New-York tribune., 1910-08-13
IN WEIRD STAGE MIDNIGHT
PaIIadino's Ex-Manager Exposes
Tricks of Medium Trade.
TURNS LIGHT ON OLD FAKES
Poetioal Seance at berkeley
Lyceum Theatre with 70
to Applaud Darlington.


hoy and Mrs Hereward Darlington VINO
nIayed on the piano-fn the manner known
as divineIy-Grieg' Holberg Suite as cur
tain raiser. twenty-three newspaper re-
porters and others attended what MT Car
rineton said was an expose of the methou'
of mediums at the Berkeley byceum ne
atre yesterday afternoon
II wasn't so much what Mr.. Darlington
showed old DR. Monk, for instance useo
to do to fool the people that helo the dAu
ence Yesterday. nor denonstratioiiS
prove how simple were the devices oy "fii'ii
the Eddy brothers harvested thousands VI
dollars in other wears. It was the care1ul
carelessness displayed by Mr. Darlington m
the arrangement of his hair
MIR. Carrington has blond hair and man
ners It seemed so strange setting LOT
him on the Berkeley stage
If he had besun to recita sor1ething aoou'
wonderful pale sunrise, and 1Irther OH
in the poem had run his fair hands 'hr'usH
his fairer hair. the audience could nave
gone away. of course, but probaniy "ould
have remained. because it remained as II
was. It would be a funny man VINO "oulu
care to risk money on an assumption that
NJ. Darlington would not be worth hedrlhs'
at least seeing under such circumstances
sweetest smile shown by any male per-
former this season, and with hair of the
Ightness of spun moonbeams; dainty OF
figure, finished and burbling of voice. STOOD
in the midst Of skulls and crossbones
The onlv relief in sight was that the
skulls and crossbones were emofoldereo-
They were done in white silk on a deep
dark background.
While Mr.. Darlington doing the most
puzzling things with imitation hands ana
real tambourines. using silk handkerchleI
now and then, Just as fancy swayed' mrs
Darlington sat down front trying to Keep
to herself the fact that she thought MN
a perfect dear.
Mr. Darlington is very strange MKT
ure" she confided TO a reporter he Is
the most healthy minded thing, but loves
skulls l som etmes think he must De very
deceitfui-he does these things SO sWeetl!
and easily"
Mr. Darlington was bordering on poetry
a good deal of the time, and one felt that
one understood Mrs Carr1ngton' "hooe
father is a clergyman in England
1t was not poetry, really, as could oe
ascertained by close attention. 1t was pratt
tie of facile variety, and interesting 100
when considered in connection with the
NJ
with his we'll shaped hands-and there is
every reason to believe that Mr. Carrlngton
meant for his voice and hands to be con-
sidered simultaneously.
1t was interesting. for instance, to know
that Mr.. Darlington could materiallze
spirit simply by calling the shade of
cigar trust and gradually deterial1ze 1t
again right there on that stage by mid
nj before those twentE-threa.
Some cheesecloth withdrawn gracefully |
from black cotton ball operated as though |
the skirt dance on. and then tucked |
away again. the lights on once more, and
there was Mr. Darlington. He said any |
one could do it. He wore false whiskers |
when he did it Yesterday, but that wasn't
necessary.
Mr.. Darlington rang a glass bell twenty |
feet away by pulling a black string that
nobody had seen. but that Me Darlington |
assured the twenty-three was just above |
the footlghts.
He wrote on a slate. who went
,lp on the stage 10 investigate Mr.. 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 |
before Mr.. Darlington came to the theatre. !
but he said he thought the reply showed I
a knowledge of the matter involved"
The appearance of the baby hand above |
a darkly caparisoned table explained |
when the covering was removed 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 per- |
sons 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 e per cent of the |
work of the Italian artist secured by |
fraud and trickery the rest of her results |
was beyond Mr.. Carrington's capacity to !
and was wonderful. indeed. |
A woman rose to thank Mr.. Darlington |
for his kindness to the powers possessed |
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 j
know just why-and probably would do bet /
ter abroad
Mr.. Darlington thought So too. and then |
the audience departed
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