The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-24
SOME OF TIE TRICKS
 OF HE MEDIUM
Exposed By Ex- Manager for
 Publication of Reporters
LIGHTS ARE TURNED ON
Arc Exposed-Poetical Seance Is Witnessed Fly n Select
 Audience
ew York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune. Including Daniel Frohman, who sat in box, and Mrs. Hereward Darlington,
 who played on the piano-in the manner known as divinely-Grieg' Holberg Suite us a curtain raiser, 23 newspaper report CTS and others attended what MT. Car
 rington said was ap expose of the meth ods of mediums at the Berkeley Lyceum theatre yesterday afternoon.
 It wasn't so much what MT. Caring ton showed old pr. Monk, for instance, used to do to fool the people that held
 the audience yesterday, nor demonstra- tions to prove how simple were the de- vices by which the Eddy brothers har- vested thousands of dollars in other years. It was the careful carelessness displayed by MT. Darlington in the ar engagement of his hair. l MT. Darlington has blond hair and manners. It seemed so strange setting for him on the Berkeley stage. | If he had begun to recite something about a wonderful pale sunrise, and fur ther on in the poem had run his fair hands through his fairer hair, the audi ence could have gone away, of course, but probably would have remained, be- cause it remained as it was. It would be funny man who would care to risk money on an assumption that MT. Car rington would not be worth hearing, at least seeing, under such circumstances. Skull and Crossbones But yesterday MT. Darlington, with | the sweetest smile shown by any male l performer this season. and with hair of | the lightness of spun moonbeams; dainty of figure, finished and burbling of voice, stood in the midst of skull and cross | bones.,
 The only relief in sight was that the skulls and crossbones were embroidered They were done. in white silk on deep dark background. | While MT. Darlington was doing the most puzzling things with imitation hands and real tambourines. using a silk handkerchief now and then, just as fancy swayed, Mrs Darlington sat down front trying to keep to herself l the fact that she thought him a per- feet dear.
 MT. Darlington is a very strange mixture" she confided to a reporter He is the most healthy minded thing, but loves skulls. I sometimes think he must be very deceitful--he does those
 
 MT. Darlington was bordering on poetry a good deal of the time, and one felt that one understood Mrs. Car rington, whose father is clergyman in England
 Exposes All Tricks | It was not poetry, really, as could be ascertained by close attention. It was prattle of a facile variety and interest l ing, too, when considered in connection with the things MT. Darlington was performing with his well-shaped hands -and there is every reason to believe that MT. Darlington meant for his voice and hands to be considered simul- l taneously
 l It was interesting, for instance, to l know that MT. Darlington could ma terialize a spirit simply by calling on the shade of cigar trust" and grad ually deterialize 1t again right there on that stage by midnight before those | twenty three.
 Some cheesecloth withdrawn grace | fully from a black cotton ball operated as though the. skirt dance was on and then tucked away again. the lights on once more, and there was MT. Caring ton. He said anyone could do it. He wore false whiskers when he did it yesterday, but that wasn't necessary
 MT. Darlington rang a glass bell 20 feet away by pulling a black string that nobody had seen, but that MT. Darlington assured the 23 was just above the footlights.
 He wrote on slate A man who went up on the stage to investigate MT. Car rington's expose wrote on a card:
 Where is Mount Popocatepetl?" The slate said: Don't know, sir.' The writing on the slate had been done hot M Car ytp,, tl.o atre, but he said he thought the reply showed knowledge of the matter in volved'
 The Baby Hand The appearance of the baby hand above a darlxly caparisoned table was explained when the covering was re- moved and the spirit fist was seen to be made of wax and stuck on the toe of Carringtons shoe.
 These and other things had been wrongly done for many, many years by bad persons, Eusapia Palladino's former manager glibly maintained. He long had studied Palladino before bringing her to America, and he wished to say that while possibly 25 per cent of the work of the Italian artist was se- cured by fraud and trickery the rest of her results was beyond MT Carrington's capacity to understand, and was wonder full, indeed. sa.-. A woman rose to thank MT. Caring ton for his kindness to the powers pos sessed by Palladino, with whom she said "she had often talked in her native lingo,, and had learned to love her. The woman added that Eusapia had acted "half demented' In America-she didn't know just why--and probably would do better abroad.
 | Mr. Darlington thought so, too, and then the audience departed Nynru NNr NmYNr