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...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...
...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...
...basis of this speech, the M.P.'s who remained in the House voted 239 to 4 to accept the main outlines of the League Council's settlement. Next day Mr. Baldwin exchanged a few courteous generalities with Ferid Bey, Turkish Ambassador at London, and critics opined that the chances for peace in Irak were brighter...
...Paris, M. Georg Tchitcherin and Tewfic Rushdi Bey, respectively the Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia and Turkey, signed a three-year mutual guarantee compact in three articles and with three attached protocols...