CARTER, THE MAGICTAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12405, 29 December 1909, Page 8

CARTER, THE MAGICTAN.

Carter, the great Magician, will appear at the Opera House on Friday and Saturday evenings. In order to court public favour with any degree of success, the modern man. of magic has to be something far ahead of the hat and handkerchief genius with which our childhood was content. He must be constantly alert for new ideas to contend against the shoals of inferior plagiarists that, shark-like, appropriate the product of his brain. His paraphernalia now.ada.ys fill more than one railway truck, and he is obliged to employ an Jfjrmy of .skilled assistants. The public is not to be satisfied with rabbits alone in these days of progressive intelligence. It requires its rabbittrimmed—the trimmings have to be pretty elaborate, too. It is in the recognition of all this and in the endeavour to meet—nay, anticipate—the need of the age that Carter has steadily climbed to the topmost branch on the tree of his profession. The programme, which he will present embodies all that is latest in the magician's art. Carter travelled over 5,000 miles in the interior of India and spent five months in Benares, on the banks of the sacred Gr.np>'s, studying tho occult, with the native fakirs and mahatmas, and as a result brings with him now a series of the most perplexing, confounding, and utterly surprising marvels hitherto undreamt of in. magic, science. Carter also brings the only genuine illustration oi' the sacred theory of the power to levitate the human body, suspend animation and defy gravitation. The Chinese idoa of creation, the crystal casket, find dozens of other modern wonders, are included in Carter's repertoire.