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Show Petrova Is Star at the Broadway MME. PETROVA, tho famous emotional emo-tional and draniatie star, is seen at the Broadwav today and Monday in "Playing With Fire.'' a five-part Metro wonderplav, prnduoed hv the Popular Plays and Flavors. hi this pro.hietion Jlmc. Petrova has the role of a eanieo eutter. who beeomes tem-li'rnri!y tem-li'rnri!y blind while making a eameo of the daughter of a wealthv man. lie induees her to eome to his home until she roeovers her evesight. and while there he falls in love with her. Out ot gratitude she marries him. While visiting artist friends in the city she falls in love with the brother of her dearest girl friend. In u moment mo-ment of weakness she sucennibs to his advanees. He soon discloses that he does not care for her, and, disheartened, disheart-ened, she returns to her husband, whom she begins to love for his nianv sterling qualities. Soon afterward she 'finds that tier stepdaughter is in love with this same man and that thev are planning to marry. When she (in. Is she cannot break otf their relations, in desperation slie confesses her affair with the man to her stepdaughter. The girl turns against, her, but promptly forgive, her sweetheart. The man threatens to expose her to her husband unless she leaves off interfering inter-fering with his marriage to the vnung girl. She writes to her husband, who is away on a trip, and tells him of the entire en-tire affair. In the meantime she lenrns that the man is luring the girl to his studio on a false pretext, ami she follows fol-lows her. Her husband, who has re ceived the letter, returns and sees her enter the studio. Indignant, he enters after her, onlv to find that she has rescued his daughter from the false suitor, nnd that in tho struggle the man has been killed bv his own pistol. The trio are happily reunited. This is a brief sketch of the storv, but there are many other interesting' situations that make t ho production one of unusual ipiality. |