AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 255, 27 April 1912, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. " ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES" "MACBETH." The great Milano film of Homer's "Tli# Odyssey" will be shown for the last occasion at the Empire Theatre on the matinee programme, commencing at 2.30 this afternoon. No person can afforrf to miss this most wonderful of all great picture productions. It is a magnificent masterpiece that will long live in the memory of every one that has been fortunate enough to see it. Supporting th« star item will be an entirely new programme of the very best motion picture successes, including thrilling and sensational picture .entitled "Queen <sf the Brigands." At the night session the management introduce another great picture adapted from one ol Shakespeare's best known tragedies, the immortal "Macbeth." The story of "Macbeth" is, of course, "familiar in out mouths as household words," and the tragedy lends itself particularly well to pictorial presentation. It has been acted for picture purposes by a specially strong cast, and the play, as depicted bj the films, is just as interesting and just as dramatic as its stage production.

THE NORWOODS. The Norwoods' and Von Arx's hug# combined shows will appear in the Theatre Royal on Thursday and Friday next, May 2 and 3. The company last Saturday concluded a phenomenal season of thirteen nights in the Opera House, Wellington. In .another column Professor Norwood inserts a disclaimer, in which he draws special attention to the fact that he is not the sb-oalled hypnotist who was denounced in Napier. Hi* endowment is said to be a gift from the gods. The Daily Times, Masterton, says: "The management of the Norwoods and Yon Arx combined company, in announcing the show, Btated that 'the theatre ■would rock with laughter,' and t&eir wurds were fully justified at the Town Hall. Professor Norwood gave a remarkable demonstration of hypnotic influence, and at the same time provided ample amusement for the members of the audience. On call for volunteers to go upon the stage and assist in the performance, there was a ready response, and all the chairs wejre filled. When the class had been selected, the professor asked them all to clasp their hands tightly together, and they having done this he 'willed' them net to release them, and at the same time defied them to do it. The antics of the class to release themselves from their own clutches were amusing in the extreme. When the volunteers were persuaded that their clothes were smeared with molasses, <or that they were being (tickled, (their capers created the most uproarious merriment. A_ demonstration-was also given in cataleptic hypnotics, in which a young map, under the influence, supported the weight x>f four others on ihis chest, while his head and feet were resting in the backs of chairs. Professor Norwoojl and Miss Winifred Norwood also gave a demonstration of mind control. Members of the audience were asked to supply mind pictures of acts they wished the lady to perform, and when the Professor had noted them down, he willed Miss Norwood, hypnotised and blindfolded, te oome down into the audience and then he thought out and she executed the various acts."