AN HYPNOTIC DANCER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 641, 19 October 1909, Page 4

AN HYPNOTIC DANCER.

~,, ;."■■■■■.,■-. ~ ■;■ (i> . ■■ , ■ ',■■■.:->■> -..-.''. v Paris has been Intensely.interested in "Mog- - delaine," -the: wonderful little Troman whn when' hypnotised, -is. on? of the 'most superb dancers ■ and .actresses i n the .■world,- but; who, iiTEer. normaFconditiofi,..iB r incapable. of "showing the .least talent.'for the. stage. Sho first •becamo : >: : knoi( r n--- ; to:-.iP^risian8-'BO.mo':nv'e r years: ago,, whon'. her curipus # .case vraa investigated by : .a'number, of. scientists,,and. articts,",-includ-mg' Ebdin;, isi she' imitated to perfecSon' Chopin's I'uherol March. Since then »hp haevbf.tn.;li7ing. in retirement or/Has• :heen-.jtraTeUihg-J' | and St: is 'only- now, ■ i}nd>i ; 7'tlis';Kwetilces,-0f... .Professor. Magma, .of haa.coa : .Behte'i'.;t6'.''appo»r on .of a' theatre,per-: £o'ijmanceVgi'Venj)thore;rfa Writer: says: "-It was •''. havo' : ever sc%%ij4S';.-Jto^ ,'Jilnß^j'r ; jpWy;AtpMiip^-ffiiid«''' , ;maiiied;iiiij:4lb;sh^nqtic ;: Btate.rfor nearly an camo for- : ,ward.'tq?!illay' : ,dance"music or sing operatic and. music-hall airs, or pise, to' recito .yorses, : (ind:. never once, did ;her gestures ' or. expres.'sio'n'fail''to* interpret 1 them to perfection.. But still moroi extraordinary .was the manner-'in which.,6he interpreted a little-prose poem that had beon specially, written for tho occasion by;■■■•: o' well-known Parisian " literateur," M he-had'.' very ingeniously,,' introduced gaioty,:irony,' sorrow and to,"MagdDleino,"..vshe , imme--jdiatelyi.-jljegan to "interpretat with' : 'nri accuracy .V.o£.:;gesture and intensity vpf > emotion such,.as' ( ';one,,soes only "in. the acting of tho greatest-actfesEos..; As the text of. this' prose 'poem.,wa3;.known,only .to. the:"author, and as this'was the. first: time that it had 'been' read 'to'hqr, .this.'.wonderfal instanca'.of her powers did away. with;.tho; snqrestipnithat, unfcown to herself, sho retains the recollection "of, molodicsand:verses' which, afsomo timo or other sho has happened. to hoar. Professor Magnin fxplams .her. case' by saying that " while in a hvpnotic state , she is marvDllously conscious :pf;all-that'she does, but only in tho depths of rher-.'SHb-consciousness,".which, is proved, :-inr deed, ; .fact;..that when she is awake-' I .that .18, ~iii-r her. .normal, condition—she cannot' recollect- anything v, of-what,, has , happened '•