Last week, in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, an audience that had come to watch a demonstration of hypnosis got more than it bargained for. The star attraction, Franz Polgar, was illustrating his powers ...

No one has ever conclusively explained hypnotism. This week a successful practicing hypnotist, Andrew Salter, made a plausible try (What Is Hypnosis— Richard R. Smith, $2). Frowning severely at the ...

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The same year, the fictional hypnotist Svengali was born in the bestselling novel Trilby, by George du Maurier. The public devoured the book alongside news reports of the Czyński case, which were said ...

A Royal Winnipeg Ballet production. At the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts on Friday, April 20. Continues until April 22 Svengali is unlike any other ballet you have seen before, and it casts ...

SVENGALI’S devised and directed by Paul Bettis, with Rosa Laborde, Greg Morris, Alan Rosenthal, Bruce Vavrina and Earl Pastko. Presented by Civilized Theatre and Salon Productions at the Theatre ...