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Show for Whipple the man he strikes dues not rlsi ard is found to be dead. A trial of murder follows ;uid the Jury, not bring able to understand the strange aversion for a cat's eye held b Whipple,, sentences him to d ath. Whipple's mother vnd bU sweetheart are fighting to save his life aud they are most ably helped by Jack Brook-field, Brook-field, uncle of the convicted youth. Tho part of Brook field Is taken by John Mason. When a new trial Is granted by an appeal the supreme court nnd a second Jury is re-weighing the evidence In Ihe case P-rooklleld, who has developed remarkable hypnotic hypno-tic power, concentrates his thoughts upon the jurymen. II. s thought is in part responsible for the acqultal which follows . At one juncture in the play Brook-field Brook-field displays I be wonderful hypnotic power over others b foliclng a man Iwnt upon murdering him to let the cocked pistol drop helplessly from his hand. Telepathy in Introduced Into the action of the play by Justice Prentice, Impersonated by Harry Leighton Grace Reals In the part of Mrs. Helen Whipple Is superb her work equalling thai of John Mason, as far as the art of acting is concerned Hurry l.el-hton pictured his part very cleverly clev-erly and Col Bayley, as a Kentucky sport, was without a fault. Hut there are really no weak spots Id the entire en-tire cast, every member of tho com-irany com-irany fitting Into his part with an extreme ex-treme nicety. , JOHN MASON IN "THE WITCHING HOUR" John Mason In any play would be pood but John Mason In ' The Witching Witch-ing Hour" Is more than good he has reached the superlative of the word. And he Is supported most ably by every member of the cast The audience au-dience at ihe Ogden theatre last night was delighted by the pioduction and it Is easy to predict that a larger house will see the play tonight for a bingle empty seat Is altogether out of accord with the quai.ty and tone- of the play. "The Witching Hour" Is a story wrapped in subtile mysticism and carries car-ries the audience to the enthralling borderland of the unknown. The theme is one t.f telepathy, the strange, transmission of thoughts from one mind to another, without word of lip or gesture of hand. To the occult student telepathy means that thoughts arcoselll.itions of brain cells which affect the surrounding either and that this either acts as a medium, carrying carry-ing the ihoucht io other m.nds. The student would tell you that It is nearly the same process that takes place when a wireless mestiase Is Hung through space from one station lo another miles away. But It cannot can-not all le explained so easily and this is what lends tho theory Its enchantment. en-chantment. Telepathy Is most cleverly clev-erly interwoven with the plot of the play. The scene is laid in Louisville, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, where at tltnus culture aud gambling and even murder have niado Ibelr abode under the same proof. Clay Whipple is a joung man wilh a morbid antipathy for a certain kind of Jewel a cats eye. Ho has Inherited the great dislike for the blone from his mother When he is taunted by another youth with one of the Jewels he ll'es into an Insane rage and strikes his tormentor down. I'nfortunately |
