Show THE TE STORY OF hF THE TUE WITCHING WIT G H I N G HOUR H 0 U R WITH JOHN JOFIN MASON IN THE TITLE ROLE The most scholarly und and distin distinguished of American critics William Winter Inter has declared d d that tho th greatest American play pla of oC this decade Is The Witching Hour Ho r In which John Ma Mn Mason son SOil and a distinguished company com pan will appear November and an at tho ho Ogden Ogdon theater Tho fhe story A tor of oC this fascinating play plarIs Is as 88 follows I The scene of the play IB Is laid In Louisville Ky Kr and Washington Jack Is a n professional gambler having become very wealthy through his hi playing though ho be has tho time aLien of always playing a n straight game Tho The woman he loves has brut re ro refused fused to 10 marry marr him because of his profession and on tho the night that at tho play pIa opens ho asks aska her now no a C widow with a n son of or twenty to take up ip the tho theold theold old romance nce and conclude tho the story fj to 1 They The aro are Interrupted by b the tho appear anco anc of or Judge Prentice of or the supreme court who cornea comes com s to look at a n Corot that Is In the picture collection at Brookfield Tho The Judge answers soy sev several Be eral era questions that Is la think thinkIng thinkIng thinking Ing of or asking Do iDo you yott on pick answers often like 7 asks ako the gambler And then the Judge proceeds to t ex v x that telepathy Is IB nn an accepted scientIfic fact all of or which Is news to Brookfield who now muses on his own ability to win at cards Tho The act concluded with tho the murder of a I I drunken en man mrm by young who ham hag inherited aversion for a n cats cals eye eyo pin and Is unable to restrain himself when whon tho the drunken man pushes It In front of or his face Cace faceIn faceIn In tho the second act the library of oC Judge Prentice In Washington is shown Young Whippie has hns been tried for tor murder and found guilty and the lIfo case Is IB now before tho the supreme court courton on a constitutional point and his old sweetheart who Is the mother of the tho guilty guilt boy come como to the tho judo judge to remind him that years before he ho had fought rought a n duel with a man over his very CI same samo cats eye eyo aversion and tho the girl Iri Involved In tho the duel was the grandmother of young Whipple The Tho third act Is back in Kentucky and tho the second trial of or the boy 00 has hn been bean completed The Tho Th Judge has given his hla testimony and the Jury Is out Tho The prosecuting attorney has been beon unusually bitter against tho the boy bo for Cor they had both been boen suitors for tor tho hand of or niece The rho gam gambler ILler bler Is now thoroughly convinced of or orthe the fact of telepathy and hypnotism and realizing that with his 1115 ability there thero Is no such thing as a square game for him has hns closed up hip hl hi business He Is sitting alone alono trying to Influence by b telepathy the mind of one juror who WIIO ho thinks Is tible to his thought Under Judge Prentices direction he has hla had pub published published published In the tho newspapers n tho the fact that the prosecuting attorney was responsible responsible sible for tho the killing of Scovel tho the of or Kentucky Kentuck What Is tho the gamo game asks a dubious fellow gambler And Brookfield re roo replies replies plies that If he lie can show the people of Kentucky tho the despicable character of o the prosecuting pros attorney his bitter prosecution of or tho the boy will have no effect on tho the Jury And when whon he ho Is told that the Jury is not allowed to torca read rca tho the newspapers ho he replies that it is impossible for people to think a n thing and any twelve men mon In that community not be bo influenced by b that thought There Thero Is a round of applause on this that would Indicate that telepathy Is accepted even oen In New Now York first night nigh t audiences The boy IJo Is 15 acquitted Tho The prose attorney is IB Jeered out of or court and comes rushing at Brookfield and places a revolver against his breast You cant shoot that gun sun says sas calmly looking him In inthe the tho eye CO You cant pull the Uie trigger You cant oven even hold that gun gunThe gunThe The mans hand band opens the revolver drops and tho the curtain comes down as ho gasps Id Jd like to know how in hell you ron did that to me mo moIn meIn meIn In tho the last act net the saUl gam gambler bIer bler Is a refugee refu o from Justice Brook Brookfield Brookfield field Instead Ins ad ot of giving him up when ho out whore where ho Is helps him to escape as ho lie believes that the man with all his moral weakness was not really the original criminal The woman that Brookfield has loved for or orman ninny many man years finally sees tho real bounty beauty of his hit character and admits that she sho was weak In letting her boy bov 00 grow up with a 11 prejudice that haV ha caused so much 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