The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1894-11-19

Stuart; Carat, William Burress: Fran
cesca, hattie Ross; Cicely, Georgia Wall
qron; Psyche. Jennie Weidman; Phoebe,
Virginia Jackson.
Al the Congregational Church this
evening Miss Gertie Carley-Auld's con-
cert VIII take place. 1t will be her first
since her return from Europe and her
last here before her return to resume her
studies under Nine. Marchesi. Miss
AUD Will be assisted by Sigismund Beel
OF oan francisco, violin virtuoso-his
nrst appearance-and in San Francisco
one OF the chief of concert directors and
lnuslcal artists. She will be aided also by
NJ essrs. Cohn, Crocker and kidder, the
Well-known vocalists, and by G. A.
Neale, tie futist OF this city and prac-
tlced musical director. Her accompanies
Will be Mr.. Heyman and Mesdames
PInkham and Neale. On this occasion
also Mr.. Thompson, known in the musi-
cal circle as Enrico IomaSo, pupil of
BuZzi and of Lamperti, will make his
first appearance. lie is a basso cantate,
who spent five years at the Milan Con-
seryatory, and in Italy ranks as a highly
trained soloist. He was some years ago
clerk in the office of the Secretary of
state under Secretary Beck. He has a
passion Tor music study, and on leavint
his employment here was afforded op-
portunity 10 crafty it by instruction un-
der European masters. He has returned
To Sacramento TO locate as an instructor
The concert Will present The beneficiary
IN i've numbers, calculated to give full
test OF her voice i'll its various phases, and
the selections are all OF high order and
difficult aud brilliant In one, Geisler's
great favorite, the Nightingale" she
Will have the aid of flute obligato by
MIR. y Gale. Seats can be reserved at the
Cooper Music Company's store, Seventh
and j st Gets. Miss Gertie Carley-Auld
is Sacramento girl, in whom our people
nave taken deep interest and they will
unquestionably ill the house for her to-
night and further aid her in her laudable
am billion. Aside from this consideration,
however, the programme promises 10 he
one OF the most choice and entertaining
ever presented to j Sac ramento audience.
DR.. a. a. Waite, "hypnotist," and
Harry II. Waite, who claims to be a
genuine" spiritual medium, had a fair
house at the Metropolitan Theater last
night, and gave one of the best entertain
ments we have ever witnessed in the
matter OF sealed-envelope reading, rope
tying, cabinet manifestation" and the
like. They use very few appliances and
offer better opportunities for examine
ton than any OF the very many who
have appeared here in the same line.
Among the six committeeman who acted
III two groups were TWO newspaper rep
reSen tatlves, who have no complaint 10
make OF want OF opportunity or OF any
restraint i'll their endeavor to detect
trickery. Yet unquestionably it was all
deception, but the best OF it's order Like
the spiritualistic tricks of the DAVENPORT
brothers, the Royal Illusionists, Heller
and the mind-reader Bishop, and that
cunning pair, the Steens, yet the Waites
IN several respects are better than either.
The young man. Harry, is the quick
est worker ever seen here. Screened
by a slight curtain on a low iron
framework, absolutely isolated from
outside aid, after search of his person
he is lied and united, stripped OF has coat,
handcuifed between chair rounds and
put through many other PAGES, as he al
leges, by u spirit control. and there is
mystery enough bout him to make the
superstltlous believe him. He is appar-
emily hypnotiZed by the doctor first and
then his control takes charge OF him
and invests him apparently with great
strength anu submits him to some very
harsh treatment. he and the doctor are
lnslStent, urgent and protesting that there
IL no cheat In the performance and re-
peatedly call for exposure or eXplana-
tlon, If 1t Is not spirit influence. In the
sealed envelope reading harry was quite
eq al to the famous Bishop who eXhib-
TIED as mind-reader on the same stage
some years ago. Notes were written on
cards and placed in numbered envelopes
and sealed up and handed TO the doctor
who passed them to the medium, who in
turn. after time of lingering them, pro-
ceeded to give answers and names In
every case, however, it was required that
name should be written Of some ''deadD
friend; that it Should be prefaced by an
address OF affection or respect, as Dear
mother" or Dear father and so on.
Then would follow a brief question. 1t
was noticeable that none of the cards were
read by the medium" except the address
within the envelope disclosed the re-
latlonship between the party named and
the writer. representative OF the
RECORD UNION wrote the name Jerusha
Alusha, and followed it by a question.
The name was announced with two
plumbers, but fairly close to correctness,
and the response was to My son." Ten
To one Master Harry would have passed
the note had the name alone been writ
ten. Certainly the spirit in human
life was never known TO blunder in an
nounclng her own name, peculiar as it
was. The doctor tried his hand at it. but got
no further than "Galusha," while Harry
stumbled at the family name by very
simple syllable, and declared that he
could not correct it. Bishop and half
dozen others have done this envelope
trick here and claimed it to be mind
reading; the Waites do it as well or bet
ter, but charge it TO the influence of
silver Light" who was made good
Indian in the long ago. In the rope
tying and rapid cabinet work Harry
is a marvel. He allowed the COM
mitteemen to open the curtains
as quickly as possible on hearing
movement, but they could never detect
him united He was bound until his
hands were cold and cnOEnd nv n rOpa
until purple in the face, but he managed
to work" all the same and charge it all to
Silver Light. Mr.. Harrison and DR.. NJ ct
calf tied him at one time In the open
light by the wrists until it seemed cruel.
but Silver Light kept up her manifesto
tons and the committee were unable 10
detect trickery, but the most of them were
certain that it was not spirit influence.
Some of the best of the entertainment was
by the doctor at tho conclusion of lee
ture i'll defense OF spiritualism. when he
did wine and water change that puts the
most skilled magician we have seen,
from Hermann to Hellar, and Kellar to
the least of them all, into the shadow.
The Waites did one thing quite as puz-
zllng as any other in announcing the
numbers thought of by a committeeman
and numbers another had written upon
slate and screened from observation,
Harry and Silver Light, behind the cur
tain, rapping out the answers between
them with a hammer. The entertainment
will be repeated Tonight, with changes
and introduction of table tipping and
floating materializations. and a little girl
"a mere child-as a medium. 1t is a
good show, of the order, but let no one be
deceived into thinking that spirits have
anything to do with il. There are some
strange features about 1t, but 1t is not
necessary TO attribute them to spirits be-
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