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Show AMUSEMENTS' Tellegen Scores a Success in Blind Youth' N excellent play, an admirable com-pany com-pany and Lou Tellegen. What more could one ask? Salt Lake has a special interest in "Blind Youth," because It was written by Willard . Mack, in collaboration with Tellegen. Very properly it la French-American French-American in plot and treatment. It begins be-gins in Paris and ends in New York. It is intensely Parisian in its beginnings, and in Its climax and conclusion it is as if a Sardou were putting Gallic thrills into an American play. We can1 imagine that the humorous play on American slang is Mack's, and that the idea of a tipsy Frenchman kissing kiss-ing a New York policeman on the cheek DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. SALT LAKE Tonight, Saturday and Saturday matinee, Lou Tellegen in "Blind Youth." ORPHEUM George Damerel & Co., W. H. Macart and Ethlyne Bradford and "In the Zone." Matinees daily. WILKES "Camllle," presented by the Wilkes Players. Matinees Thursday and Saturday. PANTAGES New vaudeville bill, headed by tropical musical comedy, "Yucatan." Three shows dally. MOTION PICTURES. PARAMOUNT-EMPRESS Jack Pick-ford Pick-ford and Louise Huff in "MUe-a-Minute Kendall"; Mack Sennett comedy; com-edy; pictures of Tuesday's Red Cross parade and crowds. AMERICAN Last times today. Norma Nor-ma Talmadge in "By Right of Purchase"; Pur-chase"; Toto in "The Junk Man." STRAND Frank Keenan in "Loaded Dice"; Ford Weekly; comedy. BROADWAY Today and Sa.turday, Gladys Brockwell in "Her One Mistake"; Mis-take"; also "Mutt and Jeff." LIBERTY Today, Douglas Fairbanks in "Painted Post"; Max Sennett comedy, "Roping Her Romeo." i in a burst of gratitude which results in arrest is also Mack's. These are some of the lighter touches In a powerful play which probes the depths of human emotions. emo-tions. It is so powerful, in fact, that one half regrets that it ends so happily when it might have ended with tragedy. It Is only at the last "moment that the thrills cease, the lightning play of emotion emo-tion subsides and the storms give way to peace and joy. We fear it would be "stale and flat," if not "unprofitable," to repeat the story of a play which has earned so much celebrity. The magic of the play lies for the most part in the story, and yet much of the appeal must be credited to the 'haracters. Mr. Tellegen has a part Into which he can put his whole soul and all his histrionic his-trionic accomplishments. We see him first in the squalid studio of the Latin quarter with his two friends. "Tubby" Mathews of New York and the good-hearted, good-hearted, second-rate artist, Louis Del-mas. Del-mas. Half French and half American, Maurice Monnier seemed destined to be a great artist, but a Parisian vampire, who has deserted him after four years lo wed a rich suitor, has left him utterly a wreck, all his high hopes blasted. He has sought forget fulness in drink and is hnlf mad when the vampire tries to enter his life again. He' throws her off and is about to plunge once more into his career of despair when the sight of a ruined artist like himself and a word of challenge awakens all the manhood that is In him and he determines to begin his life- anew. He goes to New York, to the home of his mother and of hi8 half brother. After he has becorne successful and is about to wed a sweet, pure, beautiful girl, the vampire crosses the ocean to take revenge re-venge and becomes engaged to the half brother, who is much younger than she. The play opens with a dramatic intensity dlfilcult to live up to, but the playwrights play-wrights have provided a plot which is full of fire to the laat. It does not lose its fin me until the candle has burned to the very end. It is not lo be assumed that it is n great play, but one seldom sees a more effective ploy. And Mr. Tellegen gives us a singularly alluring and gripping presentation of the chief character. It would be pleasant to point out the merits of all who aapint Mr. Tellegen. but we must limit ourselves to the mere mention of P. Paul Porcasi an Louis Delmns. the excitable, enthusiastic and effervescent Frenchman. and Marie Chamhers as the Parisian adventuress. |