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Show Plot of "The Bad Samaritan" In "The Bad Samaritan" George Ado has fashioned ono of his amusing satires on American conditions Tim business life of the pri-sent day ls thc subject chonon. Tho central figure Is an elderly business man who after tho customary strenuous life Is Induced to rellrc. Ho leaves all his property to IiIb nephew, a rnthcr Hcht-splrlted Hcht-splrlted young man. Tho old man goes to the country and Is forgotten by all concerned. con-cerned. Tho simple life, puro air, quiet, and good living restore him to vigor, howover, and ho determines to return to tho business world. His reappearance and resumption of his Interests causes discomfiture dis-comfiture to thc nephew, who finds himself him-self obliged to go to work, and thc old man discovers that llfo Is not one of un- alloyed happiness, since ho is conscious that he Is being "worked" out by tho majority ma-jority of people he contacts, and that every bequest and every charitable act Is misjudged, causing him to be regarded ns a bad rather than a good Samaritan. The comedy plays In four acts, and that Air. Adc has dravn some Interesting characters char-acters ls concluded from the list of characters, char-acters, which Includes a country hotel-keeper hotel-keeper with strict notions of economy, n studious youth who starts out to ho a horso doctor and ends by being a Bookmaker, Book-maker, nn aspiring young woman who bo- Moves she Is destined to become a prima donna, a genius who has been working? for twenty years on a patent carpot beat- 9 '. er. a lawyer of the kind who promotes Jf. fl litigation because it brings him fees, a buxom housekeeper who wins the old gen- lleman by being a good cook, and a much - - Inflated socloly, woman who develops ai I keen business sense after losing hcr rnon- cy, Tho cast will be headed by Richard ' Golden and Anno Sutherland and will In- elude George Marion. Grnco Fisher, Ed- .,rt-v ward See, Jacques Kruger and Cccyllo 'J'?" Mftycr i ml |