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Show MMMaMh Mf "THE PRIDE OF v NEW YORK" AT " THE LYRIC "r . Oeorg e Walsht is the son of a buiidtng' contractor. He Is the ordinary or-dinary type Of east aider,, getting his education In the public school ajnd is happy In hla surroundings. He Is ambitious. Contrasting with George ia a New York fop the son of a rich man. He spends7 his time In the gay whirl, gong to the 'best restaurants. He'a the rich man's son about 'town, having hav-ing no business but that ot spending his father's money. He is quite fond of a beautiful, girl, the daughter of a WealthV New Yorker. One day, when ' George, standing on an Iron beam, Is hoisted twenty stories, thla girl makes the acquaintance of George. ' Of course she thinks nothing ot him 'at the time, but after the declaration de-claration ot war against Germany and the call comes for the drafted men both George and the fop are taken Into the. army. With their svldler -uniforms on George and the fop are.on the same level. Money does not count. They, are both soldiers. The girl cornea to the camp to see the fop and ofcourso , , again 'meets the" athletic , Ge'drge' He Is busy. He haa brains' and-llkes ' u " work. Everybody likes hlm.(lThe fop. Is snobbish and does not get along. When the soldiers go to the, trench- ; es In France, the .girl follows as a Red Cross nurse. When she In, about ,to be captured by.- the German's taeorge saves her and they fall deeply deep-ly In love with each other. When tho fop loses the love of the girl here-fornis here-fornis and becomes, like George, n regular fellow. Thla picture will be ahoWn at the Lyric Theater Wednesday and Thursday, , |