TOWN HALL—THURSDAY NIGHT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3364, 17 December 1919, Page 4

TOWN HALL — THURSDAY NIGHT.

'THE 20th CENTURY ENTERTAINi ERS. . On Thursday, December 18th, at the Town Hall, Taihape, the 20th Century ,Entel-tainers are billed to appear. These artists opened their New Zealand tour under the Fuller banner at Dunedin on July 22nd, 1919. Specially engaged and brought to New Zealand at a fabulous salary, direct from the ]East, the home of mystery. The Evenling Star .says of them: “There were ‘newcomers on the bill, and each provied a wonder—worker in his and her particular sphere. The worker of the more 8.1-resting Wonders was Astras, a young and attractive young lady, who: proved up to the hilt her passesssion of niarveilous psychic powers. andtwho read the thoughts’. of the ipeople in the audience with-the ease or an expert wireless operator taking a message under perfect conditions. ,Though the exhibition took conven-l-tional lines in respect "to the proced[ure there was an ease and fl'c‘Shness [about it that was unusual. That is rto, say former mediums have shown or I-affected at eertainamounft of strain or Eeven distress while divining the ‘!thoughts of others, but A’Stl‘aS sits «calmly (blindfolded of course) holdling by a chain" her “familiar” in the for-miof aobeautiful, little, restless tpanther, and answers the questions put to her by her partner promptly, sxnii:?r"’y and with no apparent effort. And the replies are startlingly correct. She described a {swatch belonging to one of the audience, adding that it had stopped at 10 minutes past five. So it had. Another watch, she said, was five minutes fast_ So it Was. Trinlik ets were described. initials on match boxes, etc., were disclosed, also the initials of persons who had given those articles to the possessors. News, too, was given of absent ones and anxieties allayed regarding overdue letters. The other wonder worker xvas Silvester, whose skill in sleight-of-hanrl tricks is marvellously developed, enabling him to make a glass of water‘, a canary cage with a live canary inside. and other things equally awk_ ward to dispose of quickly: disappear into thin air. But it was his “aerial tableatlx’;’ that made the audience gasp with astonishment. A lady was utilised in this act She stood upon a stool, her forearms resting on rods. After Silvester had “mesmerised” her the ‘stool and one of ‘the supporting rods were removed. It was impossrble for her to find sufiicient support in the remaining rod, but with nothing elrsE~—' nothing at any rate" that was visible to the naked eye or through opera‘ glasses——the lady, thus suspended in mid¥air_, was posed, decked as “Erin"’,,

‘‘Hope’.’ and “Britannia,” am} fingfly raised to a lying position suli un sup--ported. S}lpported by Ekfiszs; Vera. Thomas in a sparkling z'el)cl~tsil‘e of character gems. The 20:31 Entertainers will be unable to ap-ear more than one night in Taihapc-, so‘ tho::c. desiring to see a fix-st-class entertainment should not fail to see this bright show.