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Show H&GRESS--V&udevllle Performances every afternoon and to perform auees at night PANTAJQES-Vaudevllle. Perform aaoes every afternoon and two per formojiceA at n gh.t AMDBIOAi. Today Francis X. Bush man in Tile Motor Buccaneers romantla drama two acts, John Sunny In "The Locked House, comedy Ruth Btonehouse In "Her Trip to New York drama. To morrow Tuesday and Wednesday A Qlrl and the Law a powerful social drama produced in this city American orchestra Professor Mc Clellan conductor FIVC dainty girls each one ami tress of the dance and in add tlon a clever singer and v olin player head! the new 11 that openg at the Empress Monday after noon to continue1 throughout th s week closing next Sunday evening The new order of things at the Empress is prov Ing extremely popular and1 the Monday afternoon open ng of new b lis. has made a tit with, local playgoers The Violin Beaut es who headline the ooming Empress offer ng include some unusually handsome g rls and) the entire quintette s sa d to be except on ally clever The r programme includes In the S nsh ne On the Alabama When You and I Were Young Mag ge. Come and K ss Your L ttle aby Sweetness Kag and Scotch, German Ir sh and Spanish nat onal numbers The r gowns are unusual m ! e ery way The sketch feature of the programme w 11 be one of o r own W Hard Mack s famo s aude He h ts ent tied The r Get Aw a Mr Mack wrote this ; si etch vh le here two years ago and it w 11 be played at the Empress th s weel by Cha les Bachmann and company It 8 a th 11 ng story of the underworld and has been pronounced one of Mr Mack s best efforts Grant Gardner s a blacl faced fun ster who will be remembered for h s for mer appearances here and Hal Newport and CI if St rk have a knockabout com edj sketch ent tied A Barber s Busy I)aJ The p cture feature of the new b 11 will be a comedy film ent tied Mr He s a L ar The story a sa d to have a great deal to do with the controversy recently promulgated n England over the question as to whether or not a cer . j ta n prom nent An er can statesman really d scovered a new ver on h s re cent v s t to South Amer ca The bill that closes today at the Em press is headed by Torefii s comedy circus an aggregat on of tra ned pon es dogs monkeys and mules In addit on the b 11 includes Tohn 0 Doyle and co n pany m Mr Doyle amus ng sketch of police life. The Pol ce Inspector s Sur Er se the Malone Ike trio of Sal iake girls n instrumental and vocal se I lect ons Mar e Stoddard the handsome comedienne of the b 11 Scheck D Or i ville and Dutton a a sketch of theati cal life ent tied The Man Next Door , and a moving p cture feature OF the many vaudeville programmes seen in Sa t Lake th s summer none has excelled that presented j at Pantages th s week where M sky s Greater Hawaiians are offering the bea t ful seen c mus cal novelty A N ghf n Hawa Only native I songs w th all the r n yst e luring charm are sung by these Kanaka stars wh le the seduct ve thr 11 ng dances of the gem of the Pac f e are adm rably staged Seen eally the act s a gor geous one W th Kiloula spout ng lire, the wa es of the ocean lapp ng the root of the pal trees that sway in the soft breeze the sett ng s one of the most elaborate n vaudeville The members of the organ zat on are true Hawa an entertainers and the r tvo ces have r eh caress possessed by those who come fron that sland The select ons are those sung by them in the r nat ve land and the dances are the folk dances of Hawaii when t was young For the added attract on the Pan tages produc ng department has secured r one of the feature acts w th the Harry U, Lauder company that appeared at the lj" Pantages last w nter Th s act s the Ior g nal basketball on wheels presented by Harry Wells represent ng England Bob Mortime for Amer ca and Bob 1 Tjrrell as referee The act s mak ng a great h t w th the Pantages patrons th a week Da sy Harco rt one of the favorites f of the London mus halls w4 dse har r a ter songs and stor e are all new s j " " """ um-mm- ryj I .... , i . The famous violin beauties at the Empress opening Monday afternoon a gifted coniedienne She has a ward robe of new gowns as well as some ireak ereat ons for her character songs Davis a man w th a twentieth cen tury dea in enterta mng is a speedy monolog at who sa Is along at a rap d clip St 11 another feature is the News boys Tr o of harmony singers Their reperto re is of approved popular type The s xth act of the bill is provided by the Thompson S sters jugglers who wn hearty applause First run comedy mot on pictures and mus c by the Pantages concert orchestra conclude the b g snow 'Teddy McNamara heads the bill for next week with another mus cal com edy ent t ed The Guide of Monte Carlo Teddy Is ass sted by M ss Queeme Will ams and a roll eking com pany of fifteen people and special scenery An added feature of the new b 11 will be Alia Zandoff a protege of Mrs Al exander Pantages and heralded as the coming violin st Helen Bradford a clever p an st accompan es her Both are Oakland girls Leona Gurney the Euss an song bird is another new name m western vaude ville Miss Guerney has rece ved flat tenng attention from the mus cal ent cs along the 1 ne of the Pantages c rcu t an evidence that she is art st as we 1 as vaudevillian Charles Kenna the famous vender of cure alls returns w th h s hilar ous street faker monologue a feature that by itself s sufficient to make the Pan tages show of next week very popular w th everybody The Kal nowski brothers bring an Eu ropean novelty acrobat c act and com plete the 1 st A BIG new gun m the world of photoplay features is A G rl and the Law the f rst pho toplay to be produced in. its ent rety n Salt Lake C ty and vicm ty It is a compan on photodrama to Judge Willis Brown s A Boy and the Law and plays at the Amer can theater to morrow Tuesday and Wednesday It la through, and through a Salt Lake story, set among Salt Lake scenes and Salt Lake faces Included m the cast of players are a number of prominent Salt Lakers who will be readily recog n zed on the screen It has been sa d of the story of A G rl and the Law that if one could d vest Les M serables of its. f c t on str p Ten N ghts n a Barroom of its unrealty cast over t by the glamour of rthe stage and mayhap a woof of sorrow and tragedy might be weaved amidst the engulf ng shadows of the other half s world that in small measure would compare with the story strange and harrowing unfolded m Judge Willis Brown s court upon which the drama of A G rl and the Law was based It s indeed a fasc nating tale of a young girl whose youthful beauty was fast fad ng because of the 1 f e she was forced to lead The wonderful manner n which she was rescued from contmu ing her way down life s down grade to a grave of tragedy hold spectators spellbound In speak ng of the story of A Girl and the Law Judge Brown sa d re cently It s a marvelous story Never could net on wr ters dream of such a plot such tragedy andBuch pa thos Never could there come to any court in any land such an op-portun op-portun ty to save ch ldhood res urrect wdtnanhood and prove that all ch ldren are born wh te that c me s not a hered ty d sease, but an acqu red habit and that there s no such thing as a shame born ch Id A G rl and the Law is a sensa t onal story tensely dramat c and all true In the photoplay produet on great care was g ven to deta 1 and every phase of the wonderf I life story s forcefully brought out I Dramatic 1 Comment At one time De Wolf Hopper was ap pear ng m Von Suppee s opera Clover at Wallack s theater w th the McCaull Opera company 'Among the other pr nc pal people m the cast were Eugene Oudin Mar on Manola Ann e Meyers Mathilde Cottrelly and Jefferson de Angeles At the end of the th rd act there was a prayer to mus c and th s was sung by Oudin Hopper M ss Manola and M ss Meyers kneel ng close to the footlights The occas on of the prayer was the news Allsky s Greater Hawaiians at the Pantages theater he fell flat We were all convulsed with laughter all of us but Oudin He managed to keep a stra ght face and sang the prayer as a solo We were a 1 stra ning so to keep from laughing out right that when the eurta n tell M ss Manola pos t vely fa nted away Miss Meyers and I rolled over and over on the stage n a perfect f t of mem ment The aud ence on the other s de of the curta n could hear us, and got to laugh ng too But still Oudin kept h s self possess on After I had .regained my breath a b 1 1 went to Oudin and asked h m how he had managed to keep sober with aJ of the rest of us in hvster cs How on earth d d you do it Gene?" I asked I know you re a great art st but your self control s n ore than that t s monumental How oh how d d you do t? And what do you th nk the ex planat on was? He had recently been marr ed to Louise Parker and they had a little baby Oudin was wrapped up n the eh Id and cont nually feared tfcat someth ng would happen to it He sa d that when he had wanted to laugh he had p ctured h mself and h s w f e rid "A Girl and the Law," a Powerful Photoplay Produced in Salt Lake City, at the American Theater Tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday A gripping moment in A Girl and the Law that the king had been sla n in battle Charles Dnggan Mr Hopper ex pla ns in narrating th 3 event was a member of the company and an artist of f ne attainments for whom there was no adequate role in this product on. But since he was under salary anyhow McCaull determ ned to put h m to some use and gave him the b t of the mes senger who came in to announce the fatal news All he had to say was My lord the king is dead but he used to make up with lust as much care as if he had the stellar role We had great fun working up th s one entrance for him just to see if we couldn t an noy; him a 1 ttle further For instance I wore wooden shoes and I used to tap with them on the stage to make a no se like the clatter of horses hoofs One terr bly hot n ght Duggans s scabbard caught between his legs and ing n a carnage follow ng the baby m a wh te hearse And here s the irony of fate Oudin s dead The mother and the baby now grown up are still alive |