CARTER'S NEW WONDERS.
Carter the Great, who will appear for ten nighls at the Grand Opera House on l!)th August, brings with him a number of now illusions "The Vanishing Elephant," in which a live animal, chained to and hoisted by a crane clear of any suspected or possible trap doors in the stage is, *t the report of a pistol, made to disappear Instantly, all executed.on a brilUantly lighted stage. "The Elongated Chinese Maiden" is another of Carter's wonders and consists in apparently stretching to impossible lengths the neck, legs, and arms of a Chinese girl... .VDo Spirits Return?" is a strange geance, in which Carter demonstrates the spirit cabinet. In "Find the Woman" a young lady appears and disappears at will while shielded by one of threo large life-size playing cards suspended from a board in the air. "Cheating, the Gallows" depicts a live person fading- into thin air, after being suspended by his neck. "Shooting the Woman" is .another of Carter's, new feats, wherein a marked bullet is placed-in a giin; and shot completely, through: the: body of a girl, piercing a marked card, and carrying with it a piece of rod ribbon,, which is pulled backwards and forwards through the body of the subject. Box plans will open at .The Bristol on Friday morn-
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1927, Page 6
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218CARTER'S NEW WONDERS. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1927, Page 6
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