Show This Weeks Week's Theatre Programs WILKES WILKES The The Wilkes players this week will present Along Came Ruth a comedy PANTAGES PANTAGES Vaudeville Change of bill Wednesday This weeks week's and next weeks week's programs described elsewhere in today's Telegram SALT LAKE The LAKE The Winter Garden success The World of Pleasure will be presented October 31 I is Along Came Cam R Ruth th r I S J E 5 5 W 0 fY tI t I I Miss Nana Nana S Bryant as as' as Ruth in in the the comI comedy com corn edy Along Arong Came Ruth which opens I tonight at the Wilkes for a weeks week's engagement Miss Bryant posed es especially especially es es- for this picture re One of the enjoyable fantasies of life conceived by by L jJ French genius and portrayed portrayed portrayed por por- delightfully on the American stage is the comedy Along Came Ruth which the Wilkes players players offer as their next attraction beginning with tonight's performance and continuing all week I The story concerns the awakening of a dead and all but buried village in Maine Maine labeled labeled on the tife map Oldport It I was as a real town once but now the time of the play is present it has the I deserted village looking like a city with a a. broad white way The shops are tacky y and filled with nondescript nondescript nondescript I script goods of a bygone day What clear spots happen to be on the shop I windows reveal displays of ancient vinI vin vintage yin yin- tage and the unshaven and unshorn I I proprietors are even less attractive No spark of ot ambition burns anywhere in the whole length and bre breadth of the town and ready for the ash heap when Along Came Ruth and THEN THEN THEN- shopkeepers eccentric eccentric With garrulous wives simple impie girls lazy boys I old men and the charming Ruth the cocktail cock- cock personalities merrily begins begins begins be be- tall tail of mixed gins to shake and in m its effervescence Old Oldport port gets an Ruth didn't pick out the town deliberately de de- de- de she she just happened to arrive there and rather th than n move elsewhere she thought she might Just as well wen try via Oldport Oldport Oldport Old- Old In the world to make her way port as anywhere else and that it might appeal to her she decided to rip sponge clean and press the old town and add trimmings some new She began with Israel Hubbards Hubbard's furniture emporium as a starting planned innovations and for her hr point things she heT did to that dingy shop the the owner to the fact on only v woke up not riot world existed outside of than another the She narrow confines of Oldport but in the village became imbued imbued imbued im im- im- im every person enthusiasm and when with Ruths Ruth's she organized a mutual improvement T of trade and a few board society a other oher things for the Old Oldport port ci citizens heart and she had them all with her dusted it itself itself it- it got up and soul The town and set to work to Unlock unlock unlock un un- self so to speak lock the rusty gates of its weed grown yard and in a short time it fairly glistened glistened glist gust ened in its rejuvenation The people once more learned how to enjoy work how to laugh and Joke and also how to count money for with the upheaval caused by Ruth good times times' once more moie came to Oldport Among Ruths Ruth's followers were several admirers who preferred their hearts and worldly goods but Ruth had aready al already already al- al ready fall fallen nin in love with the one man which rather tangled things up a bit in approved love story fashion but this is one of the delightful features of Along Came Ruth which replete with comic situations a bit of pathos and any number bf of good laughs ends Just Justas as it should should happily happily Along Came Ruth was a big hit on the New York stage where it was produced produced produced pro pro- by Henry W W. Savage with Irene Fenwick In Ih the original cast as Ruth Ambrose This role will be ie taken by Miss Nana Bryant and it Is anticipated that this character will be given a a. most charming interpretation by Miss 1 Bry Bry- ant Stewart Robbins Bobbins will have the part of Allan Hubb Hubbard rd a 0 role enacted in the original cast by Frank B. B ThomS Thom Thom- S as The cast for Along Came Ruth Ruthis Is is a a. large one and demands the ap appearance appearance appearance ap- ap of all the Wilkes players including in including in- in eluding Cliff Thompson Claire Sinclaire Sinclaire Sin- Sin claire T T. McNulty Ferdinand Munier Huron L. L Blyden George Barnes Frank Bonner Charlotte Treadway Treadway Treadway Tread- Tread way Alice Conrad Charles Murphy Cocroft and D. D S. S Sheldon It is expected the stage settings for tor Along Came Ruth will be very meritorious meritorious meri men as Huron L. L Blyden stage di director director director di- di rector for the Wilkes the Wilkes is planning de detailed detailed detailed de- de tailed scenes for the three acts S Along Came Ruth will be supplemented supplemented supplemented supple supple- by a special musical program by the Wilkes orchestra under the leadership leadership leadership lead lead- of Morris A A. Andrews The play runs all week beginning with tonight's performance with matinees on Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs- Thurs day and Saturday afternoons |