen she* was only a year old. - -Her father had an eh; gagement in a stock company, which? ; opened the first theatre in' "Sydney- She married a circus clown in Melbourne, and! after many ups and downs with him ■was left a .penniless widow with one daughter. In New York, however, she found fame and fortune. Stie Tjejfan "to iriaTio fier"namer 35 years a-jaro. Since 1895 she has. been doiiipr "o.ld lady " parts, and to-day ,fsaya ja'n American writer) « the ' best known -and best loved "old lady "• on Aha- stage. - She is just now with the " H-urdy-Gurdw Ghl" ' company;- in the* last act "of w.hioh ishe ,does- an Irisih jipr which eeto- the-i.onse • wild. „ > - / ': Many memßers of the DrofeseJoh will regret" to learn of Hie death on' Monday, • November 4,-. of -Mr Charles Edwin "How ' son," who feayer Th© Era) was lor- nearlir 1 a quarter of a century aeeociated 'with tha' late Sir Henry Imnsr. Charles Howsoxj. who .came of an old and famed musical and dramatic stock, was born in Australia ' 58 yeaas ago. Hie father,,, J?rarik Howson. ' .was ' at one time nianaeer. of the chief:

theatre in Sydney; his aunt, Emma, was Mdme Albertazzi, an operatic .celebrity .who took part in the first performance of :ni'e "Stabat Mater," and his. brother And sister, John and Emma, like himsel*, v wera popular in -England, Australia, and America. The deceased gentleman had eeeayed the dramatic art on one occasion, supplying the place of harlequin. He was a musician and instrumentalist,' stringed instruments being his forte." Sir Henry Irving recognised his worth as a business tnan, and the became in turn agent_ in ad,,vance, press a«ent, and treasurer-in-chiei to the great actor-manager. He was with Sir .Henry- Irving" for 23 years, , and the latter" portion of his-life^has been spent at home among his family," two, membere of whioh, his di&Ußhters Olelia and Amy, have done. excellent- work on the stage. ~ " Musical London" is Tetrazzini mad. A new. -industry^ seems to have- sprung _ up ground -the - great " rush, for -seats on the "Tetrazzini" nights at Covent Garden. London. 'At- the early hour of 11 o clock the other' day "sundry people, seated upon orange "boxes, were to be observed outside the -gallery, entrance, and it appeared that these persons were willing to dispose of their positions (and orange boxes) to the highest bidder who might chance to pass.But, alas "for their hopes, a special force of "police had been engaged "to cope with euoh an emergency, an-d orange boxes and their - enterprising owners -were' unceremoniously •'"moved on." Meanwhile,- hundreds' of' pounds .-were being turned away from '-box. office,/ for -th^ great r opera house : was incapable' of holding onefhalf of .those ' frfjtf" wished Vto' hear Tetrazzini in - Luciass^St&L Mr Henry Kemble. iwho^-was' "conscious to the last, Jett teierirams'to -be? Wt to- Lady -Bancroft and A MrsLeigh-"All is.over. God'SW^ou. Mr Kembler who was * it»t«nßj» «< £he -actor Boger Keinble. completed his fortieth year on tfie etage~a-few weeksago. Among his friends he was always known as Kemble, from a r brown ■cloak, which' he wore a* a young man; aad-te Was for years a popular member of the Gartiok" Olub. -On one occasion ;he was induced b^r a frjendot his. to-attend an amateur performance., His friend,. a wellknown mAn about' town, himself in She": c»t; And" was annoyed to notice taat left efter- the' second act. ;lh^ "next day the two men met^ and the amateur - iiked tne professional /why he had gone "that point.- " It. would hive been rude W so; after the first aof," .was the solemn "reply.- - , ■__ . ' THE GREAT MAOIOIAN. -Appearing at His Majesty's Theatre, _M.on-; Bay* Janulry. 27; Carter, -the American magician, afld^iseuperbTOmpany of special •rtwts" and assistants -will- begin a short ueaeon ' of six -nighto ' in Dunedin. His enj tertainmeht is said to out-rival anything if the kind hitherto' attempted,- and his illusions are air presented on. a spectacular Mid marvellous scale, well , calculated to smug© and mystify alrolasses.- _._ ~ Mr Carter, oaufies'-ypung'/womett to be changed' into English soldiers, -reproduces '» epiritualistic seance in 'Which: he, apijarentlr causes I disembodied shades %to manifest their .piesenee'^in^vtfrioiis .ways, Impersonates the Jgreat Chinese magicians, lb"y i>*oducing immenseobjeots, .such as- bowls tfiat weigh U6lb« filled , ,witfc - water, apparently from, thin air, makes live; .women float through? the ambient atmosphere ; and finishes the first part "of his. entertainment -br causing- a young woman, who is howted on a. chair in the ftir by means of a windlass, to disappear at the report of a pistol, without «ny covering being j>laeed over her. As" Dundreary would' say: '^hese. things, we more than a fellah can understand. -Associated with Mr Carter on his present fcour'irf the world is Mies Abigail Price, ~vrfß> presents a remarkable eean.ce m tnougnt divination, and. who ia'6aid:to be able. to enWer any,, and "all «»«*»«»» *h«J may be written and held by her Auditors, .although -wriT seen by *b« iPrice ' Her performance was a pertect furor .throughout Australasia and baffles scientists and philosophers -alike. In tine, Mr- Carter's entire entertainment raises grave " doubts- in the. minds', of thinking ' people, and *bould prove immensely popular " throughout New Zealand.