Show harold bell wright who la Is said gald to be the most popular of the american novelists with the assistance of elsbery W reynolds has made a dramatization of hla his imet widely read novel the shepherd of the hills and its third presentation in this city will taue take place at the alta theatre for an engagement of one night saturday oct mr wright is a man with a missi colf and a message he is a story teller and when the story ends we begin a bet tr life along the sunlit fields where there the light lingers even when the sun is down we start tills journey of 0 the higher trail among the hills because the gifted writer puts into our hearts the benediction ot of a renewed faith in men and women a vital love for truth and beauty aid a deathless hope in the good outcome among the mysteries breeling our meets horawa horl roi shadows ile he calls his story a fery ou old story this is true indeed for have not good and bad been in ci cc useless conflict since the dawn of liaman life have not toll toil and love git herad tl air blossoms and billit sines the time when men and women first firlit learned to weep and sing the stoby Is old V I 1 age comes with the poTi rayal ol of the ele le and eternal forces of 0 our human but it is new wonderfully fresh and sweet with the morning light and dew of virgin hills and valleys for these age long forces of the soul find expression in the characters to whom we have never been introduced until now yet these peo people of the ozarks are real flesh alesh and blood folk some it is true reach the heroic still we feel in them the throb of kinship to all who live outside their almost enchanted land here is a play worth seeing in this day of multitudinous and insipid drama hero here is a plot the movement is ever onward there are no retrograde and meaningless eddies in this stream of happenings the current of events seizes you and ana takes you on and on and when the end comes bomes you are glad and sorrowful glad because so good a play ends as it does sorrowful because it ends so soon advertisement ti |