AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 3 April 1922, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

DRIVER THE WIZARD AND PICTURES. AT THE OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. Anything pertaining to mystery and magic always exercises a strong fascination on the public, and when a flavour of the occult or supernormal is added the fascination is intensified. The high reputation of Driver the Great as a master of legerdemain, and his fame as an anti-spiritualistic writer and exposer of the tricks of the fraudulent spirit mediums should attract a large audience to the Opera House this evening. AVhen this clever entertainer appears in conjunction with Pollard’s Pictures for a season of two nights. Air Driver fcomes to us with some entirely new and ingenious illusions, and his tricks are so cleverly performed as to justify Mr Driver’s claim to take high rank in his profession. A special attraction is the reproduction of a number of “spiritualistic phenomena” such as have recently been the subject of an unusual amount of attention. Mr Driver does not pose as a medium. He claims, on the contrary, that by pure trickery he does just what the spirit mediums do, and that there is no need to assume supernatural explanations. Air Driver lias for years specialised in “exposures of spiritualism” and has decided the minds of many who have wavered on the edge of belief. Tn addition to Driver’s entertainment Pollard’s will present an entirely new programme headed by King Vidor’s latest production for Robertson Cole, “The Other Half.” As in his latest production “The Turn of the Road” he has struck an intensely human note. “The juoper study of mankind is man,” says some sage, and the author-director lias taken it as a maxim. That “one half of the world doesn’t know how th eother half lives” is t he theme. The prices are: Circle 2/2; Stalls 1/1; and the box plan is now open at The Bristol.