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Show "The Skin Game," Great Comedy Dram, Coming To Orpheum A thpitghtful dramatic and uncorn-j monly Interesting play by John Gals-, worthy will be presented by William A. Brady at the Orpheum theatre next Wdneday October 26. In as- 3oelatlon with Reandean Ltd. of Lon-j don, a caat of players has been se-! lected with the approval of GaLs- worthy who has attended tho rehearsals re-hearsals In person. "The Bkln Game" has proved u j great popular eucceu in both Iondon and New York, and Is now booked for an American tour which will in-i elude Montreal. Toronto and Chicago.. The story tells of two essentially! hostile families In an English country-side the Tllllcrlst.n. a proud well-bred well-bred old household of centuries' standing, seren-- In the possession of those things, which belong to any people first on the ground first In the sun; the Hornblowers. a clan of rising ris-ing newcomers, hard-hitting, vulgar, aggressive, rich, powerful, and thrp.it enlng to overrun the neighborhood with some smokestacks and factories to the eentual undoing of the older etock. Dad blond between them Is long In brewing, but tho Immediate "casus belli" is the rurhless eviction of the Jacmans an old couple of the Hlll-crisl Hlll-crisl tenantry. Ahose lifelong security In their little cottage had bet n solemnly projffised by old Hornblower wlun he boht that strip of the Hlll-crlst Hlll-crlst land. In defense of theso helpless help-less dependents tho reluctant and 1 disdainful Hlllciists declare war. There follows a knockdown and drag-out drag-out fight. |