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First Snow tn Twenty Years, LAREDO, Tex, Deo. 29.—Snow fell for an hour tod . Dolores, Tex,, ity-two miles northwem of hera A mow fell here, tho first time in ty years. The temperature was 30 rere, raasktil 22-Karet 22-Karet See ts OS ent ten My easy wm FINCH mar interest you 215 W. 4 Seat dee to Lareo 59th to GOth Street THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 239, 1918, © THE NEW PLAYS e | “The Devil’s Garden” Human and Appealing. | BY CHARLES DARNTON F you haven't explored “The Devil's Garton" leaf by leaf you may surmise that the play produced at the Harris Theatre last night is a holiday edi- tion of “Faust.” As a matter of fact, it ie hard English morality brought down to bedrock. William B, Maxwell's atory te 90 big Qn and fo true tn Its relation to the world as we find it in country or city that it takes a wide aworp, I simple language the t strong man who finds his weakness in the later years that whiten his hair, The fact that this man kills an- other ‘who has saved him from losing hie job of postmaster in an English town has great significance in the book. But the dramatization that WAith Ellis has made of Mr, Maxwell's story has its shortcomings. The real point of thie domestic tragedy i that Willian Dale discovers he owes his reinstatement as postmaster to a wife who has Kone up to London and re- | mained there three or four days with | the influential and viclous Mr. Barra- dine, who knows how to pull the ropes that control the post-office authori- ties. This, to begin with, ls (he whole stroy ax Maxwell wrote it. But when Dale forces the truth from his wite in a lodging house the play fails to strike the strong dramatic note that ives the novel its vital meaning. Mavis simply telle her husband she was tho victim of radine at the nike the Mavis haa made no further | adon, with the result that there is no immediate reason for | Dale’ ry and his determination to Kil Barradine, A wife who has auf- by the Walters Piano Co, urge you to sce it, [vo Interest Piano. Upon request a All Women Need a corrective, occasionally, to right a disordered stomach, which is the cause of so much sick headache, nervous- ness and sleepless nights. troubles is assured by promptly taking a dose or two of Beecham’s Pills They act gently on the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, assisting and regulating these organs, and keeping them in a healthy condition These famous pills are vegetable in composition—therefore, harmless, leave no disagreeable after-effects and are not habit-forming. 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Re [cbarecter loses ac MA of strength when Dale kneels at No Interest No Extras the feet of the Baptist pastor in| yt his abject longing for “religion.” Fur- a On Terms of $2 a Week jto the reader, Dale returns to bis} me and burns a bloody shi a melodramatic fashion, when he n better have taken from his bag the | | mud-stained overalls that mark him, the book, as the murderer of | Again, loses a this certain powerful | degreo ther still, his solfloquy in the fi Act, with Its melodramatic suggestion | B of a future state, is neither here nor.| th t Dale does rouse himself | children of the Orphanage | carried back dead, “tan Harding made Dale a big, | etrong character, though in dress and speech he was not quite rough enough to make the man essen- tially primitive. By way of a little thing, the author of the at careful to make Dale say * himself an interesting, forceful and convincing actor. 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Der annum on all sums from #6, to, $8,000 | entitled thereto, under the, byt | pprosirs OR BEFORE YAW INTEREST FOR BALE. DIAMEMUS Asta OUNDAY WouLD Wante Wous WoxDEKE i aot =e

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