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Show i , WOMAN MYSTIFIES SCIENTISTS. ' Performs Astonishing: Tilings While ' in Somnambulistic State. Doctors, scientists and psychologists i throughout Gorraany havo been greatly perplexed in the last few days by the mysterious performances In Munich of a French woman who goes by the name j of "Mme. Madeleine G. ." her sur- 4;mo having boon kept a profound! secret. se-cret. She has boon appearing here be-I be-I fore small private gatherings and doing the most astonishing things -white In a somnambulistic trance. I This mysterious "Mine. Madcleino G. " Is supposed to bo the same wo-1 wo-1 man who was mystifying artists and. I literati a few weeks ago In Paris with i her weird performances under a hyp- , i. otic Influence. There she was hailed as a Trilby In real life. Nothat she sung entrancing songs while under the I hypnotic opell of a Svengali. but that A I she followed with her body In strango ' rhythm the strains of music in perfect harmony with its spirit and mood. Sev-I Sev-I oral rehearsals were given In private, and s-clenilsti' had to admit that the 1 woman undoubtedly was swayed by tho i mysterious Influence, and that It was I not possible for iier to simulate all the , emotions she passed through In the hypnotic npell. After tho rehearsals In Paris nothing was heard of the woman, and It Is believed that she la the one who in now puzzling the scientists of f.'crmany. She Is a woman of much grace, but on r.o account can she be regarded) re-garded) as attractive in person. Under tho hypnotic inlluence, however, she appears ap-pears to undergo a complete physical transformation. She becomes strangely j composed and moves with a grace that 1 -ems almost supernatural. At these private rehearsals the woman Is Introduced Intro-duced by Dr. Von Schrenck. Then Dr. Magnln of Paris places her under the hypnotic spell with a few passes In I front of her eyes and a Utile hard otar- lng. "Within a few minutes Mhe appears to fall Into a soft sleep in an easy chair, j Then tome ono begins to play on a piano In the room, and the subject forthwith shows that she has some somnambulistic knowledge of the mu-' mu-' sic. She rises from the chair slowly, her i-yes wide and staring, and follows every ; "oto with the moat graceful and rhyth mic motions of her hands and arms. While she was deep In a waltz performance per-formance the pianist sudMenly began to play a funeral march. Mme. Madeleine ' stopped and stalked across the little 1 stage sadly and solemnly, her face downcast and pale as death. Then a chapter was read from a ro-r ro-r mance. In It was an Interview between a woman character and the man she loved. Mme. Madeleine followed In pantomime every motion brought out 'n the reading with the most remark-1 remark-1 .iblc accuracy. In her face was clearly depleted nil the feelings aroused in the heart of the woman in the romance. .Munich Cablegram to Chicago Chronicle. |