Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-07 | Page 13 | Refreshing Play Pleases Audience at Wilkes Theatre

Refreshing Play Pleases Audience At Wilkes Theatre The offering of the Willies WHites theatre players this week is marked marled by two things First a most entertaining I comedy Pigs an second the appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap I of two new actors Guy Usher and Leonard Strong both of whom were particularly pleasing to Sunday audiences Pigs is perhaps s the most refreshing re refreshing re- re freshing comedy the Wilkes has bias offered this season season refreshing refreshing for two reasons its cleanness and its spontaneity It It is filled with l laughs most of them caused by lifelike situations and the humanness humanness human human- ness of ot the characters rather than by Wisecracking lines Miss l Gladys Gladys' George as Mildred Cushing Gushing and Mr Strong as Thomas as-Thomas Thomas Atkins Jr carried off the laurels of the performance Miss Georges George's role was of a more Juvenile nature than the type in which she usually appears but she filled It to perfection perfection perfection tion and made as attractive an 18 year-old year as could well vell be wished Mr Strong was as excellent and his work received appreciatively All Mi of the other parts in the play are subordinate to those of Mr Strong and Miss George Actors whose work m merits rits particular at attention attention attention at- at are Mr Mi Usher and Thomas Atkins Sr Fanchon Everhart as Grandma Spencer Ethel Baker as Ellen Atkins and Daisy Del Wilcox as Lenore Hastings Others In the cast were vere Frank Parker t Hector Spencer Arthur Loft as Spencer r Atkins Richard Richa d Tracy as Smith Hastings and Huron L. L Blyden as Dr Springer Pigs tells toils of an American family family fam lam ily fly which may easily bo be called typical typical cal cab for it Is hard pressed for money The youngest so Junior is isa isa isa a visionary although he lie calls himself himself him him- self a business man and sees a fortune fortune for for- tune to be ma made e in pigs Like all visionaries he receives only ridicule and opposition but perseveres with the r result sult that he is la successful and ana saves the old home Of course thero there is much more to to the play than Just that but a synopsis shouldn't tell everything Particular mention must be made of the Wilkes Wilkes' singing orchestra under the direction of A. A H. H which offers as it always does a highly pleasing pleating program p The vocal sections are particularly worthy of commendation