"THE BLUE ROOM."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 8

"THE BLUE ROOM."

] The astounding statement that ; have no hope of defeating medinmt ,1| ? i only hope lies in provisional or gmtm student, of magic -will no doubt mm. M j. i "ilud«" as .Sir Oliver Lodge. Barrett, &a 2 I \\ allaoe. A. Wallace. Crawford. Geler W I brosa. Schrenk Kotizing, j Crookes. and thousand* of other j turn preen with envv. both the I and living Is K. \\. Liddle aware tietfc i -Sir W . Crookes held numerous scums' i his own home under his own conditio!* vfe I a fifteen-year-old school girl, -4 ! materialised form appeared. Katie Em, A j was taller than the medium, that both I visible at the same time? Crookes tteta | that this form played in his studv ijft |l I children whilst the'medium lay on* tie } and that Florence Marrrat, along | other notables present, vouched for the tnfc Professor Charles Richet severelv j ridiculed Crookes. Later Richet "r uliptj j on hrs own behalf, and afterwards pittA j apologised to Crookes. Mr. Liddle aecm i think there is only one kind of phe&Mm ; There are many. Does he think the ! will hand over the delicate instrument# tkr have usfd for testing the phenomena t© 1 i ;of amateur jugglers? What about Dr.KeA j AVhymant (reported in the "Daily Sen,' , London 1, assistant in Chinese at Oxford, UB ' to 1015, who is stated to have canied a« conversation with Confucius? He bent 1 ■v<':ce speaking a language which puzzled Mb 1 till he lealised that he w as listening to Cti*» of a refinement and delicacy spoken mil". 1 t<~>-dsy. The voice recited a classical fnv j which for the first time makes it an isteOipHi . whole and clears up diffiTilties whici hifhni | puzzled experts. The medium did not ateI stand Chinese. V\ here did the magioas <M 1 in, or amateur jugcW■? PfflLOSb