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Show "SHADOW GIRL" IS DELIGHTFUL at ' ui ue LOCAL PLAT PACKS PANTAGtS SALT LAKE Helen MacKellar in "Strjner." Four nights banning Monday. Matinee Wednesday. ORPHBUM Vaudeville. Perform-a Perform-a nce every afternoon and evening. PAXTAUKS Vaudeville. Performances Perform-ances every afternoon and evening. UTAH The Utah players In "The Misleading tidy." very night except ex-cept Sunda v. Matinees today and Saturday. EMPRESS The Ernest Vilkes Stock company (n "Within the Law." Every Ev-ery night. Matinee today at 3:15. GkA Nl Melodrama and musical comedy. Opens for season on Sunday, Sun-day, September 19. Every night. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. MOTION PICTURES. MKUKSV Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling and other favorites In our all-comedy programme. pro-gramme. BROADWA Y Commencing Thursday, t be sensational pict ure, "When a Woman Ioves," featuring Emmy Wchlen. A M Kit I CAN Mary Plckford in 'Fs-ineralda;" 'Fs-ineralda;" Pat he cartoon comedy; organ recital; American concert orchestra. or-chestra. REX Gail Kane. Bruce MeRae and other pa the stars In "Via Wireless;" Wire-less;" "The Broken Coin." LIBERTY Magnetic Marguerite Clark in "The Crucible;" William Courtlelgh, Jr., and Lillian Lorraine Lor-raine in "Xeal of the Navy." , , o'clock. Students of secondary schools of the city will be given a special admission rate. EMPRESS A matinee performance of "Within I he I w" will be given at the Empress theater this afternoon, beginning begin-ning at 3:1". The management has decided de-cided on this hour to enable students and teachers to attend the midweek performance. per-formance. The Saturday matinee will begin be-gin at the usual time, 2:20. Next week's attraction. "The Yellow Ticket," is well under way. AMERICAN Mary Pickford, the idol of the screen, has one of the most Intensely In-tensely human and appealing photodramas of her brilliant career in "Esmeralda," from the vivid drama of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This latest Plckford success is to be shown today, tomorrow and Saturday as the feature of the American theater's programme, which Includes a new cartoon comedy of the Colonel Heeza Liar type and other photoplays. photo-plays. An organ recital by Professor Me-Clellan Me-Clellan this afternoon and solos by Miss Ruth Ingnian this evening are added attractions. at-tractions. LIBERTY No photoplay actress has given Mary Plckford such a close race for first place in the hearts of motion picture fans as has dainty, petite, magnetic mag-netic Marguerite Clark and no play did more to establish lovely little Miss Clark's popularity than "The Crucible." which, by request, is to be shown at the Liberty theater today, tomorrow and Saturday. Besides 1 Lis delightfully human five-act drama, the Liberty offers Lillian Lorraine Lor-raine and William Courtlelgh. Jr.. in "The Yellow Packet," second of the great "Neal of the Navy-" series. REX Salt tAke friends of the genius. Paul Armstrong, who have been mourning mourn-ing his recent death, will welcome the showing at the Rex today, tomorrow and Saturday of his greatest drama. "Via Wireless," which has been finely filmed in five acts by Pathe. Gail Kane and Bruce McRae take the leading roles in this supremely powerful and thrilling drama. The same programme today and tomorrow includes Francis Ford and Grace Cunard in the newest chapter of the absorbing ab-sorbing mystery story, "The Broken Coin." BROADWAY Emmy Wejjlen, the brilliant bril-liant little stae star, Inst seen in the Casino theater production of "Marriage a la Carte," which enjoyed wide vogue in New York, comes to the Broadway commencing com-mencing Thursday in the sensational play. "When a Woman Loves," which marks her initial appearance as a filrW actress. "When a Woman Loves'-' is a five-act motion picture production starring: Miss Wehlen, who is supported by an all-star cast. MEHKST-Charlie Chaplin, the world's greatest comedian, and Mabel Normand. are shown at the Mehesy today In one of their funniest pictures. Ford Sterling as the messenger hoy in "Only a Messenger Boy" is extremely funny, especially when In the safe, where he sought refuge. Riley Chamberlain receives a handsome cow as a ,iem from his uncle's collection. m Miss Stella Watt Is Charming Charm-ing in Voice, Manner and Figure. li INTEREST in the return of the local , production, "The Shadow Girl," Of I which Margaret Whitney i the author-componer author-componer and producer, must be held rc- 1 iponalble for the overfilling of tho Vantages Van-tages theater at yesterday's three performances. per-formances. Neither was thr. throng dis- appointed. The Whitney production Is a j dlight in many respects and there la much else that Justifies tho crowd. M-lae Stella Watt, who replaced Wanda Lyon In the operetta, la charming In voice, y. manner and figure. She is the only one . of the company not of this city. Finish of presentation reflects the weekn of experience ex-perience on the Pantages circuit that the company hae gone through. But there Is something amateurish , about the production. It Isn't the musl which has a known merit, nor t ho presentation, presen-tation, which la free from crudities. One 1 . realises with a bit of surprise that it is i the effort to make the costumes meet at ' once the artistic requirements of the I jtl idyllic conception of the operetta and the j conventions. One cannot deny that a ' nun bonnet Is a headdress, but It i hard- ! ly 1 a garland of flowers. Just so, Uk ' stockings and slippers, no matter bow 1 cble. are hardly In keeping with the char-!j char-!j aoier of a wood nvmpb. Better modify than handicap the artistic quality of the wholesome, artistic little playlet, though there could be no reason for either other " than to fit It to the ideas of the par- : ticlpants. Certainly nothing of the op- II eretta could offend the most critical au-1 au-1 dlence If aotod to Us fullest artistic pos- r Plbllitien. 3 "And Brown" did overtime in a dancing ' n-'t last night, but the other two were ' nut missed. Mitz and Wertz, first on the 1 bill, Innovated some In clown tumbling. Th.- "Musical Gordon 1 Ilghlanders" are ''so hilled. Clark and McCullough, in ,' "Much Ado About Nothing," tramp bur-,' bur-,' U'ique stuff, are known to Salt Inkers as topnotchers. Kelly and Violette get by, but the baggage man doubtless Btlngs ,i Kelly for excess charges on Violette. Two of , Vlolette's gowns are redeeming in ap-j ap-j . peflranee. but the second of the three Is i distinctly a hazard for one of her flg- I ure' ! Says Public Has Changed Time When Anything Went In Way of Comedy. nmME was when almost anything in the name uf comedy 'went' in L. 1 1 , vaudevillf," remarked Henry Bergman, who is the leading male comedian with "The Society Buds," which comes to the l Orpheum next week with Gladys Clark !, and fifteen beautiful and stunning "buds." , "But, in the words of MoHere's doctor. We have changed all that,' or, to be more exact, 'the public has changed all that.' "The public which attends vaudeville I theaters has become more and more ex-, ex-, acting as the seasons have swept on. To-, To-, day one has to give the best that Is in him to succeed In the varieties, t was g real ly Interested recently in reading wlSat Nazi mora said regarding vaudeville. vaude-ville. In which she Is now appearing. She affirms that she finds vaudeville audl-i audl-i etifes more discriminating than those In j, ihe legitimate. And she Is right. Doubt -' , less the reason Is to be found in the short. lime in which you have to produce your J j effect. If you are on the stage for half V . an hour at tnost. you must work from the moment of your entrance In order to t i 'set' your audience, and you must work every moment in order to bold It. "My aim has always been consistency. I, ; By which 1 mean that unless a laugh is ' legitimate T do not try to secure it. m II You are bound to gain more in the long vm ' 1' run DY giving a genuine character study P I, I than by resorting to methods which con-I con-I i flict with the character. A sober, sour a V !, character msy be highly amusing if con-i con-i sistently played and In contrast to the surroundings. A line highly amusing in 1 ! itself may be annoying if not arising logically from the situation.'' Mary Plckford Will Appear Today at American Theater in Photoplay, Photo-play, "Esmeralda." A FEW years ago It would have been thought impossible to have the com-1 com-1 I iug of a motion picture to a town prove ' an event, but it has come to pass that whenever Mary Pickford appears in a ' new photodrama packed houses are sure to greet her. Miss Pickford comes today, I 1 nnd for the remainder of this week, to i ' j the American theater in her newest photoplay, "Esmeralda," a four-act pic-turization pic-turization of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1 noted drama of the same name. Headed by Mary Pickford In "Es-' "Es-' I ; jmeralds." and with other photoplays of merit, an organ recital by Professor J. . iJ. McCIellan this afternoon, the new American concert orchestra of twenty pieces and vocal solos by the taJented ' (Miss Ruth Ingman. the American has for i ! the remainder of the week a great enter- i talnment. II ; ! "Via Wireless" Will Begin Run of Three Bays at Rex Theater Today. trA WIRELESS." a five-part Pathe )m photodrama plcturiied from the mage play of tbe same name by VVInchell i Smith untl Paid Armstrong, which heglns a three-day etiKncpment at the Re theater the-ater this afternoon. Ik considered distinct-I distinct-I j lly out of tbe ordinary run of motion picture pic-ture features. The story in itself la uu- usual and the drama enjoyed Krcst popu larity on tbe speaking stage, but tbe , j camera has caught some wonderful scenes that wero impossible under the limitations limita-tions of the regular theater. If! Pme f these scenes are considered ral thrillers. Gail Kane and Bruce Me1 e ; 1 Kae take roles of prominence and tbe picture is said to have been made with- ! out regard to expense. V "Tbe following theater nrtMcen trt - 1 r ' BadrertlMmsnt" to comply with i tit Hot In-te'pr"tatlon In-te'pr"tatlon of rhe federal njriapor law. Id 0" i-ense are they paid advei tiseme-its. belcg Items furnlibM by the prwe agents of th ;. j various thMtTC. i I SALT IaAIvE The advance sale of s4ts for thr- engagement of ".Sinners." $ al the Salt I-ake theater, starting on Mon-l' Mon-l' jf day next, opens tomorrow morning and r arrangemonts have been completed for v II m I'k'ng care of tlie biggest line that has H j been seen a t a theater box off Ire tn I , years. The engagement N for four nights :i and Wednesday matinee only, and the (J'l t mal! orders already rerelved Indicate tlie t J ;.heaviest demand for this popular offering nil j 1hat has be-n known in ;t long time. tl ORT H K I "M Wi lllam Morris, who ap-pars ap-pars at the Orpheum in "Mrs. Temple's rTqlegrani." does not resort to vaudeville style in order to present his a't. He de-JA de-JA .ponds entirely on the force of himself as T ar actor, and he has .Thooled his sup-jortlng sup-jortlng company in what he expects of ', Rhem, and they engage with him in pre-,ji pre-,ji cnting the a-.-t in a fashion which is en-M' en-M' Itirjelv of the legitimate stage, hi 1 1 j UTAH The inauguration ot" Wednes-ICMt Wednes-ICMt ilclaj- as society night at the Utah has met tl j ifwttb warm approval. A large and bril-tWt bril-tWt ! plant audience attended last night and nVj 'Pbowed hearty appreciation of the play KL!' tne on"-Pan'- Lydia White, harpist. Ur"' fwho appeared as a special musical fe.i- j turf last night, was recalled several times : Hi (P-fter her selection, for encores. Tod:t' ! jlli there will be a students" matinee at I J |