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Show AMUSEMENTS SALT LAKE "East Lynne" photo-piny. photo-piny. All wouk, beginning with Monday Mon-day matinee. ORPHEUM Vaudeville. Every afternoon after-noon and night. UTAH Willard Mack. Marjorlo Ram-beau Ram-beau and company In "An Enemy En-emy to the King." All week, with matlrioes Thursday and Saturday. EMPRESS Vaudtivlllo. Matinee every day: two performances at night. VANTAGES 'Vaudeville. Matinee dally; two shows at night. nnHE first fully rounded bill of the present season was presented at the Orphcum yesterday afternoon and last night. Many of the acts during Ihc summer sum-mer were hardly up to the Orphcum standard, stan-dard, and some of the bills that were made up largely of praiseworthy acts lacked harmony. A vaudeville bill, quite as much as a drama, must have Its details de-tails Jn accord. There must be unity as well as variety, that Is to nay the entire performance must have the smoothness and spirit of a complete production. That, much can bo said for yesterday's bill and much more, for practically all the acts were of a high order. In a way the most Interesting act was the moving picture representation, entitled enti-tled "Escape of Harry Thaw." In reality the title la a misnomer. The pictures are auuial photographs of Harry Thaw, but not of his escape. They tell the story of his life In a Canadian cltv and Jail. The pictures were taken with his permission permis-sion and with the shrewd and correct idea on his part that they would serve to convlm o the public of his sanity. Anyone ,who views Harry Thaw in action must be convinced by his manner an1 faclul expression that he is thoroughly sane atld considerably matter-of-fact. In the first place there Is nothing about liim nf ihf cildfil voutli. nnthlnir to Indi cate that he ever went the pace on the Groat White Way, He has a Strong face with keen, thoughtful eyes and his manner man-ner has the alertness and decision of a highly cultivated lawyer of early middle age. Ills smile is most engaging and after seeing It one can readily understand the two or three pictures which show Thaw in the midst of a crowd that is cheering him with splendid unanimity. The most elaborate act on the bill is Gus Edwards's Kid Cabaret with Eddlo Cantor and George Jessol and company. The scene Is the dining room in the residence resi-dence of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Terrace, Jr., and the time five minutes after Ma and Pa leave the house. Most of Ihe actors are really nothing more than "kids," but their skill Is of a highly professional pro-fessional variety. The characters In the so-called "cabaret" "cab-aret" are given an opportunity to display their individual merits in various vaudeville vaude-ville stunts, all of them pleasing, and some of them most alluring. The bill opens with exceedingly clever dance novelties by Eddie Mack and Dot Williams. This is followed by the singing sing-ing of Miss Dorothy Williams. Her last number was a ragtime effusion In which she executed a peculiar walk such as Mandy, the colored laundress, might boast of, ami won much applause. A qulto unusual act was "The Devil's Mate." It tells the story of the young man who has gono the pace. As a drunkard drunk-ard and gambler he lias come to the end of his rope. He staggers into his apartment apart-ment one night and places a pistol to his head, but is afraid to shoot. Then the devil, attired in the conventional scarlet costume of Mephlstopheles. appears and taunts him. In the end the devil agrees to give the young man one more chance. "Let it be a game of chance," says the devil, "and we shall play for your soul. Choose any game you will." The rake chooses chess and the devil evolves a chess board from the darkness and luminous lum-inous chessmen appear on the board. "I will mate you in seven moves." sneers the devil, and he docs, but, behold, the final move which' spells checkmato reveals the chessmen formed Into a flaming cross. At sight of It Satan, hissing and cursing curs-ing terribly, fades into the outer darkness and the youth, falling on his knees, cries: "I am saved; T am saved." One of the most captivating acts of the season is presented by Fred Hamill and Charley Abhate. Tho latter, violin under arm, and garbed as an Italian street urchin, ur-chin, appears leading Fred Hamill. who is attired In evening dress and Is sporting what Is popularly known as a "bun." Both are bewitching singers and Abbate Is a violinist -whose playing shows fine sympathy sym-pathy and rare skill. Fiddler and Shelton are colored comedians come-dians who sing, play and impersonate. One is a musician and singer of classic gifts and the other Is a comedian whose impersonations are true and gripping. The impersonating of a San Francisco Chinaman is especially effective. Bartholdi's birds are fifty comedy pap-agays, pap-agays, cockatoos and parrots that do some marvelous stunts such as riding bicycles and performing athletic feats. Miss Marjorle Ranibeu demonstrated last night at the Utah theater that a woman can smile when In deadly fear. Playing the part of Julie Do Varlon in "An Enemy to the King," she pleaded to be saved from a load, the sight of whicli had made her scamper gracefully atop of a rustic settee In the yard of a French Inn of the seventeenth century. cen-tury. As Eranton De Launay, an outlawed Hugcnot captain. Willard Mack demanded demand-ed that she smile before he would remove re-move the toad from her presence. She pleaded and shuddered with the skirts of her handsome costume drawn timorously timor-ously about her ankles Radiating the bold brigandishncss of the part he played Mack refused unless she comply with Ills request. She did It was a bewitchincly puckery smile, slightly askew, and tilted her nose with piquant impudence aa she tried to twist her mouth toward the brigand while keeping her terrified gaze upon the toad, which was forthwith cast out through the wings by the gallant hand of the captain. There wasn't amian In the audience au-dience thai didn't feel grateful toward that load, which lit with a cruel thud on the floor back of the stage. The entertaining little incident is but one of many pretty touches interspersed among stronger situations of the play, and adding to the charm of it. A dramatization dra-matization of the novel by Robert N. Stephens, the play, portraying a stirring stir-ring romance of the Hugenot wars In France, affords both the principals and the company opportunity to appear to advantage from tho standpoint of versatility. ver-satility. It portrays the heart struggle of a woman who has contracted to bc-Iray bc-Iray the outlaw captain on condition that tho life of her father. Imprisoned by the order of the governor of the province, be spared. Complications occur oc-cur when she falls In love with the captain. On a sun dial In tho courtyard court-yard of a ruined castle, the stronghold of the outlaw, De Launay, she reads the Inscription; Bright as the star?, More quick to fade. Deadly as the marsh lights; Where lightest, making deepest shade False flame of woman's lovo. Dc Launay laughs at their sinister prophecy, but she recognizes their cruel apprQprlateness to her false position. The blind faith of the gallant Hugenot captain triumphs and wins her from her promise. As Claude Le Chatre, tho governor of tlie province, Howard Scott played with an elegance rivaled only by Ills costume. cos-tume. The costuming throughout, as well as the scenery, is above the average stock company equipment. Arthur Morse Moon, as Francois, a soldier who would turn Hugenot of Jew for a flagon of wine, contributed his usual share of the humor of the entertainment. Last night's rendition was received with applause voiced approval by a large audience. au-dience. An extra tenseness was noticeable in the figure of Mr. Mack when, during a dramatic moment, the wall of an Infant was heard In the gallery. The audience audi-ence took It as another excuse for applause. ap-plause. Mack explained beforo tho last act, however, that his emotion was genuine, gen-uine, not. acted, and that if failure to respect his frequent requests that infants in-fants be not brought to the theater should result In a like interruption he would order the curtain rung down. His audience au-dience knew that he meant It and there was more applause. The following theater notlc ire marked "idTertlsomeDt" In order to comply with a itrlct interpretation or the novr federal newi-paper newi-paper Utt. In no sense aro they paid adrer-tfraent. adrer-tfraent. They are Horns furnished by th pros assets of the rarloua thaatera. Beginning this afternoon at 2:30 and running all week, "East Lynne" will be revived at the Salt Lake theater. This dramatization of Mrs. Henry Wood's famous fa-mous novel will be in motion picture form and Is said lo eclipse all previous efforts of this great piece. An all-star cast, including in-cluding many performers of world note created this production in the Severn River Riv-er valley in western England, and picturesque pic-turesque old Boulogne, France, In the environment en-vironment where Mrs. Henry Wood laid the locale of her great story. Popular prices will govern the engagement with performances twice dally, afternoon and night. If any of Salt Lake's playgoers doubted the popularity of Pantages vaudeville Saturday Sat-urday and tried to obtain scats at the Pantages Saturday afternoon or evening, they probably have realized their mistake sufficiently to make their reservations earlier in the future. The Pantages had a record day of it Saturday and another Sunday. Willard's Temple of Music. Charles Konna, tho La Vollas, Dorlta and company, the three Troubadours and the Ferns-Bcnnott company In "The Favorite" Favor-ite" form a winning bill. The performances perform-ances continue until Tuesday night. The second Pantages programmo opens next Wednesday afternoon with a big English "girl" act, "The Eight English Roses'" headlining the bilh At the Empress this week Bayonne Whipple and Walter Houston are presenting present-ing a mysterolus comedy creation that In novelty and humor is exceeded by no sketch appearing at this house during tho season "Spooks" is a ridiculously funny little playlet that boasts of situations, situa-tions, both mirth-provoking and unexpected. unex-pected. To those who enjoy the thrillers." thril-lers." the Seven Lozanos in their midair mid-air offering, border on the sensational. Four seasons a feature act with the Ring-ling Ring-ling Brothers circus, they are now making mak-ing their first vgstcrn vaudeville trip. A splendid Essanay drama, "The Call of the Plains." will be seen at the Mehesy today. The story Is that of a young girl who gives up her lover to devote her lite to her aged father. loiter she writes to the young man to come for her, but through a trick of fate the letter Is lost and remains so for twelve years. TV hen It is found there Is a happy meeting. "Two Lltllo Kittens" Is a beautiful Edison Edi-son drama, in which the kittens provide a means of reconciliation between a widowed seamstress and her wealthy mother-in-law, but not until tho widow had undergone under-gone many humiliations and hardships. An Essanay comody, "Alkali Ike " JiJJ" vllle," featuring Augustus Carney A . it-markable it-markable wild animal picture. 'The Isle of the Wilds," will be shown as an atkicu attraction. |