"Phrenology Booth," a circa 1940s photograph (shown here in a modern copy), probably made at a street fair. Conversing with a couple, the reader (blocked from view by the man) is portrayed by the banners as a gypsy. (That is consistent with her claim that she speaks seven different languages (which she could have picked up, say, by traveling in Europe). The appeal to phrenology (as if it were a science, not a pseudoscience) was obviously intended to give credibility to the readings.