PROFESSOR AND CLARA BALDWIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2002, 29 May 1885, Page 2

PROFESSOR AND CLARA BALDWIN.

0n Monday evening next Professor and Mrs Baldwin, the American Vthov&t readers, clairvoyants, ninth makers, commence a short season of three nights only at the Theatre Royal. •• The entertainment is spoken of by' our • English and colonial exchanges as being extremely laughable, Profeßsor Baldwin's witticisms keeping the audience in screams of laughter about half the time. Professor Baldwin gives all the peculiar mind-read-ing tests of W. Irving Bishop and Stuart Cumberland that have rccontly orJwkfl sq much talk in Great Britain and ®ica. The Professor is taken from the hall and securely blindfolded, and in this condition finds a small pin that has been hidden by one of the committee in his absence. He also tells the unknown numbers on a bank ; note held iii the pockets of any of the i audience or thecommittee. Mrs Baldwin's clail'voyancy is a most peculiar feature of Hub weird and wonderful entertainment, People in the audience merely, think of questions of any kind that they wish answered by the clairvoyant, and upon Mrs Baldwin being mesmerised and placed in the trance condition, she gives correct replies to fclie mental question, and then tells the question itself that was in the mind of the interrogator. All aorta of questions are thus answered—qu/,i-tns about deaths, marriages, lost or igtftf goods, the whereabouts of absent fries»x etc., until the audjence are in a state of maze and bewilderment. }Y\m Professor and Mnj Baldwin jfi Zealand §jxyears ago, tl)ey drew immense alienees, an<} recently in tfiey have Ijeon attracting po much attention by the pn|jre)y new features pf their that we expect to see the hall erawt|e ( l Speaking of the ' entertainment in Melbourne, the Argus says. ' The clairvoyant performance was most extraordinary. Mrs Baldwin answered questions merely thought of by«@ audience, The answer were very startling, in many cases accurately telling the past, and foretelling tho future. After answering the question she would correctly ptate the question. There was no means pf her knowing these mental questions, and the standing of many prominent peoplo whoso mental questions wcro thus answered prevented any suspicion of collusion, During nil this time she was in a deep mesmeric trance." As an especial feature, Mr Baldwin has secured w services of Mr Hector Laoio, C, V W the sextuple-voiced ventriloquist, 'from IS' speciality galled . ur, vheSjn?. m Yoices in the Air," which creates shouts of laughter nightly, Reserved seats for tlua remarkable can now be secured Mr Price's,

Professor Baldwin's agent desires us to say that the thought and mind reading, and other feats of Mr and Mrs Baldwin have never before been given anywhere in New Zealand by any one. The names of somo of Professor Baldwin's marvels We been copied by others who, themsJ| have not the ability to give sucli pecumir and startling novelties. The whole entertainment is completely new in this section of the world, and entirely different from' that given by Professor Baldwin on his previous tour. • <i>.