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Show THE CITIZEN gari, which the Goldwyn company brought. he picture is reviewed for ly I saw Mr. Jones Macbeth; Ameri-reader- s in an article in The Free- Mr Schef by H G Scheffauer er who saw the photoplay in Ber urk . ated its bizarre expressionistic and described its action as in a cubistic world of tak-plac- e in-s- c He consid-relief and depth. it important, however, not so be-s- e ch because of its cubism as in it space had been given a ce had become a presence. he picture was also seen in Berlin Arthur Ziehm, a dealer in foreign the following ins, who has written d count of of effect on Bir audience, the authors of The binet of Dr. Caligari had the of treating the subject of ad-SjlJnta- ge mad-Htfs- s. Granting their mad premise, the ifcry works itself out logically and re-- : oorselessly to the final sane ending. While original both in inspiration and ttterpretation, The Cabinet of Dr. NOaligari strikes a pitch akin to that in the stories of Hoffmann, Poe, and Ambrose tz James OBrien ;e. It should be said that while itnerpretation has added immeas- iM&ably to the photoplay, yet the pro-anThunder reason for the thrill which it ottfwakens lies in the actual story of Dr. ie VfljSaligari. &S That story is told through the lips ler a madman, and it is in catching his ttbpg isted conceptions that the scenic Artists have done notable things. The ls Vffets are a little mad. Everything 5s :oniei Xiwry, somewhere; and, because it is a k Jlmo3t impossible just to lay your fln-!- l on the place, the sets add to the v.jers Pi '' atmosphere of mystery and terror which permeates the picture. Reent- : IJard d ? r i' is i; Sit v'Wii We ' ifrfc' Sure iusj Have a che-- : i Great r r evs-- , ; Show. Our M ? ions ivtf le S : c tr Are irf--! i i' e I an; H 1 t ft 4 L. tf t 1 The Delighted Patrons Who DOLL FROLICS Have BALDWIN, BLAIR CO. REDMOND & WELLS MELNOTTE DUA Seen It. Doors Open 12 Noon. Come Any. Time. d ctf ief if I NOW PLAYING CLAUD & FANNIE US1IE11 In The CONSTANCE TALMADGE in GOOD REFERENCES TAGE lllile-n-Wee-llo- me' FLO OLL1E WALTERS STUART II ARNES Favorite Hinging Comedian VUKEH & DON Who Cronned Oreun Rernune Wet the It In LILLIE JEWELL FAULKNER THE RAMSDELLS & DEYO JANET OF FRANCE and CHARLES W. 1IABIP In SONG SHOPPING iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii NEXT WEEK ELIZA II ET1 1 IIR1CE In LOVE LETTERS FOR PITYS SAKE with TOR DURAY A traveraty on tlic old time melodrama. old-tim- half-mediev- oeM Z7DDQW Gertrude Aloofly nnd Alary Dnncnn In OPERA AND JAZZ al INC. TirscANO linos. IIUIIKE A PETTY ArtlNtlo GymniiHtn DELAIOnE & LEE AIEL1IA The Inimitable muMlcInn jyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim Minns! (Qi&ion Cafeteria Home Cooked Foods lUfee fHotjjer U$eb to dftafee Quality Cleanliness Lunch Good References cot I a k it: From the viewpoint the derole will, undoubtedly, arouse as much ference between his work in that play comment and enthusiasm in America and the work done in Caligari is simas it did in Europe. The doctor in au ply that Mr. Jones failed this time elderly man who wears a cape and u and the artists in the photoplay succeeded. The sets in the picture do battered top hat, while behind his nyr not blacken your eye with their agglasses are strange, roving ejes. In gression or box your ears with their the conception of the man who is tollabruptness. They are subtly wovei ing the tale he does evil for the sheer into the tale of Dr. Caligari. delight that it affords him. Tbit. monSince the picture is to be shown in ster reaches the town when the fn.ir New York, it would not be right to is being held and solicits from the give away the secret behind it, thus robbing it, for those who read this ar- town clerk permission to exhibit a The ticle, of its element of surprise. How- somnambulist on the ground. few a can be ever, general outlines permission is granted, but not withgiven. The picture opens in a garden, out rudeness on the part fo the (Jerk. with two men talking. One of them That night the unfortunate main is remarks that he feels the presence In murdered in his bed. the air of evil things from the past. This is the beginning of a mysterA woman, pale, and dressed completeious sequence of crimed. The hero man other in the white, passes; ly the story teller tells of how he visited tells the first speaker that the woman the doctors booth with a friend when is his fiancee, .and assures him that, the doctor, opening a huge, standing whatever his experiences in the last, cabinet, revealed an immensely tall This they cannot equal those endured by and skinny man, fast asleep. himself and his sweetheart. The .teem? creature is completely under the dome movie fashion ination of the doctor. He sleeps until fades out in and fades into the story which i being awakened by Caligari, and when told in the garden. awake obeys his master implicitly. This story within the story is laid The showman invites the audience in a little provincial town with a to have their fortunes told by the aspect. Everything has un awakened sleeper and the creature preair of old worldliness, from Ihe stu- dicts to the friend of the story teller dent who throws away his book wh&n that he will not live beyond tomorhe hears of the fair to the fair itself rows dawn. Next day he is found murand the old men and young men and dered in his bed. In all the murders old women and young women who a strange dagger-lik- e weapon is used, throng it. Furthermore, everything so that there is no doubt that they are all the work of one man. Evenhas an air of exaggeration which makes the characters seem unienl as tually the sweetheait of the hero is human beings, but extraordinarily real threatened with the hatred of the old as embodying qualities of goodness wretch and from this point onward tne and evil, peace and terror. story moves to an unguessed-a- t climax. It is obvious that a synopsis of Dr. Caligari, who embodies sheer such a story cannot convey the flavor wickedness, is a masterly concepticn and the wofk of Mr. Krausn in thli. of the actual vehicle. The Cabinet 61 Dr. Caligari represents to me something very real and terrible. Do you remember the fear that you felt when you were a guest in The House of Usher? The story of Caligari is entirely dissimilar, yet awakens the same kind of fear that fear of things having no reason and loving evil instinctively. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was written by Carl Mayer and Hans Jano-witz- ; it was directed by Robert Wien, were II. and its scenic designers Worm, Walter Reiman and Walter Rork, according to the, announcement from the Capitol. Mr. Scheffauer, in ROSS HOWARD & his article in The Freeman, c: edited it chiefly to Walter Reiman, Waliher FOUR BELL HOPS Rohrig and Hermann Warm. Music Dinner I 327 So. Main St., Salt Lake I aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii THIS CUB WAS A BEAR. The cub reporter was grinding out a marriage notice. Finally he brought it up and laid it on the city editors Mr. and Mrs. Blank announce desk: today the marriage of their daughter to take place next Monday "Hull, grunted the editor, "yqu cant say they announced a marriage yet to take Again the cub jabbed away at place. his typewriter. And when he brought Mr. arid it back this time it read: Mrs. Blank predicted today the marriage of their daughter. dl 1 1 1 IJJillll vivsAVi(iiiin:!i Till I F |
