Word: ectoplasm
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There is a temptation to say that they are merely a few of the "doubting Thomases" who make up the over-whelming majority of a skeptic world. Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle have not yet persuaded the rest of humanity of the reality of ectoplasm, even though they have secured many staunch followers for their ideas. Nobody really knows one way or the other that is admitted. Everyone is interested in the idea of thought-transference and future existence--man may be said to have incurably necromantic tendencies--but unless the knightly necromancers establish something definitely soon...
...Ectoplasm May Lead to Discovery...
...Although fraudulence has been proved in many cases, there have been instances of seemingly genuine phenomena. Most authorities still agree that there is a case for investigation. The latest and most fashionable phenomena are those dealing with ectoplasm. It is a subject which has startled some of the most cold blooded investigators. Ectoplasm is the name given to the apparition of some vague white substance, which seems to exude from the body of the medium and then to assume shapes recognizable as the images of deceased persons. Investigation may reveal a new form of trickery...
Zeno. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be annoyed to learn that ectoplasm is not taken seriously by the producers of this singular melodrama. In the middle of a second act seance various ectoplasmic entities wander about the darkness sicklied o'er with the pale cast of greenish spotlights. It is subsequently explained that the entities are bogus and controlled by wireless from the next door attic...
...Wyler disappears, leaving behind a formula which he had imagined to be a fizzle but which Bassett discovers, uses and builds upon it a very substantial fortune. But his grapes are sour-he feels he owes at least half his fortune to Wyler. Wyler cannot be found, but his ectoplasm haunts Bassett's conscience. He does his best to salve said conscience, but ineffectively-and then, just at the wrong moment, Wyler reappears. However, do not be alarmed, for all turns out well. And, oh yes, the love interest is there. A some-what doughy comedy, which shows...