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...usser is a wandering fanatic who arrived in Berlin soon after the War and announced himself as "the prophet of the millennium," "President of the United States of Europe" and "healer by the grace of God." He wanders all over Deutschland dressed in a scanty brown garment that leaves his legs bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Der H | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

...fruit. Lord Revoir ate of the popomack. What happened to him then is the theme of this extraordinary allegorical play by a young British poet. Two of the scenes exist only in the minds of some of the dramatis personae. A brilliant, interesting, witty experiment. THE DESERT HEALER-E. M. Hull -Small Maynard ($2.00). Sir Gervas Carew was a misogynist. His wife had run off with another, so he straightway went to the Sahara and became a sheik-El Hakim-or (in English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...Miracle Man, himself does not make the audience believe in his power. He is merely a nice old man with ideas. And the criminals in their turn, as they one by one fall under the healer's magic spell, never seem to do more than move the plot toward the inevitable happy ending. George Cohan has written too many musical comedies to write a convincing play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/28/1923 | See Source »

...white-haired mental healer, his cadenced words clothed in the richest drapery of metaphor, lulled a fashionable audience into a semi-slumbrous condition yesterday afternoon while he voiced his theories on self-healing." And so a new healer, stealing a rival's thunder, appears in New York, and hypnotizes an audience eighty percent women, by the spell of his voice and the music of a fine orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR USE IN LECTURES | 12/12/1922 | See Source »

...Lewis C. Strang of Boston, a Christian Science Healer, will speak at luncheon at the Student Liberal Club tomorrow. He will be the last speaker before the Christmas recess, during which the clubhouse will be closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Strang to Address Liberal Club | 12/19/1921 | See Source »

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