The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-29
Woman, .Hypnotized, Sings Operatic Airs Music Teachers in Conven- tion See and Hear Miss
 Graham Do It
 NO SINGER OTHERWISE Delivers an Aria From "Pagliacci" An Expla- nation of Her Achieve ment.
NO SINGER OTHERWISE

The eyes of a hundred or so music teachers, singers and physicians were
 delighted. yesterday by the sight of g
 good looking young woman singing in
 her sleep. She was sitting singing on
 the stage of Earl Hall at Co1umbis
 University, where the New Yotk State
 Music Teachers association is havins it's conventions. and she was singing
 because Charles Munter who has .
 Prof. before his name, told her to 60
 to sleep and do 1t. Mir. Munter says that the young woman, who Is Miss
 Marion H. Graham, cant sing at all until he comes along every now and
 then and hypnotizes her.
 Most every one is a critic of pulchri-
 tude, but none of the reporters pre-
 sent was a music critic, and so while it's safe to say that Miss Graham is
 good looking, even while she is asleep
 with her mouth open, there must be silence sas to her music. To the. lay ear if sounded like regular singing
 And before this goes any further il may be reassuring to state that mo-
 where in this piece will you find any mention of young woman who sang
 so we'll while she was hypnotized by
 foreign feller in a beard in book
 that our fathers named small feet af-
 ter her.
 Miss Graham is secretary to MT
 Munter, who has thought up a chest
 expanding, deep breath compelling
 health giving garment intime, and she
 says that she never has taken any young womerf of her aee.she is D.
 she used to go around the house sing
 ing about Mir. Brown, or rising from
 dreams of antique wooden buckets
 but the result did not drive the Ora.
 ham caf1ary to naoult from Jealousy
 r IC<1% Ix<&~
 to see a throat specialist, pr. Franl
 E. Miller and had an operation per.
 formed for an abscess. She happened t0s say that it had always been her am.
 bition to be a singer, but now she
 never could be. Dr. Miller tried oui
 her voice on his piano and then said
 Well. they'll have to hypnotize yor before you can ever sing"
 That's easy, said Miss Graham
 let's try it..
 Shes told him that MT. Munter had often hvpnotized her when she .csms headaches and the physitfan ana thl girl went around to his office ant asked him to hypnotize Miss Graham and tell her that she could sing. Mir Munter got outAa phonograpf1, hypno tized his secretary and in a minute she was singing like. anything.
 |. Every time Mir. Munter looked a Miss Graham for any length of tim, l she would go to sleep singing The, went down to Philadelphia in Ma, and showed lot of doctors ther, l how they did it. but yesterday wa l the first time Gotham heard Mis- Miss Graham said at her. home at 5 Manhattan avenue that the first tim. she sang the side of her throat wal filled with packing. the dressing aftel the operation. but that made no diff | xay{kh n ifs, She has been in bed for a week sui fering from tonsilitis that Mir. Munte couldn't exercise. but she got up tt go to Earl Hall yesterday in whit suit and hat that made. the must, teachers sigh with envy. Mr. Muntel had on grand green waistcoat ans an air 5bf portent. As the music teachers watched, he fixed up. hi phonograph and Dr. Miller told al about Miss Graham and MT. Munter'i magnetic effect upon her.
 k Then Mr. Munter sat down ant looked long and hard right at Mis-, Graham, who looked back fnterestedly Watching the scene a young man il the audience announced audibly hi recommendation of civil engineering fol ed disappointed when MT. Munter con fined himself. to looking and didn'' wave his hands or pluck his hair ol do any of the regular things that hyp notists do. in books. As he kept ol looking into Miss Graham's deep blue eyes her hand fell back and she closed l her eyes and fluttered bit and theI to all outward appearances went t. sleep. Whereupon MT. Munter got uI and put disk that sings an aris from sPagiiaeci'' on his phonograph As the song began he took Miss Gra ham by the hand and said, ''Nou sing > which she did.
 q am now" said MT. Munter transferring my magnetic personal l ity, much after the fashion in whicl electric sparks areNproduced between 1 Leydeh jars. into Miss Graham,s vo cal cords am sending the physica eehrgy of my body through space in to the blood cells of her brain Wferl they are fused with the suggestion l to sing emanating from the phono graph into the actual accomplishment of the act.''
 He said that Miss Graham hadn'