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Show TUIYTHINGS" A new play that is said to have seat all who have see it, lato .throes of discussion and caused all aorta ot controversy as to whether some of the questions it raises and the alt-utiona alt-utiona it discloses an aot a bit to strong even for the modem stage., 'although it bears the auSMeatly ia-'nocent ia-'nocent UUe "PlathiagaM fa announced an-nounced for production ia the Immediate Imme-diate future by the Tylor Daniels company at the Lyric theatre. The dram is by Sidney Toler, who has taken strictly-modern them and worked it out with characters such as may be found ia any large community. The drama is so strong and virile in its working out, so direst di-rest In Its "punch" hat none who have seen It have been able to find a dull minute in It, from' the rise of the first curtain to the fall of the last. I 'Playthings" rises on a steady crescendo of emotion from beginning begin-ning to end, the very human story of an unfortunate girl, her effort to live down a darkened past, her struggle toward happiness against circumstances that time and again threaten to cast her back Into that shadowy life from which oho has emerged! An unusual play, dealing frank-jly frank-jly and vigorously with everlasting problems, It Is suro to continue to bo one of the most widely discussed dramas ot a decade, and the startl-Ing startl-Ing and unexpected-turn ot affairs with which It terminates is certain to live long In the .memory of overy auditor, it matters not for what par-ticulrr par-ticulrr form of thoatrical entertain- ment has hitherto been his preference. prefer-ence. v 1 |