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Show Play Which Shocked Chicago and New lYork Seeks Date in Salt Lake City Early in June; Opposition by Religious ISocieties Is Probable. I eBBBSMIBSsaBBBBaaSSPSSSSSBBSi I " I I v - Too frisky for New York, too realistic even for Chicago, and shocking to the taste of Kansas City, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" is headed toward Salt Lake City. The booking book-ing jagents are arranging dates for the production of George Bernard Shaw's play and sending press notices to the" newspapers here naming the few redeeming features which are still claimed for the play. Incidentally, the word has come that "Mrs. Warren's Profession" desires to show here one night only, June 8. The date which has been selected does not as yet ap- . pear on the billboards. The , Eastern booking agents are sending out "feelers.", It is expected that there will be opposition here as there has been elsewhere. There is a fearjthat religious societies and possibly the police department depart-ment itself may interfere. ' When "Mrs. Warren 's Profession" appeared in New York it made even the tenderloin policemen blush. Their interference was expected at first to serve only as a good piece of advertising, advertis-ing, but the management soon found the play barred from the metropolis entire- ly. Since then the piece has traveled a more or leea thorny path wherever it has gone. The company has announced that it has eliminated all objectionable features. fea-tures. It made such a declaration in Kansas City a few weeks ago. This led the president of the Board of Police commissioners, Frank F. Bozzelle, to read all the lines of the play in advance. His reply to the claim was: "The entire piece is essentially bad. If you remove the objectionable features fea-tures you will have nothing left. You might as well attempt 'Hamlet' without with-out the title role." George Bernard 8haw. the author, is a witty and eynical Irish playwright, who boasts the conviction that William . , Shakespeare was a very much overrated poet and writer of dramas. - . Shaw never rails a epade an excavator.. excava-tor.. He -has painted Mrs. Warren in the gaudiest of colors and in doing it has used a paint that won't eome off. Mrs. Warren is a woman who has sunk -deep in the mire and who boasts of it. |