Stanley LeFevre Krebs
Stanley LeFevre Krebs (1864–1935[1]) was an American psychologist and salesmanship lecturer.
He married the actress Marjorie Main on November 2, 1921.[2] He was the president of the American Institute of Mercantile Art, Philadelphia, where he worked as a salesmanship lecturer.[3]
Throughout his career, he exposed a number of fraud mediums. He employed a secret mirror and caught the medium Henry Slade swapping slates and hiding them in the back of his chair.[4] Krebs exposed the Bangs Sisters by using a secret mirror under the table, which caught them tampering with a sealed envelope. The sisters during the séance would open the envelope and write in it a reply which they would pretend a spirit had written.[5]
He also wrote the book Trick Methods of Eusapia Paladino (1910), which documented the tricks of the medium Eusapia Palladino.
He died from cancer on September 27, 1935, in New York City.[6]
Publications
- The Law of Suggestion (1906) reprinted as The Fundamental Principles of Hypnosis (1957)
- Trick Methods of Eusapia Paladino (1910)
References
- ↑ Stanley LeFevre Krebs (1864-1935)
- ↑ Michelle Vogel. (2011). Marjorie Main: The Life And Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle". McFarland. p. 9. ISBN 978-0786464432
- ↑ Kansas Bankers Association. (1916). Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Kansas Bankers Association. p. 14.
- ↑ Gordon Stein. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 705. ISBN 978-1573920216
- ↑ Joe Nickell. (2001). Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal. The University Press of Kentucky. pp. 267–268. ISBN 978-0813122106
- ↑ Axel Nissen. (2011). Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Faces from Hollywood from the Thirties to the Fifties. McFarland. p. 111. ISBN 978-0786461103