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Show "THE JGIRL ANDJHE TRAMP ' Comedy will reign surpeme the last nt tho Lyric theater Wednesday Do cember 30, where "Tho Girl and the Tramp" will bo seen for an engage ment of threo'days. Dally matinees wl'.l be played. , "The Girl and tho Tramp" Is a new play which has been written to fill out tho gap which has been left by tho passing of the common melodrama melodra-ma with Its thrills and Us unlikely characters and situations and tho high clnss musical show which cannot can-not profitably bo given nt popular prices. Fun tho pcoplo always want. "It Is to laugh" said Louis Mann and theat ricnl men who take tho monoy know that a play which really will produce tho laugh always takes tho monoy I In "Tho Girl and tho Tramp" Is told the story of a man whose homo was ruined muny years beforo tho play j starts by a villain and who has boon j foiced into tho "submerged tenth" ns a common tramp. Woll educated, yet j saddened and reduced to tho level of I a vagabond ho roams the country until un-til tho beginning of tho play, he Is engaged by the samo man who ruined I his homo, but whoso Identity Is not known to him, to work out nnother piece of villainy. As soon as Happy Jack. the Uramp, learnB what Is oxpected..of him, v.b.p turns to help and not 'injur' th.e villain's vil-lain's victims. With Flo,- a .iHwry girl, ho finally works thp salvatipn of tho family and finds In Flo, his long lost daughter. Miss Billy Rob InBon the charming young k comedienne, comedien-ne, is seen as Flo and' with Fred Dyers, Dy-ers, w ho phtys tho fnmp, sho ha , soveral mimical numbers. |