Word: rahman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rahman Bey, fakir, recently submerged himself for an hour, asserted that he owed his life to his ability to fall into a cataleptic trance. It was magic; until the trance was at an end he did not breathe. To Fakir Bey, Harry Houdini, trickster, gave the lie, donned blue trunks, a white shirt, a luminous wrist watch, entered an airtight tin coffin equipped with a telephone and electric pushbutton, was lowered to the depth of the Shelton Hotel Pool, Manhattan...
...Rahman Bey. Fakirism has about as much relation to the theatre as have cats to cablegrams. Yet, since Rahman Bey is spreading the message of his Egyptian cult from theatre stages in the U. S., his efficacy as a show must be reported. He is an uncanny novelty, but he is not a very good show...
These mishaps have been occasioned by the flesh piercing items. Rahman Bey induces in himself a state of cataleptic anesthesia and jabs hatpins through his flesh and a slim dagger through the skin covering his Adam's apple. Some of these wounds bleed and some are dry, according to his will. None leave scars. These things are not miraculous, being duplicated in experiments on involuntary cataleptics...
...feature. Simply by touching the hand of any member of the audience the fakir reads and obeys his silent command for any convenient task he can complete within the theatre. He will find, for example, a certain word in a certain book designated mentally by the subject. Thus far Rahman Bey has not been invited to any poker games...
Arrests. Abdur Rahman Fahmy Bey, Mahmud Nekrashy Effendi, Makrum Obeid Effendi and Barakat Pasha, all prominent members of Zaghlul's party organization and still Deputies of Parliament, were arrested in their homes by British soldiers for plotting against the British. The following day 35 more arrests were effected. A great cry went up protesting that the four Deputies enjoyed parliamentary immunity from arrest and that the British had acted illegally...