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Show THE FORTUNE HUNTER In Wlnchell Smith's com edv of American life, "The Fortune Hunter," Hunt-er," the hero, Nat Duncan, a debonair i ne'er-do-well, is' taken in hnnd after a series of failures, by a college chum, who is getting on rapidly in the world. This -chum guarantees to show him how to make a million dol-: dol-: lar3, if he will follow certain rules to I be laid down by him. He leads up to the rules by declaring that the bright and attractive young men leave the country towns, but the majority of the girls of prosperous families remain, re-main, with the result that a well dressed, fascinating city man who settles set-tles down and get3 acquainted can practically pick his bride among the wealthy girls of the village. Here are the rules for making a million by marriage: Move Into a little dull town. Dress very plainly and very elegantly. ele-gantly. Don't drink; don't smoke; don't swear. Go to church. Board with an old widow if you can find one. Have many serious books and a large Bible on your table where every ev-ery one ean see them. Let the widow wid-ow gee you studying all the while. Don't pay any attention to young women. Get a Job; work hard "In every little town there is at least one girl worth a million. Live as I tell you and she'll propose to you," says Kellogg to Nat Duncan. "I don t ask yon to propose to her for her money. That would be dishonorable. dis-honorable. Then you accept her and marry her and give me back the $500 that I am going to lend you, and pay me $1,000 more, and I shall feel that I hae made a good business Investment." Invest-ment." The advice of the friend who lends $".00 works perfectly. The richest girl in the town asks the voting fortune for-tune hunter to marry her But the play has no such sordid end. The young man finds tbat hard work alone can make life worth while. And he finds that a simple, earnest girl w ith no money, is a great deal better than any money or anything else. This Is a wholesome piay, amusing, pleasing In Its sentiment, thoroughly moral. It Is admirably acted by a good company, and succeeded in breaking all records in New York and Chicago, and was proclaimed by the clergy, the press and the public the greatest American comedy of the iast 20 years. "The Fortune Hunter" will be the offering at the Orpheum theatre on Thursday eenlng, Doc. 8, |