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Show ' GOOD BILL AT LOtW'S Ef1PRE88j s ENGLISH COMEDIAN HEADLINER i Other Acts Also Up to High Standard, With One Exception. WELL-KALANCKD vaudeville bill opened for a three days' engage- i ment at l.oew's Empress yesterday after- '. noon. One or two of the acts are well above the average of sketches which are now playing the vaudeville circuits, and one is considerably below par. K. K. CHve. t he English comedian, in a skt(.-h entitled "One Good Turn," has a vehicle that presents possibilities for a lot yf fun and develops clever acting on his pr.rt and thut of the other members of his company. The sketch is the story of a man who rimls himself in the wrong house after wakintr from a sleep follow-in? follow-in? a "ni.Efht out." Behind a curtain, , while endeavoring to get out of the house, 1 lift linds a supposedly dead man, and when the woman of the house appears the latter is discovered to be her husband hus-band and the intoxicated one is facing a charge of murder. ' The policeman who is called seemingly i Is an old friend of the suspect, and the latter offers a bribe tor his release. Later 1 th "dead" man comes to life and the suspect discovers he Is the victim of a frame-up." The work of Mr. Cltve, who, by the way. is a former English army officer, and who will go to join his regiment as soon as his theatrical engagement en-gagement ends, is especially pleasing. He Is given able assistance by Leonard Booker and Alias Eleanor Kills. Edwin Ford and company, the company being four . pretty girls, have a dancing act 1 ha t is worth while. Clog dancing, toe dancing, the High la nd fling and the Irish reel, a modern wooden-shoe dance and a spe.-ial number comprise 'the repertoire reper-toire of the company. The act Is embellished em-bellished with special stage setting, which adds materially to its effectiveness. The bill Is opefied by the Landry brothers, aerial acrobats. The two men give a performance that for its kind is seldom equaled. Both are clean-cut, well-built men and do their stunts with evident zest, a quality which makes their specialty all the more enjoyable. Rouble Sim:1, cartoonist, has a world of fun with a piece of chalk. He has a ludicrous make ip that caught everyone's fancy and won much applause. Claude and Marion Cleveland talk themselves ifito an argument intermingled with sonars and have a merry time trying try-ing to settle the question. They mafle a big hit with the yesterday afternoon audience. au-dience. Charles A. Del more and Ben Light are hig enough and old enough to know better bet-ter than endeavor to make a living by the sort of cheap and vulgar comedy that was the principal feature of their act. The pianist of the pair is inot so bad, but the alleged singer should choose somewhere besides a high -class theater ' to sing songs which would ordinarily be , barred in any place excepting the cheapest cheap-est sort of cabaret. Not content with the songs themselves, this young man must single out women in the audience . at whom he directs his words and ac- j lions. Prompt act loci should, and probably prob-ably will be. taken by the house management man-agement to clean up the act. , Miss Ideal, Famous Diver, Says Every- i body Should Learn How-to How-to Swim. MISS IDEAL, the perfect woman, swimmer and acrobatic diver, who j plays her last Salt Iake performances at ihe Orpheum this afternoon and evening, Is a firm believer in everyone knowing how to swim. In a recent talk with, her sha said: Every child should be 'taught to swim almost as soon as it learns to walk. Two-thirds of the world is covered bv water, and there is no telling when one will bo caught In water over his depth. Then the knowledge of swimming is a life-saver. life-saver. Swimming is like dancing; once learned it is not forgotten. Of course, it requires constant practice to keep up the ability to swim for a distance, but the art of maintaining oneself upon the surface, once known. Is always remembered, and even if I T.OKWS EMPRESS Vaudeville. Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday. Performances Per-formances afternoon and evening. SALT LAKE "7 Keys to Baldpate," this afternoon and tonight. ORPHEUM Vaudeville. Performances , every afternoon and evening. ! PAXTAGES Vaudeville. Perform- j ances every afternoon and two performances per-formances at night. MOTION PICTURES. MEHESY "Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition," and "Ser- 1 geant Jim's Horse." Two other features. ! AMERICAN Last time ted ay, "The i Little Angel of Canyon Creek." To- j morrow, Charles Chaplin in "His New Job." Concert orchestra, Professor Pro-fessor J. J. McClellan, conductor. a person has not tried to swim for years, if caught in a tight place, the chances are one hundred to one that the person can keep afloat long enough for rescue to come. On the other hand, If the person never knew how to swim, more than likely a state of panic would drive all intelligent ef- 1 fort to stay on the surface out of the question, and there would be another name added to the list of fatalities. Not only Is swimming a good thing ' to know how to do, as a matter of safeguarding oneself, but it is the finest exercise, for It brings into plav practically every muscle In the body, and it helps more than anything else, I think, to give one a good figure. It is possible to swim by devising: your own strokes, simply getting into the water and splashing. Not a few 0o learn that way, but I do not agree that this is an effective or successful method. If you want to swim properly, prop-erly, ge,t an instructor to teach vou-how vou-how to conserve your strength and" to make the proper strokes. The following theater notices are marked "advertisement" to comply with a strict interpretation in-terpretation of the federal newspaper ay. In , no sense are they paid advertisements, being I Items furnished by the press agents ot the various theaters. , ; ORPHEUM The present Orpheum bill is full of ginger and life, and this afternoon after-noon and evening are the last opportunities opportuni-ties to see it. as the programme changes tomorrow. This week's bill is headlined by Miss Ideal, the perfect woman, who swims and dives, and it also has two of it he greatest comedy acts that ever showed. Four other extraordinarily lively turns, a splendid orchestra concert and a reel of travel pictures that are productive of merriment complete the show. SALT LAKE Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf are the authors of the new comedy, "A Perfect Lady," in which Miss Rose Stahl will be seen for the first time here, at the Salt Lake theater on February Febru-ary 8. Messrs. Pollock and Wolf have a notable list of plays to their credit as collaborators. col-laborators. In fact, their association Is the one Instance in American playwrights where two men have worked consistently together on more than one or two plays. The matinee today and tonight's performance per-formance will close the engagement of "7 Keys to Baldpate" at the Salt Lake theater. "7 Keys to Baldpate" Is a wonderfully won-derfully entertaining play of laughs, mystery mys-tery and thrills. PANTAGES -"In and Out" is the title of the clever farce comedy presented as one of the features of an excellent bill at the Pantages theater this week. Walter S. Howe and company appear in the sketch and the excellence of the acting does much to make It a success. Larry Comer Is the big personal hit in his repertoire of songs. The Bon Amor Arabs are whirlwind acrobats and they win much applause through their lively performance. per-formance. Beltrah and Beltrah appear in "The Musical Dairy." The Wayne Trio do some pleasing songs and dances. Lillian Lil-lian Seiger is a cornettist. There are also motion pictures. AMERICAN "The Little Angel of Canyon Can-yon Creek," an appealing five-act drama of the old west portrayed bv Vitagraph's specially selected star. Gertrude Short, and an all-star cast, will be seen at the American theater for the last time to-: to-: day. Tomorrow only, Charles 'Chaplin, who enjoys the reputation of being the funniest comedian appearing in motion pictures, will make his debut with Es-sanay Es-sanay in "His New Job," a screamingly ludicrous farce in two acts. MEHESY-The opening of the San Diego exposition is featured In the Keystone Key-stone comedy, "Fatty and Mabel at the Exposition," at the Mehesy today only. Shorty Hamilton, our old favorite, appears with his wonderfully trained horse in the thrilling military drama, "Sergeant Jim's Horse." "The Scrub" is a two-reel Ince-Domino Ince-Domino feature of college life. s ! . . fx;", 'v J H -- 'r -i i A v I-1 . A "Ideal at the Orpheum . |
