Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-09 | Page 14 | Elsie Ferguson in "Wheel of Life" Wonderful

I I Ii i Elsie Ferguson in hi Wheel of Life W Wonderful l The Wheel of Lire Life starring Elsie Ferguson noted stage and screen tI star ar at the Salt Lake theatre is not only wonderful but true to life lire Life LICe with its ruling factor love coupled with the sorrows sorrows sorrows sor sor- rows and tragedies that meet many oil oili i he the ship of fa fate te forms torms the background for this remarkable character study of James Bernard Fagan Miss Ferguson isa la ls laa a dramatic actress of ability possessing possess I ing lug an exceptionally pleasing stage voice beautiful personal and that all important asset the losing of ot oneself in III the part portrayed making the char- char a living reality Her sort ceases take second place with her stage work vork which gives her hel a real areal dramatic opportunity A composed chiefly chief chief- ly Iy of an ai aty al English company able support In presenting a finished tion hun that Is well Worth seeing The setting for tor the drama of or tangled love is set amid th scenes of India where Buddhism and customs centuries old are still in vogue The stor story In brief concerns the wife wire of Colonel Dan- Dan gait gan years younger than thun her husband full of or life lire and youth and a character who wile wins sympathy for her final sacrifice Slip Sin loves a 11 young captain catain named Her love Is returned and nd when It be becomes becomes becomes be- be comes more than platonic friendship the soldier resolves to do the right thing and anti go awa away which he does Two years pass Fate decrees tha the two shall meet again this time under rather ad adverse adverse ad ad- verse circumstances ir fO for hO housed In a Sin I monastery In tile he the Himalayas al ir Ity y await death from the natives natives sur sur- sur surrounding of rounding life nr turns fn Morning strangely dawns I n Friend and l tile the Husband eu wheel eJ comes to th the rescue of the small party and declares his love and devotion his wile who he says Is hl his all 1111 She he had resolved to tell teli him and anti go go- goto to the man who meant all aU to her but ut she maI maKes es the supreme sacrifice by conquerIng conquering conquer conquer- ing self seU and devoting her life to io her husband hus hus- band She Is ig a believer In reincarnation and sadly 2 P parts L with her lm te the words Loev and walt wait Ast t tt the c captain mf lover ov t Frederick e I Worlock o o ol ga gave to a difficult I part a keen and symPathetic sympathetic sym sym- l pathetic understanding As the h husband whose only thought was of wife C. C I T. T Davis did well Comedy was offered by Eric Cowley as the English professor whose spectacled countenance and miSunderstanding misUnderstanding misunderstanding mis miS- I understanding of conditions constituted the humorous side of or the play As his wife Irby Marshall shared in the honors J. J Fisher White as the high priest of oC Tibet whose sympathetic understanding and psychology of the wheel of life lire sum- sum in the words Love means sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- deserves special mention George Thorpe as Lieutenant Maclaren willing to share his last with a lad lady and the large supporting cast and the remarkable stage settings l nt the he finishIng finish finish- ing touches to a dramatic production out of the ordinary