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Show HALT LAKE Those theatregoers who have learned to admire James Matthew Barrie. the Scotch author, through "The Little Minister," "Peter Pan" and "What Every Woman Knows," aa well as through soma of his quaint storlea. will flndinuch to give thein pleasure In the double bill of his plays. In which Ethel Barry more Is to be sn at tha Salt Lake theatre next Thursday. Tha plays are In direct contrast and show the dramatist In different moods. In "Tha Twelve-Pound Look" Barrio Is a social satirist with Just a touch of whim for flavoring. In "Alice, Sit by lha Fire," the longer of the two plays, he Is almost all that he can be -quick humorist with a Uklng for travesty, gentle sentimentalist that knows the springs of human feeling, diviner di-viner of the human heart, especially the hearts of mothers and their children, a master of words, an Inventor of fantasy, a maker of drama that Is of no other1 kind than his own. Miss Barry more takes the chief part In both plays, and In her new, rich and pliant fashion that has made her one of tha notable actresses of the stage. |