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Show "THE GARDEN OF ALLAH" N this day of so many "second" companies - touring the country, ,it is a pleasing assurance to learn that the magnificent production or "The Garden of Allah," which will come "to the Salt Lake theatre next Monday night for a limited engagement of three nights and matinee, Is the only and original organization before the public today and will toe presented in its entirety just as it appeared at the Century theatre, New York City, for a solid year. There are many notable things about "The Garden of Allah" as a play, but the one that stands out most vividly and will be longest remembered, re-membered, is the magnitude of the scale on which it is staged, every scone being remarkable, either for its beauty or its novelty. It faithfully reproduces the story toy Robert Hichens as in his hook and was dramatized toy himself, assisted toy Mary Anderson de Navarro. The play is full of action throughout, flying from climax to climax, yet it carries the Impres-Qon Impres-Qon of vast solitude and the spell of the desert, and the very characters seem things apart from real life. The three important roles "Boris," the young monk, "Domini" whom he marries, and "Count Anteoni," the desert dreamer and good friend to tooth, are in the hands of Mr. William Jeffrey, iMiss Sarah Truax and Mr. Howard Gould, respectively, and are portrayed so realistically that one may imagine all three walking directly out of the novel itself. Others in the company of over one hundred include Ar. Albert Andruss, Mr. Thaddeus Gray, Mr. James Mason, Mr. Leo de Valery, Miss Pearl Gray and the Abbott family of five, together with a host of Arabs, Moors, Armenians, French and native soldiers, and the animals native to the scene of the play, that lend a finishing touch to this triumph of the stage. |