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Show CQf v fjiiL SAJjT LAKE Henry Miller in "Daddy Lang-Leis," Tuesday and Wednesday Wednes-day nighiE. with matinee "Weunes-day. "Weunes-day. "BaUy Mine," Friday and Saturday Sat-urday ni?r,its, with matinee eaeh day. "The Whip," five nights, K Gtartinp Jair.uary 5. OKPHEUM Vaudeville. Performances Perform-ances every afternoon and evening, liill changes Sunday matinee. PANTAGES Vaudeville. Performance Perform-ance every afternoon and two performances per-formances at night. Bill changes Wednesday matinee. LOEWS EJIPRESS Vaudeville. Performance Per-formance every afternoon and two performances at night. Bill changes Monday matinee. UTAH The Louis B. Jacobs Musical Comedy company in "Rooms for Rent." All week beginning this afternoon. Matinee Wednesday, Saturday Sat-urday and Sunday. MOTION PICTURES'. BROADWAY Bosworth Inc. presents "lIse Colors" with an all-star cast, featuring Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, We-ber, Courtenay Foote, Adele Far-rlngton, Far-rlngton, Charles Marriott and Herbert Her-bert Standing. One other reel and good music. AMERICAN Today only, Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne In "Any Woman's Choice,'' romantic drama. Three other features. Monday Mon-day only, "Fantasma." with scores of pretty and shapely girls. Concert Con-cert orchestra, Professor J. J. Mc-Clellan, Mc-Clellan, conductor. WILLIAM A. BEADY presents "Baby Mine," Margaret Jlayo 's play of a thousand laughs, which kept New Yorkers York-ers in convulsions of laughter for one solid year at Daly 's theater, and which duplicated its New York success at Sir Charles Wyndham's Criterion theater, London. This company will present the comedy at the Salt Lake theater January Janu-ary 1 aud i.', with a matinee daily. Any play or drama in which a mother or husband or real home happenings aro strongly depicted is always of interest to theater patrons, but when the realisms real-isms and situations make genuine comedy com-edy with a mother, father and bubies as central figures, and the -whole abounds with extreme fun-making and peals of laughter, there can be but one result success. This term applies to the best and biggest big-gest comedy play of modern times, "Baby Mine," and which all managers agree is the most genuine theatrical ibid of vears. The authoress, Miss Margaret Mar-garet Mayo, got her inspiration for her ideas and lines from a newspaper article, arti-cle, and under the direction of Manager William A. Brady the play has been whipped into shax? so that a genuine laugh factory is tho result. "Baby Mine" is a play that has been a positive and legitimate success from its first production. The aim of the authoress and producer has been to create fun, merriment and laughter, and they have succeeded almost to the limit. There has been nothing so strong as fascinating and intense comedy, during the present age at least. This comedy is a sensational success, as it abounds with situations and fun that produce cyclonic outbursts of laughter. There is unbridled gaiety created all the time, ' " , I . miAJ w arsis' 'if4 v . , fry 44,1 ! , x 1 V 1 ' & I- McComiell and Simpson, witli a comedy playlet, headllners at the Orphetun. and there is net a dull or solemn moment mo-ment in it. The methods and acting of the young mother aud the deluded young husband are close to real happiness and impress most of an adult audienco personally. It is rib-cxpanding fun and merriment, and the sentiment is so strongly fascinating fas-cinating that many are willing to see "Baby Mine" over and over again. Kvervone should mako use of I he opportunity op-portunity and .accept such pleasing stimulant and health restorative as this big comedy ail'ords, which is sending a gale of laughter around the world. THE Orpheum bill for this week, starting with the performance this afternoon, will be headed by that, admirable team known as Lulu McConhell and Grant Simpson. As exponents of brief comedies, they are reckoned among the best. Herbert flail Vfinslow has written a sketch and named it "At Horiie, " and this piece is being used in place of their previous success, "The Bight Girl," which was the offering of the talented pair some seasons ago when they played at the Salt Lake Orpheum. "At Home" is a bright and breezy bit of farce. It might be called "A Few Minutes With llllll llllll I llll II III! Ill Hill llll llllllMlll M n miiimm 'jA'Y I " If - 1 t , t , ' I v'i hi - -. - - - - : J ' t . " , K ',JA" it 1 ' . t if l - - ' " l K ' ,' - "" ' Mih8 Elrdo Terry, Australian tliouKiit-iuedium, -wlio appears nt Loow's Bmprcss this week with SvougalL HcConnell and Sioipson,7' as the 5;ene is supposed to be the library their ovrn homo in Kansas City. Tho characters char-acters arc Miss McrConnell, the wife; Mr. Simpson, the husband, and Linrrenoc yimpson as the brother. Through the medinui of the phmio-LTJiph phmio-LTJiph many v.-hu have never yem Will Oaklaud have conic to admire Ins fine tenor voice. In. none of his records, however, does hi.s merit stand ont vith such ftrikinr foree ay in the exrrllciit musical novelty, "At thp ( inb.TJ in which he and a sterling quartette, will appear tltis wppk. Tho title tells the story of tho 8hetch. A path pri rig Gf clubmen are aeen in their favorite haunt in search of amusement. Their quest is successful to themselves as well as their audiences. A neat comedy number num-ber is introduced in their travesty on ! the movies. The good-natured banter, the tease of the "grouch," aud the hail j and hearty good fellowship, is all cleverly clev-erly handled by Jean Havez, the author, au-thor, and the music by George. L. Bots-ford. Bots-ford. .Mr. Oakland is eabily the star of the- act, and is amplv supplied with solos. Many funny things happen iu hotel offices, but never was any real hotel the scene of such fun and amusement as in the make-believe hotel lobby in Ben Deely fs act. Mr. Deely appears as a tired but hard-working colored-porter. Pretty Miss Mario Wayne is a : most charming adjunct to the playlet,! as she is very pleasing to the eye and. i is a sweet singer. Mr. Deely is not alone a clever comedian, but he is also I a song writer of note. Among his best j successes are "The Alamo Rag," and I ' ' I May Look Foolish, but I 'vc (Jot Com- i roon Sense,'' to fcav nothing of many ! others. One of the recent teams to score em- j phatically in vaudeville is Tony Hunt-ing Hunt-ing and Oorinne Francis, with their "Iyove IO.enger. The scene is a park, and its prettiest adornment is Miss Francis, who with her attractive manners man-ners and jaunty costume proves to be a most appealing sort of a girl. Hunting Hunt-ing proves to bo a unique comedian by his queer facial expressions and grimaces. grim-aces. Eunice Burnham, formerly of Burn-ham Burn-ham and Greenwood, has combined her talents with those of Charles Irwin, in the presentation called, ( A Song Sketch at the Piano." Miss Burnham is a pianist of fine attainment and a comedian come-dian of true worth. Mr. Irwin is an Englishman who has never before appeared ap-peared in this country, but brings with : him an enviable record from home. Be-: Be-: fore adopting tho stage he was an officer of-ficer in the EnglUh army. Tho two to-, gethov will undoubtedly prove to be as important as the old combination of Burnham and Greenwood. A laugh a second for nine minutes, or 5(0 laughs during the courwi of their performance, is the promise made bv Hubert Dyer, who is assisted by Pete'r Alvin. Bver stems to be a genius nt knock-abont comedy, for during his entire en-tire Orpheum circuit up to date he has never failed to make good hia promise. John Geiger, the violinist, may truly be paid to inaliH his Instrument talk. Ho is a musician of rare attainment. His bowing, fingering and harmony are perfect, and he is capable of the most difficult and classical work. For vaudeville vaude-ville purposes, however, he is giving a diversified programme, which includes popular, opeiatic ami what might be termed ' ' trick play. ' ' Tho Orpheum patrons are traveling iroiind the world with the Orpheuin cir-11 cir-11 i t 's motion v'u-ture photographers Tho Orpheum Travel woe lily this week :nc.IudoN scenes from German Kit at A f -ica, Montenegro, Servia and China. The view from the observation platform r' one of China's fastest trains is a panorama pan-orama of intense interest and beautv. T 1.111 Ftah theater changes its bill Uiis afternoon and will present for the first time in Salt Lake City the musical vorsion of "All the Comforts of Home," under the title of "Biooms for Kent," This mmdeni farce U said to bo one of the funniest of its kind ever boiled to tabloid and is advertised as a better play than ' ' Whirly Oi rly, " which proved the most successful of any of the shows which the Jacobs players have offered this season. "Rooms for Rent' is another midwinter mid-winter revuo as far aa numbers and novelties are concerned, and something new is promised every minute. One of the advertised features is Di Mexicana, a tango, which dance, according to Ar-turo Ar-turo Lspanozos, is the only original now-being now-being given. Espanozos claims that there are many versions of the tango, so called, and charges that Mr. aud Mrs. Vernon Castle and many of the Salt Lake City dancing masters arc teaching "home-made" steps under the guise of guaranteeing the real Argentine. Argen-tine. All these dances are nothing more than imitations and most of them are similar to the notorious Apache of the underworld of Paris, the Texas Tommy and the bunny hug rags, Espanozos declares. Espanozos does agree with the critics who declare that a stage presentation must possess some of these elements to become popular, and promises to demonstrate dem-onstrate that only the cleanest of movements are in lemaud in the ballroom. ball-room. "Rooms for Rent" brings the Jacobs players into a new line of work, and each of the versatile members of the company will be cast in opposite roles to those in which they appeared last week. Fritz Fields, whose cleverness has won for him many admirers, appears this week in the role of an eccentric old man and a character entirely foreign for-eign to any which L'tah theater-goers have seen him assume. Bob McGreer switches from a Frenchman French-man to a German, while Earl Hall will, agnin try his hand in a character part. Hazel Wainwrisht and Estelle Mc-Meal Mc-Meal have some new songs. Jason Robards, Orvillc Harris aud Delia Cclla f , . , ;v i h f I- - i f t r " ' F - 1$ , vi L A V $'A i 1 h J 1 i tJ. i j k - V - V'k- ' i l -? " w - 5 J" 1 . 1 i ' si f $ ,& t ) 1 J i - f v" h ' f ' " Sceno from "Baby Miue, " at Salt Lake theater January 1 and 2. Matinees Mati-nees daily. hovo some speeuU work cut out for them. Iliniiifi the run of "Rooms for Bent" a special matinee will be given Xew Year 's day. POPULAR fancy is well catered to in the current bill at the Pautages theater provided for the holidays. It is not only a programme of vaudeville in keeping wi:h the high standard of the circuit, but it contains llll ' ' ' J ', !'' III 1 IP Trisie Leo, one of the Utah theater chorus beauties, appearing this week in "Booms for Bent." a treat for music lovers in the enlarged orchestra. This latter is proving to be the delight of the weed; and the rendt tion of the AVilliarn Tell overture, as a special feature, under the masterly direction di-rection of Eddie Fitspatrick, holds the audiooce in the fascinating spell of the mut-ic. ' Another selection which makes an instant hit is that from the opera "The Firefly.'' ' ' The Operator ' 1 takes the headline position this week. It is a departure from the run of playlets dealing with social questions and problems and tells a thrilling human interest story. Into it is thrown all that maddening horror which comes to an operator on the railroad rail-road when he thinks he has let a train go by to crash in a wreck and finds himself helpless to prevent the disaster. Id this case the operator succumbs to fatigue from a seventy-hour stretch of duly aud is awakened by his wife with numbing discovery of the mistake in train orders. The climax comes when the whistle of a locomotive announces the sufetv of the train anil prevents the completion of a suicide pact. For those who have gone through the trials and mishaps of house-moving and for those who have only heard of them there is a fund of fun in Bruce Rich-;ardson3s Rich-;ardson3s "Moving Day." The "house-movers "house-movers ' ' unwittingly' move into the wrong house and the" whole affair turns il - r - miii-wii wi iiium IM , ,, ; A jovincT Bay" v,vr r'V ' An uproarious farcical slsotth at the FantoKes theater, out a comedy of errors that develops into a scream. The climax comes when the husband, losing hjs ffr;r. . , closet, falls througn it a nil "m , , SC the deoris of dishes to fin, tlf, tm' in the wrong flat. ' tbat ke i Togan and fieneva have , i .. novelty in their tight-wire . man's work is all done in a ,.', Tl way that causes one to marvel a,T confidence in his footing n i ll gasp from the audiencewh ht t ' a complete back somersault ou the Prince and Decrie are a clever ? with a unique hue of patter and in' which is mingled with some mni'l ing. Their telephone song is a Li? 1 The York trio, two young , girl I offer a charmin sketch "h ,' society dances and splendid sinsin? mingled. One ot the male members the trio plays a ,10ko on the Z with his "double" voice Jl A big laugh producer of the gramme is the two-reel comedv nP and Dynamite," the biggest-Sutcess"o all the Keystone productions. For the week beginning nett P.-nesday P.-nesday matinee a veritable cartha mirth is promised ivitb the ij of Waited TerrV and his 'rK '' Terry is well known on the vamW;, stage and comes this time in .far: bal Isle," a tropical musical com The chorus is made up of attract girls with good voices and nimble tV C-vTc,lu8S',n8 ""I be the of.f-ing of.f-ing of the 1- ive Jugg ,Dg Mowatts. ffi,, these folks seemingly impossible fa.' aro dcitly accomnlislied and with cleverness that makes even-thin? In; easy. ' 6 m' The La Touiainc Four will offer i repertoire of operatic aud popidar nra bers. Dick Gardner and Anna Erie lead in boisterous fun. Gardner has '-, sort of an ad lib. comedv, and tbe mi'; fun comes in burlesquing acts. Miss Morlesta Mortenscn is a voan concert violinist, who has won coiimc-dation. coiimc-dation. The Two Kerns, man and rai an, have a laughable skit in ' ; tei the rair." In rube characters 'tbe, mix comedy with acrobatic work Musical programme bv Fitznatrick'. concert orchestra and the latest tarn scenes will complete the bill. ANNOUNCED as the most uanssj! act ever showu at the local l.ocw's Empress, the original Wvengali, "Master Mind t Mystery," will head tho six ads st th Empress which constitute the Nen Vear's week bill, oneuiDg Monday afternoon at ''4:30 o'clock. - Svengali is a musical wonder atl mystificT, dealing with thought trat. mission, and ofl'ers something entire!? new in his line. Through some strain! power, the secret of which rests witi him alone, he is able to control Ik: (Continued on Following Pag. HETHEATERS 'dftoa Ptacedlng Pago) r-TTTof: h b irettv an! m .J ft, "stent Miss LMe Tor a singer and con rt "". Austral a entrali con pels 'OuW-f"n hs mnt d 1 p, oeakjn- a vord or g ul UryP onS she sf is calle? 5iuU8ee being nt 1 spared to tbt no one but Svengah VI the instant Min Terry 'Jffiajs the sous called for isj P.d that e on were th 3 v, on S nd not thought Jf, it is still something to 'in order for M ss Terry to - tosh of the aud enco and. S'Ssy every song called for she T 5 n astonishing repertoire of ' Vd or new they make no d f 1 :Ar Sometin es an old lady in the aud ence will call o familiar to them n their "TVs forgotten melody but never tails and from her VScome the stra ns of the son? "a! makes no effort to explain -Stras power He claims nothing He simply doesu t ex " i lets the and ence marvel and fVor twenty seven ears Sven i, i an Australian by birth and 2 "speared n every civil zed Jf.. the world with h s mjstert his wonderful secret and h s Touch a mystery today as when ufiopeared in Berlin with it over , M oil i century ago Till be four -performances at ?&mres next Friday New Sha first at " 30 and the 'Jgag performances at b 30 8 00 sveusall at the top of the pro i the lew Year a week pro STmcluaos Haydn Burton and T The Laugh Trio George ind B By Dale in their own si t .Anei n Paris Black and , t P"y girl acrobats, who are ,ii th rd tour of the world B 11 M, the favor te colored cqmed S Alexander Canans ass sted bv 'Euora Cleo in .Par s an comedy ef Keystone comedy film will utt Ihe New Tear b -week bill hoo Days and the fi e other .nets that compr se the bill now ' at the Empress and wh h ! mth ton ght s performances s ej Mr Loew s house a record , Be des School Days the 1)111 to Thomas Patncola and Buby u a dancing sketch called The i Fool Blanche Lesbe n her ' son? and gown revi e Wheeler ud Ve a Curt s, in The Gjrl a 1 Prammer, Fred Crav and Nellie ajL in 'The Mus cal Bellboy p5bn Brothers Vienna acrobats i dever Keystone comedy film j) EE WHIP the great Drur lane melodrama wh ch en I joyed a two years run at the hands of an enthusiastic! pub i the o her s de and a year s stav tn To k at the Manhattan opera tt, u just chuck full of thrills In itisahoDal melodrama which comes i Silt Lake theater for five nights i tiro matinees starting Tuesday or 5 there is a continuous se : of esc tement i Hi fret i ene the handsome hero kin out of an automobile suffer I impound fracture of the mem U the second scene when he has been rW ha k to health by Lady D ana unjustly accused of having em 1 d marriage and the adventuress ns lad the same time i He th d scene Lady D ana as 9 him hat she still believes m him idnse h m to bet h s all on The H the fleetest mare in the Bev itab s. he fourth scene the 11a n who Jl like to marry Lady Diana plans TO the tram wh ch s br ngin g the 4 to the race course til fifth scene his plot s over 1 ja tra ner who s impersonat Cnppen the murderer n Mme i wax works " sixth The Wh p is bro ght land paced n the box car wh ch ra to the rear of the m dn ght jjtt seventh scene the villa n sneaks f -Hi I Earl Hall Versatile comedian, with the L B Jacobs players at the 'Ptafr- theater this, wee la Eooma for Rent. do u the s de of 1 s coach gl des along the s de rail to the rear throws an ay the s glial 1 ghts an.d uncouples the car In the e ghth scene the trainer reaches the scene of act on i t rn t me, n a high powered automobile and leads tl e horse down and across the track In the n nth scene the 1" o7 express crashes into the box car and there is a dreadful wreck In the tenth scene onlv two men can r le Th Wl and one of them s The. wreck scene from tl e massive Drury Lane spectacle which comes to the Salt Lake theater for five nights and two matinees opening Tuesday January 5 arrested through the plotting of the 1 la n In the eleventh scene Lad D a a ap peals to the sporting feel ng of the crowd Are they going to stand b an 1 see miust ce done? ho W th a i si they brush the sher ff aside toss the arrested nockey into the saddle and In the twelfth scene the race s on twelve horses st a n ng at the r b ts and grind ng the d t beneath the r fly ng feet The Wh p slowly fo ges ahead and w ns by a head In the thirteenth scene much is pro ed and the rest s forgi en Lady D ana w ns her niari EER10NE who has read Daddy Lon,, Legs and the number runs into the h udreds of thou sands will be interested n know ng how its author M ss Jean Webster adapted her del ghtful story to the stage Aside from the tremendous su ce s of the corned the fact that Henr M Her collaborated w th Miss Webster s a suft c ent g arant c to peo lo -who ow M M Her s ethods that t e storj lo es noth ncr of its original harm u the stage ers on As a n atte of fact according to e eryone who has both ead the book and seen the play the latter fa su passes the pr ted narrative For example the ery t tie of the ato was onlj hurr edly exjila ned n Judy Abbott s letters to her dear Dad dy Long Legs In the corned t elf the aud ence s g ven a very clea n derstand ng of the mental p ocesbes that lead up to th s select on of a n eltname fo her benefacto by the grateful 1 ttle o phan When Judy is told bv her one fr end at the Tohn Gner home that a myste nous benefacto has dec ded to send her to college whe e he s to ha e prettv clothes and plenty of pocket n one the amazed 1 ttle g rl begs to know something about th s unl uown fr en She s told that sue is never to see h and never to know h s name The is ust one thing the kind hearted vo man who g ves her the good news a do and she does it you cannot h m she says but f you will o out at that wall across the waj can sea h s shadow cast by the sea 1 ghts ot hs automob le Tl e looks and her f rst exclamat on Oh 1 asn 1 1 e got long legs Then cont nuos And that s my new dad The only daddy I have ever had knflw what I )1 call h m! I 11 call h my Daddy Long Legs It is ha dly nece sary to add th com ng as it does after the d stress n f rst scenes in the orphan asylum th 1 ttle ep sode tugs at the heart str ng of an audience And the gasp of 1 1 ght tl at comes at the beginn ng the next act is very gen ne when h aud ence sees the former 1 t e sla 1 losson ed o t into a happy co c e lothed n ouo of the pretty fro s hal neve expected to own n the lo years si e to led as the drudge of t John Gr er home Henry M lie who will be seen he n Daddy Long Legs at the Sa Lake theater on Tuesday and Wedne day next s famous for the absolute real sm with wh ch he clothes the scenes of plays he prod ces The secret of the an az ng naturalness he accompl shes s due to the fa t that in a maior ty of nstanees ho reproduces son e room or exterior scene that had registered a strong npress on on h s n emory n exan pie of th s w 1 be seen n the p oduct on ot Daddy Long Legs in wh ch he w 11 appear here on De ember "0 and 30 The th rd act of the pla-y s lad n the h lis of Connect cut N eht after n ght in New ork where the fasc nat ng co nedy s still plaj ng to capac ts bus ness aud ences comment audi bly on the qua nt furn sh ngs and oi atn osphere of th s r markabl real st 1 ng room As a atte of f t t ono of the eas est stawe effect Mr M le has ever had bu It nder lis d re t on It is notl ng n ore no less than a photograph c reproduct on of the 1 ing room ot h s own co ntrv home b Meadows near S amfo d Coun r 1 e e he actor anage end all o t je t mo he can spare avaj from 1 New or oft ce The most consp oua ob e t n tl b room, h a really fvoiide ful old rag car pet one of a type fam 1 ar to our grand mothers but sever seen today mless one chances to n ble into a ery quaint 61& JNew England home Th s ca pet was made to orde for M M 1 ler as was- the 0 g nal carpet that cov ers tie floor of hjs den n Sly Heal ovs The oil fash oned ano the qua nt old colon al f ra t e the e ght Jay clock even the p t es o the wall all are fan 1 ar to everyone who 1 as been Mr M lie s guest at b s dec dedly ! qua nt if rather modernly 1 xunous Connect cut farmhouse |