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Show ogden theatre. two rights november 6 id t, jqhn nason ii "the witching HOUR" A large number of people in Chicago firmly bebeve that Augustus Thomas' strange telepathic drama, "The Witching Witch-ing Hour." in which the Messrs. Shu-bert Shu-bert will introduce the eminent actor. Mr. John Mason, at the Ogden Theater did more than any other medium to ward bringing out the verdict of not guilty for Mi a. Dora McDonald, who last year was on tilal before Judge Brentano for the murder of Webster Guerlu. In all her moods, from the moment tho police seized her as 3he stood above the prostrate body of Cuerln until the Jury was polled, Mrs. McDonald was theatric, and her desire de-sire to Beck rest and quiet in the sunny South immediately after her acquittal was an anti-climax. The world, perhaps, will never know how much the Thomas play had to do with rolling away the vision of the penitentiary pen-itentiary door that confronted ber for many days. Judge Brentano sympathized with the McDonald jury. Tho trial had been a long drawn- out one, aid this acted upon the nerves of the jurors like solitary confinement docs upon some prisoners. Therefore, when some one suggested an evening at the theatre for the twelve men the Judge thought It was the thing, and the jury was conducted to the Garrick Theatre, where they literally drank in the metaphysics met-aphysics of the play; and. repsonlng by analogy, those residents of the Windy City who thought the case apainst Mrs. McDonald was too strong to admit of acquittal, are blaming the play for the attitude of the jurors who tersely defended their action for freeing free-ing the prisoner. Seats Tuesday, Nov. 1st If a in. . |