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Show "THE GREAT DIVIDE." "The Great Divide" is In three acta. The first represents the interior of a cabin on a cactus farm in southern Arizona, the second a picturesque plateau high up in the Cordillera mountains "the roof of the world" and tho third the parlor of an old New Lngland home in MUford Corners, Mass. From this some idea of the spirit of the play may be formed. The heroine is a Massachusetts girl who goes with her brother to Arizona lo uako their fortune In the cactus fibre industry. There she meets a man of tho West, one used to a wild, care free existence and. a loose philosophy of life. They are strangely met and she Is strangely won. This is in the first act. The remainder of the play is a dramatic adjustment of the lives of the Puritan woman and the son of the mountains and plains. The man is regenerated through love for the woman, while she, at first all pride' and prigglshness through training and heredity, at last by force of the same sovereign power love r ccgnlze6 him as her lord and master. mast-er. At the Grand Friday and Saturday Satur-day evenings. |