ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 310, 5 December 1912, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

Tn’l, .’U isTl’.iiiiHG .1 \NSEN. Jansen, the world’s greatest magician, illusionist and tiansforriiist. who will appear in ih<> Princess Theatre. Hastings, with hi-, m-w company on Monday next. D-'ei'-.iiher 9. iws won his way to tho top of his professio’i by she:.’!- merit and skill. Skill was tho uiest important factor however, which was gradually acquired through long years of patient auplication, unremitting practice, and constant experience in the practical exercise of his art. Jansen is an American, was born in the city of Chicago, and originally intended i'or the Ministry. for which Inf studied four years: hut a natural love of conjuring compelled him to forsake the pulpit for the stage, where he has remained ever since, building up a reputation which extends to every civilised country in the world. His elevation of magic lias eclipsed anything hitherto attempted in this line. Someone has said that magic, like literature, is a double art: mechanical magic being the prose, while pure sleight-of-haud may be regarded as the poetry. It is as the magical poet that Jansen excels. Hi.s magical fingers are skilled to the point cl' perfection, and directed by an ever alert mid energetic brain. His arrav of 'illusions are so well conceived and ex-outed as to seem triily inexplicable by any natural law, and folloe one alter another, each being distinct awl different Irom the other, uncii several hours; oi mystery hare glided by unkiuniingiy. Magic is the greatest term of entertainment in the world, and America has produced the greatest magician of the present century, ami Aiueriea lias sent us .Jansen, the peer of them all. The name ot .Tavsen is syuo’iymous of all that is great in magic. Among the \ audeviile features are Miss Edna Herr, the teremost lady escape expert in her won-dc-i fol speeitdty “Triple Mysterv.” Les. A. Bates, eccentric comedian ; Aliss Addie Montague, soubrett” premier diiw'euse ; Madame Gertrude Leona, the veiled protjliotes? in marvellous thought marvels. Me, Him. and 1. the vaudeville novelty, and Alvin the Straw ■ Man. It is without doubt the strongest and most perfect aggregation <>■' artists ever put together to tour the 'world. Rocurd-breakiiig business Inis been the rule everywhere. Tim kx plan is at Hall and Son s and the day sales at Cohen's. >• ON OUR SELECTION.” • There is a treat in store, for Hastings next Tuesday, December fOth. when the Bort Bailey Company will produce a drpmatised version of ‘.Steele Rudd s' delightful book, “On Our Selection/’ E\ erybodv ha.> rend ami laughed at the ml.entires of Dad and his family at Shingle Hut. Old Dad is better kiumu throughout Australia than Sir George Reid, ami on Tuesday next :!<• will step mu of the pages of the story on to iim stagv. AH !tlm well-loved characters are there —Dad. Jon, Kato ami Sandy. Uncle. Cranky Jack and Maloney, to s:w nothing of Hie policeman mid the kangaroo. Ail the ::mst humorous incidents that Steeb* Rudd wrote have been clr--,-er!v woven rouiid a sensational dramatic plot. Il is ( m!v necessary te recall the story >u the Parson and the s<o::c, and th-- Bloating of Billy Be.irtte. tiie f.iinous aiitiimeiie l-'smms when, Dave < <::iipb.i”ed that he couldn’t find Him cost at six shillings bushel bei ( iii’se t ll '. lind always done it at “ per." lard lead's light with the kangaroo to | mo-.-ll v.h:>t mi illimitable fund of i i n tn,, play. The fu’o ] strength of the <■<>’’>paiiy is travelling ;on tear, ami tie* p:•*<•«* "ill I- 1 ' produced iv.itli all the seem V red effects which -ki-ip’-d to make it tiie biggest theatrical boom that has over appeared in Syd- ' -noy. it was ma oidy that the press i ir:, Imtd'-d it tn the skies, but it is i estimated that over 300:.) people were i tiiri'itl away -. aril eVeai'.’iz while it. was i running at tli'* Falnce Theatre. During the hist few nights t};<•- early-door i crowd took their lunch su’d tea indoors, i to be sure of a. scat. ) Steck* Rudd himself remarked that ' the play had been const rutted so cleverly by Bert Bailev ,>rd Edmund Duggan —two ci the partners in tho firm — i that tl:-' I’cok had hw'ri improvecT- out m .rig'vi. To mi ii’tcn iev, er St iy>]<> Rudd ; humorously remarked that “'be would I bnv a tombstone for any man who j ci.itld look at the ploy wiihont langhHng.” Tim play will b,-- repeated at * Napier on Vi'odnesdi!; . Dei cniher 11th. i The company is coming d’.r:-et from .' m-khtml after a plienoimnial season ci If nights in that eitv. The box plan .j, at Hril and Son’s