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Show AMUSEMENTS Olive Thomas Is Charming as 'Spite Bride' QLIVE THOMAS "got over big" In her opening presentation of "The Spite Eride" at the American theater yester- day. Briefly, the plot is as follows: Billy j Swayne, a scion of one of New York's oldest families, didn't love Tessa Doyle, ! the little dancing girl he married1 in j fact, he hardly knew her. When Millicent Lee had jilted him to marry another man, Billy thought the world had ended. He did not know what to do and so, as is usual in such instances, in-stances, he took the first bit of advice given him. Rodney Dolson told him to get i married immediately before Milliceni dio. so that it would look as If he had thrown Millicent over for this other girl. It didn't make much difference who the girl was. He could marry her, give her a thousand and send her to Reno. So when they saw Tessa Doyle at the theater that night they immediately decided de-cided that 'she was just the girl. Tessa wasn't the usual type of dancing girl. She had nn idea of what marriage ought to be something sacred. But her will was not strong enough to battle against those of Billy, Rodney and her dancing partner, Trixie. So she was married. Salt Lake Talent to Till Places of Panta-ges Actors Marooned by Strike on Coast. OWING to the railroad tieup In Los Angeles, the Pantages show which should have appeared . today has been detained. Manager Frank Newman has arranged for the presentation of eight vaudeville acts, in addition to a Fatty Arhuckle comedy as a special added feature. Salt Lake talent will be ably represented represent-ed in "Cheating Cupid," a sparkling little lit-tle musical gaiety, written by the popular popu-lar Salt Lake playwright, Rodney ITillam, who will stage the production at Pantages. Included in the merry little skit, which boasts a cast of ten people, are Evelyn Hawley, Norinne Robinson, Star Dunham and Jack Sharp. The Salt Lake Opera quintet, which has gained more than local prestige lately, late-ly, will also appear in a routine of classic clas-sic and popular songs. Included in the popular song group are Edna Dwyer, contralto; Mary Atkinson, soprano; Fred C. Graham, tenor; P. Melvin Peterson, baritone, and Becky Almond, pianist. Herbert and Binch are a couple of personable per-sonable young chaps who promise a little patter and a little song, while Vivian Stayner Palmquist has a personality and a budget of late melodies that will doubtlessly doubt-lessly win her instant approval. Madame Gloria Mayne will also be heard in vocal numbers. Van Dyke is a fellow who can cartoon anyone and anything. any-thing. David Jefferson will startle and amuse with -his clown contortions. A zippy Fatty Arbuckle comedy and a snappy array of music by Eddie Fitz-patrick's Fitz-patrick's orchestra are on the bill. can be organized. "Moliere" is in three : acts. The first and last show the study of the actor-dramatist in the Palais Royal, and the second the apartment of Madame de Montespan in the Louvre. Mr. Miller will be seen as Moliere and ; Miss Bates as Madame de Montespan. : . DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. j ORPHEUM New bill with Trixie Friganza and SlipMa Terry opens tonight. i I'ANTAOES Xew bili today with Rodnpy Hi lam's "Clu'utim; t'upub" Seven other bij,' acts. Tlir-.'ii shows d;)ily. HTl'I'ODROME Ralph ("luninor and compnny in "Johnny Get Vour Gun," opening next Sunday night. SALT LAKK Friday and Saturday and Ratiir-I and her perpetual spirit of youth. In It she depicts scenes, incidents and characters char-acters at a New. York block party, a gathering of the various denizens of a city block. Aiding Mies Friganza to put the bill over are Sheila Terry and her assistant artists; Harry Peterson and our- own "Gatty" Jones in "Three's, a Crowd," an exceptional production by William B. Fried lander and one warranted to score the biggest sort of hit with local vaudeville vaude-ville fans unless they are totally uniike the tribe elsewhere. i Other excellent first aids on the bill are Jack Clifford and Miriam Wills in "At Jasper Junction." This is a rural comedy, teeming with good fun and well worth while characterizations by the versatile Mr. Clifford and the totally charming Miss Wills. Jack Cli fford is noted for his genius as a comedian, his dope fiend being one of the classics of the stage. Other high-grade acts on t he bill are Eddie Janis and Rene Chaplow in "Music Hath Charms," a riot of fun and artistry; Harry Hines, inimitable monologist with a lot 'Of things to offer; Emile and John Nathane, reputed to have the. best acrobatic acro-batic act in all vaudeville, and Juggling Nelson, the funny fellow who does so many marvelous things. The pictures will also be there. "Tea for Three" Company Cancels Engagement; En-gagement; to Play " Moliere" Saturday. fifjp EA for Three" has been canceled at the Salt Lake theater, but it will be a balm to the disappointed theatergoers thea-tergoers to know that Henry Mher and Blanche Bates will appear August 21) and 30, with a Saturday matinee, in "Moliere," "Moli-ere," the play by Philip Moeller which was such a sensational success in New York. For this engagement Mr. Miller brings with him the original production in every' detail, just as it was presented in New York, and a distinguished company. com-pany. The appearance here of either Mr. Miller Mil-ler or Miss BaU'S at the head of their own company would attract marked attention, at-tention, but their joint appearance in one of the reatly great plays of the day lends especial value to the occasion. Mr. Miller's high artistic standard in presenting plays is well established and his companies are always the best that Vivian Martin to Be Seen in "Jane Goes a-Wooing, ' ' Opening at Paramount-Empress Today. HUMAN Interest, which perhaps more than any one other thing tends to make photoplay popular, is abundant In "Jane Goes a-Wooing," Vivian Martin's new Paramount picture, directed by George Melford, which will be shown at the Paramount-Empress today and tomorrow; tomor-row; A little stenographer, who has never known anything but poverty, plunged suddenly into a prospect of unlimited wealth and with a possible romance embodied em-bodied in the striking figure of the disinherited dis-inherited nephew of her benefactor. Miss Martin does some of the most telling work of her career. Niles Welch ploys the young man who wins the admiration of the stenographer, while Casson Ferguson is the constant young Irishman who admires Jane and runs a lunch wagon. Jane has as her slogan, "If you want a thing, go after it." But when she has finally won the love of the society man she finds she doesn't want him after all and goes back to Mickey, who has never wavered in his love and trust. Two pretty children add much charm to the story, and the work of SpotUs-woode SpotUs-woode Aitken, as the old dramatist, is excellent. There are many other wel-played wel-played characters, it is sairl, and the setting for the picture is claimed to do full justice to the clever story by Edith Kennedy. Entire Bill of Vaudeville Performers Arrive at Orpheum in Spite of Adverse Ad-verse Traveling Conditions. ALL of the vaudeville artists to appear on the Orpheum bill opening tonight, except those already Jinre, arrived in Salt Lake last night from San Francisco. They made the journey from Los Angeles to San Francisco by boat because of the strike conditions resulting in the annulling of all trains between the southern California Cali-fornia city and Salt Lake. The incoming va udevilli?ts reported traveling conditions most unusual because of tiie strike. All modes of travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco are overcrowded over-crowded because of the overflow of travelers trav-elers trying to get to San I rancisco en route east. Several of the Orpheum performers per-formers were forced to sit up on the boat beciu.e of inability to secure 'berths. All the ex tra expanses borne by the vaudyevillists in tak ing the roundabout route to Salt Lake were paid by the Orpheum Or-pheum circuit. Every act on the local Orpheum bill is now in the city and the show openim? tonight will be given in full as advertised. Miss Friganza, is a big favorite In Salt L'ike. lu t this sea.-on she hids fair to put all her n:her appearances in the proverbial pro-verbial .shade. She will prevent an entirely en-tirely new act, "At a Block Partv," written writ-ten especially to fit her sparkling humor |