ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

FASHION MIRROR “LIES.”

Mirrors are now being made which distort the truth and disprove the old saying that “a mirror carfpot tell a lie.’’ A woman who went to buy a dress sighed with relief when she looked at herself in the mirror that was placed in tho centre of the softly furnished fashion room. She thought that she was really getting thinner and that the dress was giving her the right slim lines and decided to buy it at once. When she reached home and eagerly lifted the dress from its tissue paper wrappings and tried it on, she saw unsightly lines and creases which she had not observed in the fashion salon. From time immemorial magjpans and illusionists have popularly been reputed to employ cunningly concealed mirrors in many of their astounding effects. Carter the Great and his company of assistant who for one night only will appear at the Municipal Theatre, Hastings, on Thursday, September 29th, eschews the utilization of mirrors or glasses of any kind in the attainment of an unusual perfection in illusive effects and in his latest modern miracle called the “Elongated Maiden,” the head, arms and legs of a pretty girl are stretched yards away from their natural positions without apparent discomfort; the simplest solution of this astounding act would be to say that, the demoiselle was in some way equipped with false limbs and head; Carter smilingly anticipates his auditors and invites numbers of the “Doubting Thomases” to come upon the stage and tickle the soles of the feet, shake the hands, etc. Unlike the lady in Mayfair • the “Elongated Maiden” takes no umbrage because her lines and symmetry are distorted.