Show iiii ayers in Powerful Drama I II IY I Y t p. p I S I S I II I S S I 5 I II S II ci 4 5 S 54 5 I k t I 5 r 4 5 1 e I i t tz I t ts z s 5 4 5 5 JI I S 'S 54 5 t j jJ S J S Ralph Cloninger who with the Wilkes pl players arid Nana Bryant plays the the j leading male role in in the great society drama Bought and Paid For For all 11 I this week S S. S A marriage which was supposed to toS S t h be entirely mercenary but which ends I I Mn jt mutual love and yet at the same I which SS develops a situation tion im- im yi r possible for tor the happiness of either t S Jl man sia an or o wife 1 ia is the theme of BroadS Broad- Broad S i powerful drama Bought and andI I 1 For Vor to be presented this week 1 a nt nf tho the Wilkes theatre opening tonight S In Iii addition to th the tho regular matinees 1 S on fl Thursday and S Saturday the mauI man man- I announces a n. special al New J Years Yearn presentation of ot Bought and j Paid id Tuesday afternoon S fought Bought and Paid Paid- For Is the story I. I I of a girl who avowedly marries a man I whom she ahe rather admires but does not love love- lovein in order to escape poverty an and the of her shiftless relatives The man is desperately in love with her and accepts her on the conditions which she Imposes He is admirable in many ways be beIng be- be ing a a. strong character and and- successful business man but he lie has one secret an and l terrible vice vice- vice vice-L- When Vien under the influence of liquor he be becomes he I I comes conies a brute a slave to his worst passions The The- girl does not discover this hI his weak weak- I ness in him until some time after tho the marriage One night however he comes home under the influence of drink and begins forcing his his- attentions attentions attentions atten atten- on her hel She resists and he becomes becomes becomes be be- comes furious finally breaking his lila way i into he her bedroom by smashing the door with a chair In deep disgust the girl leaves leave him and returns returns- to her poverty At first he thinks she will come back bacle beaten but as as- she continues in her course he I grows rows more and more restless for her The culmination culmination- of the plot is one of ot its most dramatic features I Nana Bryant has hns the rolo role of the girl 1 for which she is peculiarly well adapted The rue other Wilkes favorites l all all have parts parta of excellent scope |