AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 239, 9 April 1912, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

THE GREAT JANSEN TO-NIGHT. 1 I

JANSEN in his Magic Blanket. Jansen, who is without a question the greatest transformationist and illusionist in all America, has finally consented to tour New Zealand. Jansen lias heretofore flatly refused to entertain any offers to leave his native country, where lie has met with unbounded success for the past ten years, but after much negotiation Charles Hugo succeeded in gaining his consent for a tour of the world. In presenting Jansen he is bringing to New Zealand the highest example among the men who deal in mystery. Jansen is original. He creates. Therein has been his unbounded success. He is a worker of -wonders—presents nothing that is old, copies no one. The effects he produces—admittedly illusions—are so clever that science is baffled and vision is discredited by the belief of beholders ] who see all their world and its laws set j at naught. Jansen gives a glimpse of the world of dreams. His facts are only, the fancies of others. What is impossible to others lie makes real. The people of New Plymouth will see for the first time acts that have been described in the Occident by travellers from the home of magic, by those that have seen the fakirs of India in their "best acts that have 'been described but never until now produced, Pancyful tales of seemingly impossible illusions have been Jansen's inspiration, and he has solved the problems that have been set 'by fictionists anxious to excel in tales of wonder. So grat is his repertoire, so varied liis paraphernalia, that it is impossible to present at one performance all the mystical numbers of his creation. During his engagement he will present at different i times al! of his great creations. Jansen is tioming to the Orient to establish his name as that of the greatest of ail illusionists and transformationists—coming with the knowledge that lie will succeed. A superb company of all-star American entertainers accompanies the great Jansen, chief among them are "Musical Story," from the New York Hippodrome. Miss Edna Harr, the famous eseape expert, presents the sensational surprise, "The Triple Mystery." De Hallis and Valora, the wonderful comedy jugglers, and many others will appear. The engagement here is for two nights only. Box plan at Collier's. Jansen has been a sensation in Sydney.