AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 258, 1 May 1912, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

THE NORWOODS AMD VON ARX HUGE COMBINED SHOWS. To-morrow night and Friday night the above organisation will appear in the Theatre Royal. The Honolulu Advertiser says of the performance:— It W£s a laugh from beginning to end, and more especially in the "Hypnotic Serenade," conducted by Professor Norwood. Four young {eliows of ordinary intelligent and rational Tjeha/viour-made love to an old gingham wrapper draped over the back of a chair which wjis surmounted by the big end of a broom disguised in a decrepit straw bonnet. Nor was that all. Perhaps the most screeching effect, from the standpoint of both i the innocent performers and the audi- 1 ence, was the. scene in which two dozen volunteers on the stage went through the remarkable juxtaposition of. becoming monkeys. So realistically .did the youngsters play at man's ancestor and 'lis habits that there was a touch of something like hysteria at points throughout the audience. Particularly j when two or three of the boys climbed up the walls and beams of the proscenium arch and perched on perilous ledges that would have raised the hair of their heads at any other time. In another screaming moment the professor had con-' vinced the group that they were little mice running around on the stage. The mind reading tests of the Norwoods were, as usual, a source of entertainment. The checker game between the young man who had an imaginary stutter and the youth with adamantine ears, and the tailor's shop incident, must be seen to be appreciated. To-niorrow afternoon Professor Norwood will perform a wild blindfold hypnotic drive, commencing from the Post Office, New Plymouth, at 4 o'clock. The box plans are at Collier's.