ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 694, 20 April 1909, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

•' MASKELYNE & DEtANT. The name of Maskelyne stands for the mysterious and marvellous throughout the world, and, those who ; welcomed the appaaranooin Palmereton last night of ondlof his. illusory entertainments »were l in turn spell* , bound and amused, Tlio entertain-' ' mentis distincffcly ouoof the best and moat original seen here After an overture had been well • played by Mr 'Ernest [Arnold, the , magician; : Owen Olarc, mystified the spectators' with, a clever exhi- : .bition of sleight-of-hana, enlivened with amusing patter, and the Intro- : •/ dnotion of an unpleasant looking 1 yellow dwarf from an apparently herttietioaliy. sealed tub. " , 4 y The interval was followed bythe . most remarkable turn of the evening, entitled "Will, the Witch',;and the Watohman," ; (Phis was in the'setting of a'.pluy but was really.; the famous cabinet trick on a large so'ale. ,<Ttie hit oft,((lie evening' unquestionably the entertaining musioal interlude given,by Mr. Bar- , Clay Gammon, Oommenoing with an amusing conversational patter, Mr Gammon sang, played, and talked his audience into uproarious laughter. 1 Mr Gammon is unques-; tionably the oleverest humourist seen' ■ here since the late Mel. B. Spur. The programme was concluded by an ; exhibition of Japanese juggling by < M» Gintaro, whose trioks were prao-; tioally all new and whose manipnlation ia many cases .equalled, if it did not bxoeed, the great Cinque-, ; valli. The company appear at the Opera Honae ffgain to-night .and tomorrow • night when the programme r l ' will be repeated, " n