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Show Jane Cowl Due In S. L. Monday Salt Lake stage-lovere will give Jana Cowl a hearty welcome at tha Paramount theater next Monday, I judging from advance reporta on the aeat aale. Her play. "Firat Lady," which will have a matinee and evening performance per-formance on tha Paramount atage. haa proved one of ths moat successful success-ful vehicles In her brillisnt career. This Includes many great roles, from her Mary Turner In "Within The Law," which many Salt Lakers enjoved. to her "Melisande" and "Juliet." "First Lady" ia a mercileaa but cheerful peep behind the aocial and political acenea at Washington, written by those two wita Katharine Kathar-ine Dayton and George S. Kaufman. It waa produced by that astute showman, Sam H. Harria. Contrary to the Implication of the title, the play does not refer to the president's wife. It has to do with two ambitious Washington hostesses who would like to acquire that title by placing their respective husbands in the White House. Jana Cowl playa Lucy Chaao Wayne and Ann Mason playa her rival, Irene Hib-bard. Hib-bard. It ia tha battle of wits between this pair, their deceptiona, hypoc-riaiea hypoc-riaiea and cat-like spaU while ' booming their candidates, that 1 ca.uaea all tha merriment and af- fords the authors opportunities for 1 msny a sly dig at our official and oolitioal dignitariee. Although aoma ' of the charactera in "First Lady are aaid to ba recognisable, the dramatists drama-tists have repeatedly declared that the rival hostesses are not intended to be Alice Longworth and Dolly Gann. Mr. Harria la aending hia attraction attrac-tion on He present coaal-to-coaat tour precisely aa It waa presented ail laat seaaon at hia Music Box theater on Broadway. |