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Show THE WHEEL REVOLVES Again the wheel of public taste has revolved, and instead of the musical comedy, the gcorgcous spectacle, or the one-part play written expressly to parade the idiosynora'sles Of a certain actor, the modern emotional drama with every character 111 it an important import-ant and interc'sting one is today the popular form of theatrical diversion. The im'mediatc success in New York last season of every meritorious play that treated of present day men and affairs told its story to the alert theatrical manager, and this season there is almost an overabundance of modern plays, but (he generous patronage pat-ronage that the theatre going public is bestowing upon them would seem to indicate lhat the modern play is what is wanted. It was not so much that the theatre going public had tired of the. other kinds of plays as it was that modern dramas like "The .Lion and the Mouse" and "The Ragged Messenger" present a variety of types and a timeliness of topics that arc just now of general and paramount 'interest. Local theatre gqers will have the 'opportunity next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to see this, latter play when the accomplished accomp-lished "actor, Creston Clarke, will present it at the Salt Lake Theatre. |