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Culpeper Players To
Present “The Spider”
With the rise of the first curtain on “The Spider”, the attraction of the Culpeper Players at the Ann Wingfield Theatre in Culpeper on the nights of August 5th and 6th at 8 p.m., the mystery will begin, and perhaps the first mystery in the minds of Mr. and Mrs. Audience will be concerned with where they are, for this most unusual of plays begins in a most unusual manner. It begins just as a vaudeville show in the local variety house with a news reel followed by a turn or two of vaudeville before the supposedly feature act on the bill appears, Chatrand the Great.
Monsieur Chatrand is a magician, hypnotist and mind-reader, and he begins his act by doing several sleight-of-hand tricks and then comes to the major part of his act, in which he uses as a medium for his mind reading demonstrations a young man who he claims to have found wandering about the streets of Washington, bereft of all reason. Alexander appears in a magic cabinet, a green silk mask covering his face, and further to insure the boy from being able to see, the magician binds his eyes. Chatrand then steps from the stage down among the audience, picking up various articles to have them quickly named and described by the sightless medium on the stage. Chatrand is strangely attracted to a young lady occupying an orchestra chair accompanied by her guardian, John Carrington. The young lady removes a quaint locket from about her neck and hands it to the mindreader over the objection of her elderly escort. An altercation ensues between Chatrand and CarContinued on page ten
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