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Show REAL VARIETY BILL OFFERED' l 5 : SHOW AT PANTAGES PLEASES Three Headliners Score Heavy With the First-Night First-Night Audiences. PANTAGES offering this week is one that should appeal to every type of 't.eaier-goer, owing to the fact that the ; bill contains a variety from acrobatics to eranJ opera, and even the most pessimistic pessimis-tic vaudeville follower can pick out smno-Ciin? smno-Ciin? thai hits the right spot. Manager Newman has started his headliners coming com-ing in bunches three at a time this week ainl it's extremely difficult which io tf-Y. for the real topline honors. Michael Emmett and company, in a "rthmpse of Ireland," took the house 1w ftorm last night, and the act deserved it. Mr. Emmett himself possesses one of the most pleasing tenor voices that has come to Salt Lake for some time. Hie teammate, team-mate, designated on the programme as the Irlfh beauty, more than lives up 'to her name in this respect, and she, too, possesses pos-sesses a voice far above the average. The ajt is assisted by tame doves and animals, ani-mals, among which are a fox terrier and a rooster, which provide comedy to the act by freuuent quarrels. The elaborate settings also called forth applause from the audience. Hirschoff's Russian Gypsies, presenting "A Night With the Gypsies," appealed I-, greatly to music lovers. The troupe is Jf composed of real artists, who have mas- tered both singing and dancing: in a man-Jf man-Jf ner which calls for attention as soon as they complete their first- number. Che's Richards is a comedian, - singer, dancer, jugsler. contortionist, acrobat and, above alt, a real laugh producer. From as the previous performers are receiving their applause, smiles appear on the faces of the audience, and. with the completion of a few of his funny antics, the smiles turn into a great laugh. The laugh is with him clear to the end. Hardly, If ever, has an acrobatic troupe made such a hit In Salt Lake as the Seven Sev-en Bracks. The Bracks are not merely acrobatic performers; they are artists, and deserve a place among the headliners. -Their . accomplishments are something mighty scarce among the American entertainers enter-tainers in this line, especially their foot balancing. In a mlx-up of songs, dances, music and patter, the Packard Four present a unique act. The act contains two real comedians, a young man and a young woman, while the other two fill the dull moments by dancing. This same young woman comedian is also an accomplished pianiste. The number went across big lest night. , ' Violet and Charles, acrobatic performers, did not appear at last night's show, and a comedy one-reel movie was substituted. A Mutual Weekly opened the bill. Lucy Gates Is Here to Take Part in Season of Grand Opera. LrCT GATES has returned to Salt Lake for this season of grand opera with perhaps the most flattering recommendation recommenda-tion and commendation ever accorded her, literally speaking, as big musical critics are virtually at her feet. This is particularly par-ticularly noteworthy in Bagby's selection of Miss Gates for his recitals at the Wal-. dorf-Astoria with the Metropolitan opera . stars. In parenthesis, it can be said that she wa-s unable to get a, rehearsal with . Arnato of the Metropolitan Opera company com-pany for the Traviata duet, which she was to sing with him, and he was much Nfc surprised, and not a little pleased, that fine so perfectly adapted her interpretation interpreta-tion to his. An unusual amount of interest has been shown in Miss Gates's production of -Faust," which will be presented at the Salt Lake theater May 17, IS and 19. bait Lake audiences have recently had a taste of grand opera, and are prepared to hear hf-r with renewed appreciation. Von Bos, the greatest living accompanist, says of Lucv Gates that she is without exception the "most superb coloratura soprano of the day. The loyalty of friends and lovers of art that mav be expected by Miss Gates is being displayed on all sides, and the triumph of her present effort is assured. Despite her activity In the New York musical world in public. Miss Gates found , time for most pleasant associations socially, so-cially, which offered frequent reeration in exclusive drawing room recitals, having Vithln her circle persons of prominence, including Billy Loeb. capitalist; the Scrib-ners, Scrib-ners, Mrs. R. H. Davis of Munsey's, the New York Johnsons and Thomas 'Ryan, multi-millionaire. Notable among Incidental Inci-dental occasions wVien the soprano was given precedence was a Fritz Krelsler recital re-cital in which she closelv shared laurels .with the violinist. On one occasion Miss Gates sang on a select programme with Mischa Elman at the home of Thomas Ryan. ' Actress, Long in Legitimate, Declares Vaudeville Audiences Arc Most Discriminating of All. IT has frequejitly been said that vaudeville vaude-ville patrons are the most discriminating discrimi-nating in the world, and this has generally been accepted its correct. It v. as brought i forclblv to mind recently when an ac-y ac-y tress w ho has been in the legitimate and the two-a-day for about thirtv years was asked to give her opinion as to the atldi-ciii'ps atldi-ciii'ps she has faced. "Vaudeville comedy." . she said, "has paused from the age of slapstick to well-advanced well-advanced youth of subtlety. Of course, In the ii'gltimaie. the audlenr-es never' had to pass on slapstick, and undoubtedly : w . ; DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. WILKES Wilkes Stock company in "Mr. Wtgss of the Cabbage Patch," with matmees today and Saturday. Sat-urday. ORFHEUM Vaudeville. Performance Perform-ance every auemooii and evening. . PANTAGES Vaudeville. Performance Perform-ance every afternoon and two performances per-formances at night. LIBERTY Continuous, 1 p. m. to 11 1 P. m. Last time today. Lewis Waller Wal-ler and Madge Tilheradge in the ; pleasing pieturiznrion ot "Brigadier 1 Girard," a romantic story of the days of Napoleon : Hearst-Sclig-Vitagrapn news and 'a comedy. "Paved by a Skirt." Coming, "Peg o' the Ring." REX Dainty, lovely Violet Merserau in the unusual story of the slums, "The Great Problem," a plea for prison reform; the Animated Weekly 1 and a. new comedy. Coming, "Who's Guilty?" Continuous daily, 2 to 11 p. m. PARAMOUNT - EMPRESS Today and balance of the week, Geraldine Farrar in "Maria Rosa," with Wallace Wal-lace Reid. Production by the Jesse L. Lasky company, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Burton Holmes travelogue travel-ogue and a Bray cartoon also on the bill. Musical attractions the chorT aieeuo, uiara u erne. u. r . Mm-ball. Mm-ball. Mr. Usher of Boston and Franz Rath. Continuous, 12:30 to U p. m. AMERICAN 11:30 a. m. to 11 p. m. Last showing today of the great chapter of the great motion picture novel, "Gloria's Romance," with gladsome, enchanting Billie . Burke; also William Farnum in "A Man of . Sorrow"; mammoth new pipe organ, American symphony orchestra, J. J. McClellan, director. Tomorrow, H. B. Warner in "The Beggars of J Cawnpore" and a Keystone comedy. MEHESY Today, special, Pathe feature fea-ture drama in three reels, entitled "The Old Fogy." The lure of the circus is vividly 'pictured in this swiftly-moving story of action and thrills. Rube Miller, eccentric comedian, plays lead In the- Vogue scream, "The Isle That Never Was," in which the shipwrecked sailor becomes the hero of the bewitching be-witching island girls. Animated cartoon car-toon comedy. Continuous performance, perfor-mance, 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. BROADWAY Tod Jy and tomorrow and Saturday, the queen of the screen, Clara Kimball Young, in her greatest picture, "The Feast of Life." Continuous, 2 to 11 p. m. Sunday, Winn if red Greenwood in "Lying Lips." patrons of the legitimate formed the .more intelligent audience twenty years ago. But the grade of vaudeville changed, and so did the audience, or, when the audience audi-ence did not change, their intelligence improved and quickly they' showed they liked the vaudeville that we now associate asso-ciate with the Orpheum theaters. "I do not believe the intelligence of the 'audiences of the legitimate has changed. At any rate, they do not show It. Rather, the succession of clever, though not new, tilings that have been written for the legitimate stage has left the audiences seemingly bored and an actor gets almost as bored when playing to them. ' "On the other hand, the bump of humor hu-mor of vaudeville audiences is sometimes overdeveloped. A remark has to be very subtle and deep if they fall to 'get it'; more often than not, they seem to spoil a good joke by anticipating it. Their thoughts travel muchcjuicker than the actor's conversation can possibly move along. But it is this very fact that has helped vaudeville to progress and prosper. pros-per. Actors are regarded as fairly elever people, and vaudeville artists are specialists spe-cialists in the art of entertaining. But to be entertaining, one must appeal to the artistic tastes of the audience or else show or say something new or novel. Ordinary entertainment Is not sufllcient for high -class vaudeville theaters. The audiences have seen or heard all that which Is ordinary. It is something out of' the ordinary they pay their money to see. "In other words, while we stage folk and the manacers may brag that we have uplifted vaudeville, it would be more correct cor-rect to say that the audiences have been responsible for the changes and the progress prog-ress of vaudeville. Managers and actors have only satisfied a demand the demand of the public in offering only that which Is new, novel or artistic. Successful actors ac-tors niiil successful managers are those who hnve been able to foresee the demand and satisfy it." . Clara Kimball Young Appearing in Stirring Play at the Broadway. pLARA KIMBALL YOUNG is the star of the secoud "Brady-made'" feature fea-ture at the Broadway. It whs produced in Cuba, and at the Paragon siudios in Port Lee under the direction of Albert CapfMlani. The Cuban scenes offer some cvc-edinply pretty expansive views, the native vegetation creating unusual at-nnpherof at-nnpherof casting the story in ;ui artiw- I tic as well as intentionally realistic background. back-ground. Miss Young carries the role of Aurora Fernandez, a Cuban girl of an aristo-eratio. aristo-eratio. but penniless, i'nmilv. She , i-fnrced i-fnrced into a loveless marriage with Don Armada, her mother'.-! creditor. Aurora has met Pedro. a stalwart fisherman, with whom she is in love. Pedro. learn-in:.' learn-in:.' that Armada has caused the death M" his sii-t er, C'clida. goes to his hume and severely Injures his face with the butt of his pistol. Armada is temporarily blinded, blind-ed, and Aurora and Fedro etm-r upon a hfc of roniniice. Armada regains his sight and spies on his wife. Tie learns of: their meeting place, and one day attacks : Pedro, slabbing him in the back. He iclis ; Aurora of this, a nd she. Miinii;oninj ajl her strengt1'. half strangles him. lie! dies from the shoik. while Pedro I recovers. |