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Show TLAYTHINGS" ' i iAn,ann,ounccnicnttnat contains mprd of Interest for loca playgoorB than they can possibly rcallz'o tin-' less they hro familiar with tho discussion dis-cussion that tho play has aroused, everywhere' elso H has .boon produced Is "to '.tiho 'effect that 'lPIflythln'gs!, n drama In 1hreo nets by Sidney Tol-r, Tol-r, Is to bo given hero at tho Lyric by tho notation Stock company this evening. In spite of Us title, which might well suggest njilay of childhood, Mr. Toler'a 'dratna embodies somo of the moat .sonaationnl situations -and climaxes that have been scon on the stage in many a day, It Is n play for grown-ups who are not afraid to look llfo as Jt Is, not as It ought to bo, In tho faco,' powerful aud fearless fear-less In its indictment of a certain class of society, who, as ono H thoni cries in tho bitterness of hor rogrot aro tho "playthings of mon." Tho play tolls of tho human struggles of ono of these human playthings, who, betrayed and cast nsido, strives to regain a place iff society, only to bo mot, when sho has well-high' attained her goal, with .- fi ,-, rr. -j -it: 77 ; tho sinister Influences of blm who is responsible for hor darkened past. '-' It Is hero" that there is ono ot the most powerful' , emotional scenes that the stage has been given In years, and it is followed by an unexpected un-expected and soul-stlrrlng climax, which, it may "truly be sala', totally eclipses any pmy "surpilset" feature itf-f econt theatrical history? I Truly, dealing as it does with B,mfchifraakMB and vigor with 1 '.....sr,,ii..i;,. , .- ,,;v jf. tho ovwJasting problems that- coh- front-society. ".Playthings" is bound ''to rnlso such discussion hero as has -not been accorded any other "drama 1' ' ' 1 In a decade. 2 |