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Died. Philio Emile Coue, 71, famed as the French druggist whose autosuggestion ministrations wrought "miracles" among the sickly, crippled, enervated, in France, England...
...Manhattan Coue held clinics, murmured, "Ca passe, ca passe!" and gathered up the dollars and discarded crutches, heard stutterers talk fluently, noted Coueism turn fad, society women form Coue clubs. Later they sponsored Mah Jong, talked of East Wind, not "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better...
...Since the Great War we have had a tidal wave of occultism. Spiritualism- with all its paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect...
...Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills his philosophy by helping them to untangle the kinks in their jarring nervous systems...
...Emile Coué, day-by-day man: "According to an announcement by the Director of the National Coue Institute at No. 276 W. 70th St., Manhattan, I am to return to the U. S. for 'more clinics...