Word: spiritualists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remote Control. Effective plays may be fashioned about Love and Death and Vanity because these are common concern of the race. So is Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr. Workman was broadcasting questions with ghost-given answers. The studio was plunged in darkness, for only so could he connect with his wise phantoms. Whereupon an ugly bevy of Chicago's finest gunmen entered, stripped the jewelry from some debutantes who were about to advertise a Junior League extravaganza...
...scene is laid in a deserted church to which come a spiritualist, an international crook, two quarreling lovers and their mutual girl, and of course the man from Scotland Yard. For three acts lights go on and off, spotlights play, and one person after another falls into someone's arms or else is suddenly dragged offstage by a mysterious form. In the end somebody has to be found to be the villain or the play would have absolutely no raison d'etre, and the resourceful authors manage to pin someone down just in time to send the audience home contented...
Distrait, Mark appealed to his friend, but Robert's letters brought no solace-only the melancholy news that his own wife had left him, because forsooth he had been rude to an old hag of a spiritualist...
...James is neither cracked nor a spiritualist, but years ago he invented the hypnotic question, "You do believe in fairies, don't you?"; and ever since some people have enjoyed making believe in Peter Pan or fairies or anything else favorably presented to their notice by Elf Barrie. Last week it was Mary Queen of Scots. The bazaar was in her honor. Proceeds would go to a fund for the purchase and preservation of a house in Jedburgh where Her Majesty once lay sick abed...
Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich Romanov, ardent spiritualist, will tour the U. S., lecturing. The Grand Duke says he has conferred with the spirit of his cousin and brother-in-law, the late Tsar Nicholas II, who told him the Soviet regime in Russia would collapse...