DRIVER'S MYSTERIES TO-NIGHT

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13410, 7 May 1912, Page 7

DRIVER'S MYSTERIES TO-NIGHT

It is safe to predict a crowded house at the Theatre Royal this evenitng to witness tho remarkable entertainment of Driver and his clever company for their reputation has preceded them. Tho i'u'ct that over 3000 people attended ono night's.pcricrni.anco in Wellington,.and Mere delighted with it is sufficient to ■show that Driver's entertainment is one that appeals to all classes of the community. In the who'.e performance* there is not one word that can_ offend the feelings of the most susceptible (professional spirit mediums exoepted) while as a losson in human credulity, gullibility, and duplicity, it is well worth the price of admission twice over. It compresses in two and a-half hours the experience of half a life-time of ono of the cleverest conjurers ever seen here. Those who honestly believe in the genuineness of spiritual phenomena should attend, and they will see the best tests of the world's most celebrated spirit mediums performed by a clever magician without supernormal aid. As a practical disquisition on the susceptibility of mankind, and as an illustration of the mantier in which so mauy rush to tho supernatural for a solution of shallow trickery, Driver's entertainment fa :Viv. '■'.- able, and if his-exposition ir;<luc< s x\\ \u to reason more cloaa'iy, .vk! to cx;-<.ro ffuture manifestations in r o <:;■'.:■ o"v. !■ , their time and moiio;»p ■•.■.] '■•:•■> ■:■■ >-~■. i well expended. IvCS'Cf■:■'■■■; •■.•■■.;"!■ s ■' '~: lKM>ked at Messrs.- Bu/.nv ■:> Dresden Piano Cornpai;,';, r"-'i "c Ute, box. plan is rapidly filling, iJiIL.-'J.-y; petrous should secure their seat 3.