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Show fOTREoS BILL GETS APPLAUSE d& vjl JEANNE WARD THE' HEADLINER Strong Men Unable to Lift Frail Girl From the . - Stage. ' J: y FRAIL Rirl, who says she weighs 9S pounds and don't look as though she would tip the scales ut anything like t'?; that figure, presents a puzzling perform -ance at the Empress theater. Jeanne 'Ward defies anyone to lift ehr off the stage when she wills otherwise. Several men yesterday, including George Kelson, well-kmown wrestler, opined that they j; could do it. Nelson made two attempts last night, one at each performance, and failed dismally each time. Aside from Miss Ward, who is accompanied bv her sister, the pair doing several dance numbers num-bers In addition to the younger girl's novelty stunt, there are other good acts on the bill. . " The show opens with Les Casados, w. 'Spanish acrobats. The men nave some stunts that are ordinary and others that j. have enough humor in them to get the act over. ., The second act Is that of the Ward sis-1 sis-1 ters, who are followed by El Cleve, : Scotch xylophonist. Mr. Cleve is able to : get some pretty good music out of a - xylophone. The audience liked it 1m-' 1m-' mensely and kept him at it long past his stipulated time on the bill. V .. The sketch presented by James Grady ; and company is a dandy piece of work : as a dramatic playlet as well as iin . : Its portrayal. The study of an old man ' who wants to rule those about him even . ' though hardly able to handle himself , r. Is most aptly played by Mr. Grady. ,. ; Madeline Clark plays the role of long-' long-' lost granddaughter and Ben L. Peer that " ' of an ambitious nephew. Both have made . a careful study of their parts and play . .' , them sa tisfactorily. Lacy Sampson and Mabel Douglas have : an original singing and dancing act, with " a lot of talk that is funny funny enough to make everybody laugh, which, after all, .was Its purpose. Incidentally, the young woman crawls into a big basket and makes a most remarkable change of cos- tume remarkable because she left no dis- carded garments in the basket and seein-Ingly seein-Ingly had none of them on. The whole show concludes with an old-time mifistrel first part by Russell's -i. minstrel comedians. The men have excellent ex-cellent voices and a good select ion of ': musical numbers. - Bell Family Is Making a Distinct Hit at the Orpheum Theater. THE Bell Family at the Orpheum have attracted much attention and praise - ail this week with their "wonderful manipulation ma-nipulation of strange musical instruments that they designed and made themselves. Yesterday evening they broke one of : the wooden bars on their home-made , xylophone, and Charles Bell, who acts as manager of the company, set about replacing re-placing it. The have provided against '' accidents of this kind and always carry a supply of untuned bars, -which can be - put Into service anywhere on the xylophone xylo-phone and tuned to the proper pitch. By : cutting out the lower side of the bar. In the middle, the pitch is lowered, and " "by shaving off the ends of the bar the " pitch is raised. It sometimes requires v an hour of painstaking work to tune one of these bars to the proper pitch, for if a fraction too much wood is taken . off the end it is necessary to scrape off some of the middle, and vice versa. The Bells are only one of the - great ' acts on this week's Orpheum programme. .-, which finishes its engagement in Salt Lake City with this afternoon and even--' ing's performances. Another notable feature is Frederick V. Bowers and company of six people, including in-cluding a vivacious danseuse, two dancing darkies, a stolid bulldog and t other oth-er assistants, who appear in spectacles and poses designed to represent the song : Bowers is singing. Besides these two headliners are Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry, Johnny Cantwell and Reta Walker, Alfred Wall en stein end Adele Freebey, the Aerial Costas, the Soltl Duo, and the Orpheum Travel Weekly, showing views in the Samoan Islands. Wrestler Fails to Lift 98-pound Girl Who Has Mysterious I Force. AFTER six separate and distinct trials, George Nelson, the powerful fireman-wrestler, failed to lift a OS-pound ': girl at Loew's Empress theater last night. " The exhibition was unquestionably one ; of the most remarkable ever presented on a local stage. Miss Jeanne Ward of I the Ward sisters, on the new Empress bill, weir'is exactly ninety-eight pounds. She claims, however, to be able to change her weight at will. She also claims that Frank Gotch and one other man are the only two who have ever , been able to lift her when she willed against it. The management of the Empress had offered George Nelson $50 to come to the -. Empress at both shows last night and lift Miss Ward. He was not to get the - ?50 if he failed. Nelson failed, but has been given an- ' other chance and will try again tonight . at both shows. Miss Ward stood erect in front of Nelson Nel-son and announced her weight as ninety- . eight pounds, and Nelson lifted her easily. easi-ly. Then she changed to 175 pounds, and It was evident that Nelson was using k more strength to awing her feet ciear of the floor. Then "Miss Ward raised It to CIO -.pounds, and Nelson worked like a beaver : to lift her. He succeeded, and Miss Ward then stated that she had changed her weight to 275 pounds. Nelson turned the trick after a hard . effort that left him panting. Then Miss Ward announced her weight as 310 pounds. Nelson neveV tried harder to do anv-. anv-. thing in his life than he did to get Miss W a rd from the fl o o r. He failed, and finally gave it up. It was at once announced that Nelson I ; had asked for another chance tonirht and that the management of the house had granted It. ' y Nelson declared last night that he SALT LAKE Next week, beginning Thursday, the Williamson Submarine Subma-rine Expedition. LOEW'S EMPRESS Vaudeville. Performances, Per-formances, afternoons and evenings, tomorrow and Sunday. ORPHEUM Vaudeville. Performances Perform-ances every afternoon and evening. PA NT AGES Vaudeville. Performances Perform-ances everj' afternoon and evening. MKHESY "Fatty's and Mabel's Married Mar-ried Life," Keystone. "College Days," Kay-Bec feature. Two other pictures. could not explain his failure to lift Miss Ward, other than that in some mysterious mysteri-ous way she literallv changed her weight to something that was impossible for him to lift. "I believe there's a way of solving solv-ing the thing, and I'm going to trv again tonight." he declared. He will be given $.i0 if he succeeds. The Clan Stewart Scottish band will also be present at the Empress tonight, m honor of El Clove's presence on tHe bill, the famous xylophonist. Students to See Life at Bottom of Sea in Salt Lake Theater Motion Mo-tion Pictures. TpHE modern school boy and school girl - have associated tedium and dullness with schools and learning for so long that the very thought that anything educa-; educa-; tional or instructive I can at the same : time be amusing and thrilling will be thoroughly discredited. Of recent years the motion-picture industry has been pointing the wav to a method of education educa-tion that is vivid and fascinating. In the Williamson submarine motion pictures, pic-tures, which the Universal Motion Picture company will present at the Salt Lake theater Thursday, March 4, educational matter Is presented in a way that is often amusing and most of the time thrilling. This film has been a revelation revela-tion to teachers as to the value of motion mo-tion pictures as a means of imparting Knowledge. ..The wonderful adventures of the Williamson Wil-liamson brothers were photographed in the clear waters of the Bahama Islands. They were made possible by the recently perfected Williamson submarine tube, down which the photographer can descend until he Is from fifty to a hundred feet below the surface of the water. . I if a submerged photographic chamber at the bottom of this tube the camera man sits in comparative comfort and turns the crank while ocean scenes and all kinds of marine life go slowly past. Many sorts of strange fish seen at home, queer animals that look like vegetation vege-tation (in reality coral formations), great man-eating sharks battling for , food, with a final thrilling fight between a man and a shark for the climax these are a few features of the most sensational 'motion 'mo-tion pictures ever shown. The follo-wln theater notices are marked "advertisement" to comply with a strict lo-terpretadon lo-terpretadon of the federal newspaper law. In no sene are they paid advertisements, beini items furnished by tb presa acent of tha various theater. ORPHEUM A big applause-getter is the present show at the Orpheum, and this afternoon and evening are the last opportunities Salt Lakers will have to see it. The programme is headed bv the Bell Family with a. great, new musical act, and Frederick V. Bowers with a singing turn, in which every song is spectacularly spectacu-larly depicted by appropriate scenery and cast. The balance of the features are also unusually good. PANTAGES It Is laughing week at the Pantages theater this week. O'Neil and Walmsley, the "two '-lightning bugs," are proving the comedv feature of the bill. The Twelve American Whirlwind Beauties, Beau-ties, with their pretty costumes and graceful dances, are also popular with the audiences. The Baker troupe of cyclists provide another comedy feature. Little Caruso possesses a remarkably fine voice and his share in the programme is a delight. Bond More, monologist, and Sherlock, Chamberlain and Sherlock, singing comedians, close the bill. SALT LAKE The Georgia Minstrels will open their engagement at the Salt Lake theater next Monday night. The company will appear three nights and popular matinee. MEHESY C. N. Mortensen hopes to get many laughs by his work in "College "Col-lege Days," a two-part Kay-Bee production, pro-duction, in which he plays the part of Jimmy Cripps, an effeminate "grind" who is constantly being maltreated by the other students. Miss Norma nd and Ros-coe Ros-coe Arbuckle are also at the Mehesy today to-day in "Fatty's and Mabel's Married Life," an excruciatingly funny farce. Two other pictures complete the programme. pro-gramme. . |