Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-07

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It was wonderful bargain. Surely
to learn how to defeat the "Ananke'
of the ancients is in itself priceless
lesson, and the wizard told people how
| to Go it, all for nothing. But he kept a
second circular up his sleeve, Whlch
was particularly intended for women.
Madame. take advantage of my
/ secrets. believe in them, and you VIII
be lucky, win lottery prizes, become
beautiful Gf you are not SO already),
be beloved, If net already beloved ana
secure a happy and beautiful existence
For all that, you need only pay 81. 40
! You should, you must; it Will insure
your happiness. In return l VIII SEND
you a key to all my mysteries
The 81. 40 is what landed the sorcerer
! in the police court, in which ne Is
! BADLY and unsympathetically charged
with swindlng. The customers VINO
sent him $2.40 received by return OF
post two volumes of occult science ana
talisman consisting of a potent pow
! der, with instructions how to use ii.
/ The lot seems cheap at the price, put
the prosecution is of a different opinion
What were your secrets?" asked the
/ Judge at the first hearing of the case
"A method and a fluid, a powder and
talisman," replied the wizard All
who followed my method have sue
ceeded. Do you call that 5wtndling? !?
If the wizard escapes prison. he will
be lucky, too.
Sculptor Causes Trouble
When a sculptor is also an actor, he
has the advantage of being able TO
model himself in dramatic attitudes.
M. Capellani who is making a name
on the stage, and exhibits at the
salons, has followed this method for
obtaining realism in art. He carried
the idea out with remarkable thor
oughness, and his mise-en scene was
so real that he nearly killed himself
and several persons in the process. A
sculptured figure Of a man sinking in
quicksand was exhibited by him at
| the salon of the Artist Francais this
year. The dying man whom he mod
eled is himself in effigy, and he very
nearly did die in reality.
The arrangements for representing
| the scene were made with elaborate
care at Mont Saint Michel, where the
sands are as treacherous as those of
| the Goodwins Having put on an old
suit of clothes, he went out to dan
gerous spot and duly began to sink.
At a convenient distance photogra-
piers, on mis- instructions, put up a
| cinematograph camera and began TAX
| ing pictures of him as he was being
slowly sucked under. Meanwhile he
acted the death throes of the sinking
man with all his might.
Rescue Effected in Time
! The mise en- scene was being thus
beautifully carried out when it sud-
denly occurred to all concerned that
the whole performance was approach
/ ing dangerously near to reality. The
actor sculptor, sucked down almost to
| his waist, ceased altogether to act, and
| the pictures taken of him show that
! his alarm was no longer felgned at all
| by that time. At the same moment
! the photographers ceased to photo
! graph, because they found that they
and the camera also were rapidly sink
| ing in the quicksands. Help came and
all were luckily dragged out safe and
sound. 1t had been a close call, but
the actor sculptor had secured a fine
series of human documents" for
achieving realism in art.