Word: ectoplasmically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ectoplasm May Lead to Discovery...
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...
...Pappy Cagle's slayer (a former revenooer) turns up as a deserter from the army?the Widow is about to kill him?business of spiritualistic music offstage?business of the deserter boasting patriotism?and the Widow drops the gun?convinced by special wireless from the lands of ectoplasm that It's a Grand Old Flag, be it Yankee or no, that her son is happy and that everybody ought to love everybody else (except the Germans...
...thorough-going three-year course will be necessary to train the future mediums; one can imagine the high-sounding titles of "Ectoplasm 56" or "Photography A" or "Ventroliquistics 10". The entrance requirements are designed to develop that democratic student body appropriate to such a science--anyone with a grade-school education is eligible. And at the end, the successful scholars receive certificates proving that they are certified mediums. This is expected to put the "fake" mediums completely out of business;--a step of public benevolence on the part of the Association...