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Show -THEATRICAL "THREE WEEKS" Played to Appreciative Audience at the Utahna Theater Last Evening. Despite the efforts of local club women to prevent the production of the dramatization of Elinor Glyn's remarkable book, "Three Weeks," that story was or ted before a crowd of theater goeiA.vho gathered last night at the Utahna theater In numbers large enough to almost fill the little play house. The performance perform-ance was attended by many parties of young ladles chaneroned by matrons or parents, and the performance was apparently enjoyed by all. The staging of the story did not detract de-tract from the beautiful manner In which it Is written. The story Is one of an intense love between two lonesome, lone-some, unhappy young people, with the ending unlVinpy in death for the one and a broken heart for the other. There is a suggestion of impropriety In the book, but this suggestion Is brought out but once in the play and the audience thought almost alone of the happiness enjoyed by the rwo, and later of the grief which w recked both their lives. Miss Beryl Hope, as "The Ladv," interpreted the part, wo believe, "as Miss Glynn would wish to have it portrayed, por-trayed, and Harry C. Brown, as Paul Verdayne. the big. youthful Englishman, English-man, filled the authoress' r description of the man ulcely. The three weeks of happiness en-jojed en-jojed by the queen and the young Briton, followed by the tragic niur- ' der in a drunken, jealous rage of Her ' Majesty by the dlssioated king of Sar-donia, Sar-donia, left the audience in a thoughtful, thought-ful, sorrowful mood as the la'st curtain cur-tain was rung down, but the strong story of the faithful human love borne each other by the principals undoubt-edlj undoubt-edlj will leave an uplifting, lasting impression upon th,e minds of a thinking think-ing audience. |