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Show Varsity Players1 Present Tale of Fancy rpHK Varsity players of tho- University - of I'tah, under the direction of Maud May bibcock, openect their sea-sou's sea-sou's work with Arnold Hoimett's famous fa-mous pl;y of fancy. "The Ureal Adventure." Adven-ture." ;a the Salt Lake theater hist niht. As a means of showing tho ability of Tor rev Me Kenny, t lie new man who assumes as-sumes the leading role, the story is well chosen. Mis part is that of an ecceurric art ist, who, beca use i.f his ret i ring na-ture. na-ture. allows his valet to be buried under the mistake that be is the master and marries the sweetheart of the servant. It is a character that the least misin-i misin-i terprotat ion on the part of the actor would spoil, but Mr. Me Kenny presents it in a - thoroughly convincing manner. Kdy th Uar low, well known to friends of t be Varsity players for the excellent work she did last season, appears in the part of an ultra, pract ical woman, who knows how to make a man happy in humble surroundings, and yet can assume as-sume the part of a lady when occasion demands. It is a character entirely different dif-ferent from any in which Miss liarluw has appea red before, and her success in tho del meat ion is a demons t rat ion of versatility that marks the real actress. As Cyrus Carve. the cousin to the artist. Kranklin Kastnussen gives an excellent ex-cellent interpretation of a. man lost in the dept hs of worldly glory. Honor ia l-ooe. an emotion;;! church woman, is presented wit h good effect by Louise Mill. The other parts, by Mervin Saunders. Saun-ders. Clarence Menser. C. A. White. Mar-old Mar-old Bit ho!. Joseph K. Smith. lon Wood, Frank Wood and Ksther Husbands, ft re played in a manner creditable to the actors ami "the company. Tho plot of the story grows out of the death of the valet of Ham Carve, world-famous world-famous artist, who has returned to his home town, London, where he has not I been for a score of years. Through misunderstanding, the physician reports ' th"1 artist instead of his servant as dead and the report is verified by Cyrus : Carve, the artist's cousin. Ham, because of his retiring nature, lets the mistake go uncorrected and the valet is buried in pomp at Westminster abbey. In the meantime a woman appears, and informs Ham that she is tiie girl to whom lie has been engaged through a matrimonial bureau. Circumstances prove the woman's worth and he marries mar-ries her and they retire to obscurity. , I ".nt Ham cent inues to paint, and his pictures aro recognised by an expert and sold to an American, who subsequently hues the expert for fraud, claiming the pictures were painted after the artist's death. At this point the wife and sons of the dead valet appear and complications complica-tions grow intense. i The play will be continued throughout the week. |