THE NORWOODS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1383, 26 October 1916, Page 32

THE NORWOODS.

Professor Norwood, hypnotist, blending scientific knowledge with a sense of comedy, has had his audiences at His Majesty’s Theatre in incontrollable fits of laughter with his novel entertainment. Mr. Norwood disclaims anything of the mysterious or the supernatural about his business. He merely demonstrates how suggestion becomes a reality when the subject concentrates. Every, evening a number of different men have gone on the stage at his invitation, and under his hypnotic suggestion they have assumed many conditions. Imagining chey were monkeys, the “subjects” invaded the front stalls and caused no small consternation with their realistic antics, while on the persuasion that they were street vendors they plied their wares most raucously amongst the audience, who readily participated in the fun. Mr. Norwood developed many amusing instances to prove how thought can be conveyed in facial expression, as witnessed at an imaginary race meeting, a courtship, a sleigh ride, minstrel show, a ballet, circus, boxing contest, and an “hypnotic German retreat,” his own origination. A feature of the entertainment was the exhibition of mental telepathy by Miss Winifred Norwood, who, blindfolded, accurately responded to a number of interesting tests. The Norwoods will play a short season at Whangarei.