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Show Diary ol Anne Frank Comes to City Theatre "The Diary of Anne Frank," one of the outstanding plays of recent years, will come to the Capitol Cap-itol Theatre in Salt Lake City, on Monday and Tuesday nights, September 23 and 24 with a matinee mat-inee on Tuesday. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Award as the best play of 1555-56, "The Diary of Anne Frank" recently embarked embark-ed on a coast-to-coast tour after playing 90 weeks on Broadway. Joseph Schildkraut of stage, screen and TV fame, is starred in the role he created on Broadway. Featured players are Maria Palmer, Pal-mer, Lou Jacobi, Nan McFarland, Abigail Kellogg, Lou Gilbert and Otto Hulett. Miss Kellogg plays Anne. "The Diary of Anne Frank" was dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from the diary kept by an adolescent Jewish girl while she and several others were in hiding from the Nazis for two years in an Amsterdam attic. Quietly, often gaily, the play recreates re-creates the day-by-day life of these people, their problems, their simple sim-ple pleasures, their irritations and apprehensions. Produced by Kermit Bloomgar-den Bloomgar-den and directed by Garson Kan-in, Kan-in, "The Diary of Anne Frank" is filled with excitement, humor and tenderness and is a play for-all for-all the family. It has been suc- cessful not only in this country but in 15 foreign countries. In Germany, Ger-many, it has been produced in 37 theatres. The management of the Capitol Theatre is to be congratulated on giving Salt Lake City and vicinity this opportunity to see one of the great dramas of the modern theater. thea-ter. The two evening performances begin at 8:30 the Tuesday matinee mat-inee at 2:30. Mail orders, or phone calls are now being accepted at the Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City. |