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Show I iHow Mary Turner Is Rail-IB Rail-IB roaded to Prison, How She Revenges Herself on Society and Her Employer ! and How Her Revenge , BE Is Dissolved in W I Love C B a NY one who seeks a sympa- j; f A thcttc understanding of the p " conditions buck of the agita-i agita-i Ktlon for a minimum wage scale for I working women would do well to f Blake up a position near a corner of J Bene of tho crowded downtown W ftreets about C o'clock In I he .evening It's a great place for tlm Hy, . ur.atcur sociologist. Mf-mbus f Vice commissions v. ould not be c II HI II I n HI off i IPi 4 j'v. em Eg:;. 'Si Mary and her husband. naUj Wasting their time there either, piril Not that there is n .-i j much vice iq-oifij.ft on exhibition St I "in- streets ., ..- ttt&& pretty u.:i j , t r o ! 1 1 t H In the im 3 evening i t j t ; 1 1 it In the t.ine : l ;fce B ice the shopgirls mining from th'r ,t MO work, the time of da that finda jTldaiE them at their lovest vital ebb Thi first thin,; thru strikes an observer t&V& IIS llO.V tired ' '. r i y n,f of I lie PI the"1 looks, .is th'."i.-ii it she stood on her Bet for another half hour she pDt t Would crumble In a miserable limb ' BeaP- oad Women in that condition of llf j I hf-Ve thier. pr '. ; i l i - vv mts, for two leJw 0f w"l'-'h tin V ..lie nn.T in' Tliy.' iifb Want enough food. they want r titt ' enough clothlncr, and thej want a ipptrf little happlnele, And it is at C f mb f 0 clock ou CHfi 800 now penurious tTfrrt Fate )ir'a l"'c" v,Uh "r "" !r fles:r - ItlL. yfts' None of t'nrm seems to bo fam-al fam-al jjl Ulied. none of them drc--fs m r . - jf and im-.;v o: . . ' . lUn5 lrear,'lng down her face. If such ''J witb Wer" th" ' lh' r'' "'O'Hn '"' "oinr-og "oinr-og body else on the Job. for the first 'ttqul-iic oi -t --ii : who w ...: . i ffllrly decent apt'e-ira ti' e. Hut few if I them are ov flourished. Of A 'that you may btJ sUr0 Again and tfaln you enconnt-r Hint pmelied, , jjor harp. larpe eyi-, look that nicins ' t.( & restricted diet both in the society ' 0 ;4nie who endu-es It bei prn3 to keep h i 1. ire and tho AeT .iM hopiflrl who endures It because she o1 4 if fcu5t i nts fyj And most of therrr arc poorlv and , glnc ttcaply, even II neatl .dressed It (Di t) it true there are a fc.v exception?. ' rtfcN' rl3 who (re "dolled ur" obviously frtV1 beyond tho posslblllt i; of th fage' they i irn llui each of W1 jwhese carric the S'-:. t of her e--d 1 fceuslvc clothes In her nianm-r of Iher face-a bold, swlteling walk If. F bard fiance or nnothr ol . 6,jt ktlftaual, - - dlstlnt; I.' hefl jdrrlM ! m that brard men apd v.'.m-jS v.'.m-jS P1, Cil;r for Wh ' the;. The"'? ( dte j Bf girl." the b c conimlsatons are t h4 iJtten1, ''" "" "r fff H0Un' w omen mode tb dressed ,eT fllJltfWk "ho.ld;. That of COiir-o Is the In nrtl-B fhe- i--in iiffoi-d tie JPAJK I r I . f . FOR HAPIMVTSS, ry'Bl " extrcmcly Intercatllg to ill T9 "(;li ', the.--.' -h.pKlrls .lust n.vav '"otfc "rtlP1 Tiork i-'rlxinS for happliv-sw In .hK. 1 ftlr snnll vav .. i .. r.:.:v to Jjio'l lreHp nSeans. H Is amazing tho e pet iXiimFT oi lbom Uiat st0D aad clv0 pennies to tho beggars and cripples who are always squatted In secluded seclud-ed corners. You may count three-girls three-girls for every man who stops, Tho men generally throw o nickel in Ihfl hat when they throw 'anything. The glrla usually drop no more than a penny. Yet that penny pu.rchu.aes them a happiness which a thousand dollars, perhaps, couldn't buy for some of us. They laugh and talk together sometimes rven loudly and ulgarly. but It Is tho reaction from the decorum forced on yiem during dur-ing the day. and thero Is always a hint of weariness In It. Some aro already absorbed In the fiction page of an afternoon paper you can RM n lot of romamc fur a cent if you take It In tho printed form. Occasionally Oc-casionally you seo ono of these girls "picked up" by some sleek and sinleti' youth. In one wuv vuu "English Eddie" lays the sense tho beginning of a tragedy; In another It ! only a reflex of tho search for happiness, to which tho Declaration of Indeprndenco says wo aro all entitled. Girls behind the counter are 60 close to the raw edgo of existence their problems are at' oneo so simplified and Intensified by tho mere life supporting wago they receive re-ceive that every one of us is bound to bo sympathetically Interested In tholr struirgle. Bayard Velller understood un-derstood this when ho chose a shopgirl shop-girl for the hreolno of his tremendously tre-mendously absorbing drama "Within "With-in tho Law." But ho Is bIbo too much of an artist not to understand under-stand that he could never Interest nn audience by treating her from tho standpoint of social science or In tho niaes. Jacauca FutrcHe, tho Mir. tread shouldered novelist who went down to death when the Titanic plunged for the ocean lloor, used to say that he never wrote a story until he had tested It by tho first page. He meant tho first page of a live newspaper. Would his story If It were a series of events In real life llnd Its wuy upon the first pKe of a big metropolitan metro-politan newspaper under gla.-'ii ( Headlines? When he had tatUtDefl himself that It would he began his narrative Bayard Velller must also huo reasoned In some such fashion. Action was his flrat consideration to make something happen and to keep it happening until the llnal curtain cur-tain full. The result Is that Within With-in tho Law" Is such a bully yarn that any city editor In the world would part with an ear to get hold of It. If Within the Law'' should happen tomorrow and "break," as they say In the local room, at one of Its crucial moments It would bo smeared over first pages from New York to San Francisco. Most playwrights are content with one ' problem." Though Mr. Vellier's m iv 1 scheme before Mary and Joe. drama Is no "problem play," he hae three thomes which havo been moio discussed of late than any other matters that find their way Into-the newspapers and magazines Ho squeezes his vivid action llrst out of the problem of tho shopslrl. second from the dubious methods of high finance In evndlng actionable Infractions Infrac-tions of the law, and the third from tho abuaes of the police system which aot tho country ringing with Indignation that a man could be shot to death In the most crowded part of tho biggest city at tho Instigation Insti-gation of a blue coated lieutenant I 01 n to uphold the law cf the land, All these questions aprlng as naturallv from the Initial situation the dramatist has evolved as wheat from a fertile Meld. There Is ouo naasuKo In "Within The Discovery of the rr the Law" that no one can afford to miss. Maty Turner, who works In a DlS department 6tore and manages to keep straight, even though she al- , mot starves In the attempt, has been falsely accused of stealing. She has been convicted ' and sentenced sen-tenced and on her way to prison Is brought up to the ofhee of her employer. em-ployer. Edward Gilder, because she had written him a note saying she had tomo Important Information to convey. The glr! comes In beside a city detective She Is on the stago scarcely a second before the horrified hor-rified audience observes that her wrist Is manacled to that of the sleuth It Is th-"- crowning touch of degradation that wins Instant pity for the victim, no matter what she may have done though, as a matter mat-ter of fact, you are made nware before be-fore that time that she is quite Innocent Inno-cent of the charge. MAR1 DENOUNCES GILDER. The scene gradually works up In a duel of words between tho girl and her former employer to the point Where Mary mentions tho ut-ter ut-ter weariness of tho salesgirls at their work. "1 have provided chairs behind the counters," declares Glider testily. test-ily. Then ' tho passion of her woo burst from her In resistless overflow." over-flow." Anger begins to churn up out of the misery of Mary's heart. But havo you ever seen u girl sit on one of them?" sho cries. Well, have you? Of course not' Because she knows the manager of the department would think he could get ulong without her, and sho'd bu discharged. And so, B ftei being on her feet lor nine hours, the g'rl walks home to savo hor car fare walks whether she's sick or whether sho a w oll. And yuu'r generally to tired u doesn't ruako uirder. much difference w hat you are. And when you're real sick and have to stop work, what are you going to do tlien? Lo you know that the first, time an honest girl steals It's often because she needs a doctor or somo luxury like that? AnJ s.jnie of them do worse than steal, but that's the plea, as you call It, that I'm making mak-ing for the other girls. Tro arc hundreds of them stealing or gclr.lr on tho streets because they don't get enough to eat. You ask me to tell you how to stop the thefts. Well. I've done It Give the glrla B fair chance to be honest. You asked me for names. There's only .uie name I know of to put the blame for the whole business on Edwurd Glider: You've done all the harm you can to me I'm trying try-ing to give you a chance to do better bet-ter by the others. You ask me how I dare! I've been straight all my life. I've wanted decent food and warm clothes and a little happiness happi-ness all the time I've worked for you, and I've gone without them to Mary denouncing Gilder. stay straiuht. And now you're sending me to prison for three years for something I didn't do Oh. he can tako me now. Three years Isn't forever, and when I'm out you'ro going to pay for every minute min-ute of them. There won't be a day nor an hour that I don't remember re-member your word at the last that sent me to prison, and you'ro going to pay for that: you're going to pay me for the five years I've starved making money for you; you're going go-ing to pay me for everything I'm losing today." In those words Mary voices the motive which actuates her until tho very end of the play From her determination de-termination to mukc G'lder pay for her humiliation and suffering prlnga a series of startling developments develop-ments which hifve not before been equaled In tense drama Mary Turner seizes her time, but comes out of her cell unhardened. Ii is her subsequent experience in trying to P ad an honest life, despite the hounding of the police, wnicn cryetallzea her unique plan to prey upon society. She finds she can not keep a Job without the detectives detec-tives being right at her heels, ready to wave her record beneath the nose of her employer. There comes a tlmo when her only rest seems to lip within tho arms of death. Sho plunges In tho Hud on. Happily, an iron nerved forger. Joe Carson, happens to bo on the scene, and ho fishes her out. more dead than alive. MAHV OUTWITS THE L. The second act of tho play finds Mary established as the head uf a gang of criminals, with Joe Carson and Aggie Lynch. B flippant little blackmailer, as her chief lieutenant. But they are not 'common criminals." crim-inals." Oh. no! Mary s brains havo worked out a scheme by which they are practically Immune from prosecution prose-cution Like i he big crooks who from time to limo sturtlu Wall street, she has a lawyer to ad Ise every move. Again and again the frantic police are circumvented. In fact, a blackmail scheme Is shown In operation on the stage Aggie Lynch Is the Instrument of It; she wheedles a series of compromising letters out of a wealthy old roue and then promptly Institutes a suit for breach of promise. But Mary Is the brains behind the plan. She will not allow one cent of the settlement money to be touched until It has been properly (and legally) placed In the hands of her attorney and an estoppel of action certified In tho correct manner. A typical example of Mary's method Is givpn In an incident by which she tucks SoO.OOO away In her private account. A crooked business busi-ness man advertises for a partner In an enterprise to put a section of lota on the market. Mary answers the advertisement and discovers that . the title to the land Is fraudulent. J She Insists that the operator put an amount to the credit of the partner- I ship equal to her $30,000. As soon as this Is done she withdrawn th w hole account of 360.000. calmly ox- plalnlnlg. after the roar that follows, S that cither partner In an enterprise Is under tho law entitled to dravr H against the complete funds of the concern If civil svlts Is brought for the recovery of tho money It will be 1 very easy to explain that the tltlo to tho land was fraudulent Need- leu to state, no suit Is Instituted. and the whilom partner retires to other fields of operation a sadder H but a wiser man B it through all this Mary never forgets her revenge. She has plenty of money, a beautiful establish- mcnt and a charming manner. To one of her resources It is a simple matter to make the acquaintance ; jind ex. ; thi fancy of Dick Glider. H Edward Cilder's son. The knowl- . ) that they are constantly to- ii gcther comes to tho merchant, and tin descends upon her apartment, j allied with the District Attorney and a polico Inspector, to put her II In her proper place which means "up the river." in the midst of his ( tirade hi BOD walks In. and Gilder II senior receives the pleasing an- DOUncement that Dick and Mary have boon married that morning. "Four years ago," cries Mary to her speechless father-in-law. "you j took away my name and gave me u number. Now I've given up that number, and I've ptot your name!" THE EVIL INFLUENCE. But meanwhile tho influence has bepn at work w hich undermines all Murv's plans, puts both herself and her young husband behind tho bars and comes mar turning the play jffl Into tragedy It ill happens be-cause be-cause Jot Carson arrives at the conclusion that he his enough i a9 to work without Mary. Tho quel proves his mlatako. j |