Word: edmundson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seconds. The whole thing started last June, when Hollywood Pressagent Ed Scofield "bought a piece" of a crooner named John Arcesi and looked around for a gimmick to land him in the papers. The gimmick took months of careful planning. Scofield first hired a onetime Conover model named Ariel Edmundson and sent her off to a hypnotist. For weeks the hypnotist worked over Miss Edmundson, until she was so completely receptive that she could be put into a trance in seconds. Meanwhile, Scofield had a song written "that was real mysterious . . . something you could believe would put a girl...
...Thunderbird nightclub. Under an assumed name, Scofield invited a local part-time I.N.S. correspondent to dinner at the club. By coincidence, U.P.'s Los Angeles Bureau Chief Bill Best was also in town, and Scofield invited him too. When Arcesi came on to sing his song, Model Ariel Edmundson sat at a front table by herself, decked out with clues from all over the U.S.-a swizzle stick from Manhattan's Stork Club, matches from Miami, a dress from San Francisco -but no mark of identification. Says Scofield: "I wanted to have something from each city...
Everything went off on schedule. Arcesi sang Lost in Your Love. At her ringside table, Model Edmundson stood up, and became rigid. A local doctor was called and gave his opinion that she was, indeed, in a hypnotic trance, and sent her to a hospital. That was enough for the wire-service men, who promptly filed their stories. For a day and a half, the entranced Ariel was hospitalized, unable to speak. Then a hypnotist, thoughtfully provided by Scofield, gave his prescription: bring on Crooner Arcesi again. It worked like a charm; at the sound of his voice, Ariel rose...
Crowding into their cluttered single room are (left to right) Charlan Edmundson '56, Barbara Lamb '56, and Dorothy H. Martin '56. Their room, which formerly housed head resident Mrs. Katherine Fernstrom, still contains a burglar alarm and signal for the night watchmen...