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Show i R A M A A N H V A l T IC V I UJv WWCKKS '"The llnut-e of Glass," in fniir a i ;i s, jirrj.iVitfl hy Wilkes f'Uiyer.H. Kvery nfsht, with matinees Thursday and Saturday n f ternoons. PA N'TAOKS - Now pla -ing, a hill of m-cch features, he.'ided hy a company com-pany of thirty In "The Mimic World." Thr-o i.hows daily. New hill oK-riK m.-::L Wednesday matinee. LIFlKllTY Hippodrome vaudeville, Willi "The Eight Dlack 1'ot.s" as h.-adliners. New hi 1 1 Thursday. Amahs lira on Wednesday niht. ourncc.M x.n .niU:viiic bill, with 1 hri-t; headline:-., Includiim tlie bt-c-mnl episode ui "The Ue treat of the CtTiiianh iit the Hat tie of Arras" as itn ;iddud attraction, will ;jpen Wed-ncs Wed-ncs lay evening. Bill this afternoon mid toniyht headed hy I.eona La Mar, ;he girl with the thousand eytj.s. MOTION" PICTURES. PAP.AMOUNT-KM PIU-IHS Douglas Fair bunks In "The Man From Painted Paint-ed Po.Jt"; Paramount pictographs: I learst-Palhe news. Thursday, Vivian Martin in "The Trouble Husicr"; Fatty .Vrbuckle In "Oh, Doctor!" M KUKSYMary Fuller in UThe Beautiful Beau-tiful Impostor," star featurctte; "At Hay," a "Gray Ghost," featuring luldie Polo; "The Tong, Green Trail," a "Black Cat" story. SAi.T LAKK- Illustrated lecture on war, with pictures of battle scenes released hy the Canadian government. govern-ment. Six nights and two matinees, opening tomorrow night. BKOADWA V Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, George Walsh in "The Yankee Way." Wednesday only, Mary Miles Winter in "Charity Castle." Thursday, Friday and j Sat nrdny. Dust In Farnum in "North uf 5:." I A M KFilC AX Frankly n Farnum and Hrownte Vernon in1 "A Stormy Knight"; Universal weekly, comedy. STRAND Myrtle Gonzales in "Southern "South-ern Just ice' ; l.'nivcrsal current events; comedy. THERE is a man in Salt Lake City who lias gone through the hell ui the war, who has contributed to the hell of the war, who has escape! front the hell of the war, and eunies back, minus one arm, to tell of it. He is Sergeant Fred Wells, known as ' ' Dec, ' ' and he will talk at the Salt . Lake the.ntcr six nights and two matinees, mati-nees, opening Monday, October 8, illustrating illus-trating his lecture with war pictures released by the Canadian government. In Canada "Doc" Wells is well known. Tales of his heroism have been seized by the newspapers and published from coast fo coast. "But it is not of his personal achievements achieve-ments that Sergeant Wells will talk, llo is nor on a mission of self-applause. He is telling the Cnited States the real facts about the war, and picturing it so graphically that every man and worn-' worn-' an who hears will be able to picture his or her son surrounded by the war; to visualize war; to know the details of warfare. Wells talks about the Ypres in terms of the comrades he knew. He pictures niei', men just before a charge, during a charge, in death and pleading to be killed. He will not tell, unless drawn on, the story of how, in the attack on a Ypres salient of five miles, he volunteered volun-teered to cross a road considered im- assable, to take command of a de, taehinrnt that had been left without an officer ; of how he did cross the road, losing all but eighteen of the fifty-seven fifty-seven brave men who followed him, and how he lost his arm for his act. There is something in the face of Sergeant Wells found only in the faces of men who have seen things which they cannot forget, uncontrollable,; crushing things. A sudden tautness of j the lower lip, a narrowing of the eyes,! a tenseness that he cannot control, are , indications of memories, perhaps too . horrible to ever put into words, perhaps per-haps too elemental for words. At least most of these things he does not talk about. Ho waits for them to pass. It is when he talks of the inhuman cruel tv of the German soldiers that the tenseness comes most noticeably to his face. He was himself bayoneted in an arm already shot seven times, while he lay in "No Alan's land." The side of his face was kicked by the boot of a German officer, his cheek is scared where he was struck across the face by the hand of another commander. Of the period served in a German prison and his miraculous escape from the living death which few men' have yet come alive, following a long period of pretended insanity. Wells tells in detail in his lecture. He has pictures smn ruled from the German prison. (The hospital base is the soldier's little heaven, ' ' Sergeant Wells said. ' ' Not the one above, but the sacred ground presided over hy a Red Cross nurse. We ail hope that by some fluke we will be snared for the base hospital. It is the hope to which wc cling.' Wells is a Canadian by birth. He was formerly connected with a Vancouver Van-couver newspaper. He is recognized bv the Canadian government, which has supplied him largely with the pictures which he shows. Wells has lost three brothers and his father in war. THE vaudeville bill which has been delighting conference and state fair visitors at the Orpheum theater will conclude with the performances of this afternoon and evening. eve-ning. Seldom has such success been scored on the Orpheum a has that ot pretty Leona La Mar, the girl who knows all, sees all and tells all. The veil of mystery which surrounds her act has only been intensified by the wonderfully accurate predictions and uropHecies" which she has made. Th. second big feature of the bill has AT PARAMOUNT-EMPRESS TODAY 0 , v4m, " ' -V E : , ' ': t I i rr't ? i '-&-&i? r .-JZJiH, . ,- . ; V ( V...i 1 '.;;a':v 0.f--- . , $.'1 ". M. :v:.-.: ;: - r: - ; fe ; r" ' 4 , , " ' : : . v- " '0 Douglas Fairbanks in 'his new thrilling photoplay of cattle rustling days in Wyoming, "The Man From Fainted Faint-ed Post." I been the added attraction, the marvelous marvel-ous British government war films, "The Retreat of the Germans at the Battle , of Arras." Then, in addition, the programme pro-gramme includes the stellar performances perform-ances of Jane Courrhope and company in "Our Family," an unusual sketch of everyday family life; Katherine Murray," the magnetic singing comedienne; comedi-enne; Frank Milton and the Do Long sisters, presenting "The Diamond Palace," Pal-ace," a rube picture show; the Loy-enberg Loy-enberg sisters and Xeary brothers in ' i Around the Compass,' ' a dancing turn characteristic of the north, sough, east and west; Joseph Cole and Gertrude. Ger-trude. Denahy in a series of their latest dance creations, and the ever-popular Pathe News, showing notable events in the current history of the world. Scottish residents of Salt Lake will probably be pleased with the announcement announce-ment of the Orpheum theater of the return re-turn of Jack Wyatt and his Scotch lads ana lassies as the headline attraction attrac-tion of the new bill which is to open next Wednesday evening. Jack Wyatt and his big company of Scotch players do not need an introduction intro-duction to Salt Lakers. They were one of the. greatest hits of last season, and their coming was the signal for the organization of special nights of the several clans who have representatives living in Salt Lake. Happy Jack has notified the management that this year his act is the same as last year, only that it contains more girls, a feature which eould hardly bo said to be lacking lack-ing last season from the dozen or more lasses who participated. A second feature of the bill will be Eva Tavlor and Lawrence Grattan and companv in Mr. Grattan 's latest farce, "Rocking the Boat," a comedy playlet j which Pacific coast critics, where the j act was held for a repeated engage- j ment, pronounced a "scream." A third hoadliner will be the second episode of "The Retreat of the Germans Ger-mans at the Battle of Arras," the wonderful won-derful British government war film depicting de-picting the defeat of Teuton amis on the French front at the hands of the forces of the allies. The pictures were taken on the battlefield by especially assigned camera men who risked their lives and many of them lost them in an effort to give history an indelible indeli-ble record of the achievement. The second episode is even more thrilling than the first. Additional features of the bill will be Chester Spencer and Lola Williams, laugh provokers of the first order, who a: pear in "Putting It Over." which they do in a manner all of t hoi r ow n. J oe Towle in his own peculin r entertainment enter-tainment is one of that breed known as " nut ' ' comedians an 1 will undoubtedly un-doubtedly win his place in Orpheum favor. The Three Bobs, jovial jugglers, jug-glers, and the Pa the N ews will also find place on the programme, whi-di will start with the Wednesday evening performance and continue for five day-, with matinees beginning Tiiars-iav afternoon m HE EIGHT BLACK DOTS" I are headlining with a great I joyous extravaganza entitled "Celebrating Day in Tennessee." Tennes-see." With the special scenic effects and the picturesque costumes, a bit of the "Land o1 Cotton" is transplanted to the Liberty stage, where silver-throated silver-throated artists sing the songs of the southland. Clever girls, dancing dandies and hilarious comedy situations make the act ait entertainment worthy of bigdimt notice. The other acts fon the Liberty bill are also taking well with the audiences, as has been exemplified in the large patronage the show has had during the present engagement of the Hippodrome aggregation. Crawford and Crawford made a decided hit last, night when, after doing all sorts of nifty eivtertain-iug, eivtertain-iug, they sprung a surprise ou the' audience au-dience which will be remembered as a true bit of originality. Jack Barton is that sort of comedian who endears himself to the heart of the : seeker of entertainment, and while his ; act is a single singing and talking num-i num-i ber, he is nevertheless one of the features fea-tures of the shov . Collins and Lee, billed as "the dancing dan-cing cop and the dainty soubrette, " present some e!e rev dancing, and Miss Leo gave a new- interpretation of the toe dance, which she calls her "truth toe dance. ' ' The Two Jewels are real gems in a gorgeous and rich setting, scintillating with hrinorous dialogue and catchy soncs, cheering as they go. The motion ' pictures are pleasing in every way. j A new show comes to the Liberty next j Thursday after local amateurs have had their fling Wednesday night, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, in his latest picture taken in Wyoming following his recent visit to Salt j Lake, and entitled "The. Man j From Painted Post." will he the big j feature offering at the Paramount-Em-j press today and Vrednesday, inclusive, followed for the last half of the week by winsome litMe Vivian Martin in ' The Trouble Poster, ' ' and the irrepressible irre-pressible "Fatty"' Arbuekle in his new comedy, ' 1 Oh! Doctor! " This announcement, an-nouncement, according' to the management manage-ment of the north Mam s'reet home of Artcrai't pictures, foreshadows a record week. The script for "The Man From Painted Paint-ed Post" was written by Douglas himself, him-self, and is bnsed on Jackson Gregory's recent magazine story, "Silver Slippers." Slip-pers." In the role of Fancy Jim Sher-wuo Sher-wuo i, the imm:n uhtte dude who wipes out a powerful gang of '-at tie nij.tWs. tin' snii 1 in i: tar offers a ciia ai-t,ri:"a-t i-:i that will n will, poi'uiar favor anmnir );: 1 1 ons nf clean pic t :ires. B'l.'k ii: n in oiw !io: erai -!i riding, t rick to; i"g ..A'JiJ bul i-doguing steer? yr; I among the interesting features offered , by this comedy drama of the true west. Participating in these scenes are the i champions of the world in 'their respec- frivo accomplishments, including Sam Browuell, champion bucking broncho : rider; John Judd, fancy rope artist; ' Tommy Grimes, If. A. Strickland and1 other winners at the last Rodeo compe-1 tition heh1 in Cheyenne, Wyo. It was at this meet that Douglas Fairbanks signed up the champions for '"The Man Prom 1-ain ted Post, ' ' and each individual indi-vidual gives a good account of himself in this picture. 'Instead of staging this production, in California, where his studio is located, Douglas Fairbanks took his entire company com-pany in a special train to Laramie, Wyo., where, thirty miles from the rail-, road station, he leased the Riverside ranch, covering 16d,000 acres, contain- 1 ing 30,000 head of cattle. Considered , the most picturesque ranch in Wyoming;, Wyo-ming;, this occasion marked the first time a motion picture had ever been . staged in this territory. ' "The Man From Painted Post" is i unlike any previous Fairbanks vehicle in that it affords him an opportunity to display actual histrionic talent in addition ad-dition to his own typical style of acting. In contrast to the many humorous situations sit-uations of the Fairbanks variety, are scenes of deep dr.imatic interest in which the versatile Douglas proves his ability as an actor. Supporting the star is an excellent east, including Eileen Percey. Frank Campeau, Frank Clark, Herbert Standing, William Lowry, Rhea Haines, Charles Stevens and Monte Bine. The picture was staged under the aiicotion of Joseph Hene-berry, Hene-berry, assisted by Millard Webb. MARY FFLLER appears ou the Sunday programme in " The Beautiful Impostor,'' a Star featurette. This is the story of an orphan girl who goes to the city and becomes a dressmaker 's model. Later she is employed to act as countess at a social affair, the real countess being ill. A wealthy society man whom she meets ,and falls in love with, remains re-mains true after he hears her story. "At Bav." featuring Eddie Polo ami Priseilla Dean, is one of the most exciting ex-citing of the "Gray Ghost" detective features. After a terrific explosion i Hildreth and Morn Light, leading characters char-acters in the story, are found safely hidden avvav in a secret underground ; chamber. Such interesting details oe-j oe-j cur. one after another in rapid fire succession suc-cession throughout the story, which first appeared under the title "Loot," in the Saturday Evening Post. "The Long Green Trail," a two-reel Black Cat story, completes the program pro-gram me. Tomorrow Irene Hunt will play "A Soldier of the Legion, ' a three-reel Gold Seal. The "Sign of the Cucumber," Cucum-ber," a special five-reel L-lvo scream, will also be on the bill. Tuesday is all-cojaeay all-cojaeay day. GEORGE WALSH and Enid Mar-key Mar-key will be seen at the Broadway Broad-way . S u n d ay and M o u d a y in "The Yankee Way," and the--fourth episode of the romantic roman-tic and thrilling serial, "The Fighting Trail.'' The scene of George Walsh 's . operations in "The Yankee W'ay" is the Balkans, and he is seen as Dick Mason. He sees a beautiful girl in a Chicago cabaret. He falls in love with her, and when a big ruffian comes over and starts annoying her Dick interferes. in-terferes. Result: A night in jail, a fine of $1000 and an indulgent father's determination that Dick should leave immediately for the Balkan kingdom ; of Lithuania. Old Colonel Mason has just purchased 1 a half interest in a cattle concession there. Dick is to look after his holdings. hold-ings. Dick takes with him Covote Jones, former foreman of the Mason r a n c h , and J i n l m y O M a 1 1 e y , a N e w York crook. Dick and Jimmy struck up a friendship when the latter at-I at-I empted to hold up the former. On shipboard Dick discovers that the beautiful beau-tiful girl is also present. But the brunette bru-nette lady would have little to do with Dick. However, the last night out Dick is overjoyed to receive an unsigned un-signed note: v " Dear Mr. Mason : Thanks for your interest in me, both in Chicago and aboard the ship you most wonderful boy." Meanwhile in Lithuania, the minister of finance, Count Vortsky, has been carrying on a plot with Monsieur Her- shoff, Bulgarian ambassador. Ho awaits j only word from the American purchaser pur-chaser of the half interest. Dick arrives ar-rives in Lithuania. He sees Count Arort-sky Arort-sky and agrees to give his decision about the cattle concession next morning, morn-ing, when the Princess Alexia, ruler of Lithuania, vail be present at the conference. con-ference. WITen Dick enters the council chamber next morning he discovers that Alexia is no other than his brunette beauty. When she signifies to him by a motion of her eyes, that she does not want him to dispose of his holding, hold-ing, he changes his decision to sell out and announces that he'll keep his concession. con-cession. Aortsky and Hcrshoff are enraged. en-raged. The princess thanks Dick later and meets him once or twice when nobody knows about it. And Dick loves, and the princess loves, and they are happy. Vortsky is not to be outdone. He stirs up rebellion among the Lithuanian peasants peas-ants and troops and then quells the rebellion re-bellion bv announcing that the Princess Alexia has promised to marry him. This is the truth. In secret she weeps with Dick over their own unhappy romance; in public she stolidly bears an air of resignation. Dick watches the approach of the fatal day that is to unite the woman he loves with the man he hates. Meanwhile Coyote and Jimmy disappear. disap-pear. Dick smiles bitterly, surmises that thev have returned to Chicago, and becomes' resigned. But the two faithfuls faith-fuls are planning and plotting against Vortskv. On the eve of his wedding day thev force him to sign a. note to the princess releasing her from her engagement en-gagement and ship him to Bulgaria. Dick then claims the princess as his own, and sails for America on his honeymoon. THERE is a tense atmosphere in St. Petersburg (Mo.). The natives of the town are up in arms, meetings are being held and formal protests will probably be forwarded shortly short-ly unless resolutions ot" apology are i suitably adopted and copies thereof for-1 for-1 warded from the Famous Players-Lasky Sensational Drama at Wilkes Tonight f H0aa0 hp ''H- One of the thrilling scenes in "The House 'of Glass," opening tonight for a week's run at the Wilkes theater. western studios. All owing to the fact that Jack Pickford and company recently visited the town or St. Petersburg, staved long enough to film some scenes for "Tom Sawyer," and then, like the Arabs, folded their tents and stole silently away William D. Taylor took the company to the village, but no one found it out which, considering the size of the town' is really a feat in itself worthy of commemoration, com-memoration, were it not (hat the citizens1 are so thoroughly Incensed. For years they 'have been trooping to the Bijou Dream to see Jack and his sister Mary in the celluloid. Then the former appeared ap-peared in the flesh and they missed him. True, one of the denizens of the village saw some folks get off a train one morning morn-ing with a lot of queer looking black cases, etc. The witness, however, declares de-clares that he thought thev were "government "gov-ernment engineer chaps." 'because they looked like real human heln.es and not what picture actors are supoosed to resemble. re-semble. The hotel proprietor avers that the party stayed one night at his hostelry, hostel-ry, hut that they were quiet, peaceful and did not act at all like "player folk." so he save them no special consideration. The company rented a small side-wheel steamer and filmed the scenes along the river below the town, using the steamer cabins for dressing rooms." But this the denizens of St. Petersburg did not see Afu-rward they returned to Hannibal to finish up suiun other exteriors for the fort hromi tie; Paramount production of Mark Twain's immortal bov storv. Then they departed unostentatiously. That is why St. Petersburg is even-ise,! and something will have to be done to quell the disturbance. |
