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Show Artiste Charming in Songs of Old French yVFTTK C I ' II d! ; ftT, when sh first. visited tint United Smtrr houn.-t htni,' more t ha 11 a Ki-urc (if yea i s ago, wa Ida .oned among us by a lamoun poster a rtlMA uhrey lhardsley, was It not? She wan imperially ronsph uouh, at least In the posters, lor long, black kid gloves that readied neaily to her shoulders. Sim was lithe, Hery, laiitaidie and even then a remarkable. artlMo. Ib-r wore a udn clous w here t hey 11 1 e now merely piquant with a mild da!i of the C.illl'' sail. Tolny she Is no longer lithe; there la nothing freakish about her and she In as mi pre mo In her peculiar ait an wat e er Bernhardt hi hei rt. Only a courageous artiste, sure of her mi pre m a 1 y, would a 1 tempt to make an evening's entertainment of thrt naive tc-ngs of other centuries. Her first songs last night at the Salt Lake theater wcr ( lire ft legends of the fifteenl h and six -tecnt h cent urles, huii;i writ ten by the Flench peasants. The first told with native na-tive und unaffected simplicity tho tslury of the Journey of Joseph and Mary to Het hlc he m. how thev w ere turned away at evry door by the hard-hearted, the selfish or the uncaring and finally wero compelled to find shelter In a stable. A peasant's song nariutive of this event would he utterly without appeal in the hand of nnv but a great a- tress. And III a less degree this ran he said of most of her song a. Hut af lor an ovcnlng .ot her w onderful art the spodator could wdl beUevo that if she f-iug the niultl-phca niultl-phca (Son table she could 11 .n is form it Into a dramatic or a comi-' triumph. The Frenrh songs thai went best laM n'ct.t were "I'oarquol Me Pal Mmi Man" CWhv Vocf My H'i,.M.a Heal Mc". "La D.imo Mai Marice," a Mim - think of It ! about tin 111 -sin, -llins husband. "I,CS Helb-H Malliel e"." W ill- h tells the story of a inoth--r of Cm time of Molbre, who' is trirm to tench her dauhh-r how-to how-to dei'oil lierseh coquet 1 1 sh I y and flnall" to catch a husband; "m Mort (In Mari." in which the C:e iejolr.s comk.idy ul ilm d - par tin e of a b.n 1' tisomc hsand tor the nei world, a song which ha all t he toil', lung j at ho of our A mericau song abo'it "Mv Wiu- Han c ;cn' to the v 'o'int r--'. H u r i a )i !" or home t; i:t n; to tj.a t eifeci. M'.s. Cullbcrt s.ing two :lghur:ith rentiry Fnco.-h ballnds of tin same quaint' and simple type .is the songs she t-'iuiere 1 In Fremh. Tho.-e who did not understand Frnu h were a h!e to appreciate appreci-ate the marvels of her art whf-: s;!e ei-a!t"d ei-a!t"d "Oh. No. John" and t oiinette," w hirii h i e not hlng more to them than J.i'i and Jill," into veritable histrionic masterpieces. M'ss C. uilbert w as a.-sh-te 1 by Kmlly C,res-r. a vadlnlst of brilliant tedmiqu and by M:u:n. e lhiucr, a most accoin-phshed accoin-phshed pianist. DRAMA AND VAUPKVILM:. ORPH HUM Merced". wonder psychic, psy-chic, and three other headlinc-a. Matinee dally. WILKES "The Eternal Magdalene." Wilkes Player--, with Nana Iiryant. Matinees tomorrow and Saturday, PANTAGKS Three headline a"ts featuring fea-turing the "Honey Pee." Three shows daily. Four showa Sunday. v CONCKRT. SALT LAKE Tonight, Friday, Saturday Satur-day matinee and night, "Johnny Get Your Gun." a ccmedy. MOTION PICTURES. PARAMOUNT - EMPRESS Charles Ray lit "Ilia Mother's Boy" and Toto in "The Movie Dummy." P.IALTO Theda Dara In "Her Greatest Great-est Ixjvo." Last times today. LIBERTY Paramount pictures, Pauline Frederick in "The Love That Lives." BROADWAY Today and tomorrow, Dustin Famum In "The Spy"; also a smashing Big "V" comedy. |