OCR Text |
Show Wilkes Players Are Seen in Farce Comedy Stock Company Opens New .Week With Play "Near-, "Near-, ly Married." "ftJlilARLT MARRIED," the "Wilkes players' offering for fair and con- , 1 ference week, opened last night to a capacity ca-pacity house. i The play is a lively farce-comedy re- : plete with unusual situations and Is well ; handled by the company. During the I seven days it will remain on the boards it will no doubt draw large crowds to the "Wilkes theater. The play has been well cast. Particularly Particu-larly is this true as regards the part of the "nearly married" man, "Harry Lind-sey," Lind-sey," which part is assigned to Ralph Cloninger, the leading man of the company. com-pany. Miss Nana Bryant, who plays the leading lead-ing lady part, shows extraordinary ability abil-ity as "Betty 1-indsay."' the "near-wife" of the "nearly married" man. Oi her characters are well portrayed. Clifford Thompson as "Tom Robinson," t lie friend of Lindsay, represents perfectly per-fectly an over-anxious-to-help character and with assistance of Claire Sinclair, who plays the part of "Gertrude Robinson," Robin-son," his wife, succeeds in getting his friend into all manner of mlxups and compromising situations by trying to befriend be-friend him. M iss Mae Thorne as the "paid lady," "Hattic King," who is merely doing her part for so much per towards the divorce of the Lindsays, is quite effective in her roll, as are also Ernest Van Pelt as the Hindu prince and Ethel Tucker as "Nora," his wife. There ia not a dull moment in the three acts of the play, which depicts the trials and tribulations that beset a young married mar-ried couple who have quarreled over the wife's brother and who think they want to he divorce!. Finally deciding that this is not the best way out and to get away from their friends whose interest In their private affairs af-fairs has become more of a sou rce of trouble to the couple than anything else, they run away only to discover that they have been legally separated by the courts. Their friends follow them, also the lady who is paid to create scandal then the fun commences and numerous situations that are really unusual even for a farce-comedy, farce-comedy, occur in rapid succession. The tangle grows worse as the play proceeds pro-ceeds and just when all seems over between be-tween the nearly married couple they become reconciled, encounter a taxicab chauffeur and get away to an adjoining adjoin-ing state to be married all over again. While the play is all comedy, it is, nevertheless well handled and many of the cast display very extraordinary histrionic histri-onic ability. DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. I SALT LAKE Tuesday, "Wednesday, ! Thursday, Wednesday matinee, Max Figman in "Nothing But the 1 Truth." WILKES Farce comedy, "Nearly ! Married." Runs all week, with matinees on "Thursday and Saturday. Satur-day. ORPHEUM Wednesday night. "The Girl With the Thousand Eyes" and "The Retreat of the Germans at the Battle of Arras." PANTAGES Vaudeville bill of seven features, headed by "Oklahoma" Bob Albright, the male Melba. LIBERTY Hippodrome vaudeville, With Jack Stewart's "1917 Girl Revue" as the headliner. MOTION PICTURES. PARAMOUNT-EMPRESS Marguerite Margue-rite Clark in "Bab's Diary"; Pathe News Review and war pictures. AMERICAN Olive Thomas in "Broadway Arizona"; comedy; Universal Uni-versal "Weekly. STRAND Gertrude Dallas in "The Woman in White." BROADWAY Today and tomorrow, Bryant Washburn in "Skinner's Baby." MEHESY Black Cat story, "Vernon, the Bountiful," with Virginia Valli; "The Web," a Star featurette. |