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Show Large Audience at Oipheum Enjoys Fine Presentation of "Experience" An unusually large theatre audience lust night enjoyed an excellent presentation pre-sentation of the play "Experience" at the I irpbeum theatre. Splendidly stager) and uniformly well acted throughout by tt large company, the allegorical drama was given close attention at-tention by S sympathetic audience. In ten episodes the piny tells how Youth leuvcs Love to the companionship companion-ship of Hope while he goes to the city, accompanied Sy Ambition, to mako his fortune In the city he meets Experience who remains with him always. But he also moots Pleasure Pleas-ure and If so busy becoming friends with her that he has no time to meet Opportunity) who leaves him " high dudgeon. Pie as 14 re take., him i.. the Primrose Path where h- l-.;.mes acpi'i int'-d with Frivolity, BSxAltement, Beauty. 1 Deceit and Slander Here he also 'meets Wealth, but he also becomes acquainted with intoxication, an en I trancing young woman. Close upon the hqels of Intoxication comes Pas-jSlon. Pas-jSlon. but he spurns her to remain with Intoxication, choosing the lesser of two evils, as Experience points out. In the corridors ,r chance he loses j his money and with only experience for a companion be enters the Street Of Disillusion. There h.- meets Work but doesn't like him. But wh. n Style and Beauty snub bim because of his circumstances and Wealth offers him no aid hut charily he i, .m. s .ingry and goes off to find Work, with whom : he. recent I v had been rather unfriendly. unfriend-ly. Youth Mnd WurU in the Hou-e f East Resort, a low place, and when misfortune befalls bim there he is thrown Into the fttreet of Rcmorsr which takes him to the "House of Lost Souls. wh-re he meets Degradation and strikes up a companionship with Crime Hut he Is saved from a life with Crime an.i strikes the homeward trail, finally returning to Love, who had Mope for a companion. Here he finds that Ambition. who' left him when he entered the Primrose! Path with Pleasure, has returned. And once again he has Love as w. ;! as Ambltjlon for close friends with Experience Ex-perience for a counsellor The play will be presented .Kain to-j night. J |