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Show BEN-HUR. Ben-Hur will be presented in this city next ' week. A great fascination attaches to the story; ! r the play will be eagerly looked upon. The great charm of the story is that it comes up as it were ' I f from antiquity and portrays the ideas of General j. Wallace of the people who lived at the time the " Saviour was on earth and the death and resurrec- Jin tlon of the Master. In some respects the story ! is one of the most powerful ever written by an j American and. an interest attaches to it which y I I it would be almost Impossible to draw around any other theme. General Wallace spent five years In I the preparation of the story and his researches i to obtain the data, that no errors of place or detail might mar the work, were most exhaustive. i The play ought to possess much, charm, it should, moreover, make clearer on the mind the mental photograph which is revealed as wq read the mar- j ; velous history. The history of the world has no i other page that compares in interest with that which is in part woven into this play. If the full thought of the author is brought out, the play A will come upon the listener and watcher like an jj incantation. I |