Show ORPHEUM PLAY IS DELIGHTFUL SO So This Is London Makes Audience Forget Troubles S veral hundred bundred Ogden den I nIght forgot 1111 E their first of the month bIU bills the citY election their tax tu no their need of 1 COLI O 0 t and automobile hood cover covon while whilo tl theY ev settled down and en en en d o So Thlu Ig Is London The Tho plAY ay la Ie a a champion pro pro- pro producer I ducer of good humor huntor A few tew min mIn- mInute ute uter after atter the curtain went up the e began hogan to laugh li and therewa there wa was laughter almost through h the throe three acts Some laughed during the Intermission AS tt they thought of ot the funny tunny eald la In a the pr previous loUs act ad ct and near near- nee r nearly ly 7 1 everybody dY went wat out of oC the thea- thea theater theater thea-ter thea ter or at art le-art chuckling So So Thu Thia Is m London packs a laugh wallop In every In- In In n of M t dialog Tho The play bubo bub I s o 0 or er with com d There Ic 1 I comedy In n the tha conver atlo of ot the characters In Iii the charl them them- them eel s and In the th TORY STORY OF PLY PLo So 50 ThIll Thie Is I London tells tella the stOry of Ot an h and t I wife who are prejudice agaIn t England and thing British and ot of a British couple who ho cannot Americans Americana or anything American The son con and heir ot of the couple and the the British 1 fill 1 18 In n lose lova 8 with one another r How love affair cornea comee to a cue cue- suc successful conclusion through h the tho ob- ob ob raised by the prejudIce ot of the parents parent la Ic told in n a hilarious manner In the three acte act The play Is Ic very ery nell ell don done The Tho Theauthor Theauthor author has achieved a t act In which h tho the exposition takes tale up such euch sucha eucha a few moments that the Ule Interest of the audience is s caught right at atthe atthe atthe the start Clever er acting Is the rule In the production Charl Charles Coburn was WM the Amer Amer- AmerIcan American ican lean shoe manufacturer who vho was unable to see any ony good poInts Britain BrIttin He lie gate gao a tine fine performance making Hiram Draper a big energetic confident and noisy noley rich American Sharing honors with Coburn was Chester Morris In the lole iole of the theon on Morris I q a fine tine actor mak making ing lag his role rolo a I delightful dells one NOT 80 SO CONSISTENT T The part of Sir Ir rc f Prcy P rcy Beau- Beau hamp the hating American Eng Bag Englishman Englishman lishman vas as In the hands of Lumsdon Hare and was well han han- han handled died Hare Haro was as expected to rep rep- represent represent rep represent resent tho the type typo of Briton Amer Amer- Americans Americans conjure conture up from visits to opera The Tha author hardly has made this role a as consistent as that of the American Many D 1 could see that Draper could couto be beI I to let his Ills son marry an Ins inglish girl but It was IU hard to understand how Sir Percy could forget his prejudices so quickly cad give his consent to the alli alli- alliance alliance ance Ne Nevertheless there Is a wealth of entertainment In the play and It a a sound blow at unreason unreason- unreasonable unreasonable able prejudice the Au- Au Author au author thor meant hk hi pia play to be propaganda ganda l Panda for tor better relations n n gland an and The Iho United States or whether It 11 was written for pure It lq a question that need not be discussed He has achIeved both results 00 |