WANGANUI THEATRICAL NOTES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1666, 3 February 1904, Page 29

WANGANUI THEATRICAL NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Wirth’s big circus is working this way from Auckland), and! will be in our midst in about a fortnight’s time. The marvellous feats of clairvoyance by the Howard Brothers, and the feats ,of Herr Pagel, the strong mian, shine out strongly in a" list'of superb novelties which the Messrs Wirth Bros, intend placing before Wanganui patrons. The Woode-Will iamson Dramatic Company open a short season in the Opera House on Wednesday, 3rd February, and Air B. Branigan, the popular “advance/’ hia® been in town completing the necessary arrangement®. The plays to be produced are “In Old Madrid" —a, dramatisation of F. Marion Crawford’s novel “In tho Palace of the King"—“A Woman’s Sin," and “The New Afagdalon./ Tlio pieces will bo mounted in. the company s best style*

Felix Tanner’s fasting feat® continue to attract considerable attention. _ and thoUiP'li lio lh£t»s ioSic ut tliio time of writing a,bout 181bs he is not in the levast daunted and is confident of carrying his self urnnosed task to a successful issue. Ihe three week® are up next Saturday, 6th February, hut a medical gentleman who visited and examined his condition has without undue inconvenience fast for 40 days, did he se chosa The last week will undoubtedly attract still more attention to fchi® remarkable man whose physical condition seems to even improve a® . the days go by*