Show J L Comedy Success S V L i S S' S SV St V t V I I I I AURANIA S. S L. L Playwright Visits Hometown On Way to Coast Aurania Has Play Depicting Western West West- em ern Life on Stage V in New York By KAY HARMS Salt Lakes Lake's latest successful playwright Aurania re returned returned returned re- re turned Tuesday evening for a short visit with her sister Mrs Elmer E. E Darling at the Darling home In Cottonwood Mrs known better to Salt SaIt Lakers as as- Bob Ellerbeck c me to Utah directly from New NewYork NewYork York Tork where three weeks ago she witnessed the successful opening of her three-act three comedy Skidding at the Bijou Dijou theatre Landing her play on Broadway has been a a. long uphill pull for the young young- author For two years she has sought financial backing and producers with enough faith In her play a play a play which won the prize in the Pasadena Drama league three years ago UNSOPHISTICATED COMEDY Finally she was successful and the reception given Skidding by audiences and critics proved that her faith in the play was not mis mis- placed Skidding Is a comedy of unsophisticated western life the life the locale Is Idaho Idaho and and deals with the different attitudes of If four types of women toward love and matrimony I 1 think the chief trouble came be because ause it Is what the critics calIa call calI calla calla a good wholesome and clean play of American life Mrs said A judgment like that al almost almost almost al- al most damns a play in New York which Is constantly getting more continental and always demanding the ultra-sophisticated ultra i In their dramas Of course there there always has been and always will be audiences audiences audiences audi audi- for clean plays but It takes a and sometimes fa fa- fa tally long time for people to hear about them and patronize them Word of a very spicy or or naughty play reaches their ears much faster Commenting on the future of Skidding when it is played throughout the country Mrs Rou Rou- verol said that the present custom I of the enforced producing of a play in New York City before It Is given to stock companies and mId judging of plays by New York reception was unfair V BEGAN AS STUDENT What New York thinks of a play Is not at all indicative of what people peo peo- plo In other othel cities In America are going goin to think she said In fact other cities in America seldom like what the average New York playgoer playgoer playgoer play play- goer chooses as good drama The road to success Mrs rol has traveled slowly and surely As a student at Stanford she first became interested In drama and took part in some college Later In Salt L. L ke she was wason wason wason on the stage of or the old Garrick theatre theatre theatre the the- atre with Max FIgman's company and from there went to New York where she sho followed Alice Brady In Inthe Inthe inthe the role of Meg teg In Little Women Then followed a year In stock in St St. Louis By this time I felt I had a fairly good grounding in drama Mrs said So then I began to work worl toward my goal writing goal writing plays which would be bo produced on Ive I've written a number of one act plays but Skidding Is Ismy Ismy ismy my first three-act three pla play and it certainly certainly Is a thrill to know it has lauded on Broadway She will leave Salt Lake Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day for her home In Los Angeles where she will continue work on an her second play a comedy drama |