Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-20 | Page 13 | Cloninger Players Score Another Triumph

Cloninger Players Score Another Triumph Winning Winning- new laurels and bring ing delight to a large audience the I Cloninger players last night offered a finished performance of ot Austin Strongs Strong's Three Wise Vise Fools at the Wilkes theatre It is one of ot the I best that Sir Mr 11 Cloninger Cloninge has staged during during- his career Ir Salt Lake I i Norma orma Deane starred in the te leading lead lead- ing log feminine role role as Miss Sidney 1 Fairchild s scored ored a distinct triumph triumph tri tri- carrying the part with a degree degree degree de de- de- de gree ot of accomplishment which may nay maywell well be envied It is the part In which M Mss s Edyth Ellott ElIott was to have appeared but the latter known as the leading lady of the company compan Is Ia resting this week In an effort to completely restore her voice The success of the play rests In iii I the main on th the three taking the characters of ot the three old bachel bachel- ors George Cleveland as Ir Dr Gaunt Victor Jory as the judge and Victor Gillard as Mr Findley the banker Honors are about even I Ir the In Interpretation Interpretation interpretation In- In but it is not unfair to the others other to say that Mr Gillard brought the work of the trio to a a. I climax He took well the part Fart of or orthe the grouchy old bachelor Another difficult part in n n the pIa play plays is s th that hat t of ot Mrs Saunders charmingly portrayed by Mae Roberts whIte while the Hie work of Virgil Pilchard In the dual parts of the butler and of ot John I Cra shay Cra Is not to to tobe be overlooked o Harry Jordan was excellent as Ben Ben- jamin jann the escaped The story is one In which the three old bachelors are retrieved fro from frodi 1 an old rut by a young woman whose future is entrusted to them by an old flame of all three Th The girl takes the household by surprise sur stir prise particularly as in Sidney the old fellows fellows' had expected the ward to be a boy Various complications complications complications arise faith Is shattered and destroyed but revived again and Mr II Cloninger Clo as the ideal lover softens the hearts of ot the bachelors by implicit faith iT ir t e young worn an who convicts herself to save her luer father wl who finally a Is roved proved innocent lane inno C cent t of or crime for which he was sent to prison The Three Wise Fools Is beau- beau staged and well costumed The play will be repeated every night this week with matinees with on Thursday and Saturday