The Archive · 1921

REAL FAIRIES ON THE SCREEN?

More Mysterious "Snaps" by Two Girls An attempt is to be made to film live fairies."

ow photographs of "elves" in their wonder home in a Yorkshire woodland have been taken by the two remarkable girl psychics,' Miss Elsie Wright, aged 19 of Shipley, and her cousin, Miss Frances Ealing, of Scarborough, whose previous efforts at fairy photography created so much interest.

These photographs are to be published shortly as illustrations to a book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mr, E. L. Gardner, which will describe all discovered facts about fairy life.

A °Fairy Crapue."

The most extraordinary of the new photographs shows a "fairy cradle."' There is a background of rushes and grass round a pool. Faint fairy forms can be seen between the and, hanging from a rush n the front is something like With the shadow outline of a fairy, its wings folded, emerging from the top. 7 "It should be remembered," said Mr. E, L. Gardner, to a newspaper man "that fairies are lepidoptera, and, like butterflies and moths, are mature when they develop from the chrysalis state. They have no sex."

Two dainty fairy beings, gossamer. winged, and garbed in shining white, appear in the other new pictures. One is leaping up almost into the face of Frances Ealing, and quite obviously smiling at the girl.

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