The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
THE WEIGHING HOUR
 A WORLD MASTERPIECE
QUARTET OF STELLAR SCREEN PLAYERS REQUIRED FOR LEAD ING PARTS AT PRINCESS
 TODAY.

II is with a degree of pride that the Princess announces for today William l.. Sherrills master drama. produced by the Frohman syndicate and featur- ing in the leading parts four world known actors and actresses C. Aubrey Smith, Marie Shotwen, Jack Sherill and Robert Conness.
 Over the entire country The Witch. ing Hour has been hailed as the greatest screen drama yet. and from the thousands of voluntary comments we quote the following from the Ex- hibitor's Review:
 The Witching Hour" is a loo per cent photoplay.
 The screen adaptation of Augustus Thomas stage success has been made without losing any Of the finer points of the big, vigorous psychic drama and no little credit is due Director George Irving and Anthony Kelly, who wrote the scenario. c. Aubrey Smith gives a virile and convincing perform ance in the role made famous by John Mason as the gambler Jack Brook field, and receives ample support from a well selected cast. including Robert Conness, Jack Sherrill, Freeman Barnes, Lewis Senly, Marie Shotwell and Helen Arnold. The film has a genuine grip and sweeps along by force of a story well told. We take pleasure in commenting 1t to eXhibi- tors.
 The basic theme of the drama is mental telepathy and tells how. through mental suggestion. a jury ac- quits a young man of murder, another is influenced in making way with the governor and a supreme court justice is won over to the side of the perse- cuted boy.
 Briefly the story is this: Jack Brookfield, a gambler, finds himself possessed of a remarkable power to read other peoples minds. He wins at cards and dominates everyone with whom he comes in contact. Helen, the only woman he ever loved, will not marry him until he gives up gambling. He refuses to abide by her wishes and they part. Years later her son Clay visits Brookfields' gambling den and drunken habitue of the place taunts him with a cats eye pin, of which he has an uneXplainable fear At last, half craSed by Denning, he strikes him a terrible blow and kills him. He is tried and convicted :t murder His mother finds some old letters written to her mother-one from a justice of the supreme court mentioning a duel fought over simi- lar ease in which a cats eye figured, and upon this testimony new trial is granted.
 By concentrating his mind on that of one of the jurors, Brookfield and the justice secure an acquittal. Hard muth is accused by a broken down gambler of instigating the death ot the governor and Brookfield tele- phones the news to the papers, while the jury is out, and this also has an influence on the jury Brookfield, feeling that his telephatic message to Hardmuth had q bearing on the gov ernor's murder aids Hardmuth 10 es- cape
 The above outline does not do inc story justice. as it seems with sus- pense and stirring climaHes.
 The prices for today are: All adults 0Oc all children 1Oc
 "The W'itchng Hour is here but a single day. Phone 596 and ask the time of starting the next show.
 Thursday comes the incomparabie William s. Hart in the great Triangle Western. The Gun Fighter"