The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-30
TOUCHES INTELEPATHY
By AUGUSTUS THOMAS

AN often asked by people who have
4 seen The Witching Hour IL /
personally believe in thought
reading. thought transference and
other forms Of thought mysteries that
go generally under the name Of telep-
athy And 1 wish TO say that ] do. A :
/ have before stated, the incidents /
have incorporated into The Witching
Hour" 7 have personal knowledge Of
Some of them are personal experiences.
To come at once TO my experiences
with Bishop, / viii recall that this re
markable man, who has been dead
nearly twenty years, was 81 years old
al the time ne died. l suppose he was
what physicians would have called
neurotic He claimed To have the
power OF autO-hypnosis. He was the
first man of whom 1 ever heard who
claimed that ability but the condition
of auto-hypnOsis and the power of au-
tO-suggestiOn is one now recognized
by all pathOlogists.
Bishops audiences imagined that he
was making difficulties for himself
when he requested TO be blindfOlded.
As matter of fact. ii would have been
impossible for him TO perform the
things he did if he had kept his eyes
open and with the appeal of his
senses to disturb what was telepathic
communication. The star exhibition
and test that Bishop made in the Vari-
Gus cities was TO drive tam OF
horses through the city while he was
DAlnUI0luEQs ana NAA4AE ne aEAFu unuti
telepathic suggestion Of committee
seated in the open carriage behind
him, which committee had previously
driven over the route he was taking
Frequently q member OF this commit
tee insisted on sitting beside Bishop
as a matter of self-prOtectiOn, but
Bishop would have Driven better with
out the man beside him.
Scream at Memory.
His work was never, in my opinion,
applicable by the sO-called muscle
reading. In this particular feat
Bishop would scream in terror at the
recollection Of some danger that he
had passed while driving a team, and
in a faisettO way would describe it, IL
would be something that three men
in the carriage had not seen, but
would be plainly witnessed by the
fourth.
He would then call TO mind some
other menace in the review Of the
route he had taken, and some other
man of the four would be the only one
that had seen it. And so on along the
line until il became evident 10 the ply
sicians who composed the committee
appointed by the skeptical townspeO-
pie that Bishop, blidfOlded on the
drivers seat. had seen everything that
had been seen by each and all of the
men who rode behind him.
Reception for Bishop.
1t was my duty TO precede Bishop 10
make arrangements for his reception in
cities and wherever this was possible
the reception was by a committee OF
fifty men of the liberal pfOfessiOns-
law, medicine and ministry. The local
tests were performed in the presence or
la subcommittee selected from this
larger one OF fifty. and almost invar-
iably composed of men who had never
even seen Bishop before, men scien-
tificaly skeptical and anxious TO con-
Vict him Of fraud.
Bishop was "a sincere and fine exam
pie of a sensitive Lelepathist. have
met a number since Bishops time. /
know now another man who is as far
ahead of what Bishop was in telepathy
rows of Satan" in this city. MI Sey-
mour comes 10 salt Lake direct from
the BijOu stock company Of Mime
apOlis He is an experienced actor,
having nine years I'm stock and sew
eraI seasons as leading man in road
companies. one of his important en-
gagements was that of the title role
i'm "The Man of the Hour" with an
eastern company last season.
Changes at Garriek.
Several changes in the Garrick
company have been announced 20
take effect Immediately Miss Fran
ces Nelson. leading woman, and Miss
Leslie Bingham, ingenue, closed their
engagements last night. Miss Mel
sons place viii be filled by Miss Jane
/ Wheatley. who comes 10 salt Lake
/ from New York. She will make heI
! first appearance in THE Little Min
| lister" next week. Miss Bingham goes
! 10 New York 10 join her husband
| Joseph Byron TOtten, formerly stage
manager at the Garrick. Miss Con-
stance Abbott viii play in Miss
Hobbs next week. and Miss Margaret
Dius viii take the title role.
The Girl and the Prince" had a
| fine week at the Shubert theatre. Miss
Maude Beatty is making good as the
! leading singing woman, and Carleton
/ Chase more than holds his own
/ Frank Vack. the new comedian. is q
distinct addition, while Albert Leon
ard and Chic Burnham help the bill
along wonderfully The production
of the week which opened at yester-
DAVIS matinee, is The Flirting Ouch
| ess."
The Salt Lake theatre is dark to
/ theatrical attractions this week
/ though politics and Liza Lehman
will keep it open several nights.
The one big outside attraction IS
/ John Mason in '@The Witching Hour,
which comes to the Colonial Thurs
day night for the balance of the week