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Show I 'THE WINNING OF I BARBARA WORTH' I WAS WELL PLAYED H H "Tho Winning of Barbara Worth" H at tho Lyric theatre Thursday April H 22, pleased a large audience. Tho H play Is ono that Is bound to win ad- miration for Its clean, forceful deplc- tlon ot American life In tho West, H aside from tho pleasing lovo story .-fr told. When Harold Dell Wright .( Z-J wroto tho book, which is ono of tlio BB"""' most popular written, and on which H this play based, ho well know his sub- H ject, and In tho dramatization by H Mark Swan tho Btory has lost nono BJ of Its fascination, Its tender lovo 9 story, Us strugglo botweon tho east M and tho west, and tho characters stop from tho pages of fiction to tho stago BB without loss of Interest In tho tran- H sltlon. Tho story of "Tho Winning H r,t Tlnrbnm Worth." with Its sand H storms nnd tremendous strangles for jfl supremacy between Greenfield ot tho H cast and Worth ot tho west, and tho W tlnal bursting of tho dam, Is so well 9 known that It Is unnecessary to go B over It. EM On tho stago at tlio Lyric Thursday B night It was glvon a good prosenta- tlon by a company of clever nrtlnts. m First acting honorB go to Theodoro M Hardy as Wortli. Ho was tho gruff, V forceful man of tho West, whoso am- m bltlon to have Abo Loo, "get along," m and whoso lovo for tho Uttlo orphan- m cd desort waif, Barbara, wore dear- M cr than alt olso. Mr.. Hardy Is an- B artist, always consistent arid never 9 overacting, Joseph Dotrlck, an old B favorito in this city, was, much in m ovldenco as Pat Moonoy and was up- '& roarlously funny as tho whimsical, m light hearted Irishman, Gortrudo Bar- ML kcr was Barbara and nn Ideal solcc- W tlon for tho part. Sho consistently MS portrayed Barbara's strugglo be- M tweon her loyalty for her West ana m its peoplo and her growing lovo for 3 tlio man from the East. Sho looked S us though sho mtfiht havo stopped out IE of tho pages of tho book onto tho jE - stago. Sho Is beautiful, has a RCod m speaking volco nnd above alt Is a j clover actress, Owen Coll as Holmes, m tho man from tho East, who Is trying m to learn tho ways of tho West, and m Incidentally win tho love of Barbara & was good and won tho audience as K well as tho girl. Toxas Joo, as play- B' ed by Earl Burnsldo was a delight. Ills business ot chewing tobacco In J5; the second net was decidedly humor- g jjjfljt ous. Other woll played parts woro W Earl Yeadakor aB Abo Lee, Frank Qj Itamsdoll as Qroonflold, Jacob Kings- W berry as Pablo while Cecllo Yeomans Bj N was altogothor delightful ns Helen" BJ Blair, tho Btcnogrnphor. Tho stao settings woro vory realistic looking, 9 especially so tho sotting for the pro-R pro-R loguo, whero tlfb wagon Is stopped In I tho desert sand storm and where Bur-I Bur-I bara Is found In tho sand. This is a vnrv ennd bit of realism: tho men J nro offoring up a sifont prayer whllo tho wind shrloks and howls, v.hl!o tho body of Barbara's mother Is being be-ing slowly covered with Band. Tho settings wero masslvo and much credit is duo Stago Manager Ezra Benson nnd his crow of workers work-ers for their able handling ot a production pro-duction of this bizo. |