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Show •*fi m px 0 A The celebrated American actor, Walter Abel, starred on the Kingsbury stage in the very successful Broadway play, "Inherit the Wind," which premiered the area February fourth of this year. Fred Miller, another featured actor, accompanied Abel to Salt Lake from New Jersey where they had just completed a successful run of the same play. Directed by Robert Hyde Wilson, the play enjoyed a two and one half year run on Broadway. From a slightly disguised dramatic chronicle of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of the twenties, the play finds the two legal giants of their time, Clarence Darrow (Walter Abel) and William Jennings Bryan, pitted against each other in the courtroom of a colorful little southern town in Tennessee. The authors of the play, Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, drew heavily upon the historical facts surrounding this famous test trial which found a young teacher on trial for teaching the Darwinian theory of evolution. Miller plays the part of the fundamentalist, Matthew Harrison Brady, which is the play's stage name for William Jennings Bryan. Plans call for the play to be made into a movie to follow the already successful "Witness for the Prosecution." |
