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Jimmy Grippo is a professional magician, hypnotist and manager of a southpaw prizefighter, Melio Bettina of Beacon, N. Y. Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 23-year-old Melio Bettina met 32-year-old Tiger Jack Fox of Spokane, Wash, for the light-heavyweight championship of the world (according to the pompous New York State Athletic Commission...
...International Psychotherapy Congress at Oxford, England, 43-year-old Hypnotist Francis Völgyesi of Budapest, who has put to sleep all the monkeys, foxes, swans and lions in the Budapest Zoo, told reporters how he once gave the eye to a pack of 18 hungry wolves. "I simply got the leader under control," he said, "and then waved the pack back just as if they were soldiers at a drill...
Macfadden had referred to Mr. Oursler thus: "This Fulton Oursler came into our employment about 14 or 15 years ago with only $50 to his name, but with an abundance of shrewdness through his former work as a magician and hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity...
...Flatbush but poses as a genuine product of Wyoming. When his nativity is called in question, he is required to prove himself by riding a horse at a rodeo. Having a psychopathic fear of animals, he is able to pass this test only with the aid of a hypnotist. Since Singer Parker not only sings but also acts as if he were in a broadcasting studio. Howdy Stranger gives the impression of being a series of radio skits adapted for the stage of a summer stock company. The cast includes a horse and a calf...
...before that time Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff had been charming Europe with his brooding, regretful compositions, bewildering concertgoers with his speed and skill on the piano. But one ambition, to write a great symphony, he had not achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised for its rich, Slavic melodies, but is seldom played. Last week more than 2,800 people packed into Carnegie Hall to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra play his Third for the first time in Manhattan...