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Show THE COMING ;1 : ATTRACTION The Story of "The Country Boy" By HHl Edgar Selwyn To Be Told In Com- fLi ed'y At New Lyric i HJ "Tho Country Hoy" Edgar Solwyn's f Hfl entertaining comedy of city llfo un- , ' HJ dcr tho direction ot tho Henry B. HJ Harris Esluto will bo tho attraction H at tho Now Lyrlo theatre on Tuosday. ' HJ October 28. HJ Tho story of "Tho Country Iloy" HJ is that of a small town youth who HJ thinks ho Is fitted for big things when HJ .in reality ho Is unable to hold down HJ a 15 a week Job. Reproached by his HJ flancco and hnr father for his lack HJ ot charactor and his fancied ambl HJ tions ho is induced to try his luck in HJ New York. Ho Is not a top boot yokel BJ or a vlllago gawk, but only tho ot- iH dlnary youngster of tho small onv J HJ munlty who lacks tho bard enamel ' j HJ wisdom ot tho metropolis. In a cheap I HJ boarding houso whero ho lives while I HJ in tho city, ho first rubs against tho . I HJ real world, and when his money .'s J HJ ! gono and his spirit broken bo is saved HJ from sulcldo only by tho cleverness 11 HI with which a crabbed old nowspaper iiHI man plays upon his feelings. Thus, rHl having been singod in tho crucible of 'jiiHH experience, ho Is brought to know IiHI himself-and ho goes back to a small 'SfRl I (Continued on page olght) l .JhI The Coming Attraction (Continued from pago one) town not a failure because bo believes in himself. But the real charm of "Tho Country Boy" Is said to Ho not so much In its plot as In tho various characterizations characteriza-tions or typos which tho author Introduces In-troduces In the sovoral econos. Particularly Par-ticularly clover is tho sccno sail to bo which shows the boarding houso whoro the country boy lives whllo la tho city. Hero is seen the rat landlady land-lady gracious to her Star boarder, confidential as to hor troubles, and always worrying about tho payment of hor bills. Among tho boarders la an old brokon dowin newspaper man Ho Is on tho shady sldo of forty aad Is so soro on himself that you can hoar him crack ovory tlmo that nn smiles. Sour, disillusioned nnd tin-successful, tin-successful, ho is no loss dlsagroeablo to himsolf than to tho people around him yot undornoath his chronlo grouch ho cannot got awny from hla character charac-ter which Is sou,nd as a boll. Another typo Is the boarder who keeps tho conversation allvo by his wiuy" observations obser-vations and Is bo entertaining that ho keeps In tho good graces ot tho lani landy although he pays his board Irregularly. Ir-regularly. In fact thru tho creation of many such humorous types '"iho country Boy" Is said to rank as ono ot tho most refreshing comedies ot tho year. Theatregoers who know that Henry B. Harris never attached his namo to any enterprise except thoso ot a high grodo know what to oxpoct and the will not bo disappoints Sf BJ company that will be seen hero t ui BJ to the h ga stnudard mnlntMlm I b BJ tho Henry B. Harris Estato In n BJ of his productions and includes iicb BJ well known artists as Clalro Whltw BJ Eloanor Habor, Llzzlo McCall .Mario- BJ Stephenson, Hazel Frost, Lottlo FotJ BJ Jason Richards, W. O. Ryder, Cbas. Rondeau, William Levis, James 1 eft BJ Wiley, William Wilson, in addition t'j BJ others. BJ Tho salo of seats will open Hon- BJ day, October 27. BJ |
