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Show MUCH COMMENT I ON U. A. C. I PLAY I BBBllllH "The best amateur production that H the Logan stnge has ever seen" wai H freely Elon ns n criticism of tho 0. H A. C. Dramatic club's production ot H Barrle's masterpiece "What Every H Woman Known," presented In Nlbley H Hall last Monday and Tuesdny nights. H The play was given under the dl- H rectlon ot Miss Sara Huntsman, pro- H feasor of public speaking at tho Utah H Agricultural College, as tbe anuual H college play. It demonstrated again H Miss Huntsmans ability to tako an H amateur cast and "put over" In re- H raat-kuble fashion a really difficult H .play. Tho piny itself is one of the yk iclevcrest comedies that the modern H etage has Been, yet tho comedy is ot H such high quality and i often so near H pathos that you are not moved to jH demonstrative applause but rather jH want to chuckle or weep in quiet but H upremo enjoyment. H The pathotic figure of unattractive H Maggie Wylle, loved by fathers and H brothers but by no one else, devoting H her every energy to win tho love of H self sufficient John Shand, was ad- H mirnbly portrayed by Mies Anna Eg- H burl. Man la tho audience when he H enw man In the play, In the part of , H Shund, was so cleverly moulded by !IH the quiet Maggie, lost confldouce in H his own greatness just as did Sunlit. H and was naively told 'that what ev- H ry woman knows, Is that man likes H to think he does it all himself bitt H that woman sits quietly by and "lets H it go at that," fl . El ray Christiansen, as John Shand. H 1 was excellent. From the poor Scotch 11 1 scholar, who must steal Into the Wy- tM Ho homo nt night to read In the Wy- H 1 lie library, books he cannot afford to JH buy, to the lime when ho Is consider- iH lug a ministerial position as a fat RH oi ed M. I',, Christiansen gave an en- MH ' tlrely adequate conception of the KH part. ' ( Aleck Wylle, father ot Maggie, as M played by Ferris Anderson, and Dav- II Id and James Wylle, Maggie's broth- H ersns played by Hugh Harvey and M Peter Johnson wero convincing. Pros- WM perotts but uneducated, yet honoring fifl mil enjoying learning In others theso' ' WM hrce characters added n plcture'sauo III less to tho play that contributed WW nuch to Its chnrm. WU Chatles Venables, of- tho British Ifl cabinet, powerful politician, wns con- II vlnclngly played by Thatcher Allrcd. Whether mowing the lawn for the III gardner, making love to an did time HI sweetheart, or congntulatlng Shand Wt upon his great Leeds speech, Venables 111 wag always tho dignified, courteous II English gentleman. Kleauora. Amussen as the Countess VI do la Briers lived the part of a very II curious and somewhat meddling old I I woman. Sarcastic of tongue and kind I ot heart, tho countess was clever at II (Continued on Page Fivo) IM (Contlnucffifotn Pagodrie)' " H uncoveciliig penplu's ttoubles and no k r" T 1 less clever In li.clplpR them overcomo il w Tho beautiful Lady Sj bll Tenterdeti IH who loved John Sit and In tho distance l but who (tied of tho heavy stuff of ll .which this hcio wnS' iniulo upouclos- ll lei- association wnsexcellefilly pur-- Ll t rayed by Miss Nancy Finch. -4 HH Plans are under way to tuke "What ITI Kveiy Woman Knows" to Salt Lake WH ami Ogden with a probable perform- Sl 'mice nt Brifliam. RH AsslHiIng Miss. Iltiutsmnu us man- IH nger of the production wus Cha,s? iHil Ki-mI. Delmnr Tingey acted as, as- ILH slBlaut manager and (leorgo Haiuion mH as stage and propel ty manager. WH |