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Show AT THE LYRIC MONi AND. TUES. In The Hired Man, Charles Ray, the youthful Paramount actor who has come to be recognized as, the typical American boy as Mary Pick-ford Pick-ford typifies American', girlhood, playa a new and lomewhat'dlfferent sort of rolo from anything he has yet attempted. This Is a farm hand on. a largo New England farm, who Is sincerely and deeply In love with the pretty daughter of his boss. Tho sacrifices that he Is called upon to make for her are many, and he cheerfully gives up every thought of himself for her sake. Gilbert Gordon plays the farmer's dissipated son, who works in the local lo-cal town bank, and to keep up with his spendthrift companions embex-zles embex-zles the. bank's money. Knowing Ray affection for his sister and that their father disapproves, this son comes to Ray, as Eiry, and demands the money to repay. Etry has saved, after years of hard work about enough money to fulfill -the obligation, obliga-tion, and he cheerfully gives It up, returning to the farm and the dally grind without a word of explanation. Ruth and .her father do not understand un-derstand this, and regard him rather suspiciously. The fire, started by Ruth's brother's carelessness, breaks out, and It Is there that the hired man Justifies himself In the" eyes of the girl he loves and her father. A touching scene occurs when he cornea back to consciousness after the fire to find Ruth bending over him, while her father vociferously announces an-nounces to the assembled neighbors that there's my future son-in-law, the finest chap yet, after his strenuous stren-uous abuse of former days. |