Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this first known case of spiritualistic trickery, down until the famous expose of "Margery" by Harry Houdini at Symphony Hall last winter, mediums, mind readers, and fortune tellers have invariably been discovered as false. Mr. Dunworth cited the interesting case of Mrs. Thompson, a well known medium who professed to be capable of producing a mysterious substance from the spirit world which she called Ectoplasm. At one of her seances she unfortunately wrapped the Ectoplasm around the neck of an extreme skeptic. The suspicious gentleman promptly bit into the substance to discover its nature, whereupon Mrs. Thompson screamed...
...Follows Houdini's Methods...
Last winter Harry Houdini, famous magician, gave a demonstration at Symphony Hall wherein he tried to prove that "Margery," noted medium, was a fraud. Mr. Dunworth will show tonight, in the same manner, how other tricks by mediums are done. The title of his address is "Spiritism, an Instructive and Educational Expose...
...There was laying of wreaths on the grave of the Unknown Soldier, ("They live always," read Sir Conan Doyle's wreath. "There is no death; there are no dead," read that of Mrs. M. D. Cadwallader of Chicago.); and there was denunciation of medium-denunciators such as Harry Houdini, the skeptical handcuff king...
...answered Mr. Houdini, "but believe anything except that spirits...