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Show IT WHIRL IN THEATRICALS YorkCritic Finds Himself in Demand WS ARE FOREVER CHANGING al and Moral Uplift Plays Depicting Trag-iy, Trag-iy, Gloom and Weighty "Purposeful-ness" "Purposeful-ness" of Little Interest. By Vanderheyden Fyles vHk Ne' Vork. January 31. 4 'HnLOCK" A comedy drama in threo etjjtrsi:ct Turnbull. (Maxlnc KUiolfi. ' B'Potinell KiMccn Frank 'nKlMccn Thomas .1. Oirrisui fSRmiU T- IorTO Koum1 Maatcr Nnrrli MJIllnKtnn JS7" Ethel Wrlcht Florence. Huntington t.Kgt Edith Wynno Matlhlaou ''W" A P)al" ln ,llrc0 'lri' by At,KCl (tflScclrh vnraion by Wallnro 0111-4!i.ffiiMdo 0111-4!i.ffiiMdo Marburs. (Thirty-ninth Street CforKf Graham ., GoeHrcy C. Stein ,BiBr" E. L- Kcrnnndoi ."H ., Lou ToUcgen U SKf . John Arthur 'ItMW' Charles Ashlor itB" ' Maudo Odcll 'jM ""'."." Dorothy Doanolly llBL TICKET" A play In thren acta, (jMc.Morton- (RUinse thMtT.) "ft John Birrrmor BteBi. , David Torrroc l!flmi ttottov' Julian IEatrango kkmi Audrey JDn, MlWm ?BtitD'f Errunelt Corrlcan t PsE Macy Harlan 'HbIKT-' E. C. I. Evan 7; '. 1 Tarry LUllford "K: Michael Wilcua' Floroaco Rood HBhi."' ...Elaine- Iocacort vMfr OF BONDAGE" A drama. In four r.'Bfceph Byma ToLten. from tho novel HBTMtn' by Reginald Wright Kauff-Capacre Kauff-Capacre theater ) j"B;" ... Euxanno nocamnr.i MlKLvfJhV..'. Lucille Lavcrno X? C. W. Goodrich ,'SMm ' Oflll Spooncr "rfc- Tullv Marshall KlMy Mabel Tumor fr , OUto Grovo p." Ellta Proctor Otla , Ellwlieth Wntppo ?!pBV Bluncbo Turlca titBr ." Helon Tlldcn i.JaBuiV ' John Sftlnpolw John Maurlco Sulllvon itdH.' ' ... Charles F. Miller IvXX, .... Garla Mravlap "'?f !" Otto Koerner VE Clarn. Gresawood Jcslo Arnold "? '. .1. IrvInK Southard ' 8Wr " Herbert E. Denton Ber whirling week! I don't ufcRTwhat wo nre coming to. 0H admit things are at a iEe. Ere I can got word to imt a new play, off it 15 ""to tho storehouse and a Bco goes on in lis place, U"Kuos in a single breath, two 'JlHat as one1 A low nights ir&HT haled to Maxinc Elliotts itvHaUd most courteously con-jMfot"! con-jMfot"! to sec an "optimistic !"?Kalled "Don't Weaken,' "?Bb announced as sure to es-BIb es-BIb author as the "coming ifcfcBt," and, furthermore, was uOmto hiive so delighted George ,'ttfit . when read to him, that J3nd lately socurcd tho rights KMfctanlly ailmltted his friend, r.HA. Brady, as a partner in jirprlf;c." That night, as Is .'fiJom, 1 roto. a description ol .-altfor you before anuggllng into ilthnt I might doze off In the 'vPense of something done. uftKiwIth new plays at the. prcs-l5of prcs-l5of six or fight a weok. I (Kiwritci of each Immediately .lK(i(l I have rorgotten even'-LKut even'-LKut it in the morning.) P.ul "TT'ijno rest for Hie weary critli. -JKd 1, in a. few "well chosen AtKdismlHSod "Don't Weaken" (-iiMroni niv mind. tJtnn I was ilmStiiHt lta "run" would eml Bhts Inlet ;nd I must hie SjMMts titiccesaor at the Maxinc 'ltxqmLl wonder whether the ivau-'sKlnc ivau-'sKlnc lives in England now-irtMiause now-irtMiause slio cannot stand the 3r?i frefiticnt premieres at the rCt fVuL 1,oni's 1km Iia,,1:) 'airuy'.TEbY. I Unci myself fBV strangely pay and bllthc-iwa bllthc-iwa can It be because of the , that J need never sec or 'tflrBr"Don't "Weaken" again so lif'RWvo'.' Anyway, tuich genial 'J Mr attunes me to the tragedy 'I'iBr :i rid weighty "ptirposeful-ob "ptirposeful-ob hove invaded Thirty-ninth i Klth Wynne Matthison and o (PmDounelly arc riot only ac-iMfiWJ ac-iMfiWJ the first rank, but both '"JiByfeel continually Impelled to JjBieir talent.s In ihe cattse of liifripllft, or mundane morality. slumps else thai Is in need of Bt at the moment. Ml pa jrKi possessing naturnl auall-icqulied auall-icqulied art thut place her i f3iBL8 w,tl1 M,1,n Marlowe the jjMR 'ts P-Iil sphere, among : ,Bar' at trusses should bo more exalted and Inspired -mfi Bhakesptare; but If she m muf-t accept thn best site -WH. and be thankful. Ht. In this Instance, Is a ..led "The Deadlock." writ-IRrgarct writ-IRrgarct Turnbtdl It brings IKhlKon forward an a a openi. Wjln her early youth, In Paris, was married to an ardent Trlsh-AmorJcan. Trlsh-AmorJcan. Tho dmma. however, con-corns con-corns Itself more properly with the clash between the prima donna and the young man's father, a prosperous contractor, who. as may bo found In several prominent instances in actual ac-tual New York. Is a devout Roman i.athollc. and a Kcnerous contributor and tireless supporter of that church. Only a civil mnrrlago had bound his son to the singer; and. after their separation sep-aration through a misunderstanding and an almost fatal illness of the youthful husband's, his father made him behove the woman was dead, Insisted In-sisted that tho civil marriage was not binding In the eyes of heaven, and urged him to enter the priesthood. Thus Miss Turnbull sets hor stage with three severally opposed characters charac-ters (well played by Miss Matthison. and Frank Losoe and Thomas J. Car-ngan. Car-ngan. as father and son) for an Interesting, In-teresting, sincere discussion of Roman Ro-man Catholicism, worked out through action. TOROTHY DO.VXELLT'S troublo -f at the other end of Thirty-ninth street. Is more vital. In fact, it has a. stiletto In It. Spanish, vou will havo guessed. Angel Oulmera, who Is taken very seriously In Spain and whoso drama of "Marta of the Lowlands Low-lands has been presented here by Bertha Kallch and is not unknown to oporagocrs, heard a talc of passion and of death among peasants ln the catalonlan mountains, three weeks after it had reached Us tragic end. and, as his mule carried him through its actual scene, he pondered on the story and ovolvou a play. That night at a wayside Inn he began putting his thoughts on paper, and. within for,t.yTe.,gl,t hotirs, "Marta Rosa" was a finished work. Miss Donnolly, looking essentially Spanish and cxtraordlnnrilv handsome. hand-some. Is tho widow of a peasant who has died In prison, accused of a murder mur-der she knows he did not commit. She dedtcatcs her life to his memory. But a living man pursues her with tempestuous passion. And he Is mar-volously mar-volously handsome for, indeed, is he not that same Lou Tellegen who has been Sarah Bernhardt lcafllng actor for several year, and, on this occasion, makes his first Engll3h-spcaklng Engll3h-spcaklng appearance In this countrv? However, as my favorite actress, George Monroe, says: "Bo that as it may; 1 say, bo that as It may!" Ramon Ra-mon (Mr. Tellegen at home) Is alluring allur-ing eiough to bowl Maria completely over. But winning her "favor." to express myself with Incomparahlo delicacy, is not enough for Ramon. Ho would marry her. And, ultimately, ultimate-ly, ho gains her consent. A I the wedding feast. Ramon drinks too much and boasts of Ills bravery and strength and daring. Maria Rosa's suspicions are aroused. When the guests are pope, simulating passion with complete success, she draws the fact from Ramon that hn killed the man for whoso death her flnt lufs-band lufs-band was imprisoned, Whcroupon Maria, drives a knifo into hi? heart, bringing a. Spanish evenlmr to an end to tho satisfaction of all. A RTHUR. SCIIXTTZLER'S position amont: the foremost dramatists of the period is so definitely estab- Aiina Pavlowa, the incomparahlo prima ballerina assoluta, Imperial opera, St. Petersburg, with a company of Russian dancers and symphony orchestra of thirty, at the Salt Lake theater, Wednestlay evening next. lished that the production of a play by him is nothing less than an event, even though tho fact of Its being played in German limits its appeal. "Professor Bernhardt" Is peculiar, Inasmuch In-asmuch as the woman whoso experience experi-ence supplies Its subject does not once appear In tho llvo acts; and, indeed, though lift ecu characters are Involved, only one is of tho femulo sex, and she is visible for less than fifteen minutes. The play Is a discussion. It suggests the "Enemy of the People" of llenrlk Ibsen, ln Vienna, the censorship for-bado for-bado its presentation. Herr Schnltz-ler Schnltz-ler had to take it to Berlin. The facts that Arthur Schnltzler la of Hebraic descent and that ',io studied for tho medical profession, his father being a well-known laryngologlst of tho Unlvorsity of Vienna and ho himself serving from lSSG to 1S8S as an I assistant doctor ln the leading hon- Famous Players at the Rex Sceno from "A Lady of Qualit-," in which Miss Cecilia LofUis appears with tbo I'amotts Players at tho Rex theater next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The noted character actress makes hor debut ou tho screen in this picture, which consists of five reels. Tho Famous Players pictures, including all the Frohman productions, will hereafter bo seen exclusively at. tho Eex. pltal of Vienna, not to mention "Tho Clinical Atlas of Laryngology." which-lie which-lie wrote ln collaboration with his father and published In 1S!15, give a special authority to his drama. Professor Pro-fessor Bernhardt, a Jew. Is the director di-rector of a largo hospital In Vienna. A girl Is dying, paying with hor lifo for "her bit of youth and happiness and sin," Her recovers from the operation op-eration Is out of the question, yet she Is, ln fact, enjoying that minige. not unusual before death. In which she fancies herself woll along the road to recovery, rrofessor BernhardI believes It only right to let "her oxplro ln that peace; but she Is a Roman Catholic, and a nurse, also of that faith, urges tltat it would be sinful to let Iter die without the attendance of a priest. "I am bound." tho profensor answors, "when nothing further lies In my power to do for my sick, at least to hce to It that they dlo happy." Tho nurso. however, summons a priest. Bornhardi refuses to allow him to eeo tho dying- girl. During their dlsous-slon, dlsous-slon, tho nurso tolls the girl thnt tho priest. )h there, nnd the shock, tho fear of death, kills hor. Nevertheless, she died without receiving absolution. The subsequent four acts aro-simply ethical and moral dlHcussion, of an authenticity, depth nnd seriousness not yet acceptable to tho avcrago American audience. German? take tho theater more soberly. Tho In-consenuontlal In-consenuontlal case becomes a cravo political IsHue. Patronage Is withdrawn with-drawn from tho Institution of which BernhardI Is thn head. The matter even gets into the onurts- business nnd religion, sotlnl, racial and official offi-cial rank bocome involved. Tlorr Schnltzler has taken an actual case as his theme. "It is truly frightful," fright-ful," one character c,xc.lalniB. "how with uh Austrlaus nil personal questions ques-tions end ln politics." Frankly, tho drama. le a little too local for a world-wide nppual. After words nnd words nnd words between the Jewish faith and Roman Catholicism, embodied em-bodied by the surgeon and the priest, the latter extends his band l;niiulKlvn-ly. l;niiulKlvn-ly. Refore taking It Bnrnbardl, in Ills characteristically Ironical tono, asks, "AcroHs the abyss, your reverence?" rev-erence?" To which the priest replies, "Let us not look down Into t. for the moment." And at mr end of tho piny one of the doctors savs to Bernhardt: Bern-hardt: "What should you have achieved, after all. my dear professor, pro-fessor, If you hnd raved that poor poison on hor deathbed from a final HborkV That seems to mn Just, like trying to eolvc the social question by mnklnp a present of n villa to soma poor devil." To which nernhanll answer: "Ton. like most of the others, oth-ers, forget thnt I hnd not tho remotest re-motest Idea of solving any question uhatf-oevor. r simply did In ono nullc fn?cln cane what I held to be the right thing." HPIIKKK Is un more direct way to - popular miceess in the theater iioujul:t dm n to discuss some actual ac-tual condition Mat In, .it once, near enough to the common experience to appeal to the mob as plausible and human and possible to affect themselves, them-selves, arid to come to them as a new fact. Such a subject has been discovered dis-covered by Michael Morton, and It will bo largely responsible for the success of "The Yellow Ticket." The average American Is aware. In a general gen-eral way, of tho governmental persecutions perse-cutions of the Jews in Russia, but ho knows almost nothing specifically. Vaguely he pictures herds of .lows being lashed along a frozen high road by a grizzly Cossack; Is "shocked beyond be-yond words," and turns over his paper to read about the latest murder In Grand Rapids, Mich., or the newest variation of the tango. Do you." for Instance, know what the yellow ticket Is? Perhaps you do. but I did not until I "took out Information." Mr. Morton's melodrama spreads the facts. A Jewish woman, no matter how reputable, is not allowed to enter Russia and take up her residence, e.xcept ln prescribed districts, without with-out this ticket, which Is nothing more nor less than a permit to carry on the "oldest profession In the world," under the surveillance of the secret police. Mr. Morton Imagines the case of a young woman of respectable family and exemplary character, who, however, happens to be a Jewess. Honorable employment Is offered to her in Russia, and she desires and undortakes to enter !nlo It. But she has come n'ou) of this law. By chance she gets possession of a yellow yel-low ticket, and sh uses it to go to her position, that of companion to an American young woman. Rut the po-llco po-llco will not leave hor to peaceful endeavor. They notify her employer that she carries the badge of tho social so-cial outcast, and she is driven out of tbo household. Thereupon hor slnsrlo-handed slnsrlo-handed struggles with the Russian secret koivIcc ensues along tho ssfc litvs of feverish melodrama that insure in-sure success. The drama, coming to the Julian Elllngo theater, which has been opened to the public steadily for a year and v. half, but with onlv one play to Its credit, the phenomenally sucrefcsfnl "Within the Law." Is admirably ad-mirably staged and uneotnmonlv well acted. Florence ftecd Is the Jcwoss whose distresscv achate us: John Mason is I bo glowering police (lend who "dogs her everv step": John Barrymoro is the glib American ro-portcr ro-portcr who comes ultimately to her rescue, and other role:: aro filled bv Elaine Inescort. Emmetl Corrigan. Julian L Estrange and Macv Harlan. Har-lan. TPkO not. I pray vou. think that. the ' fragrant. gentle subject of prostitution is concluded with these necessarily brief words about ''The Yellow Ticket." "Ob. no." to Monroe again, "oh, dear, mercv no!" W havo "The House of Bondage" with us. Several weeks ago a dramatlza-lion dramatlza-lion bv Joseph Byron Tot ten of Reginald Wright Kauirman's novel was produced by a cut-rate stock company In that far-off section of New York known as the Bronx. It might readily have expired In obscurity: ob-scurity: but the police stepped in. They arrested tho chief actress and her manager. Both are now under bond to appear before the grand lurv at th "nd of this month, when everybody's dlrtv linen will he washed In as much publicity as the press agent can manipulate. Therefore. "The House of Bondage" was deemed ripe for transplanting from the dull obscurity of the Bronx to the great white light that beats on Broad wav. When tho play was produced In tho Bronx. Cecil Bpoonor. lending actress and manager of tho stock company and the theater that houses it. lost no opportunity to appeal to popular sympathy. And Cecil Is an Idol In the Bronx. In one curtain-speech. Frits Kroialor, world famous violin-1 iBt at tahcrnaclo Monday, February 10. J after her arrest, which Mio paid was crossly discourteous becaurfo tho po-Ilco po-Ilco would not allow hor to rldo to the station in her own limousine, she said: "I read you the manupcript of 'The House of Bondnge a couplo of weeks ago and you all 5nld you wanted me to play It. I have a Jury of 10,000 mothers to decide on the plays I present. I believe this Is a good play. I think It carries a les-on. les-on. I want to ask a favor of you. I want you to write to the mayor and tell him what you think about it. If you like this play and think it is all right, then tell him so. If you don't, tell him that." The play Indorsed by 10,000 mothers moth-ers passes for the most part, I need hardly tHI j-ou, In houses of Ill-fame. Ill-fame. Tho first act might bo the beginning be-ginning of any one of a thousand melodramas. In which the country girl la lured to the city by a "traveling "travel-ing man's" promlso of marriage. The second, however, brings us no fear-loss fear-loss hero to rescue her and press her to his bosom. It Is as sordid as the Intrigue of "Romeo and Juliet" would be If written In the fashion popular at present. The seem: is Madam iRose s house, ln which Mary, ruined and deserted by the tempter, is living liv-ing the life of a white slave. A young politician manages her escape, not through any admiration for her or personal sympathy, but to pay off a score against the madam. Then, as In the novel, Mary secures employment em-ployment as a servant, only to be hunted down, her past life flung at her, and to be dismissed. All this Is told in episodic flashes, with none of tho art of the novel, which gave Mr. ICauff man's work a certain literary distinction, in spite of Its obvious appeal to morbid sensationalism. sen-sationalism. But even the Inexpert dramatist and the more than inefficient ineffi-cient acting of Miss Spooncr could not rob the climacteric scene of all of its power; that passage In which Mary, diseased and besottcn, fallen, so low that she cannot even gain re-entry to Madam Rose's establishment, meets the cadet who enticed her to hor first sin lures him to her squalid room ln the. pretense of some lingering spark of love and, in the morning, tolls him of the hideous disease with which she is Infected and which, in the very ecstasy of revenge, she has transmitted transmit-ted to him. It seems superfluous to add that thl? latest, concoction of filth comes forward under (he auspices of the Medical Review of Reviews. Also, (here Is something said about tho "patronage of tho Practical Mothers' association" There would ho. For tho most part, the stuff Is far better acted than It deserves to be, though Miss Spooner is quite as far removed from art as tho play. Tully .Marshall, whoso performance In "The City" proved him to be a marvelous impersonator imper-sonator of such tensely nervous, frenzied roles as some of thoso In which Henry Irving and Richard Mansfield secured their earlier fame, wastes so much fine art on the sketch of the cadet as to almost make one fancy that some character is there; and Ellta Proctor Oils, as the madam, Is. If she will pardon my vo saying, little less than perfect. Lucille La Verne. Olive Grove. John Salnpolls and John Maurice Sullivan fill other roles: audiences of curous women fill the theater; and the management and authors fill their pockets. In the old days, the morbid njob used to satisfy themselves with museum displays of Mutt and Joff with Butt risner uT "Panama at tho Salt Lako theater, opoa- 1 ing next Thursday and running tho balance of tho weok with pomilar matinee MM Saturday. " Mm the past, but "Mutt and Jeff in Panama Pan-ama combines the sensation of a melodrama with the ' 1 whirlie-girlie" of extravaganza and thu music of a light opera, into one more than pleasing pleas-ing entertainment. The compaii- coming to the Salt Lake theater on Thursday next and contiuing Friday and Saturday, with malinco Saturday, Sat-urday, consists of fifty people, comedians, come-dians, singers and' dancers. A chorus of the prettiest girls you have ever seen in one company, wearing twenty different differ-ent costume changes, will, add to the general quality of the entertainment. In fact, Mr. Hill is so sure of pleasing you that he has instructed his managers t.o cheerfully refund tho full price of ad- Captain Scott in his polar costume from motion pictures of tho Scott south polo expedition, Salt Lake theater, week beginning Monday, February Febru-ary 9. armless men and legless women, giants, pigmies, children born afflicted with a pieco of skin connecting their bodies, making them "twins." Nowadays, Now-adays, people of the sunn class of mind have only to inquire what drama tlie Medical Review of Reviews is indorsing in-dorsing this season. For instance, the idea of a "motor" sledge gliding majestically over a lin it-less it-less field of sea ice is something cry few people have, ever seen, and consc- mMg qucntly almost unbelievable, since, to MM the layman, there is no visible moans of such a foat being accomplished. Yet, one glimpse at the pictures in motion and all doubt is dispelled. Not only Mm docs the sledge propel itself, but i't transports tons of freight; true the speed is not fast, never exceeding more than three miles an hour, but it is sur and efficient. Then, too, another inno-I inno-I vation is observed at the rear of the sledge. It is a motor, attached to a miniature wheel, which is in turn hitched to the rear of the sledge, ami jH so at the end of a journey but one MM littlo poelc is required to ascertain the number of miles traversed. mM In direct, contrasl to the slow-mov-ing, if unique, motor sledge, is the MM "flying" dog team. These nobl brute?, jH from eastern Siberia, literally race over the ice from the start to the fin-ish. fin-ish. Truly, they are man's best friend, especially in Mint desolate waste wbcro Jack Frost is king. jMM But perhaps something encountered jH by the exploring party may prove of jH more exciting interest than thn moth-ods moth-ods of transportation. Ileocc, let us glance, through' the eye of the all-con-queriug cinematograph, at the majestic arid nwe-inspiring volcano Mount Ere-bus, Ere-bus, in a state of actual eruption This film, acknowledged by scientists ot be jH tho greatest educational exhibit yet MM produced, was taken under oxtromc dif MM ficulties and but for the, timely fore MM thought of Herbert G. Ponting, F. R. MMm G. S., official expert of the expedition, MMM it would never have been recorded, lie MMm realized in ndvauce the utter impossi- 'MMi bility of dragging an apparntus, such MMm as he was encumbered' with, up the side of an active volcano, and provided MMt himself with a special lens of great mag- MMt nifying power, which ho used at a dis- Mmm tancc of fifteen miles from the lip of jH the creator. Owing to tho pcc'uliar at- Mmm mospheric condition prevalent in the MMM land of I ho midnight sun, this film is MM as clear as a crystal and as brilliant MMM as a July sunrise. a NI it always will bc.s' l The forogoing aphorism may jH havo been true a hundTcd years ago, but it is sadly off the mark today. M Everything today socms to point to- jmWM ward a better and more moral world. MM The people, tho books and the modern MM drama have something to do with tho uplift of the nation. MM Perhaps one of the most notable plays which has tended to point tho way 'is mM "Little Lost Sister." dramatized by E. M (Continued on Following Page.) MMM '-Mm- : infill I Virginia Brooks, whose play "Uttlo Lost Sister," comos to tho darrlck jH theater for ono week, commencing with matinco today. jH AT THE THEATERS (Continued from Preceding Pago.) E. Ifosc from the adventures of Miss -Virginia Urootis, which opens nt tho Gnrrirk for one week starting with mat- itiee today. Fn privato life the author is known as Mrs. Charles S. Washbnrne, 1 wile of a Chicago nowspapor reporter, who has now arranged to publish her ; lite story in book form, under llio uamo '. ti t It; as "tho play. This play tolls in a straightforward, . truthful man nor the underlying cause. , the effect and tho conclusion ot a misled mis-led life. It shows how easy it is In go the wrong way and how hard it is to get bark among your old friomla. Tt, is true to life in ihat it. points out the great white slave evil of today, and also al-so points I ho way that is right, and hence its mission of good. Every girl can sec it. Tho story, noatlv told, tells of an unsophisticated girf ivho is led to tho bic city by falso impressions, her downfall down-fall arid her return home. Thon there is tho good sister who does right, is happily married and is perfectly satisfied sat-isfied with life. Tho contrast between tho sisters is ono of the greatest ever depicted upon tho modern stage, The "lost sister" meets the typical white slavo procurer in hcrhomo town, where ho is peeking now vjctims. Her homo lifo not ovor pleasant, -which, bv tho wav, is ono of tho principal rea sons why girls leave homo, and she is led awav to a house of ehamo in Chicago. Chi-cago. The story is told in a mnnnor not to offend, yet is plain in its teaching. teach-ing. "Little Loot Sibtor'-' shows that all that is isn't wrong. The play should be a blessing to tho country. " Tt gcta down to facts, and prescribes a remedy. rem-edy. THE author of "The Girl al the Curtain," an Kssauay two-reel two-reel special fcaturo which has boon chosen to .head tho now programme which will bo presented at tho American today and tomorrow, has given it many new situations that will mako it a production interesting throughout. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Baync appear in the leading roles. "Tho Girl at tho Curtain" promises to he a good, clean, wholcsomo comedy-drama that will provide entertainment enter-tainment for the most critical. A girl is married she docs not soo her husband. hus-band. Tliev meet later, but do not know that they aro wed. Tho little love god takes possession of their hearts, however, nnd tho two determine deter-mine that they shall never atrain bo separated, and fo it was that bund love had its 03-03 opened to tho sunshine and goodneis of the wor! L In ad lition to this fcaturo ofTcnng, Mary Puller, late of "What Happened to tary" nnd "Who Will Mnrrv farv?" fnmo, will be presented1 by tho Edison company com-pany in an ontirch new series of photoplays entitled "Dolly of tho Dailies1 the first Btory of which, "Tho Perfect Truth," will bo on this programme. Tho story deals with the adventures of Dolly (pla'cd by Mary-Fuller) Mary-Fuller) in tho newspaper world. The stories come from tho pen of Acton Davies of tho New York Sun. A Vita-graph Vita-graph comody, "Tho Lucky Elopement," Elope-ment," featuring Anna Stewart and a large company of Vitagraph playerB, will furnish tho laughs on tho programme. pro-gramme. This programme will bo concluded con-cluded by an Essanay drama, "Tho Testing Fire," a simple, tolling plaj' with big humanities that touch tho heart, with tho two well-known playora, Jreno Warfiold and Itichard C. TrnverB, in the leading roles. Tho musical 60-loctious 60-loctious for this ovening will bo tho latost oporctta soloction. "Tho Firo-lly," Firo-lly," and will bo renderod by tho largo nfusical organization comprisod of seventeen instruments. Professor J. J. McClellan will bo at tho holm. Tlio performances at tho American arc continuous con-tinuous from 12 noon to 11 p. m. A WEEK of features is ahead of patrons of tho Hex theater. "Tho Magic Skin," a two-part two-part Victor dramatization of Balzac's great novel, will bo given to-daj' to-daj' and tomorrow. "Absinthe," a fonr-rcol fonr-rcol special Universal fcaturo, presenting present-ing King Baggot in what Is pronounced tho greatest rolo ho has ever undertaken, under-taken, will appear Tuesday and Wednesday Wed-nesday and the first of tho Famous 1 Players productions at tho Hex will bo seou Thursday, Friday and Saturdays Satur-days with Cecilia Loftus as "Clorinda" in A Lady of Quality." Tho enlarged en-larged orchestra will afford further entertainment en-tertainment for tho patrons of tho theater. The contract under which tho Famous Players features, including all tho Frohman productions, will appear exclusively ex-clusively at the Rox has just bcon closed and the productions will be shown at frequent interval?. Other big features will be scon from time to time in the uoar futuro. "Tho Magic Skin" is a classic production pro-duction teaching the lesson that when ambition and desire aro satisfied, life ends. Tho story briefly is that of a youth who. having been disappointed in lovo and having gambled away his fortune, is about to end his lifo when au old man given him tho skin of a wild ass, which has the wonderful property prop-erty of conferring on its possessor tho gratification of every wish. But, as each successive wish is granted, the skin shrinks, nnd its disappearance moans death. Tho lesion, so wonderfully wonder-fully told 111 tho novel, is splendidly brougut mit in the film dramatization. "Absinthe." is the result of a spo-oinl spo-oinl frin n Parte !- Mr, Bnccnt. Leah Baird and their company. Mr. Baggot prepared himself for tho part by a most minute study of tho absmtho fionds of Paris. He lived for a week in their haunts and as a result was able to present for tho first timo on tho screen tho prcciso methods of the Paris absinthe fiend in preparing his drink, as well as the cflccts of it on tho victim. The drama is naturally in-touso in-touso and tragic. It tells tho story' of a bright young man, converted into a criminal through tho use of tho drug, which ho was first induced to drink by an adventuress whom he married. Discovering me character of tho woman, wom-an, ho trios to kill her, has a pathetic scene with 111 b mother, and tho picture leaves him an object of derision in the strcots. Miss Loftus has iu "A Lady of Quality" a splendid vehicle for the display of her talents. Tho Rtoiy is by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and gives tho career of a hoydenish girl, reared among dissolute men by a disappointed father, who had hoped in vain for a son. Tho girl acquires all tho. masculine mascu-line habits of her male companions, dressing in men's clothing, smoking, drinking ana swoaring witli them. Sho is led to bandon her formor method of living through her love for a London dandy, who wins her affections on a wager, and then desorts her. The epi-sodo epi-sodo changes hor entire subsequent career, ca-reer, all tho strength of the Btorj- being be-ing brought out in Misb Loftus 's presentation pres-entation of the pnrt. THE voico of Angolo won for him famo and fino friends. WTien his voice failed his now friends forgot him. Arthur Johnson gives a powerful portrayal of the young Ttal-inn Ttal-inn In tho Lubin two-pnrt feature, "The Voico of Angolo." Lottio Briscoe, Floronco Hackett and others ably support sup-port Mr. Johnson in this dramatic story, which is presented at tho Mohesy to-da3 to-da3 and tomorrow. Ton3 conducts a littlo shop and it is his wish that his son Ajigclo join him in business and also marry tho littlo German maid:, Gretchen. But Angclo would rather sing and a noted impressario gives him tho longed-for opportunity. Angolo 's debut iB a groat succoss. Ho soon bo-comes bo-comes engaged to a society belle and the future looks bright indeed. But fast living rapidlv prove his .Nemesis. His voico fails, ft is then that his old mother finds him and leads him home to tho faithful Gretchen. John Bron nan nnd Buth "Roland aro also at tho Mohcsv todav in a roaring comed3' success, suc-cess, '"Fat "and Fate." "Big Bob Waifj?," a stirring western Vitagmph drama, completes the programme Once again Paul Armstrong Azures as a vaudeville contributor. This tlrno it Ik a dramatic playlet called "To fluvo One Girl." Thia ha to do with political corruption. It has been no Id that 'To Save One Girl" is in reality an actual lncliirnt in tin: enrnor of Biirmtt O'ltara, tliu prudent lieutenant governor of Illinois. Illi-nois. Tho playlet is at present appearing appear-ing over tho Orphfrtim circuit. |