PHARUS, THE EGYPTIAN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 2

PHARUS, THE EGYPTIAN.

What is recognised as one of the most important engagements yet made comes to the Plaza Theatre for a short season commencing Saturday evening next, June'2l, in the person of Pharus, the Egyptian. Pharus comes direct from a sensational season m Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, and Christchurch, where ho was proclaimed to be the mopt unusual person ever seen and at the same time gives the most interesting and enligntening performance yet presented. Pharus takes us back a couple of hundred years, when the strolling physician, gowned and bearded, set up his booth at fair or market, and sold his wonderful elixir of life. Here the analogy ends, for Pharus has nothing to sell, and is a physician of no mean order. The very unusual offering presented by Pharus has aroused considerable interest among medicos and scientists throughout the world. Phams, the Egyptian’s methods of relieving pain, which is based on a scientific discovery, added to the knowledge handed down to him through generations, and which he terms zonery, is used on fhc nerve centres as ju-pitsu is employed to throw off the enemy. Pharus, who is a quiet, unassuming man, says: “I have chosen the theatre as being the best place to deliver my message, because the Church considers it somewhat ungodly, and I want to reach the public itself.” He does not claim originality, as the system can and has boon traced back for hundred# of years, even as far as Magi. Many people who have heard of Pharus, the Egyptian, may have the impression that he is a faith healer, but this is not so. He takes the precaution of not touching any patient, his methods of relieving pain being carried out by the nurses accompanying this remarkable man. Matinees will be given every afternoon, and a special matinee for ladies only on Tuesday afternoon next. The box plan for the season will be opened at the Bristol to-morrow (Wednesday) morning. In addition to the above attraction, the usual picture programme will be screened. The prices are popular ones.