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Show GALSWORTHY'S "SKIN GAME" HAS WICKED WALLOP; BRITISH UPPER STRATA FIGHT DEPICTED John Galsworthy's ' The Skin Game," presenter! at tho Orpheum last nlpht. Is a regular Jack Dempsey of n show for It packs a w1ckil wallop and sends the audience home feeling full well the effects of a pretty hard Jolt ' What Is the use of gentility If It cannot stand fire." Is the lost 6peech Of tho drama. It Is uttered by H1I1-, elirlst. the aristocratic, conservative but kindly Briton, afbjr a fight which his lamily has won against an un-( un-( iltured but we-aithy, manufacturer of the class of the newly rl h Hornbiower, the manufacturer, has come to tho village where tho Hlll-rhrlsts Hlll-rhrlsts have made their home ince i the days 'f Elizabeth. He and his fnmllv :,r.- not luken un hv T T 1 1 1 c li r Iqt and hi v.ife, and an unpleasantn'"-ssi follows. Hornbiower sets out to place his Industrial enterprises all around the Hillchrlst estate and spoil It as a home. DIGS UP PAST The kindly Hillchrlst decides to! fight back in trm- sportmanshlp fashion, fash-ion, but his w!f- is n snob and cold blooded to a degree. She learns that Hornblower's daughter-ln-lav had a P ist which she had concealed from young Hornbiower. and she does not hc-sltate to use this information to d -feat the efforts of Hornbiower to destroy de-stroy their home The young Mrs Hornglower's happiness hap-piness Is wrecked and she la eurs-l ! lier husband. Whereupon thf young ; woman attempts biilcldi- As tho play ends. Hornbiower is thwarted, the young husband's Hfc j wrecked, the girl's happiness gon-. and she Is being carried away on u stretcher. But the Hlllcrest oslat Is saved Mrs. Hillchrlst Is triumphant, but perhaps a little regretful of the! methods used Her husband Is broken up. however, and so Is tho daughter, who had made friends with the young folks of the Hornbiower family. Hill-. Hill-. i list in wordy debate with Horn I blower, had pointed out why Horn-blower Horn-blower was not a gentl. man. Now, as ho sees the broken body of th young woman being borne away and realizes what the Hillchrlst victory means, ho wonders If stooping to dishonorable dis-honorable methods it were worth the price. And he utters the cloning speech of the play: What is the uso of rentlllty if it cannot stand fire " It Is hard to convoy to those who did not see this fine play what a punch there Is In these last few lines. Of course tho play aoes not end happily. The author has presented r fnt of circumstances and a set of characters and the outcome Is logical He might have pira-ii man bj devising de-vising a happy ending, but he would I have violated the rules of literary artistry ar-tistry In doing so. The play is a most interesting debate de-bate In which tho views of the landed aristocracy are set forth bv Hillchrlst and tho views of the man who has fought his way up are pet forth by the manufacturer Hornbiower. For a time one 3 prejudiced against Horn-blower Horn-blower only to admfro him In his better bet-ter moments. Hillchrlst Is liked from beginning to end and so Is his democratic demo-cratic flantrht. r, Jill, but nobody has much good fooling for the snobbish .Mr. Hillchrlst. who manages to bjfive her -way In the aristocratic family. A splendid east of English actor folk present the play There was Herbert Bunston. What a fine Hillchrlst Hill-chrlst he made' And Matthew Boul- ton as Hornbiower. He wdH I Hornbiower and not an ictirH donating such a character ftlfl neas and charm of AudnSM as Jill will long bo remeaJSM will alBo the statply coldnesw Win gf leld as Mrs. HIHefcM Delafleld demonstrated t9 motional acfrew of pdwerB flcult par never was J. Albert Erlckeon'B first S chestra was muchenJoysB |