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...British "Pyramidologists,'' who believe that in the courses of masonry and many tunnels of the Great Pyramid of Cheops are to be found prophecies of the world's history until the year 2045. Pyramidologists thought Sept. 16, 1936 was to be epochal for the world, but Prophetess Bandler now denies that she predicted anything like the world's end. She insists, however, that, known only to her, 300,000 people were slaughtered on Mt. Carmel on that date. Sample Bandler prophecies...
...twelve most powerful nations on earth are the twelve Tribes of Israel, of which Prophetess Bandler will identify only England (Ephraim), France (Reuben), the U. S. (Manasseh...
Spitfire (RKO), completed before Katharine Hepburn left Hollywood for her Manhattan stage appearance in The Lake, is an unsatisfactory sequel to Little Women. It exhibits her as a West Virginia cabin waif named Trigger, part tomboy and part prophetess. She has a pack of Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls...
...Schoolchildren danced a "visualization" of the first move ment of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony: a "synchoric orchestra" of dancers which was meant to parallel the instrumentation of the score. Then Miss St. Denis, surrounded by young men from the West Side Y. M. C. A., appeared as "The Prophetess" in a dance-drama to the music of "Mars" from Gustav von Hoist's suite, The Planets. Many an observer found its symbology muddled and "arty," wondered what was meant by "the Cosmic Consciousness . . . realization of the Unity of Life . . . Summit of Illumination...
According to this modern prophetess, the lines on one's hands, which change every three months, can be made to reveal all the secrets of past and future after a scientific investigation. Even the ever pertinent questions of matrimonial nature, of home surroundings and of success in general can be definitely settled by a glance at one's hand...