In Times Square
by Clyde North, Dodson L. Mitchell

The story has to do with David Benson, a theatrical producer who, having acquired a wealthy financial "angel," is rehearsing a drama.

This angel, Wilbur Craig, is in love with Gladys Earle, the star.

Into their lives comes Miss Earle's former husband and leading man, Austin Jewett, now a derelict.

No one, says Benson, can play the hero except Jewett!

and Jewett, disheveled and slightly inebriated, is therefore engaged, much to the embarrassment of his former wife.

The sole exit is a trap-door on the stage of the theater, where a mysterious stranger is sent to his death by a pistol fired from the stage entrance.

The murder is done twice: as a play within a play, and again as a real thing.

When the haze is lifted, the real murderer is revealed.