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...Frederick Dunworth will answer these questions tonight in the living room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Dunworth, long famous as an exposer of fake mediums will talk before a Harvard audience tonight, dealing with the problems of spirit photography, table raising, reading by the aid of crystal gazing, and many others...
...actual demonstrations, Mr. Dunworth intends to show that trickery is quite possible in this field, but it is not his intention to deride the true medium or believer in spiritualism...
...large gap lies between spiritualism and psychic phenomena," says Mr. Dunworth. "We are not certain but that the latter is possible. Still, under this guise, much trickery is perpetrated. The difference between magicians and those who claim they can communicate with the spirits, is that the ormer admit the presence of fraud and deception. When spiritualists cannot readily produce their occult messages, they will turn to trickery, instead of postponing the seance to another time, which is sufficient proof of their inability...
Last winter Harry Houdini, famous magician, gave a demonstration at Symphony Hall wherein he tried to prove that "Margery," noted medium, was a fraud. Mr. Dunworth will show tonight, in the same manner, how other tricks by mediums are done. The title of his address is "Spiritism, an Instructive and Educational Expose...