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Show Centennial Play To Be Presented Here Saturday Movie goers who saw Charles Boycr and Ingrid Bergman in "Gaslight," will be treated to the stage production "Angel Street" from which "Gaslight" was adapted, at the Roosevelt ward hall on Saturday, March 15, at 8:25 p, m. The original New York stage play will be produced by the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural College Players under the direction of Floyd Morgan. The play is a presentation of the Utah Centennial Commission. Besides the evening performance I there will also be a matinee. I "Gaslight" was an immediate success and it brought Miss Bergman the coveted Academy award in 1945. It is the story of a scheming husband who seeks to get rid of his rich wife by driving her crazy. A young jfriend of the family foils the 'plot but only after a cleverly conceived scheme is unfolded to the audience in the same manner as it is revealed to the hero. When "Angel Street," or "Gaslight" as it is better known to the movie going public, first opened in New York it was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece master-piece of mystery play writing. The New York Mirror said: !"The critics call it the biggest dramatic hit in New York." The late Alexander Woolcott wrote: "Not in ten years at least have I seen an audience, including myself, so spellbound by a melodrama." Tickets for Saturday's production pro-duction are being sold by local Centennial committeemen. |