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Show KATHERINE GREY in "THE TRUTH." Becky Warder Katherine Grey Laura Fraser Marion Barney LIndon Alfred Hickman Warder Robert Warwick Roland Harrison Hunter Mrs. Genevieve Crespigny Ina Hammer Eva Lindon Katherine Emmet Servant Gilmore Walker Miss Illington Appears at the Salt Lake Theatre Next Week in "The Thief" I am only sorry that this review of "The Truth" must come so late in the week. In the presentation of the new Fitch piece" at the Or-phoum Or-phoum since Sunday Miss Grey and heV associates asso-ciates have given us one of the most thoroughly enjoyable and artistic theatrical treats of the season. The play, to begin with, is clever. The idea is as old as the flood, but Mr. Fitch has evolved several very peculiar and original situations and the dialogue is witty and fast. Miss Grey and hor players are responsible for the rest. The little, every-day lies of a woman of little better than average social position in New York forms the base upon which die superstructure of the piece is reared and almost In spite of yourself you finish the evening with a bad taste in youi mouth on the lying question. Mr. Fitch has been far more successful with the piece that he has In many of his other ''society drawing-room plays." Katherine Grey has been little known in the inter-mountain or western country for years. Broadway has held onto her very tenaciously. I Her acting is exquisitely finished. She is an artist art-ist to her finger tips and demonstrates it never better than in the Fitch play. There is but ona criticism, and when we mention it we may not be looking through the playwright's eyes at his Character, she is not a convincing liar. I don't believe a man, no matter how much he might love her, could mistake for truths the little fibs that Slip past her lips in the first two acts of "The Truth." In the heavier scenes, however, she Is splendid. The star has seven of the cleverest people in the business with her. Mr. Warwick, the leading man of the company, is an actor of superb strength finished, polished and of splendid stage presence. As Warder, the husband ot Becky, he presents a characterization that would be Impossible, Impos-sible, seemingly, to improve upon. Alfred Hick man as Lindon was equally as good, though the role was a disagreeable one. Ina Hammer is one of tho best, If not, indeed, the best, character woman wo-man we've seen for this season, and then some. Her Mrs. Crespigny is a gem. Harrison Hunter's Roland is another clever piece of work and so on through the eight of them everyone is a star. It is the best balanced company wo have seen in a long day. "The Truth" is one of tho best of tho year. The bill changes this afternoon and tonight, when, the famous play, "Tho Doll's House," will be given. |