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After sounding the usual professional notes of caution (a bungling hypnotist can do "irreparable harm," and no hypnotist should tackle a case on the borderline of severe mental illness), Dr. Schneck's contributors get down to cases...
...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 out," and had Singer Arcesi record...
...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 from her hospital bed, and the press hastened to report the good news...
...Rome, Maestro Arturo Toscaninl, 85, bothered by a year-old knee injury, put his ailing leg in the hands of Hypnotist Achille ("The Sorcerer of Naples") D'Angelo, widely known in Italy for cures attributed to his mesmeric touch...
...stage piano played a mystic interpretation of "Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its own," the curtain of the Esquire Theatre went up on the Great Morton, hypnotist, mesmerist, psychometrist...