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Show "Smashing the Vice Trust" At Garrick Last Times Today """ - ,, . ys - f ' " s ' : ' L-ll. III... J Well recommended "white slave" pictures to he seen at Garrick theater last times this afternoon and evening. and inadequate, hut not a bad man, had been arrested and sentenced to two years for his first theft, urged to it by poverty and a low gang. Jess, about to have a baby, was i saved from the poor house by bitf-heurted bitf-heurted Tom. The Infant died. Then Tom, ever ready to do his best, took Jess to live with him and they hud o not her baby. When Dave got out lie would never know his child hiul died. Aii, Tom was a faithful friend. Pew like lion-hearted Tom! The eve of Dave's release had come. Tom had taken out a life insurance in-surance for ?r,n in his favor. He w;ip going to kill himself, so Tom no Jess and the baby would be provided for. He considered methods of self-destruction. self-destruction. .Mso, he talked ah'v.jt the Mowers he had planted ;inj grovn, along with spurious Dave, Jr. Finally, he went out to die: somewhere somehow. some-how. Dave returned a day too .-'oon.1 To add 10 the general gloom. Dave needed a s!m ve and his fa c- hviked like black crepe. He taid a lot ahout what 9 big man and un'Ui;-h friend Tom was' gazmtr with ;p;jroval on the babv in the i-radle. . ho-vVJ L. V. K. and whooped R. I. K.: wrinr; her hands down center, mid soiibe t ad. lib. back I.. Finally a scene-shifter scene-shifter knocked at the door; a few words passed between him and l.hiv and we knew that Tom was no more. He had met death by tar-vying Too long on a railroad track. The pla y ended with the shuffle of fer-t an villagers vil-lagers brought the h..dy home. To sa'v tjiat Cliarles lne. taking up the rnie of Dav.; at s!-.ovi nnt'ep. Pert hp Mann and Wallts Clark acted this-stuff this-stuff for much more i ha n it is wo: ;h is poor praise for a t r'o of a ". ors who have my profoundest sympathy. On the whole. 1 think the happiest eliaracter in the piece was the cut. dead under the kitchen stove, unless, un-less, perhaps, the baby in the hooded cradle, who wasn't there at ail. UTTNCLE SAM'S MOXFY." whkh preceded "Th Worth nf a Man," wasn't u- bad hetause some- T have finished these words I shall hope to forget "Uncle Sam's Money" for as long as f live. An Irish woman nagged her husband, an inventor, for puttering with a fool machine, instead in-stead of providing for her and their daughter. The handsome lodger wanted to marry her. Then it turned out that lie was a secret service man. He was on the track of counterfeiters. The track led finally to his prospective pros-pective fa tiier-In -la w. The old ma n w;ls guilty. F.vr-rybody talked a lot.--Tiien the old ma n expressed sentiment? senti-ment? along the line th;i t, since hU' le Sam would not give men money enough tn support Heir family while-thev while-thev completed inventions that would greatly benefit humanity, they were just if i ed in ecu nterf citing enough uiuiiey to mc.ke that work possible. I'ould it he that Pop was an J. W. W ., strayed uptown fmrp the Franklin statue in Park Row? Any.vay. the secre-t service man scmcil tn take the a rgn menu f-fe proposer tlint he marry the danaliter and limy ail go to Canada together, nor rovp 'Ul ing to take liie criinitorfeitirg apraiat'i-;. V.'hcn the curtain foil, t h e s'-emed n!n'i!t lo put his proposition iin,- motion. mo-tion. WOIIKIN'G on hack to the rpason-jlily rpason-jlily good first play, we come lo "The Last Toast." by the Rev. Fnrhes Phillips, an English clergyman clergy-man V'ho ti.-ibhles In drama tl cp-Tills cp-Tills is a :iew eombinat'on of the mcst fa:r,iliar stair- -dia raptors and 'si'ua-ii.ns," 'si'ua-ii.ns," -b-h u- froni he first aii'i theatric to the hist, yer not much worse thr.n some nf the stuff fnd n-rsfiiiso thai held sway as nz as Henry 1 rvi mr "'a s alive to vital!".'1 it by his mast eriy perfiirma nee of a entral character. Even Ric'.iar.l Mansfield Mans-field minht h.a - -e ma--e "The Last Toa.-.i" ecca ide; hut Wallis i"lark, t an nh he gives rtn en I ! rely respectable respect-able study of extreme oid aee, did nothing to lift the piece above tedium. Then, too. he had rrn historic or S'-eme aid in the supernal ura ! pas |