Word: ectoplasmically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Conan Doyle: "I told London newspapermen that I had touched and smelled ectoplasm. I am about to arrive in the United States to lecture on newly discovered spiritual phenomena...
...Ectoplasm has appeared before on the theatrical bill of fare, but the dish now being served at the Wilbur,--ectoplasm taken with a pinch of salt, stirred up with a dash of satire, and blending judiciously with melodrama,--will tempt the most play-weary palate...
...long and useful life of the "niftiest" mystery play, "The Bat", was ample proof of the popularity of the first. But even the theatre-going public, beyond a certain point, like Mr. Coomber in "Listening In", refuses to be frightened by something which it does not believe in. Ectoplasm, mysterious appearances, clutching hands, automatic writing, all serve their purpose in conducting hair-calisthenics. But to have them poked at half in earnest, half in mild satire, combines both the successful elements of horror and amusement...
...Photographs can not He" he said in basing his proof on the dozens of pictures of spirits in the shape of humans and in masses of ectoplasm protruding from mediums bodies "Ectoplasm," he explained, "is the raw material of psychic phenomena. Science knows nothing about it. When analyzed, however, it has been found to consist of materials which are present in the human body, and of something else, possibly other, as well as a material not known to exist in any organic substance. It dissolves in the light, hence it is necessary to conduct seances in the dark...