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Show j AMUSEMENTS DRAMA AND VAXTDEVILLE. ORPHEUM Xew vaudeville bill, beginning be-ginning this evening, with five head-liners. head-liners. Matinees on Thursday, Friday Fri-day and Saturday. WILKES "Potash and Perlmutter," all week, with matinees tomorrow and Saturday. PANT AGES One of the jolliest -musical shows on the road will open here this afternoon. MOVING PICTT.-RES. ' PARAMOUNT-EMPRESS M a r y I Pickford in "The Eagle's Mate," i and the first of the new Victor Moore comedies, entitled "The Best Man." AMERICAN Today and tomorrow, Barney Bernard in "A Prince In a Pawnshop;" Keystone comedy. BROADWAY Today and tomorrow, the sensational five -act World feature, fea-ture, "The Unpardonable Sin," featuring Ilolbrook BHnn. MEHESY Sequel to "The Diamond From the Sky;" "Who Pulled the Trigger?" "Tours Around the World." Five Acts Which Are In Headline Class Compose New Bill Opening at Or-pheum Or-pheum This Afternoon. THE vaudeville show which is to open at. the Orpheum theater this evening is declared to be one of the best which has been routed to this city during the present season. There are five acts which are in the headline class that is, they have been at the tops of bills during this season. By the chance of vaudeville the five are on the same programme this week in Salt Lake, in addition to two other acts which are accredited with being be-ing far above the usual average. Laura Nelson Hail is making her second sec-ond tour of the Orpheum circuit this season sea-son in a new sketch, entitled "The Cat and the Kitten." Miss Hall was one of the big successes of last year in an act entitled "Demitasse." Previous to that she bad spent all of her time in the legitimate, being at the head of a series of strong and most successful productions. Another of the headliners of the bill will be Paul Morton and Naomi Glass in a new musical satire, entitled "1916-1950." Both Mr. Morton and Miss Glass rank with the topnotchers in their especial line of endeavor and their performance Is expected ex-pected to be one of the big hits of the bill. Then there are Williams and Wolf us, Herbert Her-bert and Hilda. Salt Lakers will remem- I ber their antics this evening when they 1 get their first glimpse of the frolicsome ' pair in their comedy classic, "Hark! . Hark! Hark!" ! Jack Wyatt and his Scotch lads and j lassies will be welcomed by the Scotch I of Salt Lake, as well as by a multitude j of others who are charmed by the pecu-I pecu-I liar fascination of Scotch music and dancing danc-ing and by the wit of the comedians come-dians with the act. The fifth headliner of the bill will be Ward brothers as "Archie and Bertie." This pair of come-; come-; dians were one uproarious success over 1 the circuit, two seasons ago and will doubtless repeat tonight here. Then there is Mary Dorr, fresh from a tour of vaudeville houses in Australia and the orient, where she headlined the bills in her clever imitations and novel songs and characterizations. Miss Dorr has a most wonderful wardrobe, which will doubtless be of peculiar delight to the women folk. Edward Miller and Helene Vincent are back ' again in their series of songs and dances, which they classify under the catchy title of "Some Boy! . Some Girl! Some Songs!" On the bill also will be shown the regular edition edi-tion of the Pathe News, the premier news reel of the world. There are to be matinees mati-nees on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On Thursday night there is to be a Scotch night, a celebration by the Scotch residents resi-dents of the city in honr of Jack Wyatt and his company of players. New Bill Opening at Pantages Today Is Unusually Full of Novelties and Features of the Stage. EACH vaudeville show that appears at the Pantages theater turns out to be better than the previous show at that house. In keeping with this fact the vaudeville show scheduled at ' the Pantages Pan-tages theater this week, and which opens with this afternoon's matinee, is unusually un-usually full of novelties and features that have scored fame in nearly every large city of the United States. The first headliner on the all-feature bill this week will be Ned Nestor and his sweethearts. Their problem is, "Who owns the boarding school?" The puzzle is deep and intricate. It is propounded by the arch-scoundrel, Ned Nestor, the leading character in the sketch. Of course, the problem is solved, but oh what a glorious time they have in solving it. It would seem impossible that so much fuss could be made over the simple proposition propo-sition of a deed to an ordinary boarding school. Being queer, it is quite natural 1 that the testator puts some very unusual clauses into the will of the queer old lady who owns the boarding school. But the old adage proves true at the end of the sketch "All's well that ends well." One of the greatest ventriloquists in the world is featured on the new bill at . the Pantages theater opening this after- . noon. He is known as "The Grent Les- ; ter," and everyone may as well believe it now there fs some class to Lester, de- I clares Manager Newman. There are I scores upon scores of ventriloquists who can make a gate post talk and send their ventriloquial voices to anv hole or coiner. but there's only one Lester. He uses but one character in his whole performance, a "dude" dummy, and the things that Lester puts into that dummy's mouth are too funny for anything. In the course of his act an improvised telephone is used, it is said. He communicates with . St. Peter and another, name unknown, who lives in the plare where ice won't keep. Just to show that he has nothing up his sleeve. Lester carries the dummy down the center aisle of the theater, smoking a cigarette the while and imparting various vari-ous tones to his voice. Henry and Charles Rigoletto. the twin brothers who will appear on the all-feature programme at the Pantages this week, are st ill young In years, but a re veritable "old-timers" as far as stac-:e experience goes. They were born in Paris of theatrical people and in their very infancy were initiated into the theatrical the-atrical business. Their father was a Russian Rus-sian and their mother was an Italian. Sinre then they have toured in almost I every country in the world, both as a I family troupe In the early days and with their present act as the famous Rignletto j Brothers. The Rigoletto Rmt Ws are ji- lusionists of renown, acro'.-tsof ability. banjo and accordian players of note, and their demonstrations of physical culture and their art poses are remarkable. Crawford and Broderick, the clever chap and pretty girl starring in a "Little o' This and a Little a' That," have an act ; that is set to song, dance and witty j parts. The Three Bartons are athletes whose I head-and-hand balancing Is said to be ; I unique and remarkable. The fourth chapter of "The Lass of the Lumberlands." featuring Helen Holmes, i will be an added attraction of the all-feature all-feature programme which opens at the Pantages theater with this afternoon's . matinee. j j Marvelous Pantomimic Interpretations in the "Ballet Russe" Reported to Be Most Brilliant. j i HEN Waslav Nijinsky, the world's : " greatest dancer, bounds onto the stage of the Salt Lake theater on December De-cember 22 as "The Blue God," one of his marvelous pantomimic interpretations which America has never seen until this season, he represents all that is gorgeously gorgeous-ly joyful. He appears just as the heroine of the ballet, who has been torn from her lover, is about to be thrust into a cavern filled with curious monsters and restores her to the man she loves. It is odd, from our point of view, that the Russians should choose blue to represent happiness, happi-ness, when our everyday conversation is full of such expressions as "tlie blues," "blue funk," "blue devils." "the air was blue," etc., which connote quite the contrary con-trary meaning. However, blue as a joyful joy-ful color is not a product of the Russian mind alone. It will be remembered that Maurice Maeterlinck, the famous Belgian Bel-gian writer, chose "The Blue Bird" to represent happiness in his play of that name. The sale of seats is now going on at the Salt Lake theater. "Hobson's Choice," Said to Be a Delightful De-lightful English Comedy, Is Coming Com-ing to Salt Lake Theater. tTT OBSON'S CHOICE," a delightful " comedy of English life carved from the pen of Harold Brighouse. is a slice of the quaint habits of the people of Lancashire. Lan-cashire. England. It will be presented here by the Messrs. Shubert for a limited lim-ited engagement at the Salt Lake theater, commencing Monday next, direct from one year's engagement in New York, Boston ami Chicago, where it received golden opinions from the critics and playgoers to the extent of playing constantly to capacity ca-pacity audiences. The original company will be presented in the city and will include in-clude Viola 'Roach. Galway Herbert, Peg Greenwood, Lionel Bevans, J. E. McGregor, McGreg-or, Venie Atherton, W. F. Hill, James E. Malaldy, Noel Tearle, Thomas Donelly and others. Miss Margaret Summerhays Will Give Complimentary Recital at the First Congregational Church Tonight. THE song recital of Miss Margaret Summerhays takes place tonight at the First Congregational church. Miss Summerhays will be assisted by Otto King, cellist, and Squire Coop, pianist. Fred C. Graham is attending to the busi- ', ness end of the recital. Miss Summerhays extends an invitation to her many friends to attend her recital j tonight as complimentary guests. I The following prominent persons will I act as patrons of the event and will be i the guests of Miss Summerhays: Governor Gov-ernor and Mrs. William Spry, Dr. and i Mrs. John A. Widtsoe, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Love, Professor and Mrs. J. J. Mc-Ciellan. Mc-Ciellan. Professor and Mrs. A. C. Lund, ; Professor and Mrs. H. W. Dongall, Mr. and Mrs. A. H-. Pea body, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Whitney. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Spencer, Spen-cer, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Pyper. Dr. Jane Skolfield, Dr. and Mrs. A. Ray Irvine and Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Plummer. Several young lady friends of Miss Summerhays Sum-merhays will act as ushers. The doors of the church will open at 7:30, the programme beginning at S:15. |
