Show I I The TheW Woman orn n He I Married Is Empress Offering T Today od y At the Empress theatre all next week the the Ernest Wilkes Wilkes' Stock tock company company will present The Woman He Married the original and captivating drama from the pen of Herbert Bashford in which which Virginia Harned played the leading role during a a run on the road It has found round its way to the lure of the footlights directly from the keen wit of the writer without the Intervention of ot the editors editor's scythe and hence carries with it all the fire of completeness so sosa sa satisfying y to the Imagination x t jJ the tte The plot t Is centered around the young youngson son of a millionaire and his plucky bride After his marriage to the beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- girl once an artists artist's model his I parents evince such strong disapproval of the match that the young couple determine de- de termine to a assert their Independence I While the husband is making a struggle struggle struggle gle for recognition as a playwright the lovely bride feigns borrowing money from a friend but is In reality secretly using her old profession as a means of income A startling crisis arises when the artist is captivated by her charms and avows his love The episodes evolvIng evolving ing out of this difficult situation are so varied that it is not easy to determine the outcome Bashford makes light of certain social prejudices and is somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what daring In ln his thrusts at popular opinion Throughout the play despite the of many of the incidents there runs a thread of humor which acts as a faithful mirror of ot human character I The last act is devoted to the process of t untangling a a mesh of ot uncertainties which b border upon Pon mysticism and the Young youn people eventually n arrive at a 1 I stage of satisfaction which apparently makes for permanent happiness To the I fall of the curtain the players are given un unusual sual for scope the exercise of expression ex- ex pre lon in action |