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Show WHO IS CIIAHLES WALDRON'.I I Tho production of "Tho Fall of I H Nation" has started a lively guesslrH H contest as- to the identities of the vil H rlons characters which Thomas Dlxol Pfc has Incorporated In his dramatic spefl ' taclo with music by Victor HerberH Two or three of tho most lmportarfl characters aro almost unmistakable! I others are drawn from two or morl Uvo sources Into a logical combination as required by tho author; and stll others will glvo tho gucssors niucl food for thought. I . In the last mentioned class Is thl principal vllllan of tho dramal Charles Waldron. Ho Is pictured al a wealthy banker, a roan of lnordlnl . ate ambition, without scntlmont ami without scruples In his methods ol obtaining results. He furnishes 1ml menso sums of money to varioul suffragist organizations and antll militaristic bodies; through thai branches of his banking houso hoi knows Intimately the diplomatic repl resentatlves of tho most powerful countries; at Washington his spheral of Influence is apparently unlimited! ' In co-opcratlon with tho heroine, who! ' will probably be readily recognized! ' ho defeats a preparednesvneasi'J'y with teeth in It and obtairiliAio paJ' l age of a substitute that has no teeth. I When the blow strikes, and the na-l tion falls, this Charles Waldron bo-l comes Karl Waldron, overlord of thol new colony of tho Imperial Fodora-B tion, Who is this Karl Waldron? I .H |