Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-01-25 | Page 4 | "The Guardsman" by Franz Molnar Now in Book Form

I The Guardsman S 'S I by Franz Molnar Now N ow in Book Form Carefully Thought Out Cast Casi jand and Scenes Scene Makes a Success Suc Sue S cess Out of a Failure FailureS S 'S It took tool several failures to to make The Guardsman b by Franz Molnar an Austrian play attain success In InAm Am America As Th Theresa sa says s sin in the foreword This delightful and brilliant comedy is so delicate delicately 1 balanced between tween be romance and reality seal real reality real real- ity farce and comedy that It if took everything that we the Theatre Guild could give It in the way of casting and production to weave the delicate fabric Into a success for American audiences I Plays translated often Ios lose os some of their appeal It K was necessary for the translator to Insert American Ameri Amen can idioms to tomake make the play appeal to Americans The plot is woven wo around two prominent actors husband and wife The wife has had numerous affairs I I before her marriage and her husband husband husband hus hus- band is beginning to think that she is getting g ready for fol another one To discover whether his wife Is true to him he hits upon the original I idea of ot disguising himself as a guardsman In the Russian embassy and testing his wife's wite's fidelity He HeI realizes that this will be the most I important part he lie has ever played He sends himself out of town then I cancels his engagement too late for forthe forthe forthe the papers and proceeds to meet his wife a as the guardsman Ills His wife grants a meeting and arranges for him to come t td the opera that evening eve eve- ning The husband goes determined to play his part and sel settle le the question question question ques ques- tion that he has in his mind It would bo be spoiling the play to tell what happened from then on on but the husband settles the question and the wife proves herself mighty clever clev clev- er or a quick thinker Liveright Liveright Live Live- right an and CO New York I