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Show AMUSEMENTS DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. SALT LAKE Henry W. Savage's "Everywoman" Is running for all this week. PAXTAGES One of the merriest and most lively vaudeville bills of this season opens tonight, to run a weok, with daily matinees. WILKES Stock company presents the Inimitable comedy, "Seven Keys to Baldpate." all vreek, with matinees ' Thursday and Saturday. ORPHEI'JI New vaudeville show opens this evening, headed by Sophie So-phie Tucker, "the Mary Garden of flagthne," and Bert Fltzgibbon. MOTION PICTURES. AMERICAN Today and Thursday. Clara Kimball Young in "My Official Of-ficial Wife." REX Today and Thursday, "The Battle of Life." MEHESY "The Climax to the Diamond Dia-mond From the Sky"; Cleo Madison ill Imp drama. BROADWAY All week, the big morality picture, "The Libertine," featuring John Mason as the male vampire and Alma Hanion as the girl. Popular Salt Lake Boy WU1 Be Seen at the Orpheum This I Week. pATROXS of the Orpheum are promised an enjoyable comedy sketch for the new vaudeville bill opening this evening, when ''Cranberries." a rippling little laugh-maker with three Al players in the cast, begins the task of duplicating in the west the success it has met with everywhere in the east. This should not, on its record, be either a long delayed or difficult matter. Everett S. Ruskav, the author, has placed three people, two men and a young woman, in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of a quiet hunting lodge in New Jersey, where tile automobile of John Godfrey, a financier, comes to grief, and John L. Drakes, Jr.. and I'hvllis Larkin, both young people, seek to help the rich man out of his predicament. Godfrey wants to get back to town to close a deal for the purchase of a cranberry bog, and the author of the sketch has injected a clever little plot into his story from which tlie three interested persons emerge In a general burst of laughter from the audience. The presentation of "Cranberries" is of especial interest In this city. Nell Pratt, the comedian of the act, is a Salt Lake boy, the son of E. L. Pratt of the Alia club. In the days of the old Orpheum Or-pheum on State street Neil Pratt was assistant property boy for S. B. Newman, the stage manager of the new home of big-time big-time vaudeville. When Willard Maek opened stock at the old Orpheum Mr tratt remained and later went to the former Colonial In charge of properties James Durkin, then the leading man of the company, gave him several minor comedy parts in which lie was a success and when Mr. Durkin went to Denver Mr. Pratt accompanied him and later went to the east. He has climbed steadily steadi-ly up the ladder of comedy success and now returns to this city for the first time as the featured player in a comedy sketch Frederick Karr, as "John Godfrey," the rich man, does his work admirably and gives a good background for the young people lo work against. Miss Marian Day brings to the part of "Phyllis Lurk In'' precisely the quality of girlish charm the author requires for his narrative Special scer.ery Is employed in the production, pro-duction, and a good description of the act !5trr Je1 b', ne of 'he best known Metropolitan critics, who wrote "Cranberries "Cran-berries is a little side dish for the epicures epi-cures of vaudeville. MiLhe ,!!"""- ,xise where the action p'arc:. 13 one that is little used, except for "week-end parties," and while the story is one that would appeal especially espe-cially to those In the east, it has a big appeal for the west, as it presents n faithful detail the possibilities attending an automobile mishap, and the autorno? V In Wle WeSt are -1ust as liable to a Hp a cog as any eastern car, so that the story will have a strong appeal to auto drivers everywhere. The love story running through the sketch Is always ap-ment ap-ment "eVer lntem,Pts the "merrl- There are three other headline on the bill, including Sophie Tucker, the "Marv Garden of Ragtime," and her five kings ?r,r "S'SI ;-.Be, t Fi'ibbon, the or g-nal g-nal daffy-dil." and Harry Tale's "Pish-"fn' "Pish-"fn' I" audition the programme contains con-tains Raymond and Caverlov in comedy dialogue; Bernard Riggs and M rtSvan Peace" "TAli ,fkU- "D'sturtlnl "h2 reace , frank Carman, hoop roller and baton Juggler, and the Pathe News with new, views of animated current events All-feature Bill Will Open at the Pan-tages Pan-tages Theater Tonight. To-night. fJIHE all-feature bill that opens at the Pantages theater with this afternoon's matinee, leans strongly toward comedv Every act contains a bit of the comic element, which constantly vies with novelty nov-elty and originality. n 'h he ""ome"." the name attached at-tached to snappy, spicy, musical comedy com-edy tabloid with a cast of n usuaHv clever principals. Harrington Reynold" keeps the fun rolling and Robert Find! lay Is funny in a French comedv character char-acter role The act provides a lot of fun. effective costuming and ple.islng tunes. There are six- pretty girls in the chorus-all reputed to be western stage beauties of note. 8 , Th.! second '""allne number on the bill this week will be presented bv Warren War-ren and Templeton. two eccentric dancers and comedians. They introduce a funnv travesty on other acts of the bill and do a lot of fooling that has won them fame as comedians all over the country. Their dancing is said to be excellent ' Princess Jue Quon Tal is a preity Chinese Chi-nese girl with a soprano voice of sweet quality. She is one of the most noted Oriental singers on the American stage today. In her act at the Pantngcs theater thea-ter this week .she will appear in handsome hand-some Chinese costumes and sing in both the Chinese and English languages, she has scored a remarkabie triumph in eastern east-ern cities, and the poise and finish she has gained extends even to h"r voire "The Chinese Nightingale" is the romantic roman-tic title accorded her by critics in the cast. James Grady and company have a comedy com-edy playlet "The Toll Brldsre" that Is hound to please Sail Lakers, declares Manager Newman of the Pantages theater. thea-ter. The tine character acting of both James Grady and Madeline Clark. Ills co-star, has been winning the applause of capacity crowded houses all over the Pantages circuit. They score their comedy com-edy points easily and naturally. OUie and Johnny Vanis develop some real thrills in their performance on the tlghl wire. Tlte dancing of Miss Vanis j is '-oncc'tel to be the most rema-knhie of its kind ever introduced on the vaudeville vaude-ville stage. Frc Stanford makes himself agreeable agree-able with popular tunes. He has a noteworthy note-worthy reputation for being a whis;ng cennis, and his act at the Pantages theater thea-ter this ve"k Is expected to prove a delightful de-lightful treat for Salt Lake patrons of lli--h-class vaudeville. The sixth erhso.ie of "The Lass of the l.timhcrlanris" will conclude tile all-feature all-feature progran.rr.e opening at the Pantages Pan-tages theater with this afternoon's matinee. |