| Show According to the line ot of the play The World anti and His wife which III i at the Colonial theatre for R a short hort fn en engagement gast I la a tragedy or of lf It lean le III an aa version of the fine Spanish drama l ran Galt adapted pt by Charles lr and produced pro and staged by William Faver Faversham sham who plays the le leading pArt of De Dan The Th theme Is of that rare universal type that tha has hall little to de dewith oJ with local color or adornments or of The events might have oc cc ocI cursed In SAlt Lake where they th would I be all as typical or of a certain Inglorious phase phAlle f community life Rt as In Madrid where the scene Is laid kid The world and Ills His wife vu sets forth the tragic results of er scandalous gossip It 11 main chAracter does not Ap appear ear nn the stage and hall e e no corporeal form One searches the program In vain for forthe the name me of Don DOh who typifies t the Intangible but tremendous power of ef they s of things hOard heard hut but crystal into InCo public opinion This ThIll Invisible power th hornEt home poisons th mind of a good geed man and commits mur murder der with A cruel and Irresistible force Young Den J was wall the friend the lion eon almost of oC Don JuliAn an and hi his w wife Dona Dena Te dora nEt He lived JIved at their he boys Ills father had been hI his benefactor and Den Julian felt under ander an obligation he could never rr re read a ad Nothing a could have been more than the relations of the wife and the friend but silent not have It so The town talked the husband In spite of his hili In hI his friend and his determination not to te believe him false fals wa was simply forced to believe In tho th o end after Don Jull n had been lleen mortal mortally I ly wounded In a duel what had n r been true actually became so and th the devilish perversity of oC shook hook even eYen the faith of the helpless victims In themselves antI and drove them Into each others arms ann annIt It Is III in that final ranal moment when thin f taUt of the course or events event dawns dawn upon the spectator I that William lIlIam Faversham proves prOU him himself self a powerful and superior actor I Throughout tha play his personal pr per I le Is vigorous I dignified satisfying but tut he does doell not let I go ge until the closing lines when hf he de denounces the Jl scandalmonger Oett he then claims the women om n whom until that moment he hl has held as tar far removed from frem him a as her virtue and her Indifference hid placed her This II speech pf alone would stamp sIamI Mr Faver Faversham I sham lIAm B as a old bold And Impassioned actor who hews hew close Ie to the hard tine line or of absolute I late art but Of with a 1 broad stroke achieves an unparalleled effect Miss I II Julie Opp gives a finely ten teet teetered ered performance In th the role or of Dona There is III a RAtional national aR antna a tive obstacle l to te her Impersonation of ofa a Spanish h woman but one ene so likes like the universal type that nothing Is III missed Mr lr U IL Cooper Cliffs eUrre the Pen nun Julian of the play completes complete the trio who absorb the tho and th action or of the drama dram Except for tor the Don Alvarez the characters art are merely incidental to the development of the plot 1101 The World and add lUll Ili Wife Is III a pia play of nr thrilling Interest which grips and holds olds Its IlS audience until the end It presentation It by aIr Mr Faversham and his excellent company Is a thing which no noone noone one In the theAtre can afford to miss |
