WEIRD SCENE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 434, 15 May 1937, Page 8

WEIRD SCENE

INVISIBLE MAN Audience Amazed London, April 24. The invisible man, dream of scientists for centuries, has really happened. He appeared and vanished before a sceptical audience of more than 80 men and women in Graz, capital of Styria Three local engineers.'—Jules Gindert, Armand Pinther and. Ernest Thalhofer—had invited the audience to see a demonstration of their invention, which they claim can make things land people invisible. On a small, brigh'ly-lit stage, before a, vivid yellow background covered with blue and red signs, stood a vase, a china doll, glass bottles and lighted electric lamps. There Was a low buzzing noise. After 30 seconds the background of the stage became luminous. Suddenlj everything on the stage seemed: to dissolve into nothing. The stage appeared to be empty. After two minutes the articles gradually took shape again. Then came the real sensation. A middle-aged man selected by the audience stood against the yellow background./ Within half a minute he had vanished. A shiver went through the audience, when,:, replying to a question from one of the inventors, the man’s voice came from the stage, “Yes, I am here all right.” When he was brought back 'to “sight,” the man said that the audience in front of him had visible all the time. He felt nolhing except a faint tingling sensation.