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Show H .HOW TO WRITE A PLAY. H It Id ICany Knuusti If You Follow Tht B ' As a general thing the plays produced H at the theatero tiii'se days arc enough alike to ereut the impression that one H man wroto all of them. The heroine, H r says the Atchison Clobe, a foundling, H is adopted by people who one? had a B " daughter who ran ofT and disappeared. H . The villain discovers that the foundllrg H W is in reality the grandchild of her foster H parents, and makes up his mind to H nuirry her to get the old folks' money. H He plots to gwt the luro, with whom H the heroine Is in love, out of the way. Lv lre wkni'ivs him with munler. or with F' forgery (there the writer has a chance m i t to vary his plot a little bit; he can have H forgory to-night and murder to-mor- M ' . row night) aad the hero is put in jail. M i Tho soubrette and the funny man un- H J earth the plot, liberate the liero, accuse M (5 the villain, who confesses all, and in B ( the last scene the old people find their H i grandchild, the heroine- and her lover 1 are united, the soubretto and the f tinny B man ngrw to' tie up, and the villain m shoots himself. B Those who are ambitious to btponu' play-wriiors will find in these details I all the ingredients necessary to mix I ap for a popular play. |