| Show Elsa sa Maxwells Maxwell's Daily Particles of Patter When I was a little girl of eight or nine I had a very beautiful beautiful beau beau- tiM talented and charming aunt my mothers mother's younger s I IS s ter She had divorced di divorced di di- her husband hus S band Frank Williams who lived In Chicago Chi Chi- cago At the same time an ext r a 0 r d i iI iv i i- I v nary man Dr Irving Bishop y a a. mind reader T who had hadi been decorated i a ly k i by every court courtin Elsa Maxwell laxwell in Europe for h his i s amazing exhibitions of was iras as madly In love with my aunt Now I know very little about these things and obviously knew knew much less at these tender jears ears rt But one scene s scene en I witnessed witnessed wit wit- left an Indelible impression lion sion on on my mind Dr Bishop had just had a scene Kene with my aunt aunt aunt-a a scene of ot jealousy created by Bishop who vho had been turned down by my aunt My aunt was still inlove In Inloe inlove love lo with her divorced husband i and was not in the market for any swooning swain It so happened that just at this moment the postman arrived arrived ar ar- ar rived with a letter for Aunt I Mary from my uncle Aunt Mary grabbed the letter and rushed upstairs to read it Then Dr Bishop his eyes flaming with jealousy proceeded proceeded pro pro- to read aloud word for forthe Word ord the letter that my aunt had just opened opened opened-on on the floor above I am a firm believer in mind reading although the worthy worthy- Dr Fr Freud ud may attribute my be be- I lief to that letter or darker things not to be gone into here But I have seen too many astounding things happen happen to to be skeptical I am also interested In the strange power that some minds are able to exert over others Hypnotism for example Is one of my subconscious conscious fa fa- Fanny Brice although It Is not well known Is an expert hypnotist a strange strange accomplishment for the ubiquitous ubiquitous tous Baby Snooks Snooks- To see Baby Snooks in short dimities and with ribbons in her hair take a strapping broad dered six-foot six bouncer and put him out cold cold is is a sight worthy of top billing Her approach Is simple She has her guests sit around in comfortable comfortable com com- chairs in a dimly lit room She then starts on her victim in a tone as soothing as a lullaby Lean back dont don't do a thing dont don't think or anything anything anything any any- thing be calm relax relax relax re re- re lax lax relax In a few minutes her victim If he is male begins courting the prettiest girl in the room although I dont don't think hypnotism hypnotism hypnotism is needed for this but inthe inthe in inthe the middle of his most romantic advances he suddenly begins to snore and slowly silently surely passes out After this theres there's nothing the young man wont won't do on command command com com- mand from Fanny Ive I've seen her put on this performance more than 20 times with 20 or more different mesmerized suitors Land of the Soviets Sixteen federated socialist re republics republics re re- publics make up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics They cover an area of square miles or sixth one-sixth of the worlds world's Inhabitable land area |
