Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-04 | Page 13 | Avery Hopwood Comedy Scores Hit at Wilkes

Avery Hopwood Comedy Scores Hit at Wilkes Picking a rollicking comedy for their last production of the season the Wilkes Players layers this week score one of ot their biggest hits in Avery Hopwood's Compromising Sally an and ana leave a laughIng laug audience to remember them during the sum sum- mer For this play of ot tangled marriages marriages mar mar- and near in all but one case dIvorces dIvorces' is a laugh from beginnIng beginning beginning be be- ginning to end Ben Erway appears in an Italian rol role AS A Prince Luigi DI Dl he wins the heart of Sally Ray nay Played by Gladys George On the day Sally SaIly b becomes Comes the prIncess the princess the de Ethel Baker appears on the he scene She has been twice divorced and was once loved by Luigi who left lefther her when Vlen she told him to go She didn't mean It she tries to explain so she rushed to America to prevent pre pro prevent vent his marriage Sally SaIly vows these twin souls souis shall have each other Then Jim Wakely Arthur Loft who loved Sally two years ago and vows he still stilt does arrives closely followed by his isis wife Daisy I Del el WIlcox and Crewe played by Leonard Strong Mrs Wakely h has Ms s been trying to get set evidence for tor a divorce from Jim and l has been helping her But linding Inding that Jim intends to marry Sally she decides there will wm be no divorce The prince is between two fires trying to pacify Sally and the All Alt the uproar arouses Sallys Sally's aunt Fanchon Everhart to action She locks the tha bride and nd groom in their room and the others in their respective rooms Luigi has won Sally around again when Jim comes up a ladder into her room to take her away with him on the Santa Anna and l comes down from the room above O on a. a sheet to se see if iJ any evidence is being enacted Jim and Sally lock tIle the p-Ince p In Ina Ina ina a room and put Jims Jim's wife in lit th clothes closet when she arrives to Interrupt their elopement and to together together together to- to gether ether they flee to the ship They have a with Maloney aloney a a. detective de do- detective played by Guy Usher and then the others arrive Just as the boat is pulling out Ever Everything is finally ironed out and the play comes cornea to an amusing and delightful delight delight- ful climax as the Santa Anna steams out of New York harbor Compromising Sally SaIly speeds along from the first curtain to the thelast thelast last Is replete with clever and witty lines and keeps the audience In an uproar