Kreskin makes a slip

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33479, 9 March 1974, Page 16

Kreskin makes a slip

Kreskin says he loses 21b during every performance because of the tension.

Last night in the Town Hall, he must have lost easily that, for, either by chance or by design, he did not find the cheque for his fee hidden in the audience.

Kreskin picked four' persons at random from the audience, handed them his fee for the evening’s entertainment, and left the auditorium while they hid the cheque in an envelope in the hip pocket of an elderly, man at the rear of the hall. The entertainer was to find the envelope by mental telepathy—reading the minds of one or other of those who had hidden it. WRONG CHOICE

Using a young woman, one of the four who had hidden the cheque, as a “thoughtguide,” Kreskin went to the rear of the auditorium and led an unfortunate man up to the stage.

Poor Kreskin. He made the man take off his jacket and began searching him for the envelope. “I’m so confused folks,” he said “You ale changing your mind. May I try one more person.” the audience was

clearly on his side, and once more the entertainer was led to the rear of the auditorium. He got to the row where the man with the cheque was sitting and walked in front of him. The audience was

s virtually hissing to Kreskin I to take the man up the aisle “Obviously someone is i playing tricks on me,” said i Kreskin at one stage. “1 will . have to throw in the towel.”] > he said, waving his arms in] the air in despair. Upset, he added that the fee would go to the Crippled Children] Society. It was a rather more subdued, but certainly uncrushed ■ Kreskin who returned after] 'the interval. He seemed to' iwork twice as hard to make lupIup for his failure. ENTERTAINING • The remainder of his show ] was a riot—and the audience ] I loved it. Auto-suggestion, i • mental telepathy, call it what [ i you will—he had a score of volunteers waving their hands and feet out of control, I jumping up as though pinched by their neighbours, and even . singing “Happy Birthday Dear Kreskin” off key. I For a one-man show, ] 1 Kreskin’s effort is novel.] ■ entertaining, and very much' an audience-involving affair. . He is a superb showman,! ; even if something went awry ■ last night. —K.C.I