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Show Salt Lake theater tonight for an engagement engage-ment of one week, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees. This play ran at the Lyceum theater, London, for two years, and at the Park theater, New York City, six months, and is regrarded by many discriminating' critics as one of the pleasant surprises. A cast of all well-known players has been assembled to interpret the piece, each one of whom was selected through special qualifications for the part assigned. War Play Written During Time of Conflict, "Seven Days' Leave," at Salt Lake Tonight. WHEN war plays are mentioned one unconsciously thinks of such big successes of the stage as "Shenandoah," "Northern Lights," "Secret Service," to say nothing of "Barbara Frietchle," all products of the civil war. These plays, all written since the civil war, naturally give rise to the supposition supposi-tion that good war plays are not written until after the fighting has ceased. One of the glowing exceptions to this rule is "Seven Days' Leave," Walter Howard's great melodrama, which comes to the |