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Show "THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH" Theatre goers who enjoy a good, wholesome drama of the great "out-doors" will welcome the coming of "The Winning of Barbara Worth," a dramatization by Mark Swan of the famous novel by Harold Bell Wright, which come., to the Salt Lake theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Satur-day. "The Winning of Barbara Worth" stands forth distinctly. In a season which came with an onrush of sex-plays, a representative managerial man-agerial firm offered a drama of grit and manliness, man-liness, love and fidelity, two big and Important things. Barbara, .the waif of tho desert, left orphaned in the hollow of the hand of fate, parched and delirious, falls into the arms of Jefferson Worth, tho sort of man that tho men were who made the western wastes bloom. She grows beautiful and H tender. He grows rich and powerful. The pat- H riotism of the west gets into his blood. H He loves the child and she 'becomes his daugh- D ter. she had developed into a lovely woman, H nurse to the Mexican ranchers, sister of mercy H to the Apache, feminine disciple of the square H deal. There are many men who look upon her H wistfully. But she has set herself a mark which H the man who wins her must reach first: Ho H must be a leader of men. He must be a leader M for me H Win .rd Holmes, an eastern engineer, comes. H He proves himself that man. His test comes in H the defeat of the intrigues of a band of speculat- H ors who are exploiting the early reclamation im- H provements for dividends. A great disaster fol- M lows when the Qolorado river tears out the ilimsy H bulwarks erected against it. The engineer turns H against the gamblers who employ him and fights H to save lives. He wins. They have nothing to H forgive. It is a sweet ending to a clean play. H |