DRIVER THE MAGICIAN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 307, 29 October 1910, Page 6

DRIVER THE MAGICIAN.

"A rattling good show"—so it was expressed by one of the audience last night, and if Mr Driver would only raise the curtain promptly on time, instead of at half-past eight as last night, there would be absolutely nothing to find fault with. Sleight of hand naturally occupies a large portion of the programme, and to see handkerchiefs, lemons, tubes and coins appear and disappear in the most unlikely ways, proved delightfully bewildering to all present. Driver's card shuffles must be seen to be believed. The present writer has never seen anything quite so good, and the crowning climax, Te Kuiti shuffle, was appropriate and convincing. All this was preparing the way, so to speak, for the piece de resistance the exposure of Bailey, the spiritualist —and Driver did the pitiful parlour tricks and showed "what fools these mortals be" in another sense than Shakespeare's, when they pin faith on practices of this type. Other old familiar, but ever fresh mysteries were the rope tricks. Driver did ; em ail. As some variety an alleged humourist sang a couple of tawdry comic songs, and Miss Ada Chains a ballad.