CARTER, THE MAGICAN.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 50, 3 December 1909, Page 5

CARTER, THE MAGICAN.

farter, the groat American magicm, who created a sensation throughout New Zealand two years ago, comes again with an entire new company, a spc.'ial corps oj assistants, ;>nil 'ii'tcen tons of magical accoutrements and accessories* which he will present at the Oddfellows' Tin.ll. Balclutlm. on Tfiurviday evening, December !)th. It is said that Carter's illus'ions quite .surpass anything of the kind that he has\ ever attempted before and inducted in his repertoire f>re many th»t. are new to the conjuror's art. InJEgyp't Carter rode on cage's into the heart of that mystic land in quest of new mysteries to show a gaping world. Near Luxor he saw the musical r-fatue of Mennon, and evolved the origin of a seemingly miraculous thing called Psycho—an insensate wooden image of an Egyptian child, as Jarge as a' doll, which sits or sets on a cylinder of glass and divines the thoughts of its auditors. The dumb thing actually reasons ; it tells the number of one 9 watch, adds; and cubes> correctly immense problems quicker than thought acts, and in other ways demonstrates Hamlet's word's to Horatio, when he says, "There are. more things in Heaven awl earth than are clroamt of in your philosophy," 1K«» Cwtw <*•

produces the ghost of. Kat'ts King, which Sir William Crookes; F.R.S. materialised in 'his own home. Cugliostro, the French charlatan, also manifests, and_ other weird things l occur in this "seance from Simla.'' Invitation, a profound miricalo of the Hindus, in -which is exploited the theory of suspended animation and ethereal propulsion, the Chinese idea of creation, the crystal casket, and of rreation, the crystal casket. amid other modern wonders are shown. This is Carter's last tour of the world. He will retire upon his return to his native heath and take up a practice of law which ho 'discontinued to become a conjuror. - Box plan at Clarke's.