Show i 1 AS TO PAID IN FULL I IDid Did you ever see se Paid In Full Pull Two thousand miles mies or more as a we are arc away a from congested humanity it I often oCten that we get the thc opportunity to witness such good acting Maybe that that wilt will wi suf nut suffice lice fice as an excuse for Cor dwelling some somewhat somewhat somewhat what at length upon the lato lata perform performance performance ance A dramatic production as a strong strong as as that was leaves leves its It impress And an author who lies has such sueh signal signa success as he ho who wrote Paid In itt Full Ful will wi perhaps pardon one at tills this time for an analytical discussion of the im tin impress Impress press left len by the drama dr recently put on at the Salt Sal Lake theater The audience clapped when the hero heroine herome ine me the dutiful wife wie at the last drop of the curtain deserted her husband There Ther was no doubt what the fu In future ture was to be The criminal husband was bound to go from bad to worse vorse The wife predicted It It She herself was was going home to mother A divorce was to follow folo She was going to to marry n r the theman theman theman man she loved and live happily ever af afterwards afterwards It I was beautiful It I worked out well wel The public approved except well wel snipe soine of Pt us WO wondered per d what wh t would become of pt the le i husband hu b nd Somehow the t Bible or pr religion r E io or our own wn Iq Ideals l of duty dut or 01 morality rn or something OJ o the other Qt r impelled us qs to IQ b Heg that a or wife je worth ort the applause have remained remained pave ave ve clung 19 t her r scattered Id jl and nt to lift him film from the mire mir Sent ments somewhat similar to the foregoing whispered into the ear of one of the fair fall sex in the audience a brought out the indignant query the wife suffered enough The husband had ha kept her in poverty That is they the had only 18 a week He had stolen to get rich then was willing to sell her ler er Q save himself She be expected to stand more moreNo moreNo moreNo No she Not according to life le They dont stand as much now nowadays now nowadays nowadays qs for a divorce The story stoy was true It I was realistic reals IC It I brought ought home everyday WI experiences omen in the tue audience cheered the woman who had had nerve enough to t go Some of them had suf indignities Next time they will ivill wi know the course cours to take ta e Being Christmas tithe time some some of us were feeling enthusiastic along moral lines The memory of another scene where the tho two thieves occupied the cen con ter of the tle stage together with wih Another nother came to our minds mInas And nd we i that Others words as ns he hung there crucified by his children reh Fath er forgive them tem they know not what they the do We Wo wondered what the his tory of the last few centuries would have been if f different sentiments had been uttered He might have said with wih theta tears ter in his eyes ees Well Ven goodbye bye John Im Im going to heaven hev n I deserve it You can an go bO to hell hel help hp IP sinning I cat cant save sa jou sou OU Goodbye And nd yet t Paia Pal in Ful rui ul was w a trun to ing lag le life The Is that reason enough io ot oi its I J be be author might answer an Yes For the artist artst x Shall ShaH draw raw the thing as he sees Jt it for the God of oC f things as they are are But to quote again The artist artst has no right to paint a picture or ort to ta p write a story the predominant and final ef feet of which Is to hold lust Just or brutal ity I or ugliness or deformity or mean men ness before the mind of the e beholder t He has no right to do it i because he has no right to be the kind of ot man who wants want to do it It V it a little mean for the wife to leave the husband when he needed her He deserved It f it i is true tre But sinful humanity has ha always deserved destruction Thank God not all wom worn en have acted so Some of or 10 us can ca recall where the forgiving kiss easily of a mother or 01 sweetheart or wife upon our own sinful Has has been the salvation of our souls if i saved save they the are For What angel shall Bless this unworthy husband he thrive husband cannot Unless her prayers whom heaven to hear delights And nd byes to grant reprieve ives the tho wrath grant him hun from Of Ot greatest g t t justice The husband deserved no pity if pity contains contins an element of or love love But the piece leave a bad baa taste 7 W H LEARY |