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Show Bessie Love, in Minsk's Thrall Movie favorite Seeks Career , in Ooera i By JANICE CO RDRAY. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2. Bessie Love ha3 been 3igned up to a new contract. con-tract. For what? Preposterous question, nine out of ten fans would say. And yet it Isn't eo absurd ab-surd as It must seem to those who are ,vell informed of Bessie's capacities. The former little Griffith, Fttte Arts, "Pathe and Vitagraph movie star can do - things besides charm picture fans. She tun sin? like a bird, has a well-trained ' voice and has actually sung in grand opera! Not the Metropolitan, or Chicago, or s Milan, to be sure; but, nevertheless, In , opera. Not long ago tho admirers of this to sprite of the screen had a thrill when '.. they read of Bessie's return to the Eos . Angeiea high school for her diploma. Sine had been burning tho midnight oil since hef great opportunity with Griffith took her away from her classes. Film success hadn't stifled the sensible impulses in Bessie's breast. When she left high school there was a fixed pur-3 pur-3 pose in her that, come what might In her venture into pictures, she would never lorgt't that an education was necessary to a well-rounded existence. So as her spare time permitted she I Kept up her studies and one day Bessie's home town (Los Angeles) heard that she had been back to her alma mater and got. her sheepskin. The school authorities authori-ties were frankly proud of their star pupil, and the dally papers printed her , pirture and laudatory articles about the .' film celebrity who had thus made a unique record in the history of the new art. Hut that didn't tell the whole story. All that time Bessie had also found Time, hard as she worked in her calling, V to pursue vocal studies with Florenclo .'. Constantino, the noted tenor of grand , opera, who lias made his home in recent years in Los Angeles. One day the announcement came out ; that Manfred! Chiaffarelli. a California composer, had written an opera, "One Night in Venice." and that Constantino and his best pupils would give It to the world first. It was on that occasion that Constantino sang the chief role, and Bes-Sle Bes-Sle Love made her debut in a realm as 1 strange to most film stars as the fabled ; Arcadia. 1 Bessie acquitted herself finely, as her; n distinguished preceptor expected, and j then went back to picture-starring. But ' what she has done in cultivating her J , ilttlf-known talents ought to prepare her1 admirers against any surprise if it should j ,, be revealed some day that she has -,-passed from .pictures' to professional ... opera. Anita Stewart Is Star of Bill at American tTUTMAN DESIRE," with Miss Anita Stewart in the leading role, yesterday yes-terday opened a two days' engagement at the American theater. Well-filled houses were attracted by the star's latest picture for First National. Miss Stewart is supported by Conway Tearle and an excellent cast o'f players, including Robert Steele, Naomi Childers, Templer Saxe, Culalie Jensen and Hat-tie Hat-tie Delaro. The picture has a genuine human-interest appeal. It is a feature which carries the audience to Uiat shrine of artistic America, Washington Square. The hero is an artist who one evening steps out the front door of one of the fine old homes which still line the north side of the square to find a poor Italian girl resting on the steps. He learns she has no place to go, turns her over to the care of a kind landlady, and later uses her as the model for a picture pic-ture he is painting. Trouble comes when she learns that ho has a wife, from whom he is separated. The wife suddenly appears during the artist's absence and turns the Italian girl Into the street. Too proud to seek out the man who thus deceived her, she lives under hardships until Fate opens the way to a reconciliation. T Apache," With Dorothy Dal ton, at Paramount A STORY of great dramatic power is told in "L'Apache." the new Dorothy Dor-othy Dalton picture produced by Thomas H. Ince, which was shovn as a special Paramount-Artcraft feature at the Paramount-Empress yesterday, and which will be the leading attraction on the current bill, which runs for four days. The scenes are laid in the Parisian underworld, where the denizens of the Bohemian quarters mingle with the notorious no-torious Apache band of holdup men and thieves. Miss Dalton plays two contrasting con-trasting roles with admirable finesse. At the start, she is an Apache dancing girl who has married a brutal leader of the band in order to save the name of her brother. He Is her partner in the dance which nightly entertains the people peo-ple of the demi-monde. She always conveys con-veys to the audience the intense hatred with which Natalie Bourget regards the man even as she smiles in his face in toe dance. Finally tjie girl flies from her master and by chance encounters an American girl who looks exactly like her. Helen, the American, has been intimate with Forbes, a profligate millionaire. Wishing to conceal it from her folks, she suggests sug-gests that she and Natalie change positions. posi-tions. Natalie agrees. Miss Dalton plays also the part of Helen. Helen finds it impossible to go on with life and ends it all in the Seine. The same night Forbes is murdered by the Apache, Natalie's partner. Weeks later, when the girl Is finding happiness in a villa near Paris, she Is haled into court as Forbes's murderess. But, by a startling twist, she is able to clear herself and win love and a bright future. Tile supporting cast includes Robert Elliott, El-liott, Maey Harlan, Austin Webber, George Furry, Frank Cluxun, Alice Gale and Louis Darclay. Joseph De Grasse directed "L'Apache." Casino Vaudeville and Photoplay X Attractive !, T EALOUS of the dead wife who is en-' en-' shrined in the hea-of her husband,! the living wife finds a means of-tearing, down the -shrine", but hesitancy in wound- : !" ing the man she loves holds her back and she goes through danger of disgrace to herself to protect the honor of the dead woman. This is the conduct of the 1 wife in "Bonds of Love," opening at the j ' Casino last night, in which Pauline Fred- j ' erlck is starring. Tho Andrlff Trio, singers and dancers, I demonstrated the fact that Russia was not alone famed for its Bolshevists. ; Snappy costumes and snappier steps, with ! a few well-cho3en Russian songs thrown1 in for good measure, brought such vol- j umes of encores that the show was I dragged out nearly twenty minutes over- j tlmo. JjJI Witticisms flow freely while the Petti- . ' coards have the stage and laughs flow as freely from the audience. Cedric Llnd- ; ', say is a soft shoe dancer of rare ability ,.,Rnd ho shuffles his way through fifteen minutes -of high-class entertainment. Harmony is reincarnated by Engel and Marshall, who both have voices of rare timbre, and more music Is handed out ,,by Williams and Williams, with tho aid V of a piano. Charlotte Russell exhibits many faces, as well as a change or two of characters. charac-ters. As a protean artist she is thoroughly thorough-ly able to qualify. DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. OKPHET'M Net? vaudeville bill with Alice Els; ,,,, Mrs. Geno Hughes and Seven "Honey Boys," mm lieudlluoTR, opens Wednesday evening. HIPPODROME Week beginning touigut, Ralph Oloninftdr and his company lu "Tho Lost Trail," a play of frontier days. Matinees Vednendny , and Saturday. PANTAOES Bill now playing with "Perhaps You'ro Right." Five other big vaudeville 01 nets. Three shows dally 2:43, 7:30, 0:15. New bill Wednesday. CASINOPaullne Frederick in "Bonds of. Love" 1 and six octH Ackvrnmn-Harris vaudeville. ContluuoiiH, 12:15 to ll p. in. SALT LAKE Toulght, llie Musical Arts society preesttte Leo, Jun and Mlschol Chemlavsky; Wednesday night only, appear-BQCe appear-BQCe of the American SyDCofafltetl orchestra; Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with SatUF-dny SatUF-dny matinee. Fronds X. Bushman and Beverly Bsyue In Oliver Morosco's product tun of "The i Muster Thief." SOCIAL HALL THEATER The Varsity Players Play-ers in John Mssefleld's ilrnma, the "Tragedy of Nau." Mats. Wednesday and Saturday. MOTION PICTURES. PAR A MOUNT-EMPRESS Dorothy Dalton In the new ace dc luxe productlou, "L'Apaclio," Burton Holmes's Trajelogucs. ComtuuouB. 12:30 to II p. in. AMERICAN Today. Anita Stewart In "Human Desire"; also "All at Sa." a comedy. Thirty piece Philharmonic oronettra. STRAND - Marjartta Fisher In "Money Isn't Everything", Gale Henry In "Her Honor, the Srruhlady." ISTS D. W. Griffith with Jane Grev and Fully Marshall In "Let Waty Do It." BROADWAY tins! times today. Tarlylc Blnek-wiH Blnek-wiH and Evelyn Greeley iu "HU Or Miss"; James J. Corbttt i:i "The Midnight Mhu"; Mult and Jeff. Tomorrow, Gaby Dcslya lu "Infatuation." . GEM Lillian Otsh ln D. W. Griffith's "Broken Blossoms." Tale of Adventure Told on Stage at Hippodrome A TALE.' of love and adventure, set under the blue skies, amid the towering tow-ering mountain peaks of Colorado, is portrayed por-trayed at the Hippodrome this week, with Ralph Cloninger as a dashing cowpunch-er cowpunch-er and Hvild horse rider and dainty Kir-nan Kir-nan King as the lovable daughter of the general In command of tho army podt, in "The Lost Trail." Various human frailties the love for gambling, the greed for power and the ruthlessness of tho coward creato a tangle out of which is woven a romance ln tho lives of three pairs of happy lovers. Tho action takes place at an army P03t, where Lieutenant Leonard Faulkner, Faulk-ner, played by Harold Hutchinson, has been led into gambling, and in order to obtain the money to settle his debts he holds back the pay of the enlisted men. Louis J. Footo as Lieutenant Corbita ably takes the part of the intriguer who starts the ball rolling. In an effort to get enough monev to clear himself, the young son of General Faulkner, with the assistance of Bud lirabee, tho cowpuncher, played by Cloninger, holds up the stage. H so happens hap-pens that Faulkner's sister is one of the passengers, and when Larabee "gets cold foet" and returns the money and jewelry she recognizes him. But, with the recognition, recog-nition, a feeling of love is born and this changes the plans of all of the principals in the drama. Sekly Roach, as Jim T-Iackctt the stag driver, does a good JMt of acting and May Roberts, as Mrs. Hlggy tho storekeeper, store-keeper, exhibits rare ability as a character char-acter actress. Stanley Jonassou portravs the part of a Ute Indian with a nicety which is realistic. Edwin Simmons should make an attempt to familiarize himself with the dialect of a Chinaman If he intends in the future to tako sucli a part. s ' ! and new traditions are in preparation for the world's lilstorj' of music. That Is what happens when George Edmund Ed-mund Dulf and his American Syncopated orchestra appear in one of their performances. per-formances. They begin with orchestra numbers, switch to old negro melodies, throw in a few spontaneous antics and it is all over the most highbrow of audiences au-diences has by this time acknowledged itself it-self entertained and has capitulated with applause. Leo Cherniavsky, Famous Violinist,' Appears at Salt Lako Tonight Under Auspices Musical Arts Society. LEO CHERNIAVSKY, the violinist of the famous Cherniavsky Trio, which appears ap-pears at the Salt Lake theater tonight, under the auspices of the Musical Arts society, manifested a talent for music at the age of six years. His father commenced com-menced to teach him the violin, and so rapid was tils progress after six months study he made his first appearance in public. His success was instantaneous and proved the greatest event of the dav, an event still fresh in the memories of the music lovers of Odessa. His critics were astonished at his knowledge and command of the violin, even at that early age. and were unsparing unspar-ing in their praise of his clear and facile execution, flawless intonation, double stopping and harmonics. Even then, as now, his wonderful temperament and magnetic personality gave an attractiveness attractive-ness and Individualistic touch to his playing. play-ing. Later he went to Vienna to study, where he was heard by Ysaye, and so amazed was that master at the manner ln which the child interpreted the Tschai-kowsk! Tschai-kowsk! concerto that he invited him to play before the students of the Vienna Conservatoire. He created such a sensation sensa-tion that Ysaye presented him with his photograph signed "To my young colleague." American Syncopated Orchestra to Give Concert at Salt Lake Theater Wednesday Night. THE AMERICAN Syncopated Orchestra and gingers have been engaged for one concert In the Salt Lake theater Wednesday Wed-nesday night. One touch of "jazz" makes the whole world kin. Now th:it our boys in khaki and blue have carried with them to Europe Eu-rope their love of characteristic American music, and showmen from abroad have searched our stages in order to carrv back the novelties of American entertainment, music lovers from all parts of the world who follow the call of the saxophone have formed the nucleus for a musical league of nations. Southern folk music the soft-toned darky chant is the pathos of the negro race; jazz is the humor. When both are blended with classics In an exhilarating program all musical prejudices lail asiue |