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Show - u Amusement Notes ,'Tho Misfit Wife." thq new Metro production announced for Monday and Tuesday at tho Realart Thoutre, with Allco Lako In tho loading role, Is an adaptation of tho successful staKC play, "Tho Outsider," by Julian Heme. Miss Lako will bo seen as Katie Mnlloy, n laundress who losea her job throuuh IMrnliiK n nolo in a biik shirt and who sots out on a career as a manicurist In the rouRh town of Purls, Wyo. Thcro alio meets Peter Crnndnll, a Now Vorkor who has Bono West to tnko up Prollbltlon In 11 serious way. but who bcomes dally more frlvllous about It. .Paris. Wyoming affords llttlo eleo In the v,-ny of diversion. Peter aids Katlo In side-tracking Shad Perkins, tho offensive proprietor proprie-tor of tho local hotel. And Katlo tnkes Peter In hand. She becomes moro Interesting to him thnn drink or cards. When hes thoroughly reformed re-formed they aro mnrrlcd. His parents nsk htm to bring his wlfo homo. It moans a strange cn-vlionmcnt cn-vlionmcnt for Katlo, tho New York Jioiiso, of footmen, ten-wagons and Harvard accents, but sho braves It out. Only Peter's stepmother proves unsympathetic. Sho rcsonts Katlo's "hick of breeding": tells Her she's n "misfit" that she "never really could belong. Norma Talmngc, who readied tho height ol' popularity In Moncton Hoffo's great screen drama., "Pun-thea." "Pun-thea." will reappear In tho rolo of Pnnlhcn Romoff at the Realart theatre thea-tre neft Thursday nud Friday when 'Pnnthca' returns for n two day engagement. en-gagement. This is tho play In which Mmc. 01- ga Petrova starred so successfully on BBtH the American stngo nevornl seasons HhI ago and which created 11 furore IflMfll throughout Europo, being ncclalmed IHlfll nno of tho Htrongcot dramns of tho flHB age. It was chosen for Miss TnN BBH mndge, as tho title rolo affords tho tSVJD biauttful and talented young player BBMB tho greatest oppportunlty of her cor- WAbI cer for emotional acting. BBBJ Tho story Is that of a young Rus- BBwfl slan pianist, who, suepcted of Nihil- BBVJ Ism, csenpes to England, where sho BBMI falls In lovo with n struggling com- iBBBI poser. Tlicy are married and settle IBBVJ Ir. Purls, wh'cro Panthca's husband BBB tries In vain to gctu hearing for his BBB opera. Tho many disappointments BBAI Impair his health end tho physicians (BBBJ declare that ho will dlo unless lilrt H ambition to have his opera produced iBBAI Is realized. For tho sako of her litis- tH band Puntheu makes a compact with IflBAl an elderly admirer who has a great iBBAI Itiflucuce In musical circles. Her BBVJ snetifico lirlngs about tho triumphant BBVJ production of her husband's opera, BBVJ but at tho moment of his great sue- BBVJ cess ho discovers tho manner In BVB which Panth'ea Induced her friend, BBBJ the Unron, to exert his Influence. BBBJ |