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Finding no intoxicant gases in the sugar factory, doctors concluded that the monotonous machines had driven the young women into a mass hysteria, the psychic phenomenon used with striking effect by Charlie Chaplin in his last picture, Modern Times...
There is but one condition under which the symptoms described with the prompt restoration of sight are found. It is often characterized by the numbness referred to either in the legs or other parts of the body. It is known as psychic or mind blindness. It is purely a mental and functional condition in which no organic structural change is present. It is not even a very uncommon condition and no one thinks of treating it in any other way than by influencing the mind of the victim of this obsession...
...present version Dame May Whitty is the psychic—a term which is itself a hallowed souvenir—who tries to solve a murder by making the twelve possible suspects hold hands in the dark. Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck...
...Edison, but by Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, who said they would try to communicate them to the living after they died. Anyone who receives the message through spiritualistic communication which tallies with the one Edison left can win $10,000 from Mr. Dunninger and the Universal Council for Psychic Research, of which he is chairman...
...recapitulation of results obtained years ago by England's Psychic Investigator G. N. Tyrrell, it appeared that one subject, guessing which one of five lights in closed boxes was shining, frequently chose the right box before the light was turned...