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...story which the opera tells so effectively concerns a fake spiritualist, her young daughter, and a mute boy who acts as their helper in the phony seances. During one such session, the medium discovers to her horror that she does indeed possess supernatural powers. But since she is unable to face the fact she fixes on the boy, blames him for tricking her, and drives him away. He, however, returns unseen, with inevitable tragic results...
Denis Percy Stuart Conan Doyle, son of Sherlock Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was a dedicated spiritualist like his father. Among other British believers in "the creed of life after death" his collection of "spirit photographs" was famous, and he maintained that he was in constant communication with his father, who died in 1930. Sir Arthur had not once "advised me wrong," he said. "The only time I did not follow his instructions, I was nearly killed." Wrote Doyle in this week's London Sunday Dispatch: "The life and teachings of our Lord showed the existence...
...late. The Tiltons were great pals of the suffragettes, and Mrs. Tilton's secret became known to the sharpest battle-ax of the women's movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life...
Unhappy Medium. Coates has hired a lie-detector expert, who weeds out phonies trying to get on the program, sometimes uses the detector on the program itself. Once, after showing infrared pictures of seances run by a spiritualist, he gave the lie-detector test to the medium. She flunked it miserably. Says Coates: "In stead of turning people against her, we got many letters saying it was a terrible thing to do to that poor woman. We also used the detector on a so-called jet-propulsion expert who claimed that he had flown in a flying saucer from White...
Some of those present seemed to feel that the spiritualist churches could use a bit more religion. "One of the vulnerable points of spiritualism," cried the Rev. Helen Graham of West Bloomfield, N.Y., thumping a Bible, "is that it doesn't use this book enough." The Rev. Clarence Haas of Warren, O. also looked to the Good Book, "I know Jesus Christ was a spiritualist," he told the group, "even...