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Partus Byrd rrnmrks •‘Many a ft Hum ain'tcracked up to b#INwhat It*fiIFULLlt; Continued from Pupe Five.)grandfather,million*.h#death of an eeeentrlha a inherit«d twtlvi _ IYes. but there is a string attached to his inheritance ft la conditionalupon hi* marry fa* -and tn dead earnest ~ before he i* thirty. And, in another day, hr will have reached that arc Hi* impulse :it first prompt* him not to a«*ccpt hi* fortune. lt;n second thought*, he sees or fancies he see*, how foolish It would be for him to fling away hi* luck. Mo he resolve*to get one Of **ven pretty girl* who set m possibilities to go tot the attar with him if *h* will, next day.You might *uppose that almost any girl In these hard time* would jumpat a millionaire. The hero of theremedy, hov ever, get* six “no'i” he* fore ;i frivolous meld of sixteen «n-| land to «ee if the government needed 1 hih service* and found it could get | along without him, i* expected hereI again soon and w ill witness the production of The Wrong Box,’* his playwhich \\ inthrop Ames has In charge.Hut Mr. Barker won t have anything to do with the production of this play. He has decided, producing plays is the had end of the game and will devote htmrelf from now on to writing them. He will probably work In this country I with his pen, tor, maybe, hi* typewrit* j sri for aoroc time,Mrs. Barker tldllah McCarthy) I*appearing here in vaudeville playlets.1!swers ve* MA brief half hour hefor# the limit ^et b\ his grandfather expires, Jimmie ktt told th it i n*w vi ill ha* beendiscovered, leaving all the million* tot h sri ties. Then, also to hi* own surprise he come* to realise that he loves one of the seven girls who had refused him. For the one girl who had accepted him has changed her mind.Anne Windsor had really loved hirr\ sll along. When, an he thinks, he In quite poor agiiln, she agrees to mar ry him. Mo do the other hestitles, most of them. Too Iwfe Vnne ha* Joined with the hero * friends to cheat him into believing that the second will existsTo interpret the new play David Belsseo ho* engaged an excellent lompsny 'Wank Craven Impersonated the hero with much skill and humor. The women in the cast were well contrastedand helped to realise the varied tvpe* conceived by the author.Miss tar roll Met otna* was quitecharming in the part of Anna, and Miss Beverly West did all one could to put life Into the inconsistencies of it mock romantic parson named UUy. Home of the most telling acting in“Fevrn Chances” was done by lt;*ttoKruger as Billy Meekin. a young bus! ness man. and by Mr, Allen Thoms.*, as Georg*, the club major demo.G^snville Barker’t Plans,Granville Barker, who w«*nt to KngAtime alwalook foron the tJh
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Lincoln Sunday Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Aug 20, 1916
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