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Show With the First Nighters Q THE P00R LITTLE RICH GIRL m M "Tho Poor Little Rich Girl," by Eleanor H Gates, a much-discussed play of mingled sweet- H ness, simplicity and spectacular beauty, will bo H' presented by Klaw and Erlanger at Salt Lake H' theatre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday H' next. Its popular success would indicato that H the enconiums heaped upon it by its reviewers H are justified. H, While the central figure is a child, "The Poor B Little Rich Girl," is not a child's play in the H sense that it is Peter Pannish or Blue-BIrdlsh. It H' too, has symbolism and pictorial cmbelishment, H but unlike the others its chief appeal is made to H mature intelligence and the parental instinct. It H is ultra-modernv and typically American in its H humorous viewpoint. Pathos, poetry, satire, sen- H timent and comedy intertwine. H The pampered child of a busy Wall street H father and a butterfly mother, little Gwendolyn H is a typical "society orphan." With every luxury, H she seldom sees her parents, but only hypocriti- H cal parasites, private tutors, maids, footmen and H a governess, who bully, cajole or flatter the hot- H bourse product. With memories of a day in H the country, where she once saw real trees, pad- H died her toes in real mud and talked with real H people, she is lonesome and unhappy. H There is an impressive moral driven home be- H fore the little girl is restored to health and hap- H piness. It is one that appeals to every parent H the tremendous responsibility attached to the H proper rearing of any child of normal impulses. H |