Modern Inventions and A Look to the Future

Modern Inventions and A Look to the Future was a stage performance and lecture presented in 1933, during the depths of the Great Depression, by an individual calling himself Dr. Theo Rapalynt.
Advertisements in town newspapers ran for weeks before Dr. Theo Rapalynt was set to speak on "Modern Inventions and A Look to the Future," shown live through the newest devices of electrical education. Eventually over 300 men packed into the Manley Theatre on a sweltering July night. The bizarre lecturer showed the hopeful and very unsuspecting audience sights of war, disease, and violence the likes of which their minds could barely manage to accept. Fueled by intense, inexplicable rage, the men rioted against the speaker, who managed to escape in the mayhem.
Town, and then State, Police were called in to help settle the town when the rampage took to the streets. Windows were smashed, cars overturned, people beaten, and several women 'assaulted.' The resulting damage of 12 hours of street violence: 2 civilians dead, 2 policemen killed, 149 serious injuries, and 42 arrests.
An arrest warrant was filed against the speaker in absentia; he remains at large to this day.

Dr. Theo Rapalynt
circa 1933