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Show TOMATOES WILLIAM FAVERSHAM. Mother Grundy, the dame with her tongue loosed at both ends, should have gone to the Ogden theatre last niirnt and witnessed "The World and His Wife," a tragedy of gossip presented pre-sented by Mr William Favorsham While the drama was witnessed by a fair-sized audience the crowd was hardly in accord with the merit of the play and Its actors. Mr. Favor-Sham Favor-Sham appears ut his bes-t In nil of the well-arranged climaxes of ihe play, but even at his best Is no better than Mi?s Julio Opp; both nrtlsta at limes soaring above Ihe plane of criticism There are im weak ?iots In the cast and the scene Is only once shifted, the play opening and ending in the same loom. The plot is one in which a husband and wife are happily In love with each oilier, each trusted and to h trusted. There Is a friend a true friend of both staying at the home. Domestic tranquility pervades the bouse Then gossip enters and the forked tongue of slander shatters hjp-plness hjp-plness and rouses jealousy and sns-1 sns-1 Irion. The wife, who would be faithful, faith-ful, soul and body, to her husband. Is snsneeiod. The friend, who would .lie rather I'lau betrav the husband, falls uud..- the dark bane of suspicion. There la a duel--not between ihe hinlrnd and friend m hlch the hns hand is fatally wounded. He dies, suspecting his wife nnd friend; dies without knowing lhat what "they say Is bajeleHS. This is the tragedy of It. In the final climax, the husband and friend driven out Into the world together by the scorn of their fickle friends, needs must find comfort in each other. Slander has accomplished accomplish-ed Its purpose tho husband who has sipped the venom is dead and the two whom tho world and his wife would Join together hao been clasped In one another's arms. This is the end Mr. Favorsham is the friend and Miss Opp Ihe wife Their acting Is more than Rood, It carried the word to the superlative. II. Cooper Cliffe, Ihe husband, Is an actor of the first class, and was forced to rise from his supposed sup-posed death to answer to the curtain calls of the audience. Altogether the play was of the most superior sort and the audience was dellfchted, even though there was tragedy In It. |