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Show MARBLE BRIDE LEAK: TO LOVE HER HUSBAMO Madge Kennedy sparkles and shines In her own individual way in "Friend Husband," scheduled at the Ogden theater Tuesday. She Is a different sort of heroino who finds herself Jn a complication as different as it is alarming. Madgo Kennedy is Dorothy, a girl ; who considers her sister a slave to tie herself down to domestic drudgery. Dorothy Is strong for the freedom of her sex, but when her grandmother's will Is read she learns that she must marry in order to inherit the fortune. Accordingly, her lawyer is instructed to advertise for a young man willing! to enter into a marriage in name only! for a monetary consideration. Visiting the lawyer's office Dorothy meets a young man who, she assumes, is an applicant He is really a man of fortune, tho son of the lawyer's friend. Don falls in love with Dorothy's Doro-thy's plan and Ihey are married. His rich gift to her proves that he isn't poor after all. The deception angers Dorothy, and on the honeymoon which he insists on beginning she tries to escapo, but Don assures sympathetic sym-pathetic bystanders that his wifo is insane and he is regarded with pity. Don takes her by force to an island, where the trembling bride is compelled com-pelled to remain. She is bitter against her husband and treats him with contempt con-tempt and frozen indifference when she is not violently angry. Ho decides to leave her alone that she may come to her senses. In his absence Dorothy meets with an adventure so terrible that she can only thing it a ruse on the part of Don to win her. So she flirts with danger, in ignorance of what her peril is. In the nick of time Don returns, however, and in a flash Dorothy realizes real-izes the gravity of the situation. lie proves himself a hero and wins her love. |