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Show taTOACTES; "MADAME X." Cortaln it must be that a strong emotional drama, a more forceful story of mother-love, has never been staged than "Madame X," which Hen-Ty Hen-Ty W. Savage offered for tho approval of Ogden theatergoers at the Ogden theater last night, with a most capable company of players It goes without saying that the equal of this production produc-tion has never been witnessed in this city And it was received with outstretched outstretch-ed arms. There was not a vacant seat in the theater when the curtain went up on the prologue. It was by far the largest audience that has witnessed a production at the Ogden this season. Responsive to the heart throbs of the great emotional scene of tho last act, hundreds were unable to keep back the tears and the moans of the distracted dis-tracted mother were accompanied by sobs from the dark side of tho footlights. foot-lights. ".Madame X" is one of the most virile vi-rile dramas over written. It is small wonder that this great stage story has electrified hundreds of vast audiences audi-ences since Its first presentation in France and today Its success is mirrored mir-rored in the fact that no less than four companies are producing "Madame "Mad-ame X" In the United States. Equally as' strong as the plav Is, the company which Mr Savage has sent west with the wonderful piece. Being an adaptation from a French novel, it is typically French, but It hns lost nothing by tho Americanization Americaniza-tion of 1L The play deals with a woman wom-an cast out of her home for Infidelity, driven by a stern, uni clouting husband from the house which shelters her four-year-old son. Not until his erring wlfo has gone beyond recall, steeped In sin, does the husband ropent of his harshness. As the woman steadily slips deeper Into the abyss of Immorality she seeks forgetfulness in drink and drugs. A score of years later she is broken Iu health, a fiend for opiates, she is Indeed In-deed a pitiable spectacle. Her lover has threatened to expose her identity to her son, who has become a success ful attorney. To thwart the blackmail plot sho slays hor paramour. Tho climax of the drama Is enacted In the courthouse scene, when her son, ignorant of the Identity of his client, defends his mother, the mysterious Madame X. The son builds up a defense de-fense from his imagination In an effort ef-fort to diminish tho culpability of his client. Ho donounces tho man who, out of prido. has driven this woman to tho lowest depths of degradation nnd finally to the taking of human life. The attorney-son is not awaro that he has hit upon tho exact motive for the crime, and is equally Ignorant that the man whom he Is denouncing is his father, who is a spectator at tho trlaj. The pica In defense mado by the youthful attorney produces one of tho strongest scenes of tho plav. Ho secures se-cures an acquittal, but not before his father has discovered thai the prisoner prison-er at the -bar is tho wife ho refused to forgivp. Tho father informs tho son of this and mother and son aro finally united. In finding a, way out of n difficulty tho author brings tho drama to a logical logi-cal conclusion in tho death of Madame Mad-ame X. After you have soon this great productiou it will not be difficult diffi-cult for you to discern why tho Sav-iirh Sav-iirh drama has beeotuo one of the 'most talkod-Qf of this- or any ot'rer coa'cn's successes. Throughout its en tin notion the play Is kept in its delicious de-licious French atmosphere. The scenic effects are marvel us and it is easily tho most clahouitcly-produccd clahouitcly-produccd piece seen in Ogden this season. The portrayal of Jacqueline, tho erring wife, by Miss Adeliue Duulap is nothing short of Buperb. It is an example of tho Savage custom of sending send-ing a comparatively unknown out In a strong production in which sho vor he achieves fame, and Miss Dnnlap Is no exception to tho rule. Howard Gould, perhaps best known In the west as a stock actor, leaves absolutely nothing to be wished for In his interpretation inter-pretation of the stem, unforgiving husband, hus-band, Floriot, who perceives the error er-ror of his rolontlessness too later Robert Ober, as Raymond Floriot, has no opportunity to show his histrionic his-trionic ability until the concluding scene, when he suddenly bursts forth in a splendid bit of acting, which, In itself, goos far to make for the success suc-cess of the piece. On down, tho personnel per-sonnel of the cast the support was wholly adequate. It was one of the strongest companies com-panies seen In Ogden in months. |