AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THE NORWOOD SEASON, The “blindfold drive” of Professor Norwood yesterday afternoon rivaled a lot of interest, crowds of people gathering in Broadway at the appear, ed hour, viz., four o’clock. A committee of citizens first drove along a route about town which had been agreed upon, while the Professor was closeted in the County Hotel. (In

the committee’s return to Broadway, one of the committee planted an article, a knife, by the way, in the spouting of a building some distance from the hotel. Then the Professor, being blindfolded, took the reins in his hands and drove along the route, unaided, save by the mental directions of the members of the committee whose minds were concentrated upon the matter. The drive was quite

successful, and the Professor or Alighting from the landau amid the ipplause of the crowd quickly discovered the object of his search up the spout.

As was only to he expected, it was i big and enthusiastic house which greeted the Norwoods last evening—the first night of their short season here, —expected, because of the reputation Professor Norwood loft on ins ' lafet visit to Stratford, and to which 4e has ever been adding: The Norwoods were remembered particularly for the humorous side ot their entertainment, and last night’s performance was humorous in the extreme. The antics the mediums went through in all earnestness was enough to make a cat laugh—he would have to he a very pessimistic Thomas to mve refrained- from attempting a 'atigh. Once the attempt 1 was iiiade it became an evening’s laugh. The game of chess, between two champions—one deaf and the other with i stammer in his speech—was very funny, especially when the accusation of cheating was made. The dance

irchestra was a “good one,” especia! !y when the musicians wakened to th ‘act that they were playing on duir ’ mies, one of the Professor’s men ext 1 enting something in the nature of Tango. The shaving act in part O when the Professor got fairly wel lathered through no wish of his own was responsible for a good many sor sides. Corning to the more scienti lie side of the performance, Profes sor Norwood showed the control oxer ■ised by hypnotism and mental tele pathy through the medium of Mis; Winifred Norwood, and the mos sceptical, after the very severe tsts were surely convinced. The perform anco must he classed as a “groat’ show, and the Professor is justly en titled to his boast—“the only am original.” The performance is to be repcatct to-night and to-morrow night. HIS MAJESTY’S PICTURES. To-night will bo the first screening here of the sweetest, yet most dashingly brilliant, Irish romance of all times—a stirring, story of the famous Irish outlaw—“ Brennan, of the Moor”—“Brennan O’Malley,” Irish gentleman and knight of the moors. The rich called him the devil, and the poor Ivors hipped him as a saint. “Tlie Hand of Destiny,” a dramagraph by Knlem Co., is full of sensation and grandly staged. The story (runs as follows:—Mr and Mrs Williams send their live-year-old daughter Mary, to visit an aunt. Some Jays later, Williams is discharged •Toni the railroad service. He gets into had company, and Buck Harris, a gang leader, proposes that they secure the fifty thousand dollars which is being shipped on No. 7. It lulls to W illiams to set off a charge of dynamite to wreck the train. Little Mary is sent home on No. 7. Williams prepares to set off the dynamite' nniniiullnl that his child is on the train. Several occurrences delay the train, the desperadoes have tin argument, and Williams refuses to take part in (In' a flair. Buck sees the train, and demands with a revolver that Williams fulfil his agreement. A deadly encounter takes place, and the train dashes by in safety. Williams goes home determined to load an honest life, and finds his little daughter telling her mother of the visit.