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Show "Combat" Tells .Dramatic Story at Broadway THE law of self-preservation is brought into dramatic play in Vitagraph's sillier-film, "The Combat," which was shown yesterday at the Broadway theater the-ater and which will continue there today as the feature attraction. .. Anita Stewart is the star. Miss Stewart is cast as' a beautiful daughter of wealth, whose widowed mother In the end falls into great . debt, loses her fortune and tries to barter the girl in marriage for the fortune necessary to preserve her standing. Self-preservation is thus demonstrated. The law appears again when Muriel's secret se-cret husband, Graydon Burton, fights his way against oddn in the gold fields:. lie is wrongfully arrested and accused of murder, and is forced to flee like a hunted hunt-ed a nlmal and live in the wilds. The law of self-preservation governs him through many wild adventures. It crops up again in the lives of Muriel, her mother and the husband she has been forced to accept in the belief that Graydon has perished. "The Combat" Is a picture full of Intense In-tense situations and rapid ncr.ion. James J. Corbet t in "The Midnight Man" and a Mutt and Jeff comedy also are on the bill. |