Show I is' is John Ferguson Is New Flew Dramatic Theme fr h I I I I r 4 4 c II I II tF i i I II s I rt yg I h. h K t Z t te e l Scene from the fascinating character play John Ferguson which opens a three days' days engagement at the Salt Lake theatre tonight There Is this difference between the familiar Irish drama and the newer pla play John Ferguson which comes to the Salt Lake theatre tonight for tor three nights and matinee with the distinction of having given Iven New York City the greatest great great- est sur surprise in its theatrical history The former dealt largely ely with the difference between two religious factions while the latter laUe deals with a conflict that is being waged all over the world between religion and philosophy In John Ferguson the conflict Is between John Ferguson a aman aman aman man of ol strict orthodoxy who finds solace for tor every sorrow in the words of or the Bible and who refuses to harm the man who has wronged his daughter and his children who will accept no such doc doc- trine but want to take Justice Into their own hands It Is In the development of ot this conflict that St. St John G. G Ervine the young Irish novelist and playwright has woven astory a a. astory astory story of such wonderful appeal that Its production In New York lifted the theatregoing theatregoing thea- thea public pUblio from its Us usual summer lethargy and recorded the longest dra dra- dramatic matic run In Gotham's history John Ferguson comes under the di direction direction dl- dl of the Theatre Guild Inc Ina of or New York a cooperative organization of stage folk talk which sprang from the chaos of the recent actors' actors strike in New York and the company is the first one to come here playing under the new actors' actors equity contracts The play Is heralded as one of the real treats of the season |