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Show Salt Lake Patrons Treated to Fine Film, Portrayal QTOLEX ORDERS," the film -which is & shown at the Suit Lrfike theater this week, holds many surprises and the plot is not so prematurely evident as in some other war pictures which have thus tar made thlr appearance. The workings of the German spy system in American furnishes fur-nishes subject matter for the play. It may be said in praise of the melodrama that it does noc take the reader from America to Europe and frcm Europe to America intermittently. It does not show the kaiser as he probably never looked upon the day when he was formulating the plans for his army marchings through Bf Igium. The interest of the fairlv large house which attended the opening performance per-formance did not wane. When the audience is not fearful lest Kitty Gordon as the wife of an admiral in the navy will be, caught in companv with German ambassadors they are hoping that she will not reach the foreign agents with the sealed orders. Montagu love does himself justice in the roll of an American who sins to save the life of his daughter and finds it so difficult to evade evil that he Becomes so mean as to plot against the land of his hlrth. A golden Chinese image whose possession brings about strange things and leads to further dfopings In the plot causes a spirit of fatalism to Impress Itself upon one throughout the play. "The Forbidden City" With Eeal Chinese Settings, Film Cfleang at the American. QNB of the greatest difficulties en-" en-" countered during the filming of . The Forbidden City." the Chinese story m which Norma Talmadge is starred at the American theater today. Wednesday and Thursday, was in finding a typical Ch nese garden for the setting. Joseph Kothman, location expert for all of Miss J almadge s productions, scoured the country and at last found a Chinese gar-V.?!1 gar-V.?!1 at ",a Farm Inn, Napinoch, near Ellensvllle, N. Y. P. U Yuam, the Chinese research expert ex-pert who was assisting Mr. Rothman and the technical director In the selection of sets and UTopertles, was called In. Mr Yuam visited Yama Farms, and, after looking at the garden, declared that it so close y resembled gardens In China one would Imagine they were walking in the emperor s grounds. Miss Talmadge and her company were busy at Yama 1-arnis Inn for several weeks. All of the outdoor scenen In the early part of the story were taken at this place, and a number of former Pekinese have since declared that the scenes remind them of 5ne famous gardens in their native VAI'DEVILLB AX1) DRAMA. ORrHEl M New vniidMllle bill iprnl tonIghI. two Rlunv.. lit 8 p. m. nnd 10:30 p. m "On the Hl?h Soap," with conipuriT of twenty, unci Waller C. Kelly, heudl'lners. Extra New Year's eve attractions. Mntinees start tomorrow. PANTAOES BUI now plnyinff. headed by ''Tlio Spanish Dancers." Five other big acts. New bill Wednesday. Three performances daily. , SOCIAL HALL "AndroclM nnd the Lion," n ; . romedv by Bernard Shaw, with Maurice ; Browne in the liading role. Kunning till week. WILKES The "Wilkes Plnyers, with Mny Buck. lev, in "Tim 13th Chair." Mntlnrpn Thursday Thurs-day and Saturday. Special New Year s day matinee. MOTION PICTURES. PR AMOUNT-EM PRESS Maurice Tourncur's massive screen eptc of the turf, "Sporting Life." Continuous, 12:30 to 11 p. m. AMERICAN Norma Talmadge in "The For- htddf;n City," Chinese play of great dramatic intensity. STRAND Belle Bennett in "Last Rebel"; Bryant Wnshburn in "Kidder & Co." LIBERTY Henry Kolker In "The Warning. " The Liberty features dally a good comedy and a scenic picture. BROADWAY Today, tomorrow and Thursday, Douglas Fjiirl.ankri. thu great favorite nf all, in his best picture, "Manhattan Madness." Mad-ness." RIALTO "Empty Pockpts," by Herbert Brenon. Bre-non. today; Monroe Salisbury, "Hngon the Mighty," tomorrow. |
