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Show I il( lily 5 S PANTAGES High-class vaudeville all week. Matinee every afternoon and two performances at night. PARAMOUNT - EMPRESS Today, Monday and Tuesday. Marie Doro in "Common Ground," a story of a young girl's regeneration through love for a young judge whom she sa vea from ruin ; Paramount pleto-graplis. pleto-graplis. Wednesday and balance of t lift week, Mary Pick ford in "Hulda 1'rnm Holland," and a Bray cartoon. Wei lie's orchestra, Franz Rath's pianolugney and Ed. P. Kimball at the chorakclo. Continuous from 12:30 to 1 1 p. m. AMERICAN Today and tomorrow, William S. Hart in "The Captive God," a Triangle play of historical and educational significance; Pa the News; Triangle comedy, "Bedeliah's Bluff," featuring Fay Tine her. Professor Pro-fessor J. J. McClellan will give an organ recital tomorrow night at 9:16. The American orchestra will render selections from "Cavallerla Ruatl-cana" Ruatl-cana" this evening. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Virginia Pea rso n in "A Tortured Hea rt , " William Fox picture, in conjunction conjunc-tion with the Billie Burke serial. Performances continuous from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. BROADWAY Sunday only, Kitty Gordon in "Her Maternal Right." Monday and Tuesday. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne in "A Virginia Romance" ; "also Monday only, Anna Nilsson and Tom Moore in "Who's Guilty?" Wednesday and Thursday. Viola Dana in "The Flower of No Man's Land." Friday and Saturday, Gail Kane In "Paying j the Price." MKHKSY Today only, Moss Gertrude : McCoy in the three-act Mutual ! picture, "Gates of Divorce;"' views ! of Glacier National park as shown ! in "See America First;" "Her Soul's Son:," featuring Dorothy Davenport; Daven-port; Beauty comedians in "Two Slips and a Miss." Monday, "War-j "War-j rer. Kerrigan In "The Melody of I Love." AS an all around entertaining bill the one now playing at the Fantages is all that can be desired, de-sired, and daily that cool, comfortable com-fortable house is playing to capacity. Arizona Joe, with a whoop and a holler, headlines the bill. He is well supported by a cast of cowboys like himself, and one cowgirl and a number oi' horses, one of which is a black, fiery-eyed broncho, upon which Arizona Joe sticks like a burr and defies said broncho or any other of his ilk to throw him. The while fancy riding and lariat-throwing lariat-throwing is demonstrated, a line of inconsequential in-consequential chatter is tossed back and forth among the performers, which adds materially to the entertainment. The act is repiete with wild west atmosphere, atmos-phere, and the free and open life is portrayed in this interesting cowboy production. It is handsomely staged with .blue western sky and clouds and various lighting effects that make it particularly attractive. Home exceptionally excep-tionally clever lassoing is done, and the girl in the company, Adele von Ohl, wins much applause with her well-trained well-trained horse. There comes in for a big share of tlie generous applause on tapis at Pantages this week, the musical tabloid, "School Bays." The audieuce gets as much fun out of the act as do the performers, apparently, and the ball-throwing, in which the audience is permitted to take part, adds a lot of fun and mirth. This act is so wholesome and refreshing that it wins instanter, and it is a delight from the time the curtain goes up until the final dance. For these school kids do dance and sing and cut up gay little capers, and spring soine fulf-grown jokes .and generally take well. The pretty 1 girls in their juvenile frocks and socks and "sport'' shoes, and the boys representing a Jew, a "tough," a high-brow and a "wop" are all great fun. The dances and specialties are good all through, and everybody seems to like "School Days." Knapp and Cornelia are two jolly fellows who entertain with "a little bit of everything from vaudeville" singing, dancing, comedy stuff and so on. One of the funniest stunts is when Knapp pretends the sideboard is a bar. This alone wins laughs all over the ' house. Scanlon and Press, late co-stars with Valeska Huratt, do some whirlwind dancing that is amazing. They sing some clever songs, too. Miss Scanlon is very attractive in her striking gowns, and keeps cool and serene throughout her breathless dancing. Melvin .brothers are three gymnasts who have some clever work in that line for the enjoyment of, Pantages patrons. They are very modest-appearing fellows, with magnificent physiques and perform with unquestioned s'kill. Pretty blue-eyed Lillian Watson, with a wealth of pretty curls and a charming charm-ing manner, sings about her small stature and pleases with some popular melodies. Exciting ns usual is "The Secret of the Submarine, ' ' which, In the tenth i-huptcr now being shown, portrays a thrilling fight in the air. Coming to the Paul ages next week, beginning next Wednesday afternoon, are Clark "s fa mons' Hawaiian troupe of singers and dancers ; the Kervillo family of expert billiardists; the Fid-dcs-Swaiu duo of singers and pianists; Clark and Chapelle in the "Saleslady and the Porter"; the Z orris-Booker duo of entertainers and several other acts. 1 NTKR ESTTXG indeed is the an-B an-B nouncemcnt of the change in poli- cv of the Orpheum theater as outlined out-lined in yesterday's newspapers. The popular vaudeville house will open for the season on August 1H, which is Wednesday. Heretofore the theater has always opened its shows on Sunday 1 ' ! Wild West Thrills at Pantages -mi x-? v j i s V' ' 0 H$k--. :: :. . - . y:y.:i I . . i in ITU .i 1 Scene from "Pastimes of the Plains," now at the Pantages. afternoon, but because of the fact that it entailed a loss of time of a week to performers many joi the big acts were not shown in alt'Lake. This di faculty will be avoided this year by opening the shows on Wednesday evenings, the performances per-formances continuing for the balance of the week. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Tues-day of each week the Orpheum is to be in the motion picture business, a contract con-tract having been completed with one of the biggest feature producers in the country for the exclusive exhibition of the films in Halt Lake. Just who will supply the film feature for the Orpheum and what the opening vaudeville bill will be will uot be known until the arrival here the latter part of this week of Edward P. Levy, the manager of the house. Mr. Levy has been spending the summer weeks at the Orpheum headquarters in Wan Francisco. The announcement of the change in the policy of the theater was contained in a letter received from Mr. Levy yesterday. Owing to the war the vaudeville menu for this year promises to be of unusual interest. Scores of wonderful acts which have heretofore been seen exclusively in Europe and which in the past have turned a deaf ear to salary inducements of the Orpheum circuit have been secured this year. These artists, because of the war, are unable to get work in Europe and have turned to America. - As soon as Manager Levy arrives work will be started preparing the theater for the opening. Mr. Levy mentions in his letter that the head-liner head-liner of the opening bill is an act of international prominence. Those who have in the past had season sea-son reservations will be given ample opportunity by an early opening of the box office to engage their favorite seats. Two Changes at the Paramount THE management of the Prframount-Empress Prframount-Empress announces that there are two such big features coming up during dur-ing the coming week that the policy of presenting three complete changes in programme weekly will be foresworn in this instance. Today, "Monday and Tuesday Tues-day that dainty screen star. Marie Doro, will be" seen in ' 'Common Ground, ' ' followed on Wednesday and the balance of the week by Mary Pick ford in her latest and said to be best release, "ILulda from Holland." The regular single' reel features in the form of Paramount pictographs and Bray cartoons will be shown as usual on the regular days. The story of ' ' Common Ground ' f follows: The Kid, a product of the slums, is employed at an artificial flower fac- tory as an expert "slipper-on." She possesses a monstrosity of a hat which is the envy of her companions wherever it appears, and the Kid loves it. Judge Evans, a young man of irreproachable irre-proachable character, takes up his residence resi-dence in the tenement district in order to unearth the man at the head of the vice ring composed of social and politi- , cal parasites. The man in reality is the father of Doris Mordant, a beautiful girl to whom Evans is engaged. Realizing Real-izing that he must "get ' the judge,1 or be ruined himself, Mordant, assisted by unscrupulous politicians, arranges a , plot in which the Kid (whom the judge , has discovered in the tenement where he himself lives), evidently accosts a ! man on the street. She is taken into! Judge Evans's court and to prove his j assertion that "there is some good in i all of 'em" the judge tells the Kid to select five companions mid he will send them all to his farm for three mouths. Mordant frames up a scheme to send with them a woman of the streets, and provides her with money and a camera. At the farm the Kid discovers the girls plotting to secure a compromising picture pic-ture of the judge and the woman, but they persuade her to keep still by telling tell-ing her they will "queer" Evans's engagement en-gagement to Doris and then he will turn to her, and the Kid's love is so great she finally acquiesces. Following nis trial and disgrace, the judge falls ill and the Kid cares for' him. He learns to love the child of the slums, and her devotion to him is as pitiful as it is sincere. The Kid believes the judge is pining for Doris, and with her companions, whom she forces into telling the truth, goes to the district attorney's office and before Mordant, Doris, ' Evans and others makes a clean breast of the whole affair. Evans's love for Doris is dead aud he turns to the Kid, declaring his love. She is taken to the home of a competent com-petent woman for one year. Every month the judge receives a photograph which shows the metamorphosis of both hat and girl. At the end of the year Evans goes to claim as his own the girl who saved him from ruin, and finds her the embodiment of refinement and simplicity. Hart in a New Triangle Drama i THE special feature at the American for today am tomorrow is W. S. Hart in a Triangle drama called "The Captive God. ' ' Everyone who visits the picture shows knows William S. Ifart. The story of "The Captive God'' is said to give Mr. IJ art a splendid op- porlunity, and it has, besides its entertaining enter-taining qualities, an educational significance sig-nificance of more than usual interest. Much of Hrr. picture was made in Ari-zoua Ari-zoua for special scenic effects, and the cast supporting Mr. Hart includes Enid Markov, Dorothy Dalton and other Triangle Tri-angle favorites The story has to do with an . ancient custom of the Aztecs, who selected from among their number num-ber one member who, at the end of the year, was to be offered up as a sacrifice to God. There is a strong love theme working throughout the play, which is sa id to be altogether beautiful. Beginning' Tuesday and continuing through Wednesday and Thursday, there will be shown in connection with Billie Burke the latest William Fox play, 'entitled "A Tortured Heart," and featuring Virginia Pearson. There is great contention between different producing companies over the proposition proposi-tion of whether ' ' the play is the thing'' or whether the. star is the magnet mag-net that draws the crowds. It seems to be a subject that does not admit of much argument. If the play is big the public seems to grasp the point and go in throngs. On the other hand, if the j star is one of those magnetic creatures who appeal to the human mind and heart, the throngs go with more or less disregard as to the play in which the j star appears. "A Tortured Heart" is i a title that suggests a strong dramatic I story, and Virginia Pearson is a star j who has always' had a strong grip on a j large number of moving picture patrons, i An organ recital will be given at 9:15 Monday evening by Professor .1. ,T. McClellan. The American orchestra, ; headed by Walter Poulton, will render; selections from " Cavalleria Itusti- cana" tonight at 9:15. Kitty Gordon as a Screen Star KITTY GORDON, statuesque figure of the stae, is the, attraction at the Broadway , today only, when she will be seen in "Her Maternal Eight," a World film feature, which tolls in an exquisitely dramatic manner about Jack Treadway, who, on the death of his father, finds that he has no funds and secures a position as teller in a bank. He meets Nina Strang, an actress, and lavishes money and jewels on her, but in order to keep up with her pace he is forced to make false entries in his books and is soon indebted to the bank for a considerable sum. Nina meets Amos Matson, a millionaire, and through her fickleness throws off tho old love for the new. Jack, realizing what a fool he has been, turns over a new leaf, .but the shortage on his books is a constant worry. lie meets Wary Winslow, and after a short courtship they are married. v Accidentally one day Mary hears about Jack's affairs with Nina, and she follows him to Nina's apartment, where she overhears a conversation between be-tween them which clears everything in her mind. Through her pluck and courage cour-age Jack is able to secure from Nina the money he so foolishlv lavished on her, thus making up the shortage. Monday and Tuesday Francis X. Bushman will be seen with Beverly Bayne in their latest Metro wonderplay, "A Virginia Romance. " n Gertrude McCoy Stars at Mehesy HAVING scored such a pronounced success in Mutual masterpictures, Miss Gertrude McCoy was engaged to star in "Gates of Divorce." This will be the feature attraction at the Mehesy today. She has the part of a petulant young wife who is wrapped up m frivolous frivo-lous society to the exclusion of her serious-minded husband. How close she comes to losing her husband through her own foolish actions is entertainingly entertain-ingly told in three reels of intense action. ac-tion. The plot is bound up with the efforts of a society crook to snare the husband. A seemingly innocent young girl is thrown in his way with results i that make for remarkably dramatic j situations. Alexander Gaden has the rol6 of the . embittered husband. Miss Lucille Taft appears as the girl under the influence of the arch-plotter, a part played by J6hn Reinhard. Another trip through the famous Glacier Gla-cier park in Montana is the -subject of "See America First." This reel picks up the traveler at tbe point, where the preceding reol on this subject left off, and carries the spectator through numerous interesting points of the park. H is by far one of the most interesting in-teresting subjects of its kind ever released. re-leased. Charming Dorothy Davenport appears ap-pears in the title role of the Laemmlc society drama, ' ' Her Soul 's Song, ' ' a beautiful and dramatic story of a famous fa-mous singer who loses her voice upon becoming a mother. She leaves husband hus-band and babe, but soon realizes tho emptiness of theatrical triumphs and returns to her home. The Beauty comedians com-edians present a delightful number entitled, en-titled, "Two Slips and a Miss." Loyalty Almost Lost As Subject THE theme of loyalty and sacrifice for friendship's sake alone has been so neglected by scenarioists in the present demand for dramas of mystery, romance and adventure that the" story of one girl's unselfish love for another, 'which has recently been picturized at the American -Mutual studios, comes as i a unique surprise, in striking contrast to the average photoplav plot, i This 1 hiee-act offering has been i titled ' Quick sands of Deceit, ' ' and ; shows the usclessncss of deception :and the results attendant upon wroug-i wroug-i doing. I Vivian Rich essays the star role of the waif, who is sheltered in her hour 'of want and who, in gratitude, returns 9 AT PARAMOUNT-EMPRESS TODAY -. W t $ " ? w ll n ' V " ll i - t - " ' i , 4 4 1 W v if' J EB E3 " Dainty Marie Doro, one of the most celebrated dramatic artists on stage or screen, and formerly a Frohman st ar, In the Lasky production-ef "Common Ground." the protection when an urgent opportunity oppor-tunity arises. Alfred Vosburgh plays opposite Miss Rich, and while tho love interest is strong in this dramatic utory, unselfish sacrifice and friendship are the dominant notes. Quecnie Ros-son Ros-son undertakes the exacting part of "hlleanor Hardy," and in her pathetic appeal to the emotions adds another triumph to her already long list of successes. suc-cesses. One of the notable factors of the piece is the characterization of "John Hardy" in the capable hands of Cieorge Periolat. "Tammany's Tiger" is a new two-reel two-reel wihl animal comedy, featuring Marie Wnlcamp. It is a scream from start to linsh. You may have seen some animal pictures before, but this goes the limit. The Mehesy today also shows interesting inter-esting views of Mobile. Ala., aiid a cartoon car-toon comic by Harry Palmer. William Garwood still is exceeding the speed limit for producers, with his raiud direction of short photoplovs for the Universal company. He has completed com-pleted another one-reel comedy drama since his arrival on the coast, and is starting a short comedy, "Arthur's Dark Resolve." iu which he plavs his own lead, with prettv Lois Wilson opposite. op-posite. Despite his hard work, Garwood, Gar-wood, who is living the simple life alter the rigors of the eastern Broadway, Broad-way, has gamed six whole pounds in weight. In between engagements Hal Coolev is staying at the 'Leven Oaks hotel at Monrovia. He is so enioving his stav at the pretty hostelry that 'he cannot drag himself away. Hal thinks of having a higher power automobile, so he" m'av live there and ride to Los Angeles to "work and return each night. This would mean some mileage in a year. |
