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Show 1 "THE KNIFE," pi ' : .DUPHEUM'S EXT I j , m show 3 j The attraction at the Orpheum thea- fj tre for one day only Wednesday, Sep- H1' A tember -zlh, will be Eugene Walter's k' ' powerful drama, "The Knife." r j la "The Knife" the parasitic gentry 1, j are the abductors of the heroine. She 1 comes from the South to New York to ,1 buy a trousseau for her approaching i. j marriage to a famous surgeon. i She believes in the efficiency of for-tune-telling, as taught to her by her R. old colored mammy, and she consults 1 . a seer who has advertised in the H, 'v Southern papers. That is the last 1 . seen of her until her fiancee and his J' friend, an attorney, find her drugged :! and mistreated in a dive operated by Ef J3 one "Second-sight Jimmy" and a fe-jj fe-jj male accomplice, k The surgeon, set on killing the per-5 per-5 petrators of the crime, is turned from B n that determination and its attendant B j scandal only when he is p irmitted to Lgavf take the man and woman alive to his ! laboratory, and there use their bodies i v in his experiments. In this way he . IB A will make them pay tehir debt to soil so-il 3 ciety, and serve the world in the i VB a cause of science. I H' I The woman dies, but the man lives, I H adn through a succession of clues the |