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Show DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. KALT LAKK Rose blaiil and company com-pany In "Our Mr. MoChesncry," Tuea.Iay, Wednesday and ThurdHy. J 'A XT AG . New and high-class programme pro-gramme of vaudeville and motion pictures opens Wednesday afternoon. WILKES Stock company produce's "In Walked Jimmy," all week, with nialinees on Thursday and Saturday. URPIIEL'M Beginning: Wednesday evening, new vaudeville show headed head-ed ty Vivian and Genevieve Tobin in "The Age of Reason." MOTION PICTURES. PARAMOr.'T-E.MPRESS Theodore Roberts and Maude Fcaly In "The American Consul." Paramount Pictosraphs. OKI'FIKUM Today. Monday and Tuesday, Tues-day, new photoplay bill. Orpheum concert orchestra. Professor Edgar :-hort, director. AMERICAN' Today and tomorrow, W. S. Hart In "The Gun Fighter" and Mrs. Vernon Caatlo In "Patria." MEIIESY "The Purple Mask," "A Blaze In Midair," "Shorty Joins the Secret Service," "See America First." Hl.OAPWAY Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Krancts X. Bushman and Heverly Bayne appear in chapter 5. ' The Trap," of "The Great Secret." UNDER the Charles Frohman man-agemeut man-agemeut and heading a large and exceptionally strong cast, llofa Stuhl will come to the Salt I.!:k,- theater next Tuesday, Wednesday uml Thursday, with matinee Washington Washing-ton '.-i birthday, in "Our Mrs. McChcs-nc,'T McChcs-nc,'T a new American comedy, taken from tMna Ferber's Emma ileC'hes-H'v ileC'hes-H'v stories. All who have read the Me-t Me-t heney stories have grown to love Emma McChesney, the whole-hearted, energetic traveling saleswoman for the T. A. Buck Fcatherloom Pefticoat com-pa.rv, com-pa.rv, and all who see Hiss Stahl in the .r hesney role are sure to love In r, toe. ' Tl,3 role is said to be one better en it i-,1 to Miss Stahl t han any role she ba.s had. She is scoring an even g'.cater success in this than she did in " -Maygie Pepper" and in "The Chorus L.i"y. '' In dramatizing the McChesney st.'i'es, George V. Hobart and Miss Fiil er have taken the most interest-in: interest-in: incidents and woven them into a jvay replete with humor, bright and f '! dialogue and clever situations. 1 "hi McChesney is not in business for 1 0'- love of it. In fact, she says that " r one ambition is to have a little horr.e of her own. Her love for her sir,, however, keeps her on the road, find :he is anxious to see him with a coile.e education able to make a place fur h'msclf in the business world. li;.-', about as Mrs. McChesney sees - Vecs of a home, her son makes a r!':--! fi. iic raises a check for $20 to .f'.'t and marries a young actress. II" ;noilier, though uearlv broken-heart broken-heart --d. rises to the occasion and dec-la, c; she will make a man of Jock. Ih'W she does this, and in the mean-ir.nr mean-ir.nr saves her (inn from financial fail-iit fail-iit e, are cleverly worked out by the d!::inatisTs. 'J he opening act is laid in a hotel in Sanduskv, Ohio, and here some of icways true to life are brought into Iho story and occasion much interest. In tin; second act the sceue shifts to tl:c Xew York offices of the Feather-loiun Feather-loiun Petticoat company, and here are eii:;eted several of the strongest, scenes in the play. The last act is laid in a N'-iv York apartment house, and hero everything is brought to a happy con-riusion. con-riusion. The company includes Edward l-iclding. XV. H. St. .lames, A. Romaine ;i!!ender, Phillips Tead, Jessica Brooks, Marmierito Tebeau, Jane Komroy, La-vina La-vina Shannon, Emma Salvatore, Dorothy Doro-thy Allen, Dorothy Walters, Ida Davis, Mav Wood, Thomas Reynolds, Ernest (leycr, Roy LaRue, John' Will, Herbert I'cluiore. Frank Wilson and others. lin.e Stahl is a woman of very few-fail'.-. Site enjoys driving a motor boat and seeing it cut through the water at top-notch speed, but she takes very little lit-tle interest in an automobile. Possibly the reason is that she is so fond of walking. Miss Stahl seems never to tiro of this, and those who know her best always have some excuse to offer when Miss Stahl suggests a little "stroll. " " ' rr : - - ' T ! .. - .-'r----.-' '--v.-.: - - " A vj." -v- ? : . . ' 1 , S I 2 Tt " ' - ' Vi'v " ft 5 i V' j-.i. , Ah? r 1 ' V S T ; , y 7 V " -"V- ' ' L, f -i- ,!. j " 4 - - a. - A ; i r ' '. i - t 1, J, , x ? r ' ' ' i n ' - . : - . r r i Kose Stahl, who comes to Salt Lake theater Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in her new American comedy success, "Our Mrs. McChesney." visit as. we walk," said Miss Stahl, I and so we started out. It was about '2:M in the afternoon. We headed for i the outskirts of the city, and if you i have ever been in Baltimore then you j are aware of the fact that the outskirts 1 are far more spreading than the bal-! bal-! loon petticoat introduced iu 'Our Mrs. I McC'hesney. ' j ' ' Well, 'we walked, and we walked, and we kept on walking. I didn 't have the nerve to suggest that we turn back, hut I kept on hoping and praying that the turn would soon come. After ; walking for two hours. Miss Stahl ; finally said she thousht we had better , turn liaek. and we did. My, but those ' miles dragged going back. My shoes I hurt and I was so done up I could I hardly put one foot iu front of the I other. We finally got back to the hotel j between. 6 and 7 o'clock. We had been j walking for four hours and had eov-i eov-i ered at least a dozen miles I thought j it must be fifty. : ' "Miss Stahl after a hurried supper, ' went to the theater, and that night ! gave a wonderful performance of ''Maggie Pepper. ' I went home to bed ' and the next day I was so stiff I could hardly move. I am very fond of Rose i Stahl and I always go around to see j her the minute she arrives in Baltimore, t but if she ever suggests another walk to I mo then I am going to have a very urgent ur-gent engagement." IF laughter of diverse and various shades and grades means anything j to you, if you want a comedy that j contains all tho varieties of laughs j combined with a good, wholesome story, where love and heart interest play important im-portant parts; if you like thrills, tears, laughter and an occasional punch, then you will enjoy seeing "In Walked ! Jimmy," the big comedy success that ! opens at the Wilkes theater tonight and ! runs all week, with matinees Thursday . and Saturday. ! "In Walked Jimmy" was written by ! Mrs. Ronnie H. Jaffa, a California play-: play-: wright, and was originally produced by Oliver Morosco in Eos Angeles, where 1 it achieved a startling success. It typifies the spirit of that blend of bluff and confidence which contributed to the triumphs of "The Fortune Hunter," "Get Rich Quick Walling-ford," Walling-ford," "Along Came Ruth," and "He Conies TJp Smiling." It is a broken-down shoe factory the clerks have all quit. It is night, and l.conoro taivert. ot tne Baltimore the old proprietor, on tne verge oi ue-Amcriean ue-Amcriean jokinglv tells of her experi- ing dispossessed, holds a pistol to his cner with Miss Stahl aa a pedestrian, weary head in contemplation of suicide. "I had gone to interview Miss Stahl," The wind shrieks and howls down the pays Miss Calvert, "and found her at j great chimneys which are still it seems the hotel just preparing for a walk. ' forever. The rain is beating in through "Join me for a little tramp and we can the broken windows, the faltering old I -- - ! I WHOTT FOUR AT POPULAR PLAYHOUSE I ?f fs m P of ! A $ x. .jt (, . U- ' Sx Mi 1 fe ? 1 f 1 v f ?-1 i u - f ) ' Four charming maids who will present an extraordinary number entitled en-titled "A Study in Black and Silver," on the new bill which opens at the P&atages theater next Wednesday afternoon.. j hands tremble, with one finger on the trigger, and "in walks Jimmy." jimmy, with his genial impudence, his optimism and his smile, proceeds to bluff the town into the belief that the shoe factory is so busy that it can hardly take' care of its increased business, busi-ness, and under the sun of Jimmy's smile the firm prospers. The love between be-tween the new manager and tho pretty secretary progresses favorably until the town folk begin to suspect Jimmy to have been connected with the robbery w-hich occurred the night before he had appeared in the village. Jimmy is forced to go to jail in order to save his sw-eethearf 's erring brother, but in the end. with the aid of a dictagraph, the tangle is straightened out and tne sun shines from behind the silver clouds. The play runs the gamut of every known dramatic emotion, for almost in tho same breath it is idealistic, a detective detec-tive story, a rousing modern comedy and a bold travesty which with a single line upsets the entire fabric w-oven with so much elaborate complication. Anvone who wishes a large dose of optimism should 'see "In Walked Jimmy." Jim-my." Jimmy has as many laughs in his suitcase as any of the old Blaney melodramas had thrills, and the irrepressible irre-pressible Wilkes players are going; to bring them all to the'froht this week. Besinning w-ith tonight's perform-j perform-j ance, "In Walked Jimmy" will be presented pre-sented throughout the entire week. with matinees on Thursday and Saturday. Satur-day. ' LL ABOARD," a musical I comedy in sis scenes that con-h con-h veys the spectator on a tour of the world, is the feature attraction at the Pantages theater" this week on a well-balanced programme of good, clean vaudeville and motion pictures pic-tures that will run through until next Tuesday night. This act is presented for the first time to Salt Lake audiences audi-ences by Ethel Whiteside and her clever company of charming girls with shapes ! that are a treat to sore eyes, and ankles that are worth going miles to see. Snap-j Snap-j py, up-to-the-minute songs and' dancing I that is highly entertaining are featured J throughout the sketch, while new and I novel dancing steps are introduced by Jack Ellsworth and Bob Harmon, the malo members of the traveling company. This act carries a set of special scenery, scen-ery, along with a number of unusual electrical effects, which add a great deal toward makinfr this net out of the ranfre i of the usual vaudeville musical comedy production. I Moss and Frye also deserve honorable mention for the new blackface comedy they are offering to Pantages audiences au-diences this week, for it is just the class of dialogue that is expected ex-pected from the negro fun makers. New and popular songs are also a feature fea-ture of their entertainment, and their rendition of these airs, it is said, would do credit to some of the best known singers on the vaudeville stage today. Those who like gymnastics will not be disappointed with this week's bill, for the Novell brothers have an acrobatic comic production that literally makes you sit up and take notice. These clever tumblers live up to their name of "Xovell." for their act is crammed full of stunts that the average theatergoer would wager to be almost impossible. These extraordinary performers also contribute a little music to the programme, pro-gramme, as they are violinists of rare ability, and the manner in which they produce music while tumbling iu mic.air would most probably make the high-class violin artists turu green with envy. Nancy Fair, termed "the very little girl who does very big things," has an act that just naturally fiuds'a way into the hearts of her audiences, as the" manner man-ner with which she "puts it over," together to-gether with her attractiveness and clever impersonation?, makes hers an act that will long linger in the minds of Pantages patrons. "Some of tho best known stage aud screen stars are burlesqued bur-lesqued in every detail by this clever little soubrette, wiiile the line of comedy and song that she has to offer is decidedly decid-edly odd and ultra. Closing the vaudeville portion of this week's bill comes Walch and Rand with their presentation ot clever songs and repertoire, and Olvmpia Desvall and company, with European circuit novelties novel-ties that are said to have won many plaudits among the crowned heads of tile old country. L;:--t. but not least, is the fourteenth episode of "A l.ass of the Lnmber-lamis. Lnmber-lamis. " in which is starred beautiful and charming Helen Hoinies. This fascinating fas-cinating serial is fnsi i oming to a close, and as the plot progresses each chapter hciyncs more aud n-nre interesting. Starting at the i'nntages theater next Wednesday afternoon. Manager Newman New-man will offer his patrons a decidedly unusual and attractive programme of high-class vaudeville and motion pictures. pic-tures. This new bill will be headed by the Imperial Military Octette, a company com-pany of talented artists offering a number num-ber of Hussar army maneuvers. Others .if equal importance will be Herbert Brooks, the Anglo-American entertainer; enter-tainer; the Whott. four, offering a study-in study-in black and silver; Corelli aud Gilette, that odd pair, and Bill and Bob Millard, Mil-lard, w-ho w-ill bring a new variety of talent to Salt Lake. The fifteenth episode epi-sode of "A Lass of the Lumberlands," starring Helen Holmes aud other Signal favorites, will complete a well-balanced programme. THEY are grown up now. At least they are in their teens and they like to be considered grown up. And despite the fact that they have been on the stage since they were 5 and 6 j-ears old, respectively, Vivian and Genevieve Tobin, the stars of "The Age of Reason," coming to the Orpheum Or-pheum Wednesday evening, are not spoiled, blase youngsters. They are not at all like the children that some people would have us believe they would be because of their lengthy stage environment. environ-ment. They are just ordinary, well-mannered well-mannered girls of the same type as can be found in any young ladies' seminary of distinction. For them the stage has not meant work. They have merely played their way through life so far, and their playground has been the land of make-lielieve behind the footlights. Learning to speak their lines has been no more difficult, perhaps less, than the elocution lesson is to the average school girl. They like to play at being actresses, act-resses, and their fun has been turned to financial advantage. Not only financial advantage. While ink -Afrtmrii'- Hyfiirft , wnitm-itM ttrrWitft-ligmiirriil-itHitiifit wtMii(iiMli-7miiirrf irYrl issJ g?TW.w.ny--TTt3iTy.i. h v - " V:' V- in t t s & v - v If 3 Whr r- 'i " ' ' ''i? y fi 1 I i if " .-.-. J hit " .y:f4f- "i .v it: Hi. a t ftH? v Hi hi t . " ' V ' f " t 4 1 1 Lr ' '"W -it; lit l v II M1 a r" ?' " " ,AVI'H: I r - s . ? v 1 I ' Mr'- x " 1 1 Mr ' " C k 4 4M l i I t ' - if , ' ' x - - f'l f - v i.' -V4 fT4 ' ' II 1 fir - SyA 1 ..:JM V1a. : h s pi Scene from "In Walked Jimmy," the whirlwind comedy success by Mrs. Bonnie E. Jaffa, which opens at the Wilkes theater tonight as this week's attraction at that house. J now at an age when young girls might be said' to be nearing the beginning of their careers, Vivian and Genevieve Tobin have planted their feet on the high rungs of the ladder of success. Their cleverness has been combined with experience, and the person who is responsible for it does not appear before be-fore the footlights. Mrs. Tobin, their mother and also the mother of George and Tommy Tobin, claims no credit for the success of any of her four juvenile stars. She is merely mere-ly proud of the fact that they are successful, suc-cessful, but even the most casual observer ob-server must realize that there is a reason rea-son why four brothers and sisters have gained fame. "It was system," said Mrs. Tobin in a recent interview. "Wherever they went, the children were immediately placed in a public school. They never had any difficulties regarding admittance admit-tance or keeping their grade. Diet and study were carefully watched and so was their recreation. I always insisted upon an hour's u;itrainme:ed play daily after school and three hours of it daily during vacations. Each day, too, always al-ways brought an hour's nap, and no matter' mat-ter' w-hat, tho theatrical performance was thc-v had to be home and in bed and asleep not later than 11:15. and every morning they v.-ere up at 7:30. They have seldom needed a doctor, and I think you will rind them healthier, happier hap-pier and more robust than even the idlest and wealthic-t of children. I always al-ways maintained that in letting thenr use their talents it doubled their education. educa-tion. They learned the art of self-preservation, self-preservation, economy and profitable direction di-rection of their as?ots of mind, body and personality. If they had bceu thrown suddenly on their 'own' they ceu-il tare for themselves. How many other mothers could say the same about their children?" There are two featured acts on the bill, Harry Mayo and Harry Tally, and Inez Macauley and company". Mayo and Tally are on'ehalf of the famous Empire Em-pire City quartette, one of the most noted singing organizations ever to have appeared in vaudeville. Miss Macauley and her capable co-plavers will present their clever skit, "The Girl at the C'gar Stand." The most distinguished animal act in the world will be offered by Dolores Vallecita and her imperial group of performing Indian leopards, while Harry Lambert and Anna Fred-richs Fred-richs will appear in exclusive songs and dances. Willing and Jordan are scheduled sched-uled for a few pleasant moments, and Martin and Fabbrini will offer "A Flight of Fancy," an exceptional terp-sichorean terp-sichorean number. The show will close with the Hearst-Pathe News with its animated current events. - THE much-talked-of morality comedy come-dy drama, "Experience," by Georgo V. Hobart, will have its first presentation in this city at the Salt Lake theater on Monday night, March 5. The engagement will be for one week, and there will be matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. William Elliott, F. Ray Comstoek and Morris Gest, the producers of "Experience," will send here the famous New York-Boston York-Boston "Experience" organization, with its cast of eighty-two notable placers. This is the same company that has hail such a remarkable success in New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In "Experience," the central character charac-ter is Y'outh the average young man of today and the play shows Youth leaving his sweetheart, Love, and accompanying ac-companying Ambition into the highways high-ways oi Life. Reaching the city, Y'outh meets a' fascinating lady called Pleasure, Pleas-ure, and under the spell of her beauty he turns from Ambition and goes with Pleasure on the Primrose Path, where he spends his time in the Golden Cabaret. Caba-ret. "Experience" becomes Youth's guide, and is with him while he goes the pace with Intoxication, Passion, Frivolity, Excitement and other festive ladies, and sees him throw his money away with Wealth and take lessons from Style. Having lost most of his money, Youth goes to a gambling house, called the Corridors of Chance, and tries to win his fortune at the roulette wheel, but only succeeds in losing every cent he has left. Quite accidentally he meets Work, but fails to find that horny-handed horny-handed gentleman attractive. But, to escape poverty, Y'outh takes a position in an underworld cabaret called the House of Last Resort, and works there until he is kieited out by Makeshift, the proprietor. On the Street of Remorse, Youth meets a man called Delusion, who invites in-vites him to a House of Lost Souls, and in this den of cocaine fiends Youth is induced to take some of the terrible 'drugs, and under a craving for more cocaine goes out with Crime to kill a man and thus secure it. As Youth and Crime' are on their way to slay they pass a church. A choir as singing Youth hears in the hymn the call of his mother's spirit, and repulses Crime and returns to Love, his sweetheart, and his sister, Hope, determined to make another effort, aud this time to achieve success. A DAUGHTER OF THE GODS," after six months at the Lyric theater, New York, and engagements at the leading lead-ing dramatic theaters of Chicago, Washington, Wash-ington, Philadelphia, San Francisco and other large cities, comes to tho Strand theater for two weeks beginning with a Sunday matinee. This" mammoth spectacle, with its 22,-000 22,-000 people. 2000 horses, and featuring Annette Kellermann, is said to be a wonderful combination of romance, mysticism, poetry, sensation and music, with some of the most remarkable photography pho-tography ever flashed on a screen. It is a story of fairies, gnomes, mermaids, a mad sultan, a lovely princess and a handsome prince, and shows thrilling scenes of mighty armies in battle and the burning of an entire Moorish citv, built at an expense of $3.50.000 for this production. !any of the scenes are laid on the shores of the beautiful Caribbean Carib-bean sea, where the dashing surf and storm-swept waters furnish surroundings of indescribable grandeur and beauty for Miss Kellermann 's daring and thrilling thrill-ing swimming and diving. Then there is the regal megnif icenee of the sultan's city, with its oriental splendors of the harem and its statelv palaces. Gnome-land, Gnome-land, in which 1200 children, natives of Jamaica, appear as the inhabitants of a Lilliputian village with a wonderful series se-ries of falls in the background, is another an-other feature of this remarkable photo-drama. photo-drama. To provide these falls a river was turned from its course, a canal three miles long dug by an army of workmen and the huge body of water thus brought to the edge of" a series of ragged and picturesque cliffs, over wHich it tumbled in a snowy torrent. As many as 19,000 persons appear in (Continued on Following Pa?e. AT THE THEATERS; (Continued From Preceding Page.) many of the scenes, and the whole production pro-duction shows an utter disregard for the expenditure of money combined "with a praiseworthy and unusual attention atten-tion to poetic beauty nml impressive iiandlincr nf the srimeiidnus Si-ene3 Ol battle. The masmture of the enterprise- and the care and attention bestowed be-stowed on the selection of the scenes that make up the intcrtninment are besr shown by the fact that 223,0110 feet (forty-four miles) of film were exposed and developed, out of which only ID,-0i)0 ID,-0i)0 feet were selected to make up the two hours and a half of bewildering beauty and unusual novelty that is at present delighting audiences' all over the land from coast to coast. Miss Kellermann Keller-mann appears at Anita, the heroii'.o, and never before, it is said, has she performed per-formed so many and such daring and sensational feats as in this, her latest and greatest film production. These feats include a dive of 03 feet from a tower into the ocean, a battle with the angrv waves with her hands securelv tied "behind her, and an exhibition, in a limpid pool, of high and fancy diving. Robert Mood Bowers's superb musical musi-cal score, compoced expressly for this production, will be played by an augmented aug-mented symphony orchestra 'under tire HV- two performances daily, at 2:30 and :15 p. m., and every seat in the house is reserved and can" h-c secured in advance, ad-vance, either in the lobby of the American Amer-ican theater or at the box office of the Wtrand theater. Tho engagement is positively for two weeks only, and there can bo no return visit of the spectacle this season, as a route extending up to June 1 is already booked. THEODOKE ROBERTS, probably the most versatile character actor in motion pictures today, supported by Maude Fcaly and an all-star companj' of Lasky players, will be seeu today, tomorrow and Tuesday Tues-day at the Paramount-Empress in wThe American Consul," a thrilling political comedy-drama written especially for him by the noted author, Paul West, arc prepared for the screen hv Harvey Har-vey Thew and Thomas Ge'raghty. Wednesday and Thursday "Skinner's Dress Suit," the slorv' which mado such a hit with the readers of the Saturday Evening Post recently, with Bryant Washburn in tho leading role, and for the balance of the week Fannie Ward in "The Winning of Sally Temple," Tem-ple," will be the feature offerings. Ac-copipunying Ac-copipunying these will be the entertaining enter-taining single reels devoted to Burton Holmes in the Canadian Rockies, Paramount Para-mount Pictogrnphs, Brny cartoons, a comedy and the Sclig-Tribune News Review. Ever since the organization of the Lasky company Theodoro Roberts has been one of the most popular favorites of the photodramntie patrons, for to niost of them he is an enigma, in one production he will be seen as a merci-less, merci-less, brutal villain ami in the next as a tender and loving hero. Mr. Roberts always makes his characters char-acters distinctive, no matter what role he portrays, whether a Russian grand duke or a Bowery drunkard. His wonderful won-derful art of make-up makes hi3 part. no matter how insignifieaut, stand out clear and distinct. . His years of experience as a star on the speaking stage, the love of his work and his clear understanding of human characteristics and human nature na-ture all stand in good stead and make him first and foremost on the screen. In "The American Consul" Mr. Roberts Rob-erts is seen as a small-town patriot who is called upon by a local politician poli-tician to make a political address. Feel-i,w, Feel-i,w, tt,nt hie t.-iR- lins saved the entire nation from destruction, the patriot gees to Washington to answer his country's coun-try's call, but his country does not call until a scheming senator, to get rid of him, has him appointed as the American consul to a small South American Amer-ican republic. How the country lawyer finally develops de-velops into a real man and saves the dignity of his country and the lives of his friends is brought about in an unusual un-usual and. dramatic manner. The Laskv company has given Mr. Roberts an ' excellent supporting cast, which includes Maude Feal.y, Tom Forman. Raymond Hatton, Charles West, Ernest 'Jov and others. The production pro-duction was made for the Laskv company com-pany by Rollin Sturgeon and is of unusual un-usual lavishness. j S. HART, who has made him-Wf him-Wf self famous in western char-V char-V V actor portrayals, is the attrac-' attrac-' tion at the American" theater today and tomorrow, in his latest picture," pic-ture," which is called "The Gun Fighter." Fight-er." This title would be rather out of Place for anv other high-class star than Mr. Hart, but for him it fits like a glove. It presents this actor in many situations which emphasize his peculiar style of acting. Along with this feature fea-ture is the fourth episode of "Patria, " wherein we find Mrs. Castle assuming two roles, one of which is that of a dancer, and if there -is anything in the world she can do better than anything else, it is to dance. In this episode also is the introduction, for the first time in this picture, of the well-known Dorothy Doro-thy Green, recognized as one of the best interpreters of vampire roleR in the business. The great variety of scenes and situations in this episode of "Patria" "Pa-tria" will no doubt be responsible for much added interest in the picture. On Tuesday and Wednesday will be shown the next Valeska vSuratt picture, entitled "The New York Peacock," in which Miss Surat.t is seen in her large assortment of wonderful clothes, for which possession she is tho most famous woman in Xew York. The week's programme pro-gramme inciudes for Thursday and Friday Fri-day the first of "The Seven Deadly Sins." advertised so extensive!- by the McCluro publications. These "pictures are owned by the McClure magazines, and the first "sin" is "Enw." to be followed each Thursday and Friday bv other "sins." designated as "Pride' "Passion." "Greed," "Wrath," etc. Each production stands alone in its composition. Ann Murdoek is the star in "Envy." At an early date there will be shown at the Americnu a special subject, owned by Mr. Swanson of the Swansoii Theater circuit, entitled "America Is Readv," tho fim having been made bv Artcraft. Professor J. J. McCleliah, Suit Lake's famous orcanist. has returned re-turned from his vacation and is atrain on duty, eiving his regular recitals, a feature wliich distinguishes the American Ameri-can theater. Eddie Fitzpatrick leads the orchestra each day at Z o'clock' in the afternoon and evenings from 7 to 11. Franz Hath, the versatile and accomplished ac-complished pianist, is heard every afternoon after-noon and evening throughout the week. ; F,RANCIS X. BUSHMAN and Beverly Bev-erly Bayne appear at the Broadway Broad-way Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Tues-day in chapter 5, "The Trap" of "The Great Secret." In addition to this great feature, the striking dramatic subject, "The House of Mirrors," featuring fea-turing Frank Mills, will be seen Sunday only. The story contains touches which raise this picture above the level of the ordinarv and make it a subject well worth the attention of the movie fans. The principal credit for the result achieved must go to Marshall Farumn, the director, lie has shown rare discrimination dis-crimination in the selection of the cast and the presentation of the story. There are a number of touches which will be recognized as peculiarly his own, and they enhance the picture to a remarkable re-markable extmt. There is, first of all, a prologue showing how Blanche Pro-bcrt Pro-bcrt is neglected bv her husband, who is compelled to spend so much of his time at his factory. Arriving home late one night he find's her in a compromising compromis-ing situation with Edward Martindule, and without listening to explanations, he leaves her, taking their son, Fred, and leaving their daughter, Edith, with the mother. They are divorced and do not meet for fourteen vears. At the end of that time Blanche is the proprietor of a magnificent gambling house. Known as the "House of Minors." She carefully care-fully keeps Edith away from those surroundings sur-roundings in a school, but in .ri te of her Edith arrives on the scene; Blanche is then at great pains to conceal from Edith the nature of the establishment. At the ho'isc Edith meots Fred Vrobert and Tom Martindaie. the latter the son of the man who compromised Blanche VP" rs IlLO. Both of the young men fall in love with Edith' Fred, of course, not dreaming dream-ing that she is his sister. Fred asks Blanche for her daughter's hand, and during the interview Blanche recognizes Fred as her son by a ring he is wearing. At the same time Probert. in an attempt to keep his son away from the notorious gambling house, goes to its proprietress and recognizes Blanche. She protests to him that she has never been unfaithful, unfaith-ful, and he hunts up Martindaie to get the explanation which he might have had fourteen years before. The husband hus-band and wife' are reunited and Edith accepts Tom Martindaie. Frank Mills does some finished work as Probert; he has the capable assist-j ance of Bliss Milford, Lillian Kemble, J. Frank Clendon, Jack Curtis, Runa Hodges, Harry Spingler and Rudolph Cameron. F-LOREXCE LA BADIE, who heads! the cast which is to play " Her : Life and His" as the particular feature of the Orpheum photo-1 plav bill of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Tues-day, is a star who does not want to direct. di-rect. Neither does she yearn to write her own scenarios, but she does long to be a "camera woman." There has never been such an individual, indi-vidual, which is perhaps the reason why the ambitions of beautiful Miss La-Badie La-Badie tend that way. The fact remains, however, that the young star has taken up tho serious study of the camera aDd : finds it most fascinating. "When I first went into motion pic-i hires." says Miss LaBadie, "I knew no more about a camera than I do about contruetiug an aeroplane. One of the ; saddest moments of my life came soon after I had joined the company. The director told "me savagely that I had! caused a hila tion and it m'arh' broke inv heart. Attempts to apologize were i awkward because 1 did not have the slightest idea of the nature of my error. Now I know why scenes are taken in certain lights, what colors in costumes to avoid and the ones that will be effective. ef-fective. It is a great help in my work." "Her Life and His" is the' story of a man who wanted to die and of the girl who wanted to live and who made the man a proposition to use his fortune for-tune to better prison conditions and lend those with a prison record a helping help-ing hand. The supplementary features of the Orpheum bill will be the ninth chapter of "Pearl of the Army," featuring Miss Pearl White; the" Hearst-Pathe News, with its animated current events, and a Lonesome Luke comedy. Performances Per-formances will be continuous " from 1 to 11 p. m. llC horty HAMILTON JOIXS THE SECRET SERVICE" is IJ today's headliner at the Me-hesy. Me-hesy. It is a succession of blazing gun fights on trains and along the right of way of the Southern railway, rail-way, in which "Shorty" and his friends of the Arrowhead ranch clean up one of tho toughest mail robber gangs in the west, headed by ( Frisco Pete,'-' constituting con-stituting the principal thrill in this feature fea-ture ol comedy-drama for which this favorite is noted. A typical real western west-ern picture, so full of exciting incidents that there is not a dull moment in the show from beginning to end. "The Purple Mask" is the super pho-toplav pho-toplav of the season, with Grace Cunarri a.nd I'ranris Fonl. Ke!!v is rcscueJ from the alligator tan!;, but the end ol' tiiis leaves him with "Pat"' in a blazing blaz-ing aeroplane. "See America First" takes you to-dav to-dav to San Diego, the birt 1: place of Spanish civilization. A Harry Palmer cartoon en tit led " Never A jrain " relates re-lates to the adventures of a man trying to gt rid of a box of cigars purchased for hiui by his wile. |