The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-04


capacity audience, delightful audi
ence, left the Colonial theater on Thurs
day night better men and better women
than when they entered the playhouse.
for they were better in heart and In mind
This, great audience '., had d -, witnessed
is a wonderful play. and II tells won
derful story, in which telepathy and
hypnotism enter largely, Then. too, it Is
company. And It breaks new ground,
the plow turns over new soil, the seed
sown terminates, sends up Its shoots.
natures, but does not die: for. regardless
OF fixed theories and beliefs, there Is
great deal in tclepathy, In mind read
ing. in hypnotism. in psychic influence,
For one pays the price and If the thought
be evil or otherwise nevertheless the
price is paid.
When Augustus Thomas, the play
wright, worked out The Witching Hour"
| haps telepathy. perhaps some psychic in
| fluence. perhaps hypnotic influence was
at work. but regardless he constructed
| beautiful play, and in IL he teaches a
lesson-a lesson of self-control. Then,
| too. IL s filled with bright and sparkling
| lines. truisms these lines are. Here are
| a few excerpts:
my boyhoods horizon is very near
| to my old eyes now. The DINNER they
grow the nearer il comes. until think
sometimes that when we arc through
| tered-lttle children
Domestic architecture is the most
poetic work man can do outside of
| downright poetry ITSELF
Every thought is active that is born
! Of a desire and travels from us. or II
is born Of desire of some one else and
comes to u.s.
IF we are idle and empty headed. our
brains are the playrooms for the thoughts
| of others
Hatred is heavier freight for the
lel, xh1,1 Il, f,.-
The way TO forget a wrong Is not to
| guard IL as a sensitive spot in your
| memory, but to grasp IL as the wise ones
| grasp a nettle-crush all its power to
! harm you In one courageous contact"
| I'VE think things are calamities and
| trials and sorrows. Only names! They
are spiritual gymnastics and have an
DON'T look behind-your iifes ahead
of you. Don't mount for the race over
| weighted"
about as thin an entertainment for the
outsiders as Who's got the button?"
THE testimony OF every man is en-
titled to just such weight and considera-
| tion as thai mans character commands .
| Il want TO reform: sll right. believe
In reform. But first want the fun of
fallin. and fallin hard
His father is in the packing business
| in Kansas City. He has been shoveling
money away from him so that he can
breathe"
and nothing on earth or under 1t can
harm you in the slightest degree
| The play is wonderfully fascinating
There are many climaxes. and each and
every one is to the point and teaches a
lesson, great lesson, in fact and when
the play is ended the audience concludes
that II Is not strange play; that ii Is
real; that the scenes and the incidents
presented occur every Gay. and In the
lives of many OF those who witness II
For scientists have educated the people
TO the point that nothing surprises them
Hour" OF this most fascinating OF plays
OF this play which deals with scientific
subjects, and which is presented In sucl
a manner that 1t Is easily grasped anc
comprehended By all The scene is LAID
in Louisville Ky. and Washington. JACK
Brookheld is professional gambler, hay
ing become very wealthy through hi:
playing, though he has the reputation o.
always playing Straight game" The
woman he loves has refused 10 MARI,
him because OF his profession" and or
the night that the play opens he ask:
her. now a widow with a son OF twenty
10 take up the old romance and conclud,
the story. They arc interrupted by th'
appearance Of Judge Prentice of the su
premc court, who comes TO look at
Corot that is In the picture collection o
Broosiield. The judge answers severa
questions that Brooll6ed Is thinking o
| asking.
"Do YOU pick answers often like that
asks the gambler. And then the judge
proceeds to explain that telepathy is an
accepted scientific fact, all of which il
news 10 BruoStield. who now muses. or
his own ability to win at cards. The ac
concluded with the murder of a. drunken
man by young Whippc, who has an in
hcritcd aversion for cats eye pin anS
is unable TO restrain himself when TN,
drunken man pushes il in front of hi
face,
In the second act the library OF JudG,
Prentice in Washington is shown Youn;
III hnr hnn ITin f0r I'M,
found guilty. and the case is now hcCor,
the supreme court on constitutions
point. BrooSfeld and his cid sweetheart
who Is the mother of the guilty boy, Com
TO the Judge To remind him that year
before he had fought a duel with a maj
4 over This very same cats eye aversion
and the girl involved i'm the duel was tn
j grandmother OF young Whipplc.
j Tho third act is back III KcntuCky
and the second trial of the boy has jus
been completed. Tho Judge has given hi
Il testimony and the iury Is out, The pros
\ ccuting attorney has been unusually bit
u ter against the boy. !ur they had bot
1 been suitors for the hand of Hroohiicd'
4 niece. The gambler is now thoroughl
Il convinced of tho fact of tclrpathy an.
hypnotism, and. realizing that with hi
A ability there Is no such Thing as
y square game for him. has closed up hi
9 business. He is sitting alone, trying Il
influence by tclcpaihy, tho mind uf on
Juror. who. hu thinks is susceptible 4
4 his thought. Under Judge Prcnlicc's di
4 rectiuu he has had published In TN
A newspapers The fact that the proSccutln
attorney was responsible for the killIp
y of Scovcl. the governor elect of Ken
A tuclty.
what is the game" asks a dubiou
A fellow gambler And EroolSicd reptile
\ that If hc can show the people of Ken
tuCky th" dcSpicablc character OF tn
A prosecuting attorney. his bitter prcsccn
ton uf til" boy Will have no effect OF tl
jury And when Inc Is told th3i The iur
II is not allowed to read the newspapers
hc replies that II Is impossible 10
II 100000 people 10 think thing and an
4 lwcv" men IN that community not bc I'm
1uouccd by that thought. The boy Is ac
quilted. The prosecuting attorney
ieercd ont Of court comes rushing in I
Al Bruokneld and places revolver agains
his breast.