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Show I AMUSEMENTS l'!LM AM. '.11K ll.l.lv SALiT LAKE t M, A. banafit, todhy noon. Vuudcviiio cta Trom Hi-ioun thenlers and local talent ORPKBUW . audvlU. Parform- atiees every afternoon and evening. PA N'T a. ; ks Vaud in, ffarform- anoe every attarnoon and twp per- formniii-eK at nljthl. W1LKKS Lrnet Wilkes Stork om- pany In "Broadway JoneR.'' all week, with matinees Thursdav hnd Saturday. Desire to Se Mountains and Tlains Brutria Vaudeville Actress to the West. rS HKR present trip of the Orpheuffl circuit. OlgH Cook, "vaudeville s most heautiful blonde." has satisfied hev life's ambition. This pretty miss Is still in her teens and her stage career of less than two years had been confined almost entirely to New York before she .is SLen an Orheum ron tract. She had never left New York, where she was born, far enough hehind to see a real mountain. moun-tain. And therein lies the reason why the Orpheum circuit mnnaxement was able to Induce her to go went in spite of the flattering offers being made her by other theatrical concerns, who wanted her to remain tn New York as one of the prize beauties of the metropolis. As Miss Cook's soprano voice Is as beautiful s she is, Nt'rt York managers were all the more anxious to retain her. Rut there was that life's ambition to be accounted lor. And it was one of the most unusual. She wanted to see a mountain a ieal big. honest-to-goodness mountain, with snow on ihe top all the year round. Next to that she wanted to see plains great stretches of land undeveloped un-developed and more or less uninhabited. She had lived in a big city all of her young life and although she had re.id of it she could liardly conceive there was any place so barren tbat she COttld shout at the top of her lungs ant) imt be heard. And her third great wish was to see real Indians who were not part of some wild west show. She has seen them all now, hut she began to fear that it would never occur. It was the dead of night when siie crossed the mountains in the east. In Kansas City she asked when she would see a mountain and was told the bluff across the river at St. Paul was a mountain, but she was disappointed again. It wasn't big enough. But going from Winnipeg to Seattle she saw everything sti1 had read of in the story books, here were Indians who met the train at Medicine Hat in Alberta, there were the great plains in Saskatchewan, where it was nearly an hour's ride between stations, and stations seemed to be nothing but isolated htltS And. best of all, there were miles and miles of mountai ns. The Ca nadian Rockies in mid-winter were before her eyes. She could hardly see enough of them. And then came the rolling land that stretches for a hundred or so miles inland from the coast of British Columbia. But mountains, mountains, she wants. She is now enjoying them in California, and she wants to see the Wasatch and the Rockies, and it will not be surprising surpris-ing if she does not climb some of the peaks in the neighborhood of Salt I-ake when she play? her Orpheum engagement here. |