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Show THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1926 MISS GLADYS GEORGE AND HER DOUBLE IN CORNERED FAMOUS HIT AT WILKES THEATRE YHICH IS WHICH? th Miss Gladys George 1- - In a Famous Dual Role. All Next Week - . -: i Starting with the Matinee Sunday Afternoon ( J r"; -, & - , . - i V , L V , - vcZ? ,t.v ;'- m r j t (The Talk of the Town) 1 - ..-- - s - " 1 IN Xl V.J '4 ''r"' Which of the charming young ladies pictured above and which is her double? Audiences at the Wilkes Theatre next week will have the opportunthe matinee Sunday ity of seeing just how discerning they are when the Wilkes Players present Cornered, Madge Kennedys famous play, starting with for more than a year afternoon. Miss George, "who returns to the cast after a weeks rest, will be seen ip the famous dual role played by Bliss Kennedy in New York. Others of the augmented cast will have Important characters to portray in this unusual offering. Mystifying Play With Record Run Weeks Offering at Wilkes Theatre have an unusual treat in store for them at week, starting with the matinee Sunday, when Cornered, Madge Kennedys biggest starring yehicle, is presented by the Wilkes Players. Bliss Gladys George in the famous Bladge Kennedy role will be seen in a dual part which makes necessary the employment of a double to carry out the scenes. Bliss Caryl Brown, a pretty young Salt Lake girl, who of all the candidates who applied for the position was the nearest being like Bliss George, will be seen in the various scenes where the double is necessary. PXAYGOERS Theatre next thrUling momenta and tense drama, Mind reading enters into the theme of the play among other features. Hiss Gladys Georgs will play the roles of the two girls and switches are mad in a mystifying manner before th eery eyes of ths audiences Ben Erway will find himself In th role of n puzzled lover who is confronted with ths problem of deciding which girl be lores Miss Georgs haring had s week's rest, has devoted ths entire week In preperlng tor her dual role In "Cornered. Noel Leslie will be eeen ae Jerry, a crook, Ray Clifford as Nick, s drug addict. Miss Fanchon Everhart as s hypochondriac, Miss Lucile Holder as a flapper debutants while Ferdinand Munler. Cyril Delevantl. Arthur Loft, Charles Hagerty, Harry Nelson, Leonard Strong and other of the cast will bo seen In Important portrayals Cornered!! will be preeented every night next week with matinees tomorrow afternoon, Thursday and Saturday, Mia Brown fao and figure be almost identical with Miss George's and It will be in- era said to un-oa- teresting to not how many detect the difference In the two. "Coanered is a hnwot play Which ran for more than a year at the Astor theatre In New Tork. It la an amazing, myatlfying play, said to bo not unlike The In this particular. a wealthy The story concern young girl who, while on a alumni in g party with a number of her society friends meets a girl of the underworld who is her exact likeness accept for a difference in the quality and style of the clothes they wear. The girl of the underworld and the girl of the uppercruet find their Urea entangled in many ways before the denouement, the telling of which would spoil the play for those who wish to sea it. The girl of tbo underworld is ant to rob the society girl by entering the latters luxurious home while abe la away and posing as bar. There la plenty of fast action. :The Review of The Rialto By DIXIE Tec. ii. Th theatrical district of New Tork presents much the aspect of a crazy guGt at this time. Plays, with and aana music, in every language, and in strange special performance th forenoon, afternoon and after midnight abound. Brock Pemberton gave a midnight performance of Pirandello' "Say It With Flowers. and although this scribe was not among those present, from sources It la gleaned that It will be. Another earnest little group got together and did Dostoievsky's "The Idiot" under th title of "Th The prince was Strange Prince. irtnr tork. le Get Oat of Debt That's Wn 99 gect UdM. ye the aeeesy to pay eff the seertgas ae peer baa ee tbs beats at git pee aeath pee flee tend f iatereet end prtaelsal teetnded. Intent redeeed each Milk. Psy mere If yee desire. Build a Better Borne. We'll Finance You c youth but much promise, was un- folded at the Rita Theatre by In. j Louis Sunshine, end w.lh a cast of excellent players notably O. P. Haggle, George Graham and John Goldsworthy, it undeniably pleased many of thq audience although there was complaint of lack of action and a rather surplus of conversation, however bright and entertaining it might be in smaller Th play was s success doses in London whore Fay Compton enacted the role entrusted with rather dubious success to Genevieve instance. Tobin in the present The story la an old one now, and Is more improbable than the last time it was used lust ns th next time It is used it will become even more improbable that In the pres-caa- e. Into a circle of socalled woman-hater- s, somehow whenever this is propounded th audience forthwith smlieo- - 'mtl of Howsupercilious incredulity. ever. into this group comes a girl, a fugitive from Justice. She has committed a theft, and her story la a plausibly pathetic to and they decide to protect her by giving her harbor. As might hav been second act expected- - before th la advanced they hav all become She Is a charms. smitten by her veritable good angel to thfm all. To on she brings a reuniting with hla wife. To another she binds end bandages his hurts. To most of th others Mis shamelessly leads one-them to their doom, all and of course R la this one who so Not finally capitulates to her. very good. Only that it la entertaining dialogue and rather smart repartee. Worthy of success. but unlikey to attain the same degree that it did in London. Tlw Constant Nymph." "The Constant Nymph" has a deferred presentation later in the week whiqb will be reported upon In due course. Of the plays before referred to. viz: "8ay It With "The and Flowers Strange Prince," It la hardly necessary to report. They were experiments," and not particularly happy ones. and Down Broadway, George Jewel, acting In The Jess Singer, was enabled to hear himself on ths Vitapbone by the simple expedient of running a special wire Into hla dressing room In Chicago from th stag where the talking motion pletur pre"June miere was taking place. and the Pay cock" la to he revived in Chicago with Whltford Kane directing and playing th principal role. . . T'p the Line, the last of the Harvard prize plays is. In the argot of Broadway, a "flop." notwithstanding the good acting of Louis Calhern, Florence Johns and is Macollum. . . "it Barry Love Is the title selected for the new Martin Brown comedy in h.ch Frank M. Thomas willl have tbs leading role. ' fp Bum not alone In being strange at this gathering. Cecils Sorel. of the Comedia Frencaise. continues her repertoire. doing "Camille" and 'Le Misanthrope" In addition to the plays already recorded, and th Opera Comique company, singing In French, has addMascotte" to Its tuneful ed "La group. "Iolanlhe. But coming right back to things worth while Winthrop Ames has added another Gilbert and Sullivan revival to hla delightful and highly popular and successful "Jolanthe." Th Pirates of Penzance." which, by a coincidence, was produced for the first time on any stags In this city In 1879 with the two famous partners present in person to direct the rehearsal, and to direct the orchestra. It has been revived since then, but not within the memory of this scrivener has It boon done with more good taste, beauty of offset and intelligence than in the present instance. The cast of principals, held over from "Iolanthe," which Is to bo continued for at least ono weekly performance, might not measure up to their work In the "Iolantho" revival, but Gilthey are aeeped in the spirit of indibert and Sullivan, and their vidual performances are lust a wee bit short of the magnificent work of the finely drilled and carefully choeen chorus of men and women. John Barclay, Humbird Duffy. WilLewford. liam Williams. Ernest Bert Prtval, William C. Gordon. Ruth Thomas, 8ybll Sterling, Kathryn Reece. Adela Sanderson. Paula Lenglin and Vera Roes are amongst are th principals. The settings cosmagnificent, and the quaint tumes antedating th mauve eighties, are as picturesque as they are original. In short "The Pirate lan-of Penzance," with all Its stilted guage of speech, end Its ancient wheezes, is as amusing and delightful today as It must have been say forty year ago, This Womans Business." "This Woman Businea" by Benn Levy ,an English writer of French-Americ- - ... Ccme See Our Large Stock of - NEW LAMPS Table, Bridge, JFToor SENSATIONAL PRICES ELDER BROS. ELECTRIC I 136 East Broadway iiJ UTAH NEWS FROM GOTHAM I., NEW TORK CITT, Dec. the with coincident Almost change in the Manhattan branch comes the release of presidency several missionaries who have been active in th church headquarters at Brooklyn. A Eldon Rex. president of the Brooklyn conference for the past six months, was released on Sunday. December 12, and will leave shortly for Ixigan, Utah. Henry D. Taylor, secretary of the Brooklyn mission, for the same amount of time will return to his home at Provo. Ora Lee of Brigham, wilt leave th Eastern States mission at the aarae time. Miss Lee has been President B. li. Roberts' secretary for II months. Robert E. Adamson, of Carey. Idaho, president of tb Rochester conference, Blanche Van Woerk om, of Ogden, who has been work- -. log in th Newark branch, and TDenton C. Black of th Albany, Brooklyn and Massachusetts conferences acre all released at the same time. Elder Black will go to Calgary, Canada. Conrad 8. Dahl has been appointed conference . president to succeed Elder Rex. Elder Dahl la from Jordan Utah and prior to hia coming to the Brooklyn conference was one of the eastern Pennsylvania missionaries. Glen W. Watkins, of Salt Lake will be the new mission secretary. The Sunday evening services of December 18 at the Brooklyn chapel were In honor of the departing missionaries. After President Roberta had expressed his appreciation for their services, they i e ponded with arief talk. Elsie Cook of the Maryland conference sang. A duet was also given by Violet Johnson and Mrs. A. Ray Olpin. Previous to the services President Roberts entertained at a dinner at the mission home, for the released missionaries. Besides the honored guests Mrs. A. Eldon Rex. Elsie Cook. Lucile Hotbrook. Diets Brimhali, Dr, Lawrence Coffin, J. Roberts Hatch, Glenn Watkins, Conrad 8 Dahl. Merrill L. Oidroy and J. Herbert May were present. Thursday evening, December 9, the mission bom served as a reunion place for the workers in the Brooklyn conference. There were forty guests in attendance. The second and fourth Sundays of the month will hereafter, acof cording to the announcement President Roberts, who was the speaker at the Manhattan services on December 12, bo used for faith Missionaries and promulgating. men and women from ths branch will bo th speakers. During the same services the new branch presidency, Howard J. Stoddrad. Howard R- - Driggs, and Carl MacDonald were set apart by President Roberts and Conrad 8. Dahl. Chief among the social events of the Utah colony haveoboen ths entertainments for Mr. and Mrs David Howells of Los Angeles They were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher at their Flushing homo on Wednesday evening. Saturday Mrs. Otto Harbach of New Tork entertained Mrs. Howells at luncheon and a matinee party. On Wednesday she was the guest of Mrs. Lucile Tan Midgley for luncheon and later for a matinee. The same night they were th dinner guests of Dr. and Mrs. Heber Hancock t their Fort Chester Mrs. Howells Is leaving home. soon for the neat. Si will be accompanied on her return trip by Mr. Imer Pett, of Salt lake City, who has been visiting hia sister, Mrs Stuart K. Brandon. Mr. Howells will meks a business trip to Boston and win then loin biz wlf hi Salt Lake City for the Christmas holidays Mr. and Mrs Ashby Snow, of Salt Lake, hare been at the Bilt-mhotel the last week. Mr. Snow te in the East on business. Mrs. Flora Woolf, of 119 Ninety-fourt- h street, has as her bouse guest her mother. Mrs Josephine Tanner, of Balt Lake. Mrs. Tanner will remain in New Tork during tbo winter months Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Larsen were guests at a formal dancing party of tbo Arnold Constable and Company club at tba Biltmoro hotel on Saturday, December 11. Mr. Larsen te an educational director of tbo Constable company. Dr. Lawrence Coffin entertained three of tbo Brooklyn missionaries. Elders Taylor. Jones and Hunn-sak11. December Saturday. After dinner they saw "Tba Donovan Affair. a mystery play, at tba Plymouth theatre. Mrs Ella Squires, of 14 west Ono Hundredth street, entertained Thursday, December - Mias Ellen Russell and Elva. Evans were tb Utahn present. . SaH James M. Armstrong,-- !Lake City, arrived on tho President on Saturday from a two Harding years mission to England. Before returning home Elder Armstrong spent several months on tbs Continent and in tba Bear East. From Egypt h visited tbo Syrian mission. where Elder Booth, of Provo, te In charge. Elder Armstrong was president of the Newcastle conference. He will visit a 'few days in New Tork before going to Utah. Another English missionary not long returned. Robert Griffiths of Smitbfield, spent a short lime in Utah and then returned to New Tork. He te with Mfnsch Monell and Company, a bonding house. Among the Washington, D. C-- , visitors are Mr. and Mrs. R. Mrs. Parry was formerly Helen Talmadge, of Salt Lake. Miss Violet Johnson, of Provo, was the week-en- d guest of Hr. and Mrs. A. Ray Olpin. of Whltestone, Mies Johnson is Island. Long studying music at the Walter Dam. roach school on Claremont avenue. Miss Gladys D. Black attended tba Piedmont dance of tho Southern club of Columbia University e Saturday evening. The dance eras held at Barnard College. . Dr. and Mrs. Howard R. Driggs and Mr, and Mrs. Guy B. Boss were among the guests at a dinner la honor of Dean John W. Withers, of tho school of education. New Tork Unlveraeity. at tho Town HalL On Friday. December 3. a eon was born to Mr. and Mrs-- Nets Anderson. of Whittier House. Jersey City. Mr. Anderson will be remembered by many former B. T. U. students. After leaving Utah ho came to Chicago University, where ho was engaged In social service work. He came to New Tork to teach in the New School for Social Research Work and la at present ths bead of Whittier House settlement. In Jersey City. Besides his writsocial work. ilr. Anderson ing for the Sunday New Tork American and the Times Mercury. Madge Kennedys Famous Starring Vehicle er Worth Going Miles to See 9- ocxoc Big Cast -Nifty Settings An Unusually Compelling Story OBOE s Romance Comedy . , eoox Thrills 10E30I I0E30 of Every Night at 8:30. Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Matinees, Sunday, Thursday, Saturday at 2:30. Prices, 25c, 50c. Distinction ALL SEATS RESERVED GET TICKETS EARLY. LlMIERE WILKES THEATRE Portraits Studio Ground Floor. 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