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Show Max Figman Is Seen In Rollicking Farce Inimitable Fcotlig'ht Humorist Humor-ist Is Greeted by Host of Admirers. IT Is lucky for Max Figman that he was born when he was. A generation's delay, with the present trend of the times, and there would not have been in all these W. C. T. United Stales the makings or' an audience sympathetic sym-pathetic to his super-brand of humor. The Figman quality of humor is never duplicated off the "stage, except in the manner of a ma n of hrilliam mind and personality when through that mind and personality sparkles just enough of the "old familiar juice" to make his friends wonder if perchance he has had a d;am. And with Figman the manner is nat-,uralf nat-,uralf even to the velvet caress of his tongue to the words he speaks. Imagine a Figman born in a grape-juice age p n age without a norm against which to measure the subtleties of his humor. Imagine, too. a play in which a man lays a wage that he will for a night and half of two days t;ll "Nothing 'it the Truth." Will any such uaer bo made in twenty years from now? But Max .was safely horn when he should have been, and his audience, fully educated, is full strong in numbers, though the schools where they got their learning ore cLosrng daily. A Firman audience was at the Salt Lake theater last night, to the full seating capacity of the sturdy old s'.'owliouse and that same showhouse was railed upon ouc more to hold its stoui sides to steady the mirthful mirth-ful rnckim-'j; within. La st night Figman wa s rifT'ls ard whenever he was not tinkering with the risibilities of hi;i audiunce some onn of his able a. bet tors were right at hand to keep the fun at frolic sneed. Clem F.evins as Clarence Van Jensen, a man who would look any .'-'h't animal in the mouth and feel its teeth, is an ideal foil for Figman. He pari icip-Ues as one of three who endeavor to LMl -Mr. - i TIRANA AND VAUDi-:VI"LI.E. PAI--T T.AlvE M:i'L: lie e tn!:v. toniplit :,nrl Timrsday, ll.ix Pieman in "Nothine llui the Try Hi. " AVIUKEP Faroe comedy, "Ncurly Marricd." Iluns all week, wilh matinees Tlioryday and Saturday. OI;r.llKl'.M "I'Tmimit, "The- Oirl With the Thousand lOyes" and "The Retreat Re-treat ot t ie ijermans at Arras." l.Ih'ERTY Hippotli-onle vaudeville, Wilh Jack Stewart's "1017 Girl Revue" as the headlincr. MOTION" IMCTLT.KS. rARAMOl'XT-KMT'RESS Marine-rite Marine-rite Clark in "Pah's Diary"; Paths News Review and war Katures. AMERICAN 1'oroihy Pliihips !n , "Triiunnli"; Alire Howell in "Auto-maniaes." "Auto-maniaes." . ! ! STRAND Clara Khnhall Yotllipr in I "The Easiest Way." 1 P.ROADWAY Today and tomorrow, "Rasputin, the P.Ia.'k Monk." : MEIIESY Fortl Slirlirjct in Keystone- j Mack Sennett scream, "Stars and 1 liars"; Joker comedy. j ; i PK'm'in a lie after he has wagered SlO.O-tO that he will toll the truth for twenty-four twenty-four hours, and that whilr he pazed on a portrait ot" Genre-e Washington. Van Dus-.-n has a third interest in the warer. And I,olit:i Robortsoii,, as (;v,ndolyn Italstou, has a JO.OOO inierest in the wa;:er. witliout knowing it, and ur.con-5c:iousiy ur.con-5c:iousiy -she pushes fort nne to a very fintrer-nail hold in constancy in i;cr cauye. And sii.j do.-s it with an artlcss-iiOHs artlcss-iiOHs that is rare re:i-?o:iine for the stew into which all embroil tkcniselve?. Frederick Trobridge as K M. Ralston, fat'ner of the youn woman around v, hom t he swift coii.ecly spin.-, proves himself to be a character actor of the graphic a i ) : 1 i i ies of a movie favorite. He is the "gxiai ," and realizes it in increashmly funny degrees of progress to complete dollar knowledge. The show, of course, is rhe pen product of James Montgomery, written for Wil -" liam Collie:' from the novel of Frederick Isham. It ironies with a reputation from the. effete e-art, even New York. i;ut Max Figman comes hack to a reputation in Salt Lake. And as the years go by his audience may dwindle, but it will never !o--e i ts understandine; of the Kigrnan brand of humor . A few there will be ro remember this humor, eve: when college professors of the next" generation endeavor en-deavor to explain it in academic terms to young; persons who will understand it as little as they do the classics. The presentation of Mr. Figman and company by G. M. Anderson and L. Lawrence Law-rence in the present play will be continued con-tinued at the Salt Lake tonight and tomorrow to-morrow night, with a matinee this a:-ternoon. a:-ternoon. . Bill of Unusual Merit to Feature Week at the Orpheum Theater. a . CONFERENCE Bil.L of unusual strength is promised for Orphc-um natrtns tl'i.s eveidng. L?ona LaMar, who i calls berself "The Girl With rhe Thou-! Thou-! Land Eyes." will be the headlincr of tlie bill. While actually, of course, she i m - only enf pair of ojfics, (his pair does the i work of one thousand in fact, uoe;'. , things tthat cys are not supposed to do,, as they look into the future and, again quoting Mi.s LaMar, "she sees all. knows all and tells all " Miss LaMar is a phenomenon. For many years she h.is baffled the greatest scientific bodies of t!:c nation and other.1 seeking to uncover the "why" of her supernatural qualities. Mh's LaMar describes her powers as a simple w oi k in mental telepathy. An added attraction to the prr-gramm?. will be the. exclusive presentation at the 'Orpheum of the first eplyodc of the mar-! mar-! velous war films, ''The Ker.rea t of the Germans at the Battle of Arias." The.-? ' bictures, a newspaper pro-view of -vhich was given several days ago, are wonderful wonder-ful in their depiction o ( w ar as it is a tually beint? carried t on in Fiance at tiie present lime. On the va u d c v i 1 1 e menu will be f ou n d this week Jane c'om-thope. and her company com-pany in "Our Family," an incident of over day life in the ordinary American lazily; Karherine Murray, tknown as "I'ncle Sn m's Girl," the magnetic sing-i sing-i n ? c orn e d i p n n e ; Fran h N i 1 1 o n a u d i i i e Lel.-onr sisters, presenting "T-he Iiiamond Inlace." a rube picture show; the Lovcn-borg Lovcn-borg sisters and Neary i rot hers in "Around the Com pass. " introducing soi.gs nn.i dances cho raoteri.sric of the north, f-outh, east and west, and Joseph Cole an.i Gertrude Dr nahy in a series of their latent dance creations. The matinees, which begin tomorrow afternoon, will start promptlv at 2:30 o'clock and t ne e cuing performances, commencing tonight, to-night, wil! open at S:30 o'clock. J,(Kasputin( the Elatk Monk Is Film ! Feature at Broadway Theater Today and Tomorrow. I - ' 'IP son:at-on anfl thrill in feat arc . ; "fiasputin. the Pdack Monk." will b.- seen at the Broadway today and tomorrow. tomor-row. Thi,s production has Iveen produce. I wit !i n notably brilliant cast. Lavpu; in, the black monk of R r. -. ia . is the si rangest figure of modern t inn-s Uo:n ;:nd lred a peasant of the hi; tvi I l : -s i R'M-t. he was raised by the force of ids hvnnoi ic power." over women and iy :;i a r i hag circti msta nces In a poi n L wiie he was the rea 1 czar of liu.ssia. Win ' hi this commanding posit ion be cn-i'tavurPd cn-i'tavurPd to m;ike a separate )(irc will ilermany for the purpose of bi-in-r.!rr ai'ont the downfall of Kusia and :'n -th.-.r ircn:nsing his vast i cwcr. Hut Ras-v-min's desires made him ovei-reach him-sc!t. him-sc!t. The libei I --lnvjm,'. m cups in lac "' i pj'v souiht his life. Then, unexnc.-i-e-lP . Rasputin met hi deaih. No; a thing has been o-crJonkorl to m:,ko 'Rasputin, the Black Monk." more di a mat ica 11 v effective an;! iinpros.-i ve . It ells the true storv of the iins'-ian r-'-vn-iniinr, and lie fall of the Roniaiinfrs. and is one of the most vitally important ni--ti.roK ot the year. ' Faip.ons Clara Kimball Youn in 'Thc Easiest W.'.y" Irs Strand At- ; traction Today. j pLAlLV K TT RA LL VOL NO in "Tlie Ecsicst Wav." a ph 0d v;. ma version f wi.ai h".s bc-n r-'-o-m.-d ih-- v:;- .-c-t A ;r.;Mhan d'a ma. will hr- t attra 'ion a the Strand theai.-r tla- m-yi j tinee days. This Sl.nirk - "ict n-s pi.-! d :t lion w as din ci.-.i j ,y AP .-a i. "a ;.---!..,;; i. ' wii won the liiLrlvst la':r.'-!s Willi 'Ai 1 S'-'vn vi-rsinn of " T i : Q i 'or. ; :n on I,a vv. ' 'rh-' biasiesl Way" is by ;-;:;--ne W:d!-r, ' .aunil.er d isl mil;: i : slici i ad".;i!if-n i n p.-i of i,.p-n ir ambors '.vim :ij v o f '.rn is ' ,c i S. A. n ick - I ,ictu'"i'S sroi'b'S. 'i'his play was imk- of lb-1 rr-'Htr.t s;,a- '.'s-. oi' 'n,- Am--riran si gc. I'liiiiiii- '. t-ia. t-ia. i :- :. rs on I'.;o ,., ay, on tho ..: d in s;nck. The pbo: !,,S(..S p,,,,. of tli" i..i.-r of t!:c original, hut. on . i:tr,:ry. a-j Is mai.y j . r w and i n tvi es; : n : "The Miir.ic World, ' ' With Thirty Ferplc, Mostly Girls, to Head- I Line Fr nt ages Bill. t'ici-.-st and hf-st m-:-;.al orr-.-dv '.' er tii .rin? ya:; i' . r- t i--:..--1 --ad :s '-..-:!!-- r-... t,p f,,..r ' ' Is. ; ra i yeis in a :r-1 ; .n. r.;:y- ' r' &:-d sp--aa! lor .y., c ::':: :y, to |