DRIVER, THE CONJUROR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 12, 15 January 1912, Page 5

DRIVER, THE CONJUROR.

' Magic, music, mirth, and mystery ! will be the predominant features of | tho entertainment to be given uy Mr T. W. Driver iind Mile. Rene in. the Blenheim Town Hall on' Thursday evenjjng^. inext. Referring fco Mr Driver's spiritualistic work an oxcljange says:—"The manifestations wrought by this versatile and gifted illusionist may be truthfully <;iiortie'terised as extraordinary, inexplicable, and surprising Effects are produced, not only without any .apparent, but | without any, conceivable cause. Ih j the first place there is in this performance no question as to trvittworthiiness of testimony on tho competency of nbseorvers, because vhti 'manifestations' occur, not in tii»> presence of a few 'believers,' 'sceptics,' or 'enquirers,' shut up in a private room, but in public, on a well-lighted stage, before the i»yes of a theatre full of witnesses. In fact, tho audience vii"tually impose their own guarantees, and institute every possible precaution against "fiaud*' m thutt two conclusions are irresistibly forced upon the spectators—first-, that it is physically impossible that the' effeotfli can be produced by the performer, Avho is bound hand and foot in th© mysterious cabinet; and, second, it ia fqually impossible that the effects are produced by anybody else. Hence the baffling and insolublo nature of the problem presented l*y the ringing of bells, blowing of trumpets, playing of tambourines,' appearing of. 'spirit' handfe and rorine, withl other startling "phenomena' under these conditions. The ropetying feats of the Davenport Bros.1, good as they were, can in no way be compared with those of Mr Driver ;}