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Show AMUSEMENTS DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. ORPHEUM Tonight and the rest of the week, vaudeville bill, headed by Joseph E. Howard and his company of forty girls in "A Musical "World Revue." Matinee Thursday. PA NT AGES New six-act bill opens today, headed by famous George Primrose and his minstrels. Three shows daily. WILKES "Baby Mine" all this week. The Wilkes Players. Matinees Thursday and Saturday. SALT LAKE THEATER Thursday,' Friday and Saturday, Mine. Hammer in Ibsen dramas. MOTION PICTURES. PARAMOUNT-EMPRESS Douglas FViroanks in his new picture "Headin' South'; Burton Holmes Kangaroo Hunting- in Australia. BROADWAY- Today. Theda Bara in "The Forbidden Path.-' RIAJLTO Lillian Walker in "Kitty Makay,' a refreshingly happy story about a highland lass in a Cinderella-like role. LIBERTY Today, Wallace Reld in "The Hostage." Pathe cartoon and "The Villain's Pursuit." comedy. AMERICAN Norma Talmadge in "The Secret of the Storm Country"; Universal Weekly. STRAND William Desmond in "The Sudden Gentleman"; William S. Hart In "Cash Parrish's Bronco." Lillian Walker Is Featured in "Kitty JVIackay " at the Strand Theater Today. DELIGHTFUL indeed is the bit of human hu-man interest introduced in "Kitty Mackay," with Lillian Walker in the title role. This production, which is now showing at the Rial to theater, is laid In the quaint land of the thistle. Miss Walker, as a young lady of nobility, nobil-ity, is entertaining her iriend at afternoon after-noon tea. As a prank, ihey decide to tell their fortunes by the leaves in the teacups. Having drained her cup, captivating "Kitty" gazes fearfully into the bottom, to find tears, only tears. And the fortune for-tune comes true, too, for only a frw hours later she is startled by the discovery dis-covery that the man with whom she is in love is her brother. After days of darkness the skies clear, however, and the supposed truth of her birth is proven false, so they live happily hap-pily ever after. Programme of Unusual Variety and Excellence Promised Orpheum Patrons Pa-trons for Current Week. FOR those who like the spectacular with tuneful trimmings, there is Joseph Jo-seph E. Howard's musical world revue, newly arrived, and ihe piece r?? resistance resis-tance on the Orpheum bill which will open this evening and continue for the balance of the week, with daily matinees mati-nees The songs of any widely known composer take on added interest whm their writer interprets them, and this flavor is added to the revue, although iis colorful and animated nature would not need that to make it go. Howard's act is bitr the bicgen of its kind ever to play f)vfr the Orpheum I circuit. It has more than two score of 1 people in its prsonnM and they have been picked for their fitness to th several ; duties d'-volviner upon them. Thr.- is : George Fox, Ethel yn Clark, Hnrrv Mil-I Mil-I lor and others among the principal's, and a large and step-lively chorus th;it con- tains some p;n ti'-ip-'uits of ebony hue. Songs, dances and elaborate scenery feature fea-ture the act, with a particularly effective effec-tive finale. As a second headliner of the bill the Orpheum will offer Bessie Rempel, the talented dramatic actress in the svm- , bohc playlet, "You," which was written j by her sister, Harriet, who a short time I ago appeared at the Orpheum in the j Washington Square Players' success, "Just Around the Corner." Jack King and Morton Harvey, In a song programme of unusual excellence; , the "Five of Clubs," in "A Pierrot's Dream"; Doc O'Neil. with his laugh prescriptions: pre-scriptions: Leonore Simonsen, late prima donna with the New York Hippodrome and soloist with Sousa's band; Claude M. ; Roode and Estelle France, with some- ; hing new upon the slack wire; and the i Pathe News, showing notable events, will comprise the balance of the bill. George Primrose and Minstrel Company Headliners of Pantages Theater Bill, Opening Today. GEORGE PRIMROSE, who headlines the new bill opening at Pantages this ! afternoon, is too well known to need a ! lengthy discussion. It is sufficient to i isay that this popular minstrel star will, 'appear in person at every performance,: i in association with the talented company he has gathered. With him are Earl Woods, Ned Silvers, John Goos, Harvey Goodnow. Cliff Berger, Albert Wilson and Jack Rowland, favorite comedians and singers. I As an added attraction to the bill. Manager Man-ager Frank Newman announces the Swedish violinist, Jan Rubini. a remarkable remark-able interpreter of the violin; Senator Francis Murphy, the "All Senator"; Tom Kvle and company, presenting "The Doctored Doc-tored Widow," a laughable sketch; the Finlev-Hili Trio, in "Vodvil a la Mode," a unique and surprising act; Martlette's Marionettes, In "Stars From Toyiand." an unusual feature in vaudeville. These, with a two-reel comedy feature, constitute consti-tute the bill opening at Pantages this afternoon af-ternoon and running through the entire week. Theda Bara to Be Seen in "The Forbidden For-bidden Path" at the Broadway Theater Today. THEDA BARA'S newest starring vehicle, ve-hicle, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, Ed-wards, commences at the Broadway today for four days' run, entitled "The Forbidden For-bidden Path." In this production Miss Bara forsakes the costumed productions whi'-h she hits been appearing in and returns re-turns to a story of contemporary life and conditions. Miss Bara lakes the part of Marv Lynde. who first sees a dimmer of hope come into her bedraggled life when an artist asks her to pose as model for a painting of the M;idnna. At his studio she mef-.ts Robert Sinrlair, a wealthy man about town, who immediately immedi-ately eees a nw field of conquest in I he pretty sirl. Mary' ?oe.i out with Sinclair. Sin-clair. It is the story of so many work-Ins work-Ins girls. lie promises to marry her. lie does not. She seks refuse anions the very dress of the populace. There the artist finds her oncp more. A sain he tis-ks hf-r to poce for him. this time for a portrait to be entitled 'Sin." She meets strain the man who has caused her downfall. down-fall. Sinclair i? about to be married. Marv threatens blackmail, and be pays her "money. Then Mary tells the whole storv to Barbara, and the betrothed, sympathetic, sym-pathetic, plans with her to got revenue on Sinclair. |