FORTUNE-TELLING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 175, 17 March 1932, Page 6

FORTUNE-TELLING

A8TROLOGY MOST POPULAR METHOD IN UNITED STATES. HOROSCOPES BROADCAST. Fortune-telling, which is prevalent in New Zealand at the present tixne, is centred in palnxistry, cards, crystalgaz mg, and tea-cup reading; but in the United States astrology holds the field as the best means of ascex-taining what the future has in store. The American believers in astrology are not limited to the ignorant, uneducated masses, but include, states Mr. Travis Hoke, in an article in Harper's Magazine, even bankers, Cabinet officers, and Governors of States. The best known astrologist in the United States is Evangeline Adains, who broadcasts horoscopes three times each week to 1,300,000 listeners. Her headquarters are in the Carnegie Hall, in New Yox-k city, and the nxrnber of people who eall there ixx order to have personal interviews with her, at a cost of £10 each, is so great that many have to be turned away. It is stated that an aggregate of 100,000 have called to consult her since she set up in business as an astrologist. For( a sum of £2 10s a personal horoscope drawn by oxxe of her stafi: can be obtained by mail; and for £4 you caix have a "Delineation" and the indicatioxxs of the succeeding six months. For the sum of one dollar (4s) a monthly forecast of world conditions is supplied. Banker a Client. • "One of America's greatest bankers learned astrology at Carnegie Hall, and during .the last years of his life received froxn Evangeline Adams a regular service of indications of future happenings in politics, business and the market," states Mr. Hoke. "A former president of the New York Stock Exchange was another client of hers, as was Caruso, who eonsxxlted the stars as to the most propitious dates for starting voyages. A senator asked for astral advice on his chances of nomination for the Presidency. The answer was that he would fail of nomination, but would prcfit nevertheless, and eventually he becarne a member of the Cabinet. She has beeix consulted in ncarly every important divorce case in New York for thirty years. In onq case the five persons concerned consulted her se /erally, at kast two years before the public knew there was to be a divorce." Formerly women greatly predoxninated in the clientele of the astrologist; but now there are as many mexx as women. The woman clients formerly wanted to know how to hold their husbands, or how to get rid of them. The unmarried ones wanted to know when they would meet the right man, and how soon they would be engaged. Now they are more anxious about careers at Hollywood and trips to Europe. Many Men Interested. The maia clients are interested mainly in things relating to their da'ly bx*ead in these days of depression. Theatrical-managers ask for propitious dates for the production of plays; and playwrights ask about the chances of plays they are writing. Married couples want to know abont new arrivals in their families and the prospects that lie ahead of these newcomers. A prisoner serving a life sentence in a gaol wanted to know what the stars had to say about his prospscts of getting a pardon. The president of a lax-ge manufacturing company ordered horoscopes for several huixdreds of his employees, so that he might know which were best fitted for their jobs. The largest newspaper syndicate in the United States, which controls a number of papers, publishes a horoscope each day in all/of its papers. A lady known professionally as Dolores, who broadcasts horoscopes on the wireless, offered to supply horoscopes by mail for 10s each. The replies to this offer totalled 1,500,000, and 600,000 of these credulous people sent the 10s in their first letter.