Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-28 | Page 5 | ''The Better Wife" Applauded at American

AMUSEMENTS ) 'The Better Wife" Applauded at American- . ANI3 of the most interesting and enter-, enter-, " taintng screen stories that have been J shown In this city this season was seen at the American theater last nifiht, when Clara Kimball Young and her own company com-pany presented Miss Young's latest Select Se-lect picture, "The Better "Wife." This story, which was taken from Le-nore Le-nore Coffee's novel, "The Love Quest," is a delightful romance of Kngland and the continent, in which Miss Young is seen as an American girl, Charmain Page. Chaxmlan is visiting friends . in Kngland when she becomes acquainted with Sir Richard Beverly. Lady Beverly and little Dick Beverly, their son. The thread of the story, which begins at that point, is rapidly woven into one of the most interesting photodramas we have ever witnessed. Later in the story Miss Young becomes the second Lady Beverly, following the death of Sir Richard's first wife, but it is the American girl's wealth, and not his love for her, that prompts the baronet to make her his wife. He believes that the first Lady Beverly was the better wife, and it is not until certain conditions and circumstances, over which he has no control, con-trol, force him to see the second Lady; Beverly in a new light, that he comes to realize that she is the better wife. A cast of unusual distinction supports Miss Young In this production, including Nigel Barrie. Kathlyn Williams, Lillian Walker, Irving Cummings, Ben Alexander, Alexan-der, Edward M. Kimball and others.