CARTER THE GREAT.

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14538, 9 December 1920, Page 6

CARTER THE GREAT.

It is in the endeavour to anticipate the need of the age that Carter the Great, magician and illusionist, who appears at ttie Theatre Royal on Monday next under the direction of J. G. Williamson, Ltd., has steadily climbed to the topmost branch of the tree of his profession. Carter travelled over 5000 miles in the interior of India and spent five months in Benares, on the banks of the sacred Canges, studying the occult with the native fakirs and mahatmas, and as a result brings with him a series of the most perplexing, confounding and surprising marvels. Unlike other magicians, ho does not rely on vaudeville acts to 1111 in the evening, but presents a series of scenes consisting of novel and elaborate illusions and magical effects, with interludes of demonstrations of thought transference and mental telepathy by Evelyn Maxwell, who is said to possess extraordinary psychic powers, and, with Carter, gives the students of the occult much mod for reflection. In Auckland the following challenge was issued to Sir Conan Doyle from Carter the Great: — "£IOOO will be paid to charity if Sir Conan Doyle will materialise a genuine spirit or ghost under test conditions as suggested by ‘Carter,’ Opposed to this Carter will reproduce by natural means any manifestation or so-called materialisation of mediums.” Carter the Great does not claim the aid of spirits with the exception of one illusion, when the spirits used all bear the brands of reliable makers. Carter is not a spiritualist —he is a master magician and an entertainer par excellence. The box plan is at Paul’s.