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Show TOLSTOI'S "RESURRECTION,"' The two principal characters !in Tolstoi's latest masterpiece "Resurrection,1' that will have its production at the Thatcher Opera House on Saturday evening, ev-ening, April 11, Maslova and Nekhludow, brings forward two olthe strongest drawn characters charac-ters ever shown in an-1 stage story. In the character of Maslova, Mas-lova, all the greatest emotions to which woman kind are sub ject must be expressed, the con-' trasts in her moods being the absolute ab-solute antithesis of each other. The subtleties of this intensely human "world type" of woman, as pictured by Tolstoi, whose genius pictured a huimn creature that was sinned against, a creature crea-ture who was plastic, but a creature crea-ture as Ccd made her; to be used or abused, by a -stronger personality person-ality bis conception of this unfortunate un-fortunate has been most magnificently magnifi-cently described. The character of Nekhludoy, has benefitted in the adapUtjon. In . the book his sacrifice seems to be of a more or less selfish nature; he is always introspective, his deductions principally concern his personal ego'. The salvation of his own soul seems more paramount than that of Mas'nwi;.. As the English Eng-lish people would express it, he appears somewhat in the light of a '-prig;" - The rtvevse of this is attempted in u-e play, and he seems thereby t! e more attractive attrac-tive and sy ivatl etic. ' ; "Resunection," as dramatized from, the original Russian manuscript manu-script Will ' uti fouuii Onti yjL toC strongest dramatic plays of iLe day. - |