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Show ' " j AT THE SALT LAKE THEATER ALL THIS WEEK COMEDY-DRAMA AT WILKES THIS WEEK One of the scenes in "A Woman's Way," which will he presented by the Wilkes players, with Nana Bryant, opening tonight and continuing through the week. , DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. PANTAGES Seven hip features. ,; vaudeville hill, headlined by "The Eleven Hyenas, " Japanese acrobats. Three shows lo.lay. 7:15. 8 anil 9:30 p. m. New bill opcn Wednesday afternoon. WILKES "A Woman's Way," presented pre-sented by Hie Wilkes Players. Matinees Thursdny and Saturday. SALT LAKE Week commencing Monday. May 6, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday, "The Wanderer." with Nanco O'Neil, : James O'Neill. Charles Dalton, Frederick Lewis and others In the dramatic spectacle. OftPHEUM Last times today, vaudeville vaude-ville bill, with Nelllo V. Nichols, Vanity Pair of 1918 and "Tho Cor ner Store." MOTION PICTURES. PARAMOUNT - EMPRESS Charles Ray In "Playing the Game"; Burton Bur-ton Holmes In Hawaii; Patho News. Commencing Thursday, Blllle Burke In "Let's Get a Divorce." Continuous, Continu-ous, 12:30 to 11 p. m. RIALTO Today only. Douglas Fair-.r. Fair-.r. banks In "Swat tho Kaiser"; Eddie Polo In "Sold at Auction": "The Enchanted En-chanted Kiss," an O. Henry story in pictures; "Tho Trunk Mystery," an adventure' of Grant, Police reporter; re-porter; the Universal Animated Weekly, and a Pathe cartoon com-, com-, edy. Tomorrow, Mary Miles Mlnter m "Powers That Prey" and Billlo " Rhodes In the comedy, "Up In the Air." BROADWAY Sunday and Monday. Tom Mix in "Western Blood", and also "The Speeding Doom of the Woman in the Web," with Hedda Nova and J. Frank Glendon. Tuesday Tues-day only. William S. Hart in "Hell's '; Hinges." J AMERICAN Constance Talmadge in "Scandal"; comedy. STTRAND Ambassador James W. Gerard, 's "My Four Years In Ger-V Ger-V many." Jj LIBERTY Monroe Salisbury and ftuth Clifford in "Tho Red. Red Heart," a stirring western drama. , f j HE sumptuous dramatic spectacle, I "The Wanderer," which .will I be the attraction at tho Salt Lako theater Monday night, May 6, and continue throughout the week, might never liavo been produced had not William Elliott, P. Ray Com-' Com-' stock and Morris Gest found them-I them-I ii'-selves with the lease on the big Man- haltan opera house, New York, on their :, hands and no attraction of sufficient magnitude, dramatic appeal and scenic .. possibilities to put into it. Some play much out of tho ordinary had to be pre-... pre-... gented there if the glories of the house, when it was the homo of grand opera, :: were to be revived. . Accordingly they engaged the bril-', bril-', Hunt young playwright, Maurice V. Samuels, to construct a dramatic version ver-sion of the well known parable of the Prodigal Son. When the manuscript was finished the master genius of the American theater, David Belaseo, was given a free hand to stage it with even greater spectacular magiiifieanee and colorful costuming than are lavished on grand opera. This iniKf havp liepn done for where- sbow at Pantages, beginning May S, according ac-cording to Manager Frank Newman. Alaska, in all its fascination and charm, is portrayed on the screen with wonderful realism, and its many interesting inter-esting phases are shown with faithful attention to detail. Beverly Dobbs never made a better picture, or gave any subject more study than he did when he photographed Alaska's scenes in "The Top of the World. ' ' 'You feel the witchery and fascination fascina-tion of the beautiful mountains," says Manager Frank Newman, "and the spell, which the 'silent witness' that alluring country lays on its inhabitants, inhabit-ants, is easily understandable after you 'live in Alaska' as you do whon you are watching this picture." "The Top of the World" pictures will constitute the moving picture feature fea-ture on the regular Pantages six-act vaudeville bill, beginning Wednesday, May 8. CHARLES RAY, whose popularity among the followers of the silent drama places him among the leading stars of the screen, will be featured at the Paramount-Empress -today and for the following three days, in his latest picture, entitled "Playing the Game." For the balance of the week Billie Burko in "Let's Get a Divorce," Di-vorce," will be the offering, together with a hilarious Mack Sennett comedy. Young, piquant and talented Doris. Lee is the leading lady for Charles Ray, the Thomas H. Inco star, in his newest Paramount picture, "Playing the Game." Miss Lee is one of the best actresses of the vounger school of film luminaries, lumi-naries, and as the daughter of a rancher in this photoplay she appears to excellent excel-lent advantage. "Plaving the Game" was written by Julieu Josephson. and is said to be the most impelling story that has been given Mr. Ray in a long time. Miss Lee is delightfully cast as a brave, resourceful re-sourceful Arizona, girl, high-spmted and filled with the vim and vigor of the cattle country. .' . Others in the supporting cast include Robert McKim, who will be seen as a rough ranch foreman; Lillian Lorraine, as a butterfly along the bright way, and Billv Elmer, as a prize fighting valet. The situations are strong, the atmosphere convincing and the theme of the story most wholesome.. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in "Swat the Kaiser" is. the bright, particular par-ticular star in the Rialto's Sunday Sun-day offering, and with this ex-, tra attraction there -is Eddie Polo in "Sold at Auction." one of the Bulls-eye Bulls-eye stories; " The Enchanted Kiss," an. 0. Henrv picture; "The Trunk Mys-: terv, " a"n adventure of" Grant, Police Reporter; the Universal Animated. Weekly and a Pathe cartoon comedy. For Monday, one day only, Mary. Miles Minter, the screen 's most popular ingenue, east as Sylvia Grant in the latest American-Mutual' production, "Powers That Prey," is given a peculiarly pe-culiarly happy role. Miss Minter lias been seen usually in such characterizations as were designed de-signed to emphasize the laughing, happy hap-py girlish habit of the star, and there have been few instances in which she has appeared under circumstances demanding de-manding that she take, the initiative in important events. In "Powers That Prey ".Miss Minter Min-ter is' cast as the daughter of a newspaper news-paper editor beset by "Powers That Prey." She assumes control of the paper' pa-per' in her father's absence and flays his traducers until they scream- for : i ii him i i in sin ii i ii iiiiiiisiMTTTiiMP""-rraTgirran,r- '-"Trnft'imt-'- Jean Robertson, Lionel Braham and Natrona Thomas, in "The Wanderer," coming to the Salt Lake theater Monday, May 6. ' The cast also includes Nance O'Neil, James O'Neill, Charles Dalto.n, Frederick Lewis and other prominent players. cry and he's made others cry. He's going to get $6000 for this album, and I'm going to stick here by him till he does." The bidding was renewed and the album brought $7500 from the daughter of Seuator Clark. She presented it to the soldier to take to France and show the boys "over there.". Mr. Keenan bought apig for $300 during the sale. Mrs. K'eeuan bad it roasted and sent to. the men at San Pedro, the .submarine base. PRESIDENT CARL LAEMMLE . of the Universal Film Manufacturing Manufac-turing company of New York, " "announces a new plan whereby the employees and officers of the New , V-ork offices . alone have subscribed .to the - third Liberty loan $195,000, as follows: The Universal Film Manufacturing Manufac-turing company, $100,000-; officers and employees; $95,000. Mr. Laemmle stimulated the subscription subscrip-tion by paying the first installment of 5 per cent on every bond bought by employees in the department which subscribed the largest proportion of its .yearly salary. The accounting department depart-ment won the contest, by subscribing 26 per cent of its salaries. When the . actors employed in the coast studios are heard from, the total Will amount to more than half a million, mil-lion, a telegram from Universal City says. TOM MIX will be at the Broadway 'Sunday and Monday in a of pleasure in Jerusalem in the days of Solomon the Wise. It is here the Prodigal . Son wastes "his substance wiljh riotous living," becomes enamored of a Babylonian siren, who strips him even of his clothes. The last act brings "The Wanderer" back to the home of his father, where forgiveness awaits him. . A popular priced matinee will be played ; on Wednesday and a regular matinee on Saturday. r-piHE eternal, triangle " is solved I in an intensely novel manner in "A Woman's Way," which is the offering of the Wilkes Players, with Nana Bryant( this week, the opeuing performance ot which will be given tonight. It is the old, old story old to every woman, and yet one that shocks her to her heart 's core, when she faces such a situation. Some women go under, un-der, other women rise above it; still others have a big enough love to forgive for-give their husbands. The last contingency is that portrayed por-trayed in "A Woman's Way," and the manner in which the wife wins her husband makes up one of the most dramatic, yet gleeful, comedies ever presented. Act 1 shows the Stanton home besieged be-sieged by newspaper men, each striving to get a "scoop" for his paper. An automobile accident the night before, to three old sweethearts besides Howard" How-ard" the brother-in-law who was so "righteously" indignant with Howard; her own brother and Oliver Whitney, who was, before Mrs. Stanton 's marriage, mar-riage, a sweetheart of her own. This act is replete with surprising situations, perplexing predicaments and sparkling with witty repartee. Act three shows t lie resourcefulness of the American newspaper reporter, and the way in which he makes (as he thinks) an astounding announcement-together announcement-together with the brilliant counter-play of the quick-witted Mrs. Stanton, bringing - a climax which makes the house sit up with surprise and interest. ' ' A Womau 's Way ' ' is one. of the most entertaining, mirth-provoking comedy-dramas given at the Wilkes theater this season, and the scenery and stage settings are particular! attractive. The play will rim through the week, with the usual matinees Thursday 'and Saturday. Beginning tonight, evening performances perform-ances at the Wilkes theater will commence com-mence at 8:25. The matinee opening time, 2:30, remains the same, however. WHEN a vaudeville bill combines com-bines three such exceptionally clever features as Kalmar and Brown, in "Nursery Land"; Fradkin, world-renowned violinist, and Marion Harris, sparkling singer of syncopated syn-copated songs, there's certain to be talented and beautiful soprano, assistB the violinist in making tho act one of the . most artistic and thoroughly enjoyable en-joyable of its kind on the stage today. Miss Harris is the last, word in bewitching be-witching charms, and when she adds her beauty and sparkling vivaciousuess to her ability to sing syncopated songs in a manner to rival the greatest of all such singers, then she must indeed be accorded stellar vaudeville honors. Miss Harris does all these things, and on Broadway she is heralded as one of the best beloved of all the pretty and talented misses who have graduated from the Ziegl'icld Midnight Frolic. Other excellent features on the bill are Cooper and Ribinson, probably the funniest and most popular of all Ethibpan vaudeville teams: La Zier-Worth Zier-Worth company, in "Arf Evening at Home," a decided novelty; Harry De Coe, a daring fellow who docs all 'sorts of thrilling stunts with tables and chairs, and Brown and Newman, who dance, sing and chatter in a delightful delight-ful manner in their skit called "Nonsense "Non-sense at Columbus Circle." ONE of the strongest vaudeville bills seen at Pantages is that of this week, and the packed house at every performance attests Salt Lake's appreciation,' declares Manager Man-ager Newman. Heven big features and six big vaudeville acts comprise the bill. .know the party was to be '--a ''costume affair." Tex gets this man outside and forces the man to change clothes with him. Later Tex is giving a party on the ranch. He arrays all the cowboys in full-dress suits, 'despite their pro-bssts. pro-bssts. Enemies of the government raid tne ranch, capture Roberta and carry her acro'ss the border. The thrilling way in which Tex rescues her forms the conclusion of this gripping drama. In addition to this will also be seen "The Speeding Doom" of "The Woman Wom-an in the Well." starving He.l.la and J. Prank Glendon. I.N her new picture, "Scandal," which is scheduled for showing 4 the American 1 healer todavpj tomorrow, Constance Taimadge portrays the character of a high-spirited society girl, spoiled and capricious, with the depths of her real womanliness unstirred. The story has been written for the screen fsom Cosmo Hamilton's fascinating novel of the same name, and is filled with amusing complications complica-tions and tense action. Beautrix Vanderdyke, child of rich parents among the socially elect, is pronounced pro-nounced one of the most . successful debutantes of the season. She is spoiled to her heart's content, and insists on her own wTay with the royal arrogance of a young queen. Left much to her own devices by a father and mother too .busy to inquire into her ways, she has only the adoring Mrs. Keane, her chaperone, to guide her. Mrs. Keane is a charming English woman, too. foolishly foolish-ly fond of Beatrix to curb her headstrong head-strong impulses, and the girl is allowed to do pretty much what she pleases. Beatrix becomes interested in Sutherland Suth-erland Yorke, whose portraits of society so-ciety women bring him in a comfortable income, and more enamored of his wicked reputation than of himself, .enters .en-ters into a flirtation. She recklessly visits his studio at night, but at Yorke 's first misstep leaves him in icy anger. Her visits to the artist's apartment apart-ment become known to the family, .who determine to send her west out of harm 's way. In order to avert the sentence sen-tence of exile, Beatrix, on the spur of the moment, declares herself secretly married to Pelham Franklin, a wealthy young eligible of her set, whose apartment apart-ment is directly across the corridor from Yorke 's, and explains that she Jl was in Franklin's rooms, not Yorke 'sf. The family is delighted with 0 news, for Beatrix has been somejjr't of a problem, and hasten to wjBcome Franklin into the fold. She reaches him first and implores him to play the (Continued on Following Page.) Iigured in prominently oy Howard Stanton and an "(Jnknown woman, is the reason for the "offensive" by the reporters. Stanton 's brother-in-law comes in and upbraids Stanton for being be-ing so indiscreet; Mrs. Stanton appears on the scene, and, instead of "going to pieces,'' as they anticipate, she proceeds pro-ceeds to treat her husband as a wayward way-ward child, who should be taught to do better, much to her own amusement, ap- j pareutly, and to the husband's chagrin, j She refuses to be jealous, and the j curtain goes down on the startling an- ' nouncenient made by her that she in- j tends inviting the "other woman" to j dinner, so that Howard may have a j chance to choose between them. The second act shows the two fain- ! ilies-in-law gathered together under the Stantons' hospitable roof for the dinner party, with the guest of honor, the "unknown woman." otherwise Mrs. i Blakemore. On presenting her to the different members of the families, Mrs. Stanton (who has gained the knowledge knowl-edge beforehand), takes a mischievous i delight in introducing Mrs. Blakemore enougn variety, artistry and enarm "about it to please even the most fastidious, fas-tidious, according to Manager Levy, and this is what the new Orpheum bill, opening next Tuesday evening, will probably do, inasmuch as it embraces just about everything worth while in variety offerings. First, there are Bert Kalmar and Jessie Jes-sie Brown, two as clever artists as ever stepped upon the vaudeville stage, when it comes to characterizations. Their "Nursery Land" is based upon the Mother Goose story book characters, charac-ters, and gives the two splendid chances to vent their vaudeville talents. All the favorites of- the nursery are depicted, de-picted, with a charm that appeals to old and young alike, and midst scenic settings that are both charming, and novel. Fradkin, the great American .violinist, .violin-ist, is universally hailed as one of the world 's master violinists. He ranks with Spalding and other great masters, and his coming is anticipated by Salt Lake music lovers in the nature of a real musical event. Miss Jean Tel), a mercy. . Miss Minter plays Sylvia Grant with thoroughly convincing, power. She is at home in the part. In addition to . the Marv Miles Minter Min-ter picture, there is Billie Rhode's in her latest comedy, "Up iiythe Air." 1" RANK KEENAN recently took Lj charge of the auctioning of a i photograph album filled with pictures of film stars for. the Red Cross, after the bidding began to lag. The sale took place in the Hotel Alexandria in Los Angeles. Mr, Keenan Kee-nan 's impassioned plea moved the crowd ribout the booth to tears. Spirited Spirit-ed bidding followed, in which the offers were raised $500 at a time. In the midst of the bidding a khaki-clad khaki-clad soldier leaped to the platform beside be-side the Pathe star. . . "Hold it, Mr. Keenan," he shouted. "Make 'em give you $6000." Then turning to the spectators the soldier added: "T'velieen hearing this man try to get money dt of you. He's made me smashing, gripping drama with , wonderful riding and .acting, and a big- punch, entitled "Western Blood." In this big feature Tom Mix plays the' role, of Tex Wilson, a ranch owner of th'e"true American type, who has contracted to gather horses for the government. ' His place is in . New Mexico. He is on his way to Los Angeles An-geles with a shipment, and, when -near the city, he leaves-the train, mounts his horse and gallops ahead. Oh the outskirts of the city he sees a horse running away with a girl. He races to her side, and lifts her from her saddle onto the back of his owii horse. The girl is annoyed, because, as she tells him, she believes she could have managed the horse herself if he had not bothered her. She soon calms down and shows a liking for Tex. She is Roberta, the daughter of Colonel Stevens, Ste-vens, who is in charge of. the United States remount station in Los Augeles. The girl invites Tom to a party. As soon as he arrives, he- finds he "is the only man not.-, in . full dress. An ail -mirer of Roberta declares he didn't VAUDEVILLE PATRONS PROMISED MUSICAL TREATS ON ORPHEUM BILL I CLEVER EQUESTRIANS COMING TO THE PANTAGES t C ever "The Wanderer" has so far been I -hown. the consensus of opinion has been that "it is the most sumptuous dramatic spectacle over presented on any stage." Another claim for the unusual that - ''The Wanderer'' possesses, -lies in the remarkable all-star cast with whieh it is portrayed. Among the notable players play-ers who were in the original New York s cast and will be seen here, are Nance O'Neil, the favorite of three continents conti-nents and star of "Magda," "The j Fires of St. John," "The Lily" and i other advanced drama; James O'Neill. " the grand old man, of the American stage, whose "Count of Monte Cristo" will never be forgotten; Charles Dalton, I ' '. . who starred for years in "The Sign of the Cross": Frederick Lewis, lerfdlng t man for many seasons with Sofhern I .iml Marlowe; Florence Auer ot' the .' same organization: Lionel Braham. who created in this country the role of "Caliban" at tle Harvard stadium last season; Jean Robertson, the Aus- '; tralian beauty and star; Gertrude Davis, Da-vis, Langdon West, Sydney Herbert. v Henry Duecan. Sydney Mather and an ensemble of more than 200 players altogether. al-together. This includes a ballet of ninety, led by the Russian premier dansense. Franceska Karmenova. in a dancing scene of barbaric splendor at the revelry of the idolators of Ishtar, - who had set up a strong rivalry to the Judaic faith in ancient Jerusalem. The story of "The Wanderer" is - said to follow closely the Bihlical lines - as recorded in St. Luke, chapter 15. The opening scene of the play shows '.' the pastoral home of Jesse, the patri-arch, patri-arch, father of the Prodigal Son. Here ; among the sunlit hills of Hebron. ; amidst peace and plentitude. Jether. as the Prodigal Son. is named in "The Wanderer," snends his youth, feeding t his father's flocks. But one day he : falls in with Tola, a ne'er-do-well, who -' fires his imagination bv bis tales of the wonders of the great city of Jerusalem. Tola persuades Tether to demand his portion of his father so that he mav , , venture forth into the world in search ; of fame and fortune. Jether obtains T his patrimony with the help of his v mother, who. with a woman 's intuition, senses dangpr for her boy as he relates his plans. "I fear the city," she tells : him, "and. more than all, I fear the , women of the city. J St. Luke savs tersely that the Prodi-! Prodi-! gal Son "took his journev into a far I country, and there wasted his substance -' with riotous living." From this mea-; mea-; ger description Playwright Samuels and Stage Director Bplaseo have builded a second act for "The Wanderer" which .. is said to surpass for oriental magnificence magnifi-cence and gorgeous coloring and liv-ish liv-ish costuming anything ever shown on the stage before. The scene represents a gilded palace Ii Those clever Japanese acrobats, "The Eleven Uyenas," perform some of the most amazing muscular feats seen on the vaudeville stage. Their stage setting and scenery is particularly particu-larly beautiful, and the balancing skill displayed by the different membe rs of the troop bring forth well-merited applause. ap-plause. . Pantages patrons invariably demand "more" when James (Fat) Thompson and company conclude their act. These natural comedians handed out laughs by the seore, and if anything was camouflaged, cam-ouflaged, it certainly was not the merriment. mer-riment. The third big drawing card on this week's bill is Lee "Hop and companv. These talented Chinese musicians plav the . violin, the saxophone, the xylophone, xylo-phone, the trombones and cornets, with an ease and grace seldom equaled. No-one is more dainty and charming than Hope Vernon, who sings her songs with a bewitching manner that wins her audience immediately, and her imitations imi-tations on various musical instruments are excellent. Silber and Duvall, impsonating the city visitor and country rube, have a line of patter and jokes, interspersed with songs and dancing that carry the house with them from the time of their appearance until ,they are reluctantly-allowed reluctantly-allowed to go. The basketball game staged bv the Harvey trio was a novelty that made a big hit with the audience. Intermixed Inter-mixed with the different "plays" is some fancy cycle and balancing work, which showed the result of long training. train-ing. Pantages Weekly Telegram news, film is unusually good this week. Manager Newman announces. a change in the number and time of the shows at Pantagos todav and following follow-ing Sundays. There will be three shows at 7:15, S anil 9:30, with seats reserved for the 7:15 rjerformanee only. For the bill opening Wednesdav afternoon. aft-ernoon. Manager Newman states that it will be headlined by the Lowlandies' ' ' Topsv-Turvey Equestrian"; the second sec-ond big feature is Krazy Kat 's All Girl revue, with plenty of stunning beauties making up the companv; John and Mav Burke in "The Ragtime Soldier": Sol-dier": Joe Peed and the Lelands. "As a special added attraction. "The Top of the World."1 will be shown; the picture pic-ture deals with scenes in Alaska, photographed pho-tographed by Beverly Dobbs. and is said to be one of the most interesting portrayals of that country ever made. This will'be shown in two-reel pictures each week for three weeks. r-T-i II E TOP OP THE WORLD," one of the rnrll wonderful I moving pictures ever made, v ill be shown as an added attraction to the regular vaudeville fall Marion Harris, sjucopation's scintillating scin-tillating star, and Fradiin. the wonderful won-derful violinist, two of the features of tho Orpheum bill opening Tuesday. I enJon6 LoWlamUeS "TPy TUrVy EtUCstrialls' ' ' headlining the new bill opening at Pantages next Wednesday aft- in the Bay of Biscay', off the coast of Brittany. Sarah Bernhardt has a chateau just acrofs the island from us. My sister is married to Patrick Henry Bruce, great-grandson of the American patriot. They have lived in Paris for years, and I received much of my education there. Some German prisoners, arrested at the beginning of the war, were interned on Belle Isle. One day we were accused of having waved towels, and. suspecting that we were in league with the German prisoners, the French arrested us. My sister and I got out of it without much difficulty, for the French were quite gallant, but ray brother-in-law and another young man were taken to the mainland and. after an inquiry, sentenced to be shot. The American ambassador ambassa-dor by frantic efforts managed to save them. CEMENTING a bond of friendship that will stand through future conflict "over there" anil oil through the span of life, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle adopted as his godchildren god-children 160 husky, red-biooded Ameri- j can doughboys comprising C company, I 159th infantry, Camp Kearny, Gal. In j return the infantrymen adopted Fatty Arbuckle as their godfather and big brother. Fatty and a party of friends from Los Angeles were entertained at noonday mess by the officers. Despite De-spite the worst clust storm in the history his-tory of the camp, Fatty inspected the entire cantonment. Ho traversed the trenches, he led a charge ' ' over the top," he tcalled out the guard, and he even donned a pad and mask to match his athletic cleverness in bayonet duel. After the inspection, Fatty and his party were entertained at regular "chow "-with the buck privates, and they fell to it with as much gusto as the lads who are more accustomed to such substantial food. After "chow" the comedian entertained the company with an impromptu monologue which touched humorously upon the joys and woes of making comedies. He climaxed his comedy with something that surprised sur-prised the adopted ones a $500 cheek. This amount Fatty presented to his brothers for their future enjoyment. But C company had a little surprise of its own. The doughboys presented Godfather Arbuckle with a solid gold identification tag, which bore the inscription,, in-scription,, "To Our Big Brother, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, From C Company, 159th Infantry, Camp Kearny." On the back was the full identification number of the entire company. "When Fatty made a personal appearance appear-ance at a San Diego theater the next evening, the officers and men of the company attended in a body. When C company, 159th infantry, reaches "over there" they will be far from lonely for news from home if Fatty has anything to do with it. "Adopting such a fine eempany of representative A.mericans as C company, 159th infaDtry, is the greatest honor that eould be granted me," declared Mr. Arbuckle. THERE is an adadge to the effect that the Chinese have no sense of humor, ,but this will never be believed by Dustin Farnum, the eminent star of the' Sherman Produc- tions, Inc., ail on account of a recent let-I let-I ter he received from a Chinese maiden, a resident of Hong Kong, who, in flow- AT THE THEATERS (Contlnaed from Preceding Page.) game, which he docs, inwardly angered, an-gered, however, at the deception. Franklin Frank-lin is more or less of the caveman type, and he determines to give Beatrix the scare of her life. He accompanies her to her room and refuses to leave, declaring de-claring that she has brought his presence pres-ence on herself. After a battle of wits, he retires worsted and goes up to his rooms in town. AMBASSADOR JAMES W. GERARD'S GE-RARD'S "My Four Years in Germany," opens its seventh day run at the Strand theater today. Never in the history of the motion mo-tion picture industry has a production dealing with so vital a subject been filmed. "My Four Years in Germany," according ac-cording to Mr. Gerard himself, "has been produced because I want to bring to the American people the grav-of grav-of the situation that the nation is f now in." ' ' My Four Years in Germany " is an American picture for the American v'eople. It is a picture that is at once ollational and absorbingly intercst-ingVmaking intercst-ingVmaking clear the entire history of the European war. It is not an inspiration, but a reality. THE heart of Cheyenne Harry, the straightest shooting, hardest swearing, strongest handed cow-puncher cow-puncher west tif Denver, was very soft. The former qualities had made him foreman of the Circle Z ranch. The latter led to the remark- I able events which make "Wild Women" Wo-men" an epoch-making super-feature film. Mollie Malone never appeared any more bewitching than she does as one of the wild women in Harry Caroy's astonishing film. A flopping Hawaiian list, the red pepper necklaco, the sandals san-dals and the excelsior girdle are all extremely bewitching Id Carey's newsstand new-sstand latest release, "Wild Women," which will be seen at tho Liberty thea-tor thea-tor two days, .beginning today. HAVING become his own manager and placed the direction of his business affairs in the hands of Charles Emerson Cook, Lou-Tel-leen, who is counted one of the most brilliant actors of the dny, has Ret out to win that large public to be found in the smaller cities of the land, known in theatrical parlance as "one-night stands. ' ' Mr. Tellegon believes that there is a large and intelligent public in such places, and one which will appreciate and support the best there is in the theater. His present tour in "Blind Youth" will introduce him to many new cities, but he wilj not be a stranger to them hereafter, for when he produces pro-duces his new play next fall, after the New York run, he will immediately return re-turn to the cities he is playing on this tour. In this way he plans to gain and hold a great public, for he is so sure in his art that he is confident that the public will appreciate what he has to offer. Mr. Tellegen will come to Salt Lake during the present season with his New York company in "Blind Youth." EDITH STOKEY and Viola Dana are enthusiastic motorists and each is so proud of her ability to drive a car that they will hold a match race for the studio championship champion-ship and a box of bonbons. Miss Dana, petite and girlish, is the proud owner of an open roadster, capable capa-ble of blinding speed, while Miss Storey, tall and athletic, handles the wheel of a big, high-powered limousine. John Collins, who is directing Miss Dana, and Frank Roicher, director of Miss Storey, have volunteered to serve as officials at the test of speed between be-tween the two stars. Mr. Collins will be the starter and Mr. Reicher the timekceyer. Nego'ftations are under way for the use of the Ascot auto race" track in Los Angeles. So intense is the friend, ly rivalry between Miss Storey and Miss Dana that hundreds of People are planning to see the race. The stars are thinking of charging an entrance fee and turning the money oVer to some war charity. IF ANYONE wants a thrilling story Ruth Rose can tell it. Miss Rose is Otis Skinner's leading woman, playing in "Mister Antonio" on the Pacific coast jnst now. Only a foreigner could over have suspectod pretty Ruth R-ose of being a spy a German spy. She is thoroughly thorough-ly Amorican, even Bostoninn, and as patriotic as her brother-in-law's great-grandunclo, great-grandunclo, Patrick Henry, of revolutionary revolu-tionary days. But the French were vigilant and suspicious, and arrested the little American. Amer-ican. Hero's the story as she tells it: I was "over there" when the war broke out, visiting my married sister on Belle Isle, a little island . . . - One of the troupe of performing leopards, under the direction of Martha Florine, to be seen tn Al G. Barnes's circus, Monday, May 13. ery language, requested a picture of his famous pony, Monte, whom, it seems, she greatly admired. The effect of the laudation of Monte was further heightened height-ened when Miss China, iu a naive postscript, post-script, said Mr. Faruum might also enclose en-close a picture of himself, if ho wanted to pay the extra postage. THOSE with a mean disposition or lacking the saving sense of humoi might attribute to California being be-ing a suffrago state the fact that all the scenario writers at the Famous Players-Lasky studio, in Hollywood, are of the fair sex. But. as a matter of fact, the women seem to have that something which no one can exactly explain ex-plain which fits them for the work of writing motion picture scenarios, and, while men are successful in this work in many instances, it is generally con ceded that the feminine writers are in the majority. At the studio where so many Paramount Para-mount and Artcraft pictures are produced pro-duced there are six women scenarioists Jcanie MacPherson. Frances Marion, Marion Fairfax, Elizabeth Kennedy, Margaret. Turnbull and Beulah Marie Dix. Miss Mari'bn does all the Mary Pick-ford Pick-ford Artcraft pictures, and, in addition, has succceeded in sandwiching in a Chinese Chi-nese story for Sessue Hayakawa, the Paramount star. Jeanie MacPherson is author of the C. B. DeMille special Artcrafts. and has recently completed 1 ' Old Wives for New, ' ' which the famous director is now producing. Marion Fairfax has written pictures for many of the stars, including Hnva-kawa, Hnva-kawa, Julian Fltinge and others. Elizabeth Kennedy has also written for Hayakawa and other Paramount player as has Beulah Marie Dix, while |