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Show I "WOMAN AND LAW" I JURE OGDEN The struggle of a woman for her child and the lengths to which she will go for its protection arc picturlzed with tremendous dramatic intensity in "Woman and the Law," at the Ogden theater on Tuesday. Based on the internationally sensational sen-sational De Saulles case, which so shocked the United States and South America and which was discussed in every home in the country, it is said, the thrilling moment when the woman who has slain for the sake of her child faces the Jury which is to decide her fate, depicts a situation to hold the most hardened play-goer spellbound Meeting a beautiful heiress in South America, a young American college col-lege man marries her and hrings her to New York For a tinio all goes well -with thorn. The bride is happy in the home, which nor husband has made for h-r in the groat city and she is slow to realize how he is bored at her company and longs for his old companions of the gay life of the city. After a child is born to them, he soon wearies and makes life hideous for her with his escapades with notorious notor-ious women. She bears with him until he takes her child from her. Then the elemental passions leap to the surlace, she kills him, and is forced to faci th law. It is left to thr jury to decide hor fate. The question placed square ly before them is the question that this play places squarely before ovnv person who sees it thrown on the screen. |