Show HENRY MILLER and Blanche Bates together with some of their associates who will appear at the Salt Lake theatre for three e days starting tomorrow night in The Famous Mrs Fair I i t 4 I Aj r t. t t h rag r 4 a r WaL WaLt t AY q e 3 k tP A- A I. I 3 S c als j AF A AC C p NR A A y x 4 x J Jr v r r t t 4 d. d r a b v i s N rl r The best American play In ina a decade and one of the best a acted ted That may maybe be truthfully said of ThO oi Tho Famous Mrs Fair by James Forbes as produced by those distinguished artists Henry Miller Mil MIl- MIller ler and Blanche Bates and an excellent excellent excel excel- lent company f for r three days commencing comme commencing com com- me cIng tomorrow evening at the Salt Lake Lako theatre Here Is presented an ordinary family of means such as may b be duplicated by the thousands In any large American Ameri American can city cUy Father mother mothe son and daughter daughter allure all are average folk and the domestic difficulty In in which they th-ey be become become become be- be come Involved is la equally commonplace common common- place Yet the Interest aroused Is absorbing absorb absorb- ing and the effect produced Intense be because because because be- be cause Mr I Forbes has created genuine living characters and lent to their troubles all alt the poignancy of humanity and truth Thus with the acting equally qually attuned to reality as reality as It Is la at atthe atthe atthe the hands of ot these distinguished players play play- ers the ers the lesson of The Famous Mrs Fair Fair is Is brought home hom e with peculiar Intimacy and unforced appeal On One 3 says lesson and yet this powerful powerful powerful power power- ful social pl play y Is on one of those rare compositions a a problem play without argument or sermonizing l by y th the au au- thor The audience Is left severely alone to draw Its Its' own conclusions from the experiences of the characters Mrs Fair played with much womanly womanly woman woman- ly charm and sympathy by Miss Bates Is typical of f the majority of American i women who took up war war work In Fran France Her rather stodgy business i husband like the mater of fact son and the undeveloped daughter put up up with I her absence under the stimulus of th the l spirit of wartime sacrifice It Is when the mother returns and fed up by publicity publicity pub pub- I and notoriety seeks a large field for her overestimated abilities on the I lecture platform that the mischief of I her emancipation begins to work The family strenuously opposes her course course but she advances the familiar plea of th the feminist that If a m man n can have a career outside the home why not the woman The result Is that tho the husband finds desperate solace with L a a designing lady of the neighborhood that the daughter daugh daugh- ter starving for maternal love gets into bad company and that the whole family establishment totters on the brink brin of ot ruin Mrs Fair who Is after atter all a woman of right sight principles Is shocked back Into tho recognition of her manifest limitations and true responsibilities by bythe bythe bythe the narrowly averted tragedy She Sho realizes re realizes realizes re- re that it Is Impossible for her hex at atle le least to serve two masters the masters the home and the public And she chooses the home In brief the play says this to the tho aspiring as aspiring aspiring as- as woman Madam I do not deny you a Po public career outside your home if y u aro are that exceptional woman who can follow such a career without neglecting neglecting ne neglecting ne- ne your responsibilities to your husband and children for children for these have havethe havethe the first you But be very sure that you yOU are that exceptional woman that vanity and flattery do not make you believe you are what you are not else you are headed toward do domestic domestic domestic do- do tragedy y and endless ret Miss Bates artist of naturalism and fine emotional appeal makes Mrs Fair Fall so real and so BO human that she seems like the neighbor across the way Mr Miller has never In his long career been seen to better advantage and the stars are surrounded by a company of marked ability including among others Marie Louise Walker Marjory Williams Bert Leigh Lynn Starling Edna Archer Crawford Norma Havey Betty Hall Han Florence Carpenter Kathryn Kathryn Kathryn Kath- Kath ryn Meredith and Elmer Brown I There are three evening performances performances performances perform perform- ances and a matinee on Wednesday |