CARTER THE GREAT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20266, 28 March 1934, Page 3

CARTER THE GREAT.

Magician Opens Season on Saturday.

One of the sensational stunts that Carter the Great, who will appear with his company for seven nights and four matinees at the Radiant Theatre, commencing at the matinee at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday next, will try to put over, is one wherein he essays to catch a marked bullet. He has perfected the trick to such a degree that he permits one of his assistants not only to catch the bullet, but to apparently suffer the marked bullet to penetrate her abdomen. It is then caught by Carter on a platter behind the subject. To heighten the effect, a ribbon of scarlet hue is riveted to the bullet, which bullet is marked by auditors. and the course of the bullet is eraphicallv described by the ribbon entering the girl assistant’s torso and afterwards played back and forth through the body by those in the audience who are courageous enough to make the trial. The ribbon is then sevf f r ° m the bullet and the subject laughingly exits. This is a particlarlv dangerous trick—or. it has proven such in numerous instances. Chung Lung Soo was killed in London by a mistake of an assistant in using a rusty rifle that clogged the mechanism which * le *P ec l work the trick successfullv. Box plan and day sales now open at the D.I.C.