Hypnotists - New Zealand

Date: 1958

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-B-CABOT-Scrapbooks-47

Description: Includes clippings about Dormia and Christine 1958, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Newsclippings stuck into pages of scrapbook

Date: 1983

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-1983

Description: Includes: Philip Warren presents An evening with Dave Allen. Promotional booklet [1983] (2 copies) Stewart Macpherson's stetson Productions proudly present Rowan Atkinson in revue, New Zealand 1983 (Poster / pamphlet) Community Press $1,000 talent quest. Come along; vote for your favourites. Silvio's Place, 221 Clyde St, Island Bay [1983]. Flyer Colin McLennan presents Billy Connolly, Australasian tour March '83. Billy's back in the colonies. Souvenir booklet Keith Pearl Enterprises presents the original "Les Girls", direct from King's Cross Sydney. Wellington's ... Exchequer Cabaret, 23 Feb - 6 Mar [1983]. Flyer "The great depression", 1930-1983 historical revue. Community Theatre Newtown, 3-7 May [1983]. Flyer Australian and New Zealand tour 1983. Rolf Harris. Musical director Barry Booth. Promotional booklet with photographs "Heroes regulars and jerks"; eccentric theatre & dance. City Art Gallery, 65 Victoria St, 25 June [1983]. Flyer (2 copies) Garrick Productions Ltd proudly present Arlene Phillips' Hot Gossip, in The Hot Gossip dance spectacular. 1983 New Zealand tour [Itinerary - 23 February - 20 April 1983]. Promotional booklet. Juju Jive; Atiu Young Ones, Jon McLeary, Unrestful Movements, The De Tease, etc. The Sheaf, 4 September [1983]. Flyer Derek Glynne (London) Pty Ltd and Michael Edgley International Pty Ltd in association with Drama in Europe Limited present Marcel Marceau. New Zealand only tour. Auckland St James Theatre 8-14 July; Wellington State Opera House 18-23 July; Christchurch Theatre Royal 24 July; Dunedin Regent Theatre 25-27 July [1983]. Promotional booklet (2 copies) "The wonderful world of Mr Men"; based on books by Roger Hargreaves. Live on stage 1983/84 NZ tour. Souvenir programme Patrick O'Neill presents with trepidation Spike Milligan "1st farewell to Australia", featuring Gerard Kenny and friends. Spike while the iron's hot! New Zealand Entertainment Operators' Association. Entertainer of the Year awards 1983. (With photos of Suzanne Prentice, Tina Cross, Patsy Riggir, Rob Guest, Shane Dawson and Margaret Umbers, Suzanne Lee, Split Enz, Legionnaires / Pink Flamingoes Hot Gossip's supporting act tonight is internationally renowned hypnotist Andrew Newton. Flyer Andrew Newton, maser of the art of hypnosis. "It's the funniest show in town". [1983] Flyer The Parliamentary Players present "Music Hall '83". (With John MacGibbon, John Falloon, Geoff Braybrooke, David Thomson, Gyles Beckford, etc). Concert held in Legislative Chamber, 21 November 1983. Programme Repeat performance by popular demand!! You are cordially invited to hear storyteller Laura Simms and musician Steve Gorn in performance at the U.S. Embassy, 29 Fitzherbert Terrace. 8 September [1983]. Invitation flyer (2 copies) Supercargo; a workshop project with Boris & Maggie Howarth. Pioneer tales of lost fortune. [Lower Hutt?], 6-19 December [1983]. Flyer New Zealand Students Anarchy Council nervously presents 'Rampant stupidity', Los Trios Ringbarkus [Steve Kearney and Neill Gladwin]. New Zealand tour 1983. Flyer (2 copies) Wellington High School presents "Dick Whittington". WHS Hall, 29 November - 1 December [1983]. Flyer Wellington Peace Festival variety concert. Topp Twins, Shona Laing Band, Ra and the Pyramids, Free Radicals, William Walker & David O'Donnell, Town & Country Players, Lindy de Flame, Timothy Woon, Auckland Peace Band. Compere Dave Smith. Pipitea Marae, Thorndon Quay Wellington, 24 September [1983]. Flyer Quantity: 14 fliers. 6 programmes. Physical Description: Printed programmes and fliers, under 300 mm.

Date: 1940s-1970s

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-03

Description: Photos of Jack, Theo, and Dorothy Nightingall, their friends and associates. Three images show Theo with Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, and Keith Holyoake. There are social gatherings including dressing up as personalities like Hitler, and a mock wedding. One group of images is of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongotai Wellington, another of Jack in action in his role as Bernardi the Hypnotist, and a third are colour photographs of Norfolk Island in the 1950s Quantity: 104 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1958

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-B-CABOT-Scrapbooks-48

Description: Includes clippings about Dormia and Christine 1958, Christchurch Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Newsclippings stuck into pages of scrapbook

Date: ca 1950s

By: Wallace, Joyce, active 2009; Photo Services (Timaru, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10794

Description: Photograph of hypnotist Francis Harry Quinn, known as the Great Franquin (third from left), and his sister Laurel Quinn (Franquin) (right) with two unidentified men, possibly jazz musicians or vaudeville performers, taken circa 1950s by Photo Services of 12 Belfield Street, Timaru. Each of the people pictured has signed their name below the image of themselves; the unidentified men's first names appear to be George and Bob. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print autographed in blue ink with photographer's stamps verso, 16.4 x 21.1 cm.

Date: [ca 1960-1965]

From: Cooper, Johnny, 1929-2014 : Collection

Reference: PAColl-10069-10

Description: Includes - Contestants at Johnny Cooper's talent shows. These photographs have no information regarding photographer, date or location, and except in a few cases, performers are not identified. Photographs by White Wings Studio, Manurewa, Auckland publicising the `Amazing Orchante' (Tom Orchard, 1943-2013), hypnotist, fire eater, sword swallower, and skilled in performing on a bed of nails. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1961

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-413

Description: Cartoon shows a mesmerist who has been called into a police station to help train policemen to catch criminals. The hypnotist has mesmerised a policeman to be a sniffer dog, and the policeman is on all fours eagerly waiting for orders. Two other policemen look on doubtfully. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone 207 x 255 mm, on sheet 248 x 306 mm.

Date: 2014

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0029884

Description: Cartoon shows Trade Minister, Tim Groser, as a hypnotist who is trying to convince the New Zealand public that they have nothing to fear from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DX-025-066

Description: A television screen shows a hypnotist hypnotising the implied audience of a New Zealand household's living room. Refers to New Zealand having a very poor 2004-2005 cricket season, which culminated in a number of extreme losses to Australia their tour of February and March 2005. Extended Title - Look into my eyes! Look into my eyes! Not around my eyes! Into my eyes! You're under... There was no cricket season this year... Three, two, one... you're back in the room... Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: ca1939-ca1969

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, John Bernard, 1911-1993; Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-10

Description: Photographs and proof sheets of an acrobatic group called the Del Mars, Bernardi's (Jack Nightingall's) hypnotist show, domestic cats, men weightlifting, clowns, parties and other social events, a tramping and camping holiday, a trip to Hawke's Bay, Rotorua and the central North Island, yachts and yachting, views from a journey up the Wanganui River, airplanes, posters relating to the anti war/peace movement of about 1939-1945 and activists of the Wellington branch of the Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors printing leaflets in 1941. Related to these are a group of proof sheets recording a conscientious objectors social event at Mokoio Hall on 17 June 1946. There are also proof sheets of Carmen and some of her associates, and of performers at Carmen's nightclub "The Balcony" in Wellington. Two proof sheets have images of turned wooden bowls made up of different woods, and ornamental wooden boxes inlaid with different woods. These were made by Jack Nightingall while he was held in detention as a conscientious objector. Quantity: 82 b&w original photographic print(s).