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Show but not to help those whom the Lor will not help "the fellows who will not help themselves." Mr. Lackayo Is au artist, with l fctyle entirely original and one thai can not be duplicated. lie. U a splendid splen-did reader and ho mannerisms th.it Immediately win his auditors, Muct could bo said of this splendid perform cr that would occupy columns. Bal in a few words it could be oxpresac Wilton Lackaye Is great. Id his support, Mr. Lackaye hai surrounded hlmsolf with u most ca pable company, among whom we rec ognlxp Miss Ruby Bridges In the role of tho girl who loves Philip, but haM his father. Miss Bridges' eple-nJIi! work hai been seti In the leading f male role of "The Man of the Hour' in which sho scored a hit, but not like the one made In tho present rolo. Another character well portray J was that of Jenny, the poor man'i daughter, by Mlfs Burton. Douglas J. Wood as the millionaire's million-aire's son was good. He read his Han well. Thomw McCrane gnve a most pleasing pleas-ing Interpretation of the role of Gea tie. F. F. O'Malley. Dick Lee and -Walter Stanhope gave excellent support. The weenie effects, especially act 1 of the tenement, were carried out tc the minutest detail. The- la.t act. th Interior of the millionaire's mansion, wa a beautiful sfttlng. Tho audience was n largo one nni expressed Its approval of Mr. Lick oye, "The Battle" and the company In many encores. E. T. S. Of courso he docs not make known the relationship at thlj time. That's where "The Battle" slarU, with the millionaire fighting to win thd love of hio sou and to bring him to his way of thinking in the business busi-ness woild, while tho young man's bwcothoait and his old friend Gentle are lighting to keep the son a man ol the poor. Hiigglelon declares that the oppor-tuultlen oppor-tuultlen are even greater than In his younger days, and that It all depends on the man whether he will rise or stay with the weak. Ana ho proves his theory by putting on the garb of a bakery man and starting with only what money he could secure by jelling the useless furniture and brlc-si-brac In the tenement room. "I started In a tenement," he says, "and I will prove that a man's future depends on himself." In a short time the bakeries of the district are well organized, the combination com-bination is turning out cheaper and better bread fcr the poor of the east tide, and John Haggle-ton has his son Intoxicated with the Joy of success In business. The young man gradually losers ,ome of his Socialistic ideas and likes the fight for financial bu-premacy. bu-premacy. Johu Haggleton proves true the old saying. "The Lord helps those who helps themselves." He also proves that It is the man, not always tho environment, that determines whether John Jones will bo successful or kicking kick-ing because some one else Is successful, success-ful, whilo ho is a failure. The story unfolds dramatically, and In tho fourth and last act John Haggleton Hag-gleton sits In his mansion, where he has taken his sen, who was shot by the Irrational Moran. Tho nur3e who has promised to always love and help Philip turns on him In nn Instant and declares she will leave him when she finds that ho is developing some of his father's business tendencies. The playwright hero draws u picture of extreme ex-treme feminine weakness; ho holds up another woman llko John Haggle-ton's Haggle-ton's wife waa ready to quit the fight ot the first battle and desert tho man she should try to make better. "If that Is the way saints love," says Haggleton to one side in a sigh of Badness, 'deliver me from It and givo me the love of sinners." Tho girl finally sees that the mil-llonalre mil-llonalre Is not all bad and agrees to become his daughter iu law after all. and with tho three who hounded him I m Jit jras WILTON LACKAYE IN "THE BATTLE" The Cast. John J. Haggleton. . .Wilton Lackaye Philip Ames Douglas J Wood . Gentle Thomas McCrane Moran ; F. F. O'Malley I Joe Dick Lee Servant Walter F. Stanhope Margaret Lawrence Ruby Bridge Jenny Doris Burton In the many dramas that have been presented In Ogden during the past, "The Lion and the Mouse," "The Mau of the Hour," etc., the rich man has been the target of attacks of the playwright, with only one sldo of tbo millionaire's character shown. But now comes a play in which the rich man Is not given the worst of It. In fact, conditions are In his fa- j vor. "The Battle" Is the rich man's play, which the fairly well-to-do and the poor man should see. "The Battle," with a superb cast, beaeled by Wilton Lackaye, presented present-ed at the Ogden theater last dght, c'rew a large and enthusiastic audience, audi-ence, who saw a play against the Socialist So-cialist and chronic kicker, and In defense de-fense of the millionaire by showing that, regardless of the hard names called him, he possesses some splendid traits. It a without doubt the strongest drama that has been seen In Ogden in many years A feature of tbo piece Is that the principal role is In the capable hands of its originator, Wilton Lackayo. who Is surrounded by an all-star cast that gives a production the like of which Is seldom equaled In Oiden. The play Is for the thinker, as Mr. Iiackayn said In ; curtain speech made after he had received a dozen curtain calls at the end of the third act. He said that the problems involved in-volved In the piece were those which have been before the world since the prehistoric times So much about helping the poor and what tho rich should do for the tenement tene-ment people about him, John Haggle-ton Haggle-ton floors them with this proposition proposi-tion ; "I'll give $10,000,000 to help the poor If you will show mo how I can do It and not make them paupers." Every ono of the three hns a different differ-ent plan and every oue is shown the lallacy of the dream. They have been harping at the rich class day and r.U;ht and they have lived In the tene-raent. tene-raent. too. Yet when they are asked how to do good with this money they have not an unswer, and all appeal to tlio master mind of the organizer for the bolutlon of the problem. The cur- I tain goes down as John Haggle-ton ii showing them a map aud his plans to "help the poor to help thenittelves," , '"'Our prehistoric ancestors struggled with It," he said. 'The one with the brawniest, halryest arm and the longest, long-est, most clinging tall got the biggest cocoanut, while the weaker ones sat In the treetops chattering their dld-approval." dld-approval." John J. Hagcleton Is a rich man and a good organizer; he h high In the councils of "the system.' Hia wife thinks Mm unjust and brutal In his business dealings wltti otner men. Instead of staying with him and fighting fight-ing to redeem Mm, sho slips awav In Ihe nlrht with their four-year-old b0v. "nd Haggleton says that when he lest his son all his love ami pity went along She left him to .Irift alone and afterwards ho was accounted account-ed a hard man. His wlf.. took the boy to a cheap boarding house and there met Gentle, a thoroughly honest man. who later j watched ()r.r bov prow and acted as a guardian to him. The mother's f inds I ran out and works at the bo-rdlng j house. It kills her. nnd as the plav opens we see Philip Hnsr-Jeteri think-j think-j I"g hh n.tme Is Amo? a:vl being en- t tlrc-Iy Is-norant of hi? father. He only has childish recollections of M.? moth er's sorrow and knoTs In a r""jeral ' ay tiK,t sbe left his e?her ni. was j I very unhrnny. The voting mnn Is a I ! splenrtbt diver nnd make's pmd '.' -'res. ' ; hut has high ldcp.!; about the wiv the ; pe-op'c of the tenement i-houH be ' treated and uri I f f 1. He l? v.rej.i olced Pcahct .roSn Hnc'p'on. not ' Knowing he H father, but sfttlng! his opinion from what he has read ! and heard. Hajrgleton I trkeD to the tenement I i by Gentle and meets his long loot son. |