Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-18 | Page 34 | "The Fool" Plays Salt Lake next Tuesday and Wednesday

"TTie F(xr Pkys Salt Lake- I Next Tuesday " and Wednesday MAAY MAaAfttT AMP THE VWHfl reACMlM CMAIwVlfa POLLOCK$ efttATLAV "TMC POOL' By Its title. "The Foot,- Channlng Pollock's latest play which the Sel-wyns Sel-wyns wUI preaeat at the Salt Lake theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday nlgnla. May 10 and HI. respectively, with a matinee on Wednesday, suggests sug-gests the unusual and unconventional. Tho sugestlon is not misleading. "The Pool" M not only the latest but the most ambitious contribution ee far made to the stage by, Ita soo-ceesful soo-ceesful author. The principal character Is jn Ideal-1st, Ideal-1st, fighting Injustice and msteriallam tooth and aali. From ail accounts. It la a etrong drama, with more than a touch of romance, with many sltua-tlona sltua-tlona that are Intensely dramatic. As assistant rector of a fashionable church In New York, the hero Is banished ban-ished from hie pulpit for denouncing greed and hypocrisy, which to him are synonymous with wealth and auccees. Ha casts hla kit with Isbor ,to help in the conflict with capitalism; but here too, he meets with rebuffs and Is saved miraculously from attack when a crippled girl walks for the first time, no awed la the mob' of disgruntled strikers that they fear to further taunt and threaten him. Ho tho play, now brought to a thrilling climax, points the way to spiritual regeneration. re-generation. The man's old time frtende Jiave' called btm a fool and a failure, but. aa ke aaya In the end, hla way of Irving has contributed to the world's work. ' Others have amaaeed wealth and achieved what they call success, but he aa found hla wealth In peace, health, mends, time to Indulge his soul and to help the needy. "Which of us," he aake his old friend, tha capitalist. cap-italist. "Is tha richer meat" The play answera the queetion emphatically. Mervlce on behalf of hla fellow creatures crea-tures haa been the only reward of this outcast clergyman. - The Pool" appeala to what the author regarda aa the much neglected better side of the ptaygoing public Mr. Pollock devoted tea yeara to It. aiming to produce a work that would appeal to the public through Ita Ideal, lam and humanltatianlsm- and the result haa been one of the greatest successes in the history of the Amerl- The Belwyns hsvs provided a distinctive dis-tinctive cast that tncludee Helen Joy. Mitchell Harris, Gay Beabrook, Marlon Ma-rlon Haslup. Urandon ttvans, Clayton Frye, Henry Hall Harry U. Houtliard. Kve Kohl. Margaret Pitt, Madeleine Hartford. John Burkell. Edwin Redding. Red-ding. Florence Ronette Smith. James a. Morton, Frederick James. Ned be-'brook, be-'brook, Oeraldlne Trevor, Martin Mat-loy Mat-loy and Edwia Ardeil. There la unusual interest to see "-Tha Foot" aad It would be wen to occurs your seals as early aa possible.