Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-13
A CORNER IN COTTON
 AT TIE ROYAL TODAY

"A Corner in Cotton" featuring
 Miss Marguerite Snow. will be on the
 boards al the Royal today. Its human
 interest and it's admirably told story will make of it one of the nest attrac-
 tions at the Main street theatre in many weeks. The synopsis of the
 picture follows:
 Peggy Ainslee. the daughter of a
 wealthy broker, tires of the empty life of society. and determines to take up
 charitable work in the poor quarters
 of New York City. She confers with
 Charles Hathaway. a settlement work
 CT, who conducts her on several tours
 among the needy. Peggy is engaged
 to marry Algie Sherwood. a social
 ldler. Isabelle Rawlston is also in
 love with Sherwood and determines
 to break up his match with Peggy
 Isabelle intimates to Sherwood that
 Pegsy's interest in Hathaway is one
 other than charity He becomes peal-
 ous and tells Peggy she must give
 up her settlement work. She refuses and returns the engagement ring.
 Peggy receives from her father. for her birthday gift, stock in Consolidat- ed Cotton, valued at S5O0OO. This she puts away, intending to use it in her charities. The next day her father tells her that he has just learned of the deplorable financial conditions among the owners of cotto mills in the south, and that he has written to Colonel Robert Carter. one of the big cotton growers, and offered to aid him.
 Colonel Carter. who is proud and naughty, becomes indignant when he receives the letter from the Wall Street broker, and turns down his proffer of assistance. This puzzles Peggy. and she decides to 20 soutb and investigate conditions. Arricine in the south. she obtains a position as mill hand. Her singular beauty at tracts the attention Of the foreman in the Carter mill, and he tells Peggy she must remain after work. as he wishes to see her. He attempts to force his attentions upon her, but is interrupted by John Carter. the son of the owner. John rescues Peggy, and the foreman is discharged. The gallantry of young Carter appears to Peggy, and a mu- tual interest springs up between them.
 The boil weevil is discovered in the cotton. and this. together with a short age in the crop, threatens ruin for Colonel Carter. For the second time he refuses financial aid from Peggy's father. and the broker decides to crush him by cOrnering the cotton market. | Peggy learns of her fathers manipu- ! latiOns and hurries to New York. With | her S50.000 worth of stock as a nu- cleus she begins a fight on the ex- change, in which she is triumphant [ over her father. He is dumbfOunded !, when he learns the identity of his an 1, tagOnist. Peggy explains the hard i ships he would have worked among the mill hands had he been successful. . She induces him to take a trip south with her. when they meet the Carters. The two men profit through the meet ing and come to a complete under standing on economic questions and Young Carter learns that Peggy was the one who broke" the . and saved him and his father from ruin. but speedily forgets his and gratitude in his admira- ton for his fair savior. and the couple soon decide that there are more i'm portant things than cotton in the world.