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Show 1 6ERHEMrN ' FROM MISSISSIPPI" The Ogden Theatre has for Its offering of-fering tomorrow night the famous American comedr, "A Gentleman from Mississippi," written by Harrison Rhodes and Thomas AS 'wise, and presented bj Wm, A. Brady. Local thoatro-goors are more or less familiar famil-iar with the merits of the play, which Is one of the most successful comedies comed-ies produced In twenty years. Tho story deals with a number of very ludicrous adventures of a nowly elecU ed Southern U. S. Senator, four little love romances and much intriguo and political trickery A simple cotton planter from Mississippi., is sent to the national Senate from his state and the play opens at the time of his arrival In Washington. Here he met a young newspaper reporter, Bud Haines, who impresses him so favorably favorab-ly that the Senator makes him his secretary. sec-retary. 'Bud Is well versed in the methods employed at the national capital and saves the new Senator from many pitfalls A shady land deal Is engineered by some politicians and the Senator Is compromised by hlB own son and daughter .being being be-ing induced to invest in it. Ho finds a way, however, to defeat tho schemers and saves both his Tnonoy and his family honor. "A Gentleman from Mississippi" Is loaded to the guards with uproarious comedy and the result is a roar of laughter from the first entrance of the Senator to the fallf of the final curtain Win. A. BradyvrllL, bring his special cast here for this engagement, engage-ment, prominent among whom aro Robert A Fischer as Senator Lang-don, Lang-don, John Butler as the newspaper reporter - oo |