Show Cohan Comedy I At Salt Lake I Next Thursday The latest comedy by George M. M Cohan COhan A uA Prince There Was will be presented present at the Salt Lake theatre next Th Thursday dj Friday and nd Saturday with a matinee on n Saturday by Cohan Harri HarriA A Prince There Was has baa had long ru runs runs' i in New York and Chicago in both cities having been acclaimed by the critics M al Mone alone one of or the brightest emanations from Ui th I prolific brain and versatile pen of Amen cas ca's favorite comedian and playwright It was suggested by the novel Enchanted Enchant a Hearts writt written n by Darragh Aldrich a an and a unique fact tact comes to the the- front it is stated that Mr Cohan made thil dramatization without ever having re reid dL the book It all came caine about because a an i unsuccessful effort was made to put Miss Aldrich's Aldrich s story into play form torm and Mr 1 1 Cohan having having- been called on to give firstly firsti aid to the wounded sat down and wrote an entirely new play using the story as asa ant as' asa anta a basis It Is la not usual for Cohan t tharris Harris to give out the plot of one of their plays plas before its presentation to the public public public pub pub- lic but it can be said sald that this thia prince that was was' Is a young joung New York millionaire million aire alro who has become so satisfied with the lire life that he has led as one of the idle rich that he has become thoroughly disgusted disgusted disgusted dis dis- dis- dis gusted not only with himself but the tha world in general He lIe seeks to gain forgetfulness forgetfulness for for- of all his fancied Ills iUs in strong drink and at t the e beginning of ot the play ho Is found in the more or less pleasant task of drinking himself into an early grave A new light dawns upon his I IT I vision when a small girl visits him at his hiss l sumptuous m u apartments rt t in t the Plaza h hotel I T i nf g t in New York k who has l somehow confounded con con- con k founded him with one of the fairy princea of whom she has been reading in her herb stor books pooks She Is a diminutive drudge In n a a. west est side boarding house and comes J Jo to o him to secure his aid in rescuing a fairy airy princess in the person of ot one of the boarders r who is s a magazine writer r but who is a victim i o of t the unfeeling and j un unS t sympathetic prejudices of the book pub lIshers This sounds like an adventure to tol the he- he prince and ho lie hies himself away to to become Incognito an an occupant of ot the the boarding house and of course a real reat romance romance ro- ro mance develops and all ends happily as asit it t should d dv even v l In a modern em fall fairy stor story like ike this do o of Mr rr Cohan's o a J Cohan SL Harris promise a aV a splendid production of this the latest comedy from Mr Cohan's pen and assurance as- as V as-V is given that a i most excellent S N company has been procured which in ln-J. ln N eludes ludes among its members James Gla Glea-C Glea S son on Ena Lewis Willey Josephine Wil- Wil XI Wil-XI I tm John Lucille Webster l lohn 11 I ohn hn E. E Sanders Adelaide Wilson James Bradbury Jr Marie Nelson Muriel Nel Nd Nelson Nelson son Joseph Oddo William Slider an and Will T T. T Goodwin Jamel |