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Show "THE BETTER I MAN" m REELS I "Tho Better Man," in four reel, I of motion pictures from tho studioj I of tho Famous Players Film Com. I pony of Now York, is coming to tho I Lyric theatro tomorrow night. Th!3 I Intense lllm drama la a photodrom. I atlzatlou of tho remarkable now ol I tho samo title by the Rev. Cjruj I Townsend Brady which waa so popu. I lar. Tho tltlo rolo bus been ,;lvcri to I William Courtlolgh, the well ktionn H successlul actor and ho Is supported B by a notable cast. Tho story deals I with two young clergyman who ate I in lovo with a Boclety fclrl. They bo:h I propose to her on the samo day and H she withholds her answer jntll the B convinces herself which Is t!ie bet- I tor man. Ono Is tho rector of a fash- H lonable church whllo. tho other elects H to work ln the slums. Eventually the H society clorgyman wins, a bishopric H but tho real strength ot tho otlwr's H character Is revealed to the heroine, H and she gives her protnlso to him aa H the better man. The telling ot the H story brings in many stirring Inci- H dents among them being a clash be- H tween tho militia and the strikers H at the factory owned by the father ' H of tho heroine, "The Better Man" not only saves his pebplo from their H folly and Its resultant d'anger, but H also saves the girl from an attack H by the rough element, and Is hlmse'.t H nearly killed ln the struggle. H |