Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-06
SCIENCE IS PUZZLED.
REAL TRILBY CAUSES GENUINE
 SENSATION IN EUROPE.
She Is Mysterious French Woman, Who, When Under the Influence of Hypnotism, Is Affected
 by Music.

 Doctors, scientists and psychologists throughout Germany have been greatly perplexed in the last few days by the mysterious performances in Munich, Bavaria, of a French woman who goes by the name of Mime. Madeleine G---, her surname having been kept pro- found secret. She has been appearing before small private gatherings and do- ing the most astonishing things while ln somnambulistict trance.
 This mysterious Mine. Madeleine G------'' is supposed to be the same Wom- an who was mystifying artists and litterateurs few weeks ago in Paris with her weird performances under a hypnotic influence. There she was hailed as Trilby in real life. Not that she sang entranclng songs while under the hypnotic spell of a Svengali, but that she followed with. her body in strange rhythm the strains of music and in perfect harmony with it's spirit and mood.
 ! Several rehearsals were given in pri- vate, and scientists had to admit that the woman undoubtedly was swayed by a mysterious influence and that 1t was not possible for her to simulate all the emotions she passed through in the hypnotic spell.
 After the rehearsals in Paris nothing was heard of the woman. and it is be- lieved that she is the one who is now puzzling the scientists of Germany.
 She is a woman of great grace, but she has nowhere been regarded as attrac- tive in person Under the hypnotic in- f1uence, however. she appears to under go a complete physical transformation. She be~omes strangely composed and moves with a grace that seems almost supernatural.
 At these private rehearsals the wom- an is introduced by Dr. von Schrenck Then Dr. Magnin, of Paris, places hef under the hypnotic spell with few passes in front of her eyes and little hard staring. Within few minutes she appears to fall into a soft sleep in an easy chair.
 Then some one begins to play on a piano in the room and the subject forth with shows that she has some somnam- bulistic knowledge of the music. She rises from the chair slowly, her eyes wide and staring, and follows every note with the most graceful and rhythmic motions with her hands and limbs, A waltz by Chopin was played, and the woman followed the yoluptuous strains with the most graceful and sinuous motions of her hands, arms and body.
 While she was deep in this perform ance the pianist suddenly began to play a funeral march. Mime. Madeleine stopped and stalked across the little stage sadly and solemnly, her face down cast and pale as death.
 Gounod's impressive fave Maria was played next, and the woman's face \ lighted up ecstatically. The transforma- tion seemed instantaneous.
 1 Then a chapter was read from a 1 romance. Tn it was an interview be- ! tween a woman character and man she I loved. Mme Madeleine followed ir 1 pantomime every emotion brought by the reading with the most remarkable accuracy. Tn her face were clearly de- ! picted all the feelings aroused in the i heart of the woman in the romance.
 Scientists have taken the deepest in terest in the performances given by Mine. Madeleine" but do not venture to offer any explanation of them. They 4 agree that stimulation of all the emotions I of the music is out of the question
 Dr. von Schrenck and the noted Prof i Angerer say they are convinced that the i woman is in a hypnotic trance during l the rehearsals.
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