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Show ORPHEUM BILL GETS APPLAUSE J (EXCELLENT SHOW AT EMPRESS Wilkes Stock Company Is Seen to Good Advantage in "The Yellow Ticket." THE Wilkes Stock company opened its week's bill at the Empross yesterday with the strong drama located in Russia, entitled "The Yellow Ticket." The play is well staged and the various members of the company fitted Into their roles as if made for them. Miss Nana Bryant, as Marya Varenka, the young Jewish girl under the ban of the Russian law, is exceptionally clever. She brings to the role the rare charm of personality and great strength in the emotional emo-tional scenes. Anthony Smythe, as Julian Rolfe, an American newspaper man in Russia In the interest of his paper, who falls in love with the young Russian girl, makes an ideal, outspoken young exponent of a free-born and fearless nation. The Russian characters of Count Rostov Ros-tov takai by Clifford Thompson, BarDn Andrey by Guy Hlnton, "the waiter" by Huron I Blyden, were acted as if those who assumed the roies were natives of the oountrv they represented. Miss Claire Sinclair was delightful as the enthusiastic enthusi-astic young English girl. Margery Seaton, who is visiting Russia and Is the affianced affi-anced wife of Count Rostov. Harry Iceland Ice-land as John Seaton, her father, is creditable. cred-itable. As a whole, the company is one of the most finished aggregations of actors ever seen in stock In Salt Lake and their popularity pop-ularity was attested in the large audiences audi-ences which witnessed the performances yesterday. The story brings out some ugly phases of Russian life. In which the young newspaper news-paper man plays the hero, saving the girl he loves and incidentally hts own life, by clever maneuvers backed by the fact that he Is an American citizen. SAET LAKE Helen MacKellar in "S-innera." Four nights, beginning tonight. Matinee Wednesday. ORPHEUM Vaudeville. Performances Perform-ances every afternoon and evening. PANT AG-EE Vaudeville. Performances Perform-ances every afternoon and evening. UTAH The Utah players Iri "We Are Seven." All week, beginning tonight. Matinees Thursday and Saturday. EMPRESS The Ernest Wilkes stock company in "The Yellow Ticket," 8:20 p. m. Thursday matinee, 3 p. m. GRAND Musical melodrama Tills week, "Brother Against Brother." Every night. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. MOTION PICTURES. BROAD WAT Ga il Kan e In "Her Great Match.'' Tuesday and Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Irene Fen wick in "The Woman Next Door." Thursday, Friday and Saturday, "The Spendthrift." Spend-thrift." ME H EST Bessie Barriscale in "The Reward," a four-part Mutual Mas-terplcture. Mas-terplcture. "A Friend in Need," featuring Beatrice Van and Frank Borzage. AMERICAN IASt time today, Charlotte Char-lotte Walker in the five-act Paramount Para-mount drama, "Out of Darkness," and other strong photoplays. Also Mr. John T. Hand. Salt Lake's noted tenor, sings every evening. LIBERTY Last time today, Marie Tempest in the side-splitting farce-comedy, farce-comedy, "Mrs. Plumb's Pudding." Mr. Arthur Morse Moon, the Salt Lake boy, featured in the leading role of "A Fiery Introduction." REX Today and tomorrow, Theda Bara and Jean Sothern, in the great Fox production, "The Two Orphans." Or-phans." Monday only, the latest chapter of "The Romance of Elaine," thoughts known by gestures. As Peter Avery', his efforts to make love without speaking and the complications his pretended pre-tended Infirmity brings on. create numerous numer-ous screamingly funny situations. "We Are Seven'' plays every evening, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Big Audiences Give Every Evidence of Their Hearty Approval. DON'T miss your car when you start for the Orpheum thlB week. Tou want to be there when the orchestra begins be-gins to play, and you probably will want to linger and hear a bit more or the exit march. Which Is to say that the new show Is a stem-winder from start to finish. It is so good that one wonders won-ders where last week's bill came from and how it ever got a place on the clr-cuit-this by way of a comparison for those who attended the bill of the past seven days, and may have taken it as a criterion. , . rtf Beginning with an exceptional icei or moving pictures, after a musical programme pro-gramme that Is worth while In itseu. and ending with an acrobatic turn that wins with sheer sp-ed. if nothing else, the bill runs the gamut of vaudeville. The first turn is a alack-wirc performer, the nonchalance of whose work is most interesting feature. Claude Rant Is different from the ordinary wire performer. per-former. In that at no time docs he remove re-move any of his clothing, nor does he turn any somersaults or do any or tne other Kindred things so dear to the heart of the average act of the type. ITe just does a lot of things so easily that he Is never tiresome. Master Frankie Murphy, the California bov tenor, sings a repertoire of sondes beautifully. Master Frankie will probably prob-ably come back to us next year In -'long pants, and will be right welcome If his voice is as good as it is now. Everyone liked him immensely last night. You do not want to miss Mabel Ford of the famous Ford family of dancers. Mabel is a progressive rjancer. She progresses pro-gresses from the very latest in fall street gowns to the most airy Romanesque effectthe ef-fectthe latter for the performance of the dance classique. Please note that "classique" Is the correct word. After all of which there is a bit of the wooden-shoe wooden-shoe dancing that made the Fords famous In their day. , . Mike Bernard, pianist. Is with us again. Mike was here some three years ago, and those few who remembered him greeted his appearance joyfully. There Is a world of ability in Mike's fingers, and he verily makes a piano talk. But Mike has a partner one Sidney Phillips, character comedian. Phillips sings while Mike plays. There Is a "hop" song that "Sonp about this time the writer felt, as he viewed the show, that he would riiii out of adjectives with which to ade-quatelv ade-quatelv tell how good the rest of the bill is. Gladvs Clark and Henry Bergman have gathered about them a collection of songs and comedv and girls and some more girls. "The Society Buds" is the name of the collection. They do some dances that are decidedly new and novel, and wear some clothes (or to be really correct cor-rect omit some clothes) which are not worn or omitted-, whichever Interpretation Interpreta-tion you may put upon It. in Salt Lake circles. All of which should make the act a big attraction, aside from the clever dancing of Mr. Bergman and Miss Clark. Foster Ball and Ford West carry away the humorous and pathetic honors of the entire bill. "Since the Days of '61" 1b a typical name for the sketch, and as It Implies. Is a character study of the old soldier. Seldom does one have a chance to sec the character of the veteran vet-eran more faithfullv played. True, there Is a bit now and again which may be overdrawn just to bring out a laugh, but those parts which carry the sentiment that the veteran always awakens are faithfulness itself. The G-audsmidts close the bill with an acrobatic performance.. A dog carries a banner on the stage warn'ng ihe audience to remain seated. The doe: gives advice that Is decidedly worth while. The Gaud--smldts kept everyone sealed until ther had completed their work, and made thfl audience applaud for more. Mabel Ford Declares That Dancing Is Her Life, and She Practices What She Preaches. NA IJStCA was the daughter of Alcinous. king of the Phaeacians. who dwelt upon an island. Ulysses, on his return from the Trojan war, was shipwrecked and cast upon this island and was discovered dis-covered by Nausica and her maids, who were laundering her wedding garments bv the sea. After the work they engaged en-gaged in sports, followed by a repast, and It Is at this juncture of the story, as told by Homer In the Odyssey, that the sports of the princess are portrayed by the Greek dances of Mabel Ford, who Is now at the Orpheum. Catching the butterfly, high among the flowers. In the free, open country by the sea, and the imitations of the flying birds, are designed de-signed to take the audience back to Homeric Ho-meric days. 'Dancing! Why, it Is my life." This is how Mabel Ford sums up her at fitude toward her profession, a profession pro-fession to which she has been devoted from childhood, as were her parents before be-fore her. "It may seem strange that T should llkp the classical dances best, since I have made my reputation with the others." declared Mabel, "but I have been interested in them for several years." When in Berlin some time ago. she took some lessons from Professor Pesco, a noted ballet teacher there, in delsar-tlan delsar-tlan poses, but after all the movements and poses must be thought out by herself her-self so she says. "Of course, this dancing la really pantomime, pan-tomime, and T believe that one may ex-lre'ss ex-lre'ss emotion or toll a story just as truly by the dance with pantomime as by spoken words." When Miss Ford played the Orpheum in Oakland she danced in the Greek theater at the Berkeley university, and th.e professors were much Interested In her work. Fvery step in her act Miss Ford has originated herself. G-rand Theater Makes Auapicions Opening Open-ing "With Melodrama and Vaudeville. LAST night marked the opening of the Grand theater under the management of Bert Christy, who presents musical melodrama, with -vaudeville Interspersed between the acts. The lower floor of the house was filled and there were many In the balcony. The time-honored "Brother "Broth-er Against Brother," put on by the Mav Vernon company of Chicago, with twelve members in the east, was applauded. Tn the vaudeville division the "Two Parsons." Par-sons." singers and dancers, received numerous nu-merous curtain calls, but most appreciated appreciat-ed was 'Tvittle Chiqulta," a .midget just one yard tall. 37 vears of age, and weighing weigh-ing thirty-three pounds, who danced and sang English and Spanish songs. Manager Man-ager Christy announced that next week the company would put on the "Girl of the Golden West." Tom Powers Makes Ideal Deaf Mute Character Making Love in "We Are Seven, rp OM POWERS, the popular leading man of the Utah P la vers, is peculiarly peculiar-ly well adapted for the part he has to play this week. The bill 1b "We Are Seven." in which he enacts the role of the hero who. In order to be near his swpethart, pretends he is deaf and dumb Mr. Powers was for two years a Vitaeraph morion picture dt;ir and conequentlv finds himself quite at home making his Tbs following theater notlreB are marked "aflvertiseient" to i-omplr wltli a strict interpretation in-terpretation of the federal newspaper law. In no sense are they paid advertisements, being Hems furnished by ute preee ageota of Qia various theaters. SALT LAKE The anxiously-awaited engagement of "Sinners" takes place at the Salt Lake theater tonight, and should prove by long odds to he Ihe most satisfying satis-fying of the season. Its coming has been so well heralded that just about everv-body everv-body will be there. "Sinners" is said to diffuse a cozy warmth. It suggests the better side of the stage, and when you go home tonight after having witnessed wit-nessed the performance, you will realize that you have been patronizing refinement refine-ment marked "sterling" all over It. The advance sale is verv large. at. ORPHEUM Sprightly musical comedv has first place on the new Orpheum bill that opened yesterday. Jesse Laskv's Society Buds setting the pace with" a "girl show" that is tuneful, vivacious, amusing and richly costumed. Gladys c'lark, Henry Bergman, Jack Claire and Inccnt Erne are the featured plavers. and all are excellent. The act has several sev-eral novelties. PANTAGF.S With Iwo more davs to run. the "Shadow- Girl," Margaret Whitney's popular operetta, is breaking all attendance records at the Pantae.es theater this week. The return engagement engage-ment of the "Shadow Girl" has been the signal Tor all Salt Lake musicians and friends of Margaret Whitney and her company to turn out en masse in nonor of the occasion. Five top-notch acts make the regular bill well worth while. MEHESY Bessie Barriscale is again to he featured by tile New York Motion Picture company at the Mebosv theater today only. This time the play will be The Reward," a four-part Mutual mas-terp mas-terp eture, wherein life behind the BCenes Is vividly portrayed. It Is a story of a chorus girl s struggle to be good, despite the temptations of stage life -how the odds almost overwhelm her and how she Is finally saved from herself bv a ovnieal man of the world. "The Mother of Her Dreams' and a rollicking comedv. "A Friend In Need." complete the bill BM PRESS When a stock eompanv delivers de-livers the goods and wins the favor of the theatergoing public, season reservations reserva-tions at onee become In demand That I?.,,, "actl' the case with the Ernest likes stor k company, which Is playing "The Yellow Ticket" at the Empress this week. Evidence of the fact that mnnv persons were delighted with the Wilkes company lies In the circumstance that Immediately following the mstinees last Thursday and Saturday they made reaer- |