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Show handled their respective rolos In very creditable maimer. Grace Carlylo makes a pleasing shier sh-ier lafcbolle. Elizabeth Baker's Interpretation Inter-pretation of the mother was well vlOl".. TI.e fctaso setting, representing the interior of a New England home, la perfect In all scenic details. E. T. S. HENRIETTA CROSMAN Cast. Rev. Elliott Grey Herbert Fortler Mildred, his wile Miss Crosnia.i Morris, his youngest brother Gordon Johnstone Mrs. Grey, his mother. Elizabeth Baker Isabella, Mildred's younger sister . , Grace Carlyle Cynthia By Cynthia Henrietta Crosman, supported by a capable company, presented at the Ogden theater last ulght, to a large nnd appreciative audience, Percy Mac-Kaye's Mac-Kaye's whimsical comedy, "Anti Matrimony." Mat-rimony." Tho play is a satire on that philosophy philos-ophy which refers to "super-man" and "super woman," and affecto .1 defy on matrimony and conventional bonds that of which Shaw aud Haupt-man Haupt-man arc the exponents. Two of the characters are believers in this cult, while the others possess the sane view on matrimony. Tho lines are bright and the cituatlons are pleasing. pleas-ing. The piece opens 'where a pair of foolish young married things return lrom Paris to their puritanical Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts home posing as converts to the latest free lovedoctrlne which they style "Antl-Matrlmony." They claim to be unmarried, but their secret se-cret leaks out early in the play, and a married brother and sister, a comfortable com-fortable ministerial couple, take it upon themselves to bring the children to Tcason before tho neighbors are irretrievably shocked. They do it by giving the free lovers a strong Jose of their owu medicine and making them glad to admit their marriage Miss Crosnian is very clever in her lortrayal of the minister's wife. She Is vivacious, witty and droll. Her mannerisms man-nerisms executed to win over her brother-in-law to the side of the ,' "mats" is exceedingly well done. Herbert Fortler aud Gordon Johnstone John-stone furnish excellent support. Both |