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Show GRIFFITH, THE HYPNOTIST. Insisting that he bo allowed to continue con-tinue his playing, a subject who had been seated at a piano for twelve hours was almost dragged away from the Instrument by Prof. Griffith, the hpnotlst, at the Ogdon theater last evening During his marathon musical musi-cal stunt the subject was under a hypnotic lnfluenco said to be a form of somnambulism. The man was hypnotized by Griffith Grif-fith yosterday morning and placed at a piano In one of the show windows of a Washington avenue cbtabl.sh-meut. cbtabl.sh-meut. For twelve hours, without once leaving the Instrument and without fo6d or water this subject continued to finger the Ivories In tho evening he was taken to the theater and continued con-tinued his playing until awakened by tho operator at 9 o'clock. The man did not respond to the first two efforts ef-forts of the operator to Induce a normal nor-mal condition, hut finally "came to " He suffered no ill effects as a result, of his experience Griffith is creating a great deal of Interest in the peculiar art of mind transition and tho crowds at the Ogdon Og-don are gTowlng nightly. The hypnotist hyp-notist Is alBO securing a larger class of subjects each night and for a groat- 1 or part of two hours last evening the audlenco was in an uproar of laughter laugh-ter The feature lest of last night's performance was, a cake walk, produced pro-duced by a large class of men aud women. ,1 Tonight one of tho best tests of the week will he attempted. This Is tho minstrel .show, aud the subjects will be given nn opportunity to do some singing; that .Is, thov will ho allowed to try, but not for long. The Griffith engagement closes with Sunday night's performance. 00 |