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Show Maude Adams in Barrie Fantasy at the Salt Lake , la.'ion lown th'-y siill dream of A r.iirin d'a-rlte Zeppelins and the bombing banditti of the .-kie;-. I'eihal':-' it v.as the idea of escaping from honlble realities into i harming iuealit.es which prompted J. M. Barrie to write "A Kks for Cinderella ," presented last night at the Salt LaJie theater by Maude Adams and her company. One. awakes with a start In the earlier scenes to find that Iyintion can still dream of fairies and to realize that Die golden west, great aod gatish, has no fairies. All eair fairies are friendly or enemy aliens. Mr. Haxrie is telling us of the London of war timo. In fact, the play begins on the top-floor sluxlio of an artist whose skylight is throwing out an DJirmlnation which is a riaring and frightful Invitation to the Zeppelins. A policeman enters to protest, and comos In contact with Cinderella, the girl nf dreams, who has visions beautiful about things which the warring world cast aside in the Slimmer of 1011. As the play proceeds there is unfolded a story a!Kut a girl whose heart is filled with those good things of human nature that were wont to content us in those fur days when civilization had not yet j tinned reprobate, the things that a war-i weary world would gladly return to and have clone with elghty-miic suns, poison giLsos and chunks of hell hurled from the clouds. Mow pi-oud Furonc was of Its civilization! civiliza-tion! It had progressed so far beyond hideous wars, beyond base lialreds, beyond be-yond atrocities. And it all turned out to be like Cinderella's dream, a bewitching fantasy. Perhaps it was disgost at what the world had become which impelled the playwright to devise a dreamful love story that should take us for a moment out of this scorched. blasted and shriveled world and IcacJi us something of the old sympathies while playing tenderly upon our heart-string's. ll's such a story that Maude Adams interprets in-terprets to us in her appealing way. She presents to us a character so loing-lrnd, so enchanting in its visions and sym-patliies sym-patliies that we are persuaded that human hu-man nature has in it tho saving' sparks of divinity despite ils far-wanderings on the road to Hades. The pathos and the humor arc genulno and beautiful. Miss Adams received an old-time welcome wel-come from her own people. They were proud to aecluim again the magic of her art. "A Kiss ifor Cinderella" will be presented pre-sented at a matinee and evening performance per-formance today for the last time. |