THE GREAT JANSEN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 6

THE GREAT JANSEN

COMING TO NEW PLYMOUTH APRIL 9 AND 10:

NELSON STORK, The np-side down pianist, with the Great Jansen at Theatre Royal on 9th inst. In connection with a magical entertainment, it is a remarkable fact that the lapse of time adds a glamor to the work of a particular performer. Who has not heard, for example, the old pioneer describing the entertainment provided by Professor So-and-so in the good old days ? What wonderful things were then seen! It is of no use to try to convince such a person that the art of conjuring to-day, and the marvellous application of the principles of science to stage illusions,'have left the old professor far behind. And yet it is undoubtedly so. In the entertainment to be presented by Jansen, the young American magician, at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday and Wednesday next, a number of feats are promised which would have been quite impossible even 20 years ago. In recent years there has grown up in America quite a school of y&ung conjurers, who, in the race for supremacy, have left the traditions of the old professors far behind. Jansen is one pf these, and in order to present his illusions to the public in an up-to-date manner, he carries 50 tons of scenery and apparatus. He has just concluded a wonderfully successful tour m the East—the very cradle of the magic art. He provides in addition to his own performance some attractive vaudeville numbers. The box plan is now open in Collier's. Jansen is now crowding the Opera House in Wellington, and intending patrons are advised to book their seats early.