Show AMUSEMENTS 5 I Bright Comedy Well Done Dome at atThe atThe The Th Playhouse The National Players at the Playhouse Playhouse Play Play- Playhouse house presented a sparkling comedy Sunday and demonstrated the fact that Salt Lake has a brilliant stock organization capable of offering offering offer offer- ing a wide variety of the best th ng afforded by bj the contemporary stage The Scarlet Woman bright comedy comedy comedy com com- edy drama In three acts by Zelda Sears and Reita Lambert starring vehicle for Marjorie Rambeau ann anci ami Pauline Frederick found Lorene Lorenc Lane in an engaging role in which she scored another distinct hit Clair Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- clair too who had a burdensome part contributed largely to the enjoyment of or the piece Marie Gra Gray is a modem modern mod mod- em ern miss quickly gaining all the sophistication sophistication sophistication so so- she lacked gave a breez breezy handling to a sprightly part George Barnes appears again to distinct advantage advantage ad ad- vantage as a young college president who falls In love with the daughter of an eminent man on whose bIography biography biography phy he is laboring after the death o othe ol the father lather left the girl alone His part is not so exacting as that of last week but he makes the most of it and stops the tongues of 01 village gossips gossips gos gas sips who make the life of the girl a avery avery avery very complicated matter in the small smalltown smalltown town to which she returns after haying having hay hav ing adopted a bab baby from an orphanage orphan orphan- age during a years year's absence in NewYork NewYork New NewYork York after the death of her father Art Loft as a jig big Ig town Romeo with none too many scruples Al Stephens as the village and Howard Howard How How- ard Mac Near as an enterprising druggist were in amusing characters and all carried themselves capably through the laughable story Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard Tracy and Huron Blyden were two husbands whose solicitude for the comfort of the young girl got them Into hot water with their wives Both had rich lines and gave the bright comedy some of its most telling situa situa- It remained for three local women drafted for the cast to almost steal the show from Miss Lane who was Agatha Marley The Scarlet Wo Wo- man Louise Howe Edna Park and Martha Jensen were the life of the story as the three village gossips an anthe and the committee trying tring to see to it that the moral fiber of their town suffered no injury injury or or at least that all nIl guilty parties should pay for lor their evildoing These three were excellent in their parts and left little to be desired in inthe inthe inthe the handling of effective character roles The story of the little play is not as shocking as its name might suggest but the lines are spicy frank ultra I modern but cleverly handled It It is a astory astory story for anybody to enjoy It has to todo todo do with the plight of Agatha relentlessly relentlessly relent relent- lessly assailed by gossip that insists that the baby is her very own The scandal bearers In the village bring every man in the town under suspicion cion don Because the audience knows the truth from the start the situations situations situations situa situa- are all the more amusing It is isa isa isa a happy choice for the competent company which does docs full justice to it |