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These misdemeanors are laid to the malignant influence of the spirit of Don Juan, summoned by the inquisitive Duchess in her spiritualistic seances. Later, the specific malefactor is determined to be the astral body of a bashful young professor who is engaged in teaching the daughter of the household poetry...
Alexander Woollcott?"It should be reported that George Jean Nathan of the American Mercury shook and roared with cosmopolitan merriment throughout the evening, and that Robert C. Benchley of Life faded away after the first act, leaving the play to be reviewed by his astral body...
...Osborn?"The astral body theory . . . made it an eminently proper play. It took the edge from the guilty delight of such spectators as had thought to shout 'Wow!' and felt impelled instead to murmur 'Blah...
...mathematician since Pascal, once said that Flammarion was a poet whose gifts enabled him " to describe the sky so as to make people who did not know it love it." Perhaps it was this combination of poet and astronomer that made M. Flammarion write Haunted Houses. The appeal of astral bodies is, after all, only faintly removed from that of the psychic world. The book is disappointing from a scientific point of view; but from that of the layman it provides eeries but fascinating enjoyment...
...usual, the astral doctors disagree. Charitably assuming that the "wild statement" is a journalistic interpretation, other well-known astronomers say that the most that can be predicted is that sun spots in different parts of the sun's disk appear to be whirling in opposite directions, and thus, possibly, to be giving the impression that there are disruptive tendencies at work in the body...