AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11657, 12 June 1912, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

NORWOOD AND VON ARX. :On Monday next, June 17th, the Norwood and Von Arx Company appear at the Opera House, Oamaru- Professor Norwood, the marvellous hypnotist, provides an entertainment which is in parts unusual,, if not unique. He seems to possess a wonderful ••control. - ' and had he plied his work in mediaeval times he would probably have become either a Kingmaker or boon hanged in chains ere his " prime. The sensation-purveying novelists have made us familiar (alter their fashion) with beings who can steal a man's will and lead him whence they list, and Professor Everett Norwood indicates what a power for evil an unscrupulous individual possessed ol hypnotic, power could be. Professor Everett Norwood also 'forms on the stage during his performance a hypnotic orchestra from hypnotised subjects-, who play like virtuosi on the toy brooms and the like until the '-influence" is removed. In another instance a sturdy young man is pa.K--.pd into a catalentic state, and his ri'dd bod v. supported at the head and tile heels.' tarries lour heavy men without shrinking, so we are informed. Allan M'Elawin is a monologu.st and mimic reminding one of the late Mel. ». Spun-, and Geo. Murphy is the funniest comedv juggler it would be possible to imagine. Von Arx. the marvellous magician, is a brother of -Nicola The box plan opens at the Dresden to-mor-row morning. HAY WARDS' PICTURES. The last screening of the programme containing "The Vagabonds." ''The Bell' of Penauce." and "The Hank Thieves" takos place at the Picture Palace this evening.