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· THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26,- 1955.
Bill
"There be boy Willie-mended everything for 80 years with a bit of binding twine and currying --on
about Malenkov's agricultural policy."
London Express Service
McGowran tells one of the world's strangest stories
THE LEVITATION OF
"Presently Home ap. peared standing outside our window, He opened the window and walked
ire quite coolly......
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DANIEL
N the face of it that doesn't setтn a very
story Atringe
until I add one
int-
portant detail. The window
happened to be three storeys
above the ground.
In
an apartment ut Ashley House on a Decem- Daniel
ber night in 1868
Douglas Home, the most famous spiritualistic medium
HOME
heightened by his occasional use nlumag the wall in the air he of dinlogut. wwwords:
Here
his Be
"Home went into a trance.... www.y both elongated and raised in the air,
Fre
to
would have been mich astonish-
Adare, shut the window in exi. the next roum,'
"I out up, shut the window, Ho spoke in irod u coming back remarked
'Ex not
bre
there suld afraid and your places." the passage said. know what he is going to do; it 1 too farfal.'
a whisper, as though the spirits that the window was not used were arranging something. He a tout und that i could not think bow he had owuwged to aquocze He arosu aan zɛuld, on no account leave titnigh.
He went out into Come as ace. 1 went with Lindsay suddenly him; he told me to open the win- Oh gooki heavensi dow us it was before. i did su: he told me to stand a little dis- to wit: he then went first, quite rapidly.
body being surly horizontal and apparenly rigid,
"Adare: 'What is it?' "Lindsay: "I cannot tell you, it is too horrible] Adah (the spirit of Adah Isaacs Menken,
of the Victorian He went out of the window
age-perhaps of any age- performed (LI) apparently miraculous feat of levitation which has never been satia- factorily explained. It was performed at private seance before three nesses who have left their accounts of what they saw.
a
horizontally, head first......and
wit came in again feet foremost..."
vations.
D.
The
book was
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"He came in again, fest fore-
ནཝོ
most; and we returned to the
other room.
This was not the carly uccasion whics: Home's powers of Jovita- tion were demonstrated, observed und recorded. At Easter in 1866 he gave a demonftration at Campden Hill for a small "group consisting of Lady Dun- sumy, Mrs Henry Senior, and his friends Mr and Mrs Samuel Carter Hall, who Wero the respective editors of The London Art Journal and The St James's Magazine, of which we have this
account;
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very low moments his hands became perfectly.rigid and
WILS
"Lord Adaro was matod next to Mr Home, who had passed into a trance state, in which, after uttering a ust bewutitul and solemn prayer, he alluded to the protecting spirits who mission
is to act as guardian angels to men. "Tho
one who is to protect you,' he said, ad- dressing Lord Adare, is us tal as this. And, upon so saying, Mr Home grew taller and taller; as I stood next to him (my height is 8ft.) I hardly ronchod up to his shoulder, and in the glass opposite he appeared a ful head taler than myself. The extension appeared to takes place from the waist and the clothing
emily called our attention to Mr Home specially the fact of his feet, being irmly planted on the ground. He than grew shorter and shorter, untill ho only retched my shoulder, his waistcoat over- lapping to the hip."
Sad eight to ten inchor
Gre
(10°
He pistely inexplicable,
They were not hysterical powers
the more
closely, and which was reported to be pre-
Ho demonstrated his gifts be- says that
fore Napoleon III and the Czar types; they were not emo- wrow
bouk 18 the result, sent at the seance) tional young women or "Experiences in
Spiritualism I must toll you. He 19 going
of Rusaka, who treated him ps m Home,"
out of the window in the other easily stirred adolescents. with D.
honoured guest. He was never The book was written in the
in coming
this room and They were men of the world form of letters, or reports, to his
detected in any form of trickery, window,
and his manifestations to this and Army officere, difficult father, the Bart of Dunaver, "We heard Home go to the it was evident that they were day men to hoax or hoodwink, who was interested in psychic next room, heard the window
severe criticism One
to thrown up and presently Home not moved by his own volition. of them wan Lord matters and urged his son
Very loud und heavy knocks
as the result of a lawsuit by aft appeared standing upright out were hoard... Mr lake mireful notes of his obs- Adare,
old woman who had "adopted" an alert
Humu youngtime
side the window; he opened the
then raised
him and demanded the recovery Guards officer, a sporting only criticised that
up to the calling, of £60,000, which she alleged window and walked in quite which he touched." It WKS type whose interests ranged withdrawn, but was republished coolly 'Ah,' he said, 'You were.
he had obtained from her while autiver WTole from racing to big game in 1924 when the
good this time, referring to our Almost as sensational as his she was undan hala in his preface, "To the best of having so still and not wished powers of defying
mystic hunting.
the law of fluance," Ho was also criticised Sou 1 scrupulously to prevent him
He sat down gravity was Home's babib of for
for appearing on ho sange as examined curtai staunge and imaghed,
alongating himself Item an a "straight" actor. His disciples phenomena which came under “Wynnes What pre
you india rubber man, Ono deperip- included Elizabettr *Barrett my observation, and faithfully laughing at?!
tion of this is contained in a
Browning But her husband recorded the facts,...
"Home: We are thinking that letter by a well-known barrister, was far from approving to his u year previously he had report. Lord Adare tells the story of if a policeman had been passing Mr H. D. Jucken, published in wife's bellefs Kor Robert ed the Abyssinian War for the the levitation at Ashiny House and had looked up and seen a the London Spiritual Magazine Browning pillorind Home in his Daily Telegraph. With him in in much
dramatic style, mon turning round and round of January, 1888. This mys: poem "Mr Sludge, the Medium,” that third-foor om at Ash-
His monocle may have given some people a false impression, but Lord Adare was no ordi- nary Picadilly Johnny" Only
Ivy House were his cousin Captain Charles Wynne, and
the
thair friend
Master of Landsmy, who afterwards became the Earl of Crawford and Balcartes.
1
There was jalan present that
remarkable person Daniel Home,
my ability
more
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Ph
Mr Cornelius Remoulds Mr
P
Remoulds Mr Harvey
By THOMAS WISEMAN
His Romeo
WIS algo
nath," director Cornelius was used. saying.
having every article of clothing, from shirts to shoes, tailored tu
MERBIZTO
"I value luxury only less than acting," he says.
Sametimes he spends as muca as £150 a week. In America, he
London. RAISE had humbled Laurence Harvey - who had sot all Europe and the comparatively, that in.
diamned." United States talking about his went to Walton-on-Thames Mr Harvey took it tranquilly. Such statements have carried extraordinary phenomen, which to have lunch with him The director continued: young Mr Harvey-ho is only included the ability to grow be- fore the eyes of witnesses, in-one day and found a sub. "You've kept the vencer, Larry, 20-a reputation for lack of paid £10 a millat for a hotel
and all its trappins because you modesty. happened to have them at the dime of your initial success. But
como down to earth.....'
Mr Harvey's He was wearing high-necked. of hair overhanging his forehead coiffeured mop the word "usual" to the move monogrammed Russian pyjaman, scarcely quivered. ment of inanimate objects by in-smoking a long cigarette through
Creasing
prove that he was hot wing Laurence Olivier; never to you em got rid of them now. should not think a lot of your best cars,
his hoight by as much dued Mr Harvey comparing as a foot and walking about to himself only once to Sir
or elevators.
Sir John Gielgud. The seance began with usual phonomena if one can apply
stilts
room: "You have to live in the best
hotels, otherwiso It's
You also have to dive in the So be bought him- it à Cadillac; ho would have felt conspicuous without be.
I warned him: "Look, Larry, torture." there is 'no redn why you
self, but there is ovely · ronson in pubile." why you should not confies if
visible forces and the appear longer halder and rhapsodis- calmly, "I don't want to be une autapoken.
"But you see Corry?' he said
Romcood."
studio
'Hot water'
Mr Harvey said: “I am fairly That gets me into hot water. Also it is true I am flamboyant, I was flamboyant in my cradle. But in relation to my art I am very humble,"
"Humbio?"
Thirty suits
....
In England ho runs a Jaguar, and is now planning to buy a peroplano. You can get one. for about £5,000," he says. "Yoo He mlled. And said: humility."
"Well, there are degrees of do not have to have one that
goes faster than soună”
ance of apparitionis. Home, ai-ing about Shakespeare.
outh in o
a trance, was walk- We were at the film about the room. As he whore Mr Harvey was working walked through the door into in the film I am a Camera, EU the net room the Master of was dressed for the title role. Lindsay heard a voice whisper,
to him, unawed and un- Next "He will go out one window shaven, sat director Honry and in at another"
Cornellus. They heard a a window in the The director cut bluntly into next room being opened, and the star's soliloquy,
Mr Harvey is, of courde, some almost immediately. AİLER Wardo "Larry" be said pollently,
thing of an exhibitionist and I thay saw Homes Bonding in the “what I've been trying to do is He was expressing himself. I do not say this disparagingly, for y air outside their window. to un-Romeo you, un-Hamlet thought with unusual restraint. I am bored only by exhibkionists
Lindsay described bow Home you?
I recalled the I had. enredand in this position free Mr. Harvey winged called, to fret him, at in dat in time and who have no personality to at
With the standard of baling being what it was, Mr Harvey could not let the side down by abandoning Chapespeare, somed.
hibit
As far as he can remember, he has about 30 multa poch vary little money in the bank.
"I to live to the full
rleve about what trosiesel.des fgive to other rubble. The, things
every hour of the clay. I qua't
the canteen" "waltres for "more he was less subdued. He and we Harvey has danhebelnd) 1. mg sre not)
Low, /mecorida, than gulped the window. and glided into the vo bili registered, no probent, said, with one poetic Licence:
sat
In bản, dronning-room were, a, “I have been bushed, battered, wad of busines from Arteriests, mitilated, decaplated, and man- newspapons" moclaiming Els noored by the English critics. 2000 Romeo Bo be did not need to And.. "Zado, esme,
protest, too, tasach, sel
in sort of naive ori
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