The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-01
Attractions This Week
SALT LAKE THEATRE

The most prominent figure on the
stage in this country today is Maude
Adams The foremost and most inter-
esting figure in the English literary
world is James Matthew Barrie, the
Scotch author. Most prominent of all
of the play producers in this country
and in England is Charles FrOhman
These three in combination viii be
very much in evidence next Thursday,
Friday and Saturday at the Salt Lake
theatre. when Mr.. Frohman will pre-
sent Miss Adams in Mr.. Barrie's latest
comedy. What Every Woman Knows"
Matinees will be given Friday and Sat
urday. Upon its original production
in this country the comedy made the
biggest kind of q hit and was imme-
diately hailed as Barrie'S best work.
1t pleased Miss Adams admirers to a
greater extent than anything else that
she has ever had, and in consequence it
has been greeted wherever il has been
given by audiences that have taxed the
capacities of the theatres in which it
has been seen.
In What Every Woman Knows
Barrie has drawn very amusing pic
ture of the Scotch life which he. as
a Scotchman, knows so intimately.
Most of his characters and scenes are
Scotch. and as the Scotch are a deep
people, so is the play in possessing
wealth of serious matter beneath its
humorous surface. One is quickly in
troduced to the Wylies. There are
three brothers, self-made men. VINO re-
EIet now IN Illuuie age lildl litl were
unable in their youth to obtain an
education" They admire learning in
others and to show their apprecia ton
of it have decorated their library with
ten yards of the best books in the
English fangua ge.' The boys have
shy little sister. Maggie. who is fast
approa ching spinsterhoOd, for which
reason they would dearly love TO see
her married One of their neighbOrs is
John Shand. a likely young fellow, am
biTinrC Int without money knowing
of the wealth of books in the Wylie
library he enters their house at night
like a thief in order that he might
study the literature so useless TO Its
owners. He simply hungers for an ed
ucation- Being caught by the brothers
one night, they admire his enterprise
and propose to him that they send him
/ to college, providing that at the end of
five years he marries Maggie After
deliberatiOn. in which Maggie has a
word, Shand agrees and sticks to his
bargain when the time comes, although
Maggie generously gives him oppor-
| tunity to withdraw.
! The plot is developed from this point
/ The little wife determines that her
| husband shall become a great man
! in the world John is thick-headed
and stubborn. while Maggie has all OF
a woman's wit. Without realizing how
it is done John falls into Maggie
/ ideas, takes them as his own and While
/ success is coming TO him fails even In
/ the Utmost IeCeSScS VI HIS LCdAb ~ g.
/ his wife any credit for the successful
shaping of his course. While the ROAD
| is not the smoOthest one ever trodden
| by married couple, the rough places
are eventually bridged, although there
are some heartburnings on the journey,
/ and all is happiness in the end.
! The play is a charming exposition OF
pathos and humOr and has been 1ikened
! to a laugh with a tear in the middle.
! The action is distributed over four acts.
| Miss Adams, of course, plays the part
/ of Maggie and gives to it all of that
/ charm which she has in such abund-
| ance. AS is customary. Mr. Frohman
( has surrounded Miss Adams with a
| well-balanced company, the leading
man of which is Richard Bennett.