CARTER THE GREAT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 13

CARTER THE GREAT.

Second Week of Season Starts To-Day.

To meet numerous requests. Carter the Great has agreed to extend his Christchurch season at the Radiant Hall and will be producing his unique show there for another week. As an innovation, all admission prices have been reduced. One of the sensational stunts that Carter the Great will 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 graphically described by the ribbon entering the girl assists ant’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 severed from the bullet and the subject laughingly exits. This is a particularly dangerous trick—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 helped work the trick successfully.