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DIED. Franz J. Polgar, 79, celebrated mesmerist and mind reader who claimed to have hypnotized more than a million people during his lifetime; of illness resulting from a brain tumor; in Miami. The Hungarian-born Polgar, who held doctorates in economics and psychology, said he discovered his telepathic powers upon recovering from amnesia and aphasia caused by World War I battle wounds. A good snowman who performed on the lecture circuit, he also conducted a lifelong campaign to establish hypnosis as a scientific discipline, especially useful as a substitute for anesthesia during childbirth and in curing the smoking habit...
After a while, Adele wrote her father that she and Pinson had been married and became even more desperate to make her fantasy real. She considered hiring a mesmerist to hypnotize Pinson into submission. She swore she was pregnant, and appeared in front of Pinson and his men with a pillow tucked under her dress, holding out handfuls of money. To avoid further scandal, Pinson was posted to Barbados...
LOUIS EILSHEMIUS-Lewison, 50 East 76th. He was by his own accounting, an author, dramatist, composer, librettist, globetrotter, womanologist, inventor and mesmerist. Eilshemius was also a gifted artist who suffered more than most from a fickle public. This centenary showing begins with a beautifully precise drawing done at twelve, runs through his stay in Samoa and concludes with 1909. when he was 45 and still unknown (he died in 1941). Also a collection of his letters, photographs, poetry. Through March...
Whatever it sounds like, this is not a stage show. The hypnotist uses no eye fixation in the manner of the traditional mesmerist, and the performance is in the office of a reputable San Francisco psychiatrist, who is convinced that it speeds treatment even for seriously disturbed patients...
Womanologist & Mesmerist. His later life, as Biographer William Schack describes it, was a pathetic and half-demented tirade against the way the world had treated him. He was, after all, an "artist, author, composer, dramatist, globetrotter, improvisatore, womanologist, librettist, inventor, mesmerist." He had been, he told the world, the champion of everything, from shooting to pole vaulting; he was one of the world's great lovers, though "a genius gets tired of a girl in two months." As for other painters, he had no use for "this Picasso-basso fellow," or for "Bellini-meaney," or for Michelangelo ("nyeh, nyeh...