Show L Reach Triumphant Heights in Famed Play Time The finest drama America baa produced came to Salt Lake Friday night for a t IO IlY presentation Engene O'Neill's O Strange Interlude Interlude Inter Inter- lude was d by a splendid cast and rec l ed with un unstinted stinted apprecIation by an audience that filled every seat In the Paramount theatre e. To Pauline Lord fell one ot of the most exacting roles that the stage has bias known when she played the heroIne Nina Ina Leeds Nina Leeds lna the soul torn girl of 20 Nina the groping woman bereft of her father tather Nina the wife the mother the woman of overwhelming pas passions lons and emotions emotions emo- emo the neurotic woman In her fifties and finally the Nina ot of the I peaceful late afternoon Miss Lord lived up to her difficult robe roJe with finished mastery At her emotional emotional emo- emo heights she was wa-s Though she found It difficult to lio be O'Neill's Nina Ina ot of the early twenties she more than compensated In the second half haIt ot of the play by her wonderful characterization of the theater theater ater Nina Xina Ralph Morgan 1 as Charles Marsden Marsden Mars Mars- den the fatherly he lover ot of the repressions the secret longings the theold old woman was unbeatable Those who had read time the Interlude saw Mr Ir Morgan as lifting bitting up this role to a a. height beyond even I O'Neill's O characterization He gave to the part a refinement a subtle charm that contributed immeasurably immeasurably ably to the rounding out of the play the bridging of time the chasm between between be- be tween the erotic young oung loves lo the love of marriage and the refined love that follows the Interlude of trial and preparation in which OUr souls have been scraped clean of Impure flesh and made worthy to ble ch in peace And as Marsden thought In that calm climax lIne Dear old Charlie who passed beyond desire has all the luck buck at last so did Mr 11 MOrgan organ have the lions lion's share of marvelous thespian opportunities to which he took full advantage The other two male leads Harry C C. Bannister as Dr Ned Darrell and Donald Macdonald as Sam Evans proved good The rhe doctor role could not have been en better enacted than Was done by Mr Bannister In the situations situ situ- athens when lie he was the cool cal cal- medico experimenting with guinea pigs or the older man ot of science or the disillusIoned lover of hater life Mr Ir Macdonald attained his greatest success of the evening e as the successful apoplectic Mr Ir Bab Babbitt Tile four leads naturally overshadowed over over- shadowed the others b by reason of their complete domination of the pIa play Yet Maud Durand as the mother of Sammy Evans Eans was wonderful wonderful won won- Lester as the bo boy Gordon was as right there therel And Ralph Palph Morgan as the professor James Todd as Gordon Evans E the theman theman man and Helen Heen Ann Hughes as Madeline Arnold roundEd out time the cast with splendid enactment of their minor roles Comment on the pIa play Itself Is superfluous so much has this Pulitzer prize winner presented b by bythe the New V e York Theatre guild been discussed It i h classic cassIc Yet one either likes It profoundly or It goes over his head as It did nY m In Fridays Friday's who 1 laughed when there was nothing humorous Intended It Is decidedly not a play for those who cannot shake oft off the mundane ot of life and see Eee seethe the emotional storm that ma may wreak havoc oc In the lives ot of puny pun struggling groping mortals Thought ant and emotion are blended Into a complete whole The asides by which thel players speak their thoughts is II a innovation In modern drama though not new because it dates datIs back to Shake Shake- spare yet et It Is one or of the many unique features ot of the Interlude that captivates time the audience Seldom can Salt satt J Lake ake hope to have such surpassingly fine drama In Its very midst |