PALACE—"CARTER," MAGICIAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 61, 2 March 1908, Page 3

PALACE—"CARTER," MAGICIAN.

<*. Sydney Sunday Times, Nov. It', 1!)07. There are various grades of magicians, ranging from the drawing-room variety of conjurer, who boils omelettes in one's best hat, to the mysterious individual who causes apparitions to appear and disappear by the wave of a hand, or performs feat- that the most active eye cannot probe for the solution. Carter, wl tade his Hi-si appearance in Australia at the Palace Theatre last night, i- one of the latter variety. Some of hi- tricks have been seen'here before, 1 | but many are entirely new. and these ate performed with a neatness and celerity that demonstrate him to be a master of his art. Carter is an Ameri-

can. am! lie knows how to hold ilic attciitiiin of his audience ami keep them iiiuiiM'd. A little Ins, talk, however, would he acceptable. Carter's clover tricks six'ak for themselves, ami thev -Imnld be allowed to do most of the talking. The lirst part of the entertaincomprised what is termed on tiie prnfirainnu- "a bouquet of mysteries."

This included a number of elever feats, and the bewilderment of (lie audienv wi- heightened when a wooden hand, plaeed on a sheet of "lass, obeyed thbehests and tapped atvav : :i a nio-t intelligent innnner. The enter-

tainment was rendered additionally alIraelive by the "diVitiil dexterity" of Allan Shaw, whose manipulation of

coin- and cards was neat anil clever. There was a crowded house, which appeared to derive t-.in-iderable enjoyment from the entertainment, which i-bri-rht ami attractive in every way.