Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-13 | Page 39 | Public

i r ti a Z r. r j Throngs Throng s Pack New Home r of f. f Famous Motion Pictures V Th The dedication last night of the old Empress theatre to the production of or Paramount films with the versatile Mary Pickford as the attraction vai WM marked as one of ot the most auspicious of f Salt Sait Lakes Lake's theatre openings The theatre thoroughly remodeled and rebuilt to adapt it for tor picture presented a grand spectacle With the Interior ne decorated In old ro rose e gold and Ivory shades the screen a snarr f I rr gold fiber set at the back of f the stage g gand and many other improvements the th the theatre atre which henceforth will be known as the Paramount-Empress Paramount has taken its place among the best theatres of ot the West Long before the scheduled opening time 7 30 p p. p m m. the lobby was crowded with ticket holders An hour later the sidewalk was packed with a a. throng thron which extended nearly to First South street treet The S S. S R R. O O. sign was soon soon hung out and many were turn turned d' d awa away until the second show t Although every seat on both floors cf of the house was was was' occupied during the greater part of ot the first performance the audience was wa able to see ever every ery portion Of the screen Due to the particular par pal texture of the new screen n which is the thEt only one of its Us kind lelnd west of f t Chicago the details of the pictures are greatly enhanced Then too the new location of ot the projecting or operating operating operating oper oper- room on the lower floor or tends to tol l Increase crEase the detail and precision of ot the filmed characters j The orchestra Is now located on the south wing of ot the stage stag instead of ot In Inthe Inthe Inthe the theold old pit This so increases the dist distribution distribution dis dis- t lb tion of ot the sound that an effect never before obtainable In the house Is is is- isnow now had The selections ns given b by bythe the orchestra with Willard Villard Weihe as leader and E. E P P. KImball at at the or organ organ or- or gan met with the approval of ot the en entire entire tire audience Pictographs is the big big- feature pt Hof Ue the bill t that at is the exceptional feature ea ure They are something are something produced only by bythe bythe the Par Paramount mount company and distinctly n new new nw w and attractive as evidenced by bythe bythe bythe the ap applause lause of the audience at the first e exhibition last nig night t. t These pictographs are ar Indescribable but nevertheless nevertheless exceedingly attractive They Y topics of the thet day in the most c form torm possible Mary laii Pickford as ass an to Italian I boy buries riess ries's her er character be b. b neath an avalanche of Italian man man mannerisms and boyish conceptions with ar a.- precision once more proving her distinct distinct dis- dis versatility Poor Little Peppina is the name of the film this and week week and and andIn In ih this Mary Pickford carries the title role Opening with scenes laid in Italy the scene of action changes changes- to Sicily a. a and d then when the American American American Ameri Ameri- can girl makes her es escape ape as a stowaway stowaway stowaway I way dressed as a boy New York City supplies the scene for the action 3 Here the little runaway still preserving preserving preserving pre pre- serving her disguise becomes a a bootblack a fruit vendor and finally a messenger boy But her hera a adventures ventures narrowly escaped a sad end when she falls fails into the hands of the man who once her She Shi manages to escape but not before she had become the tool in this mans man's hands and had cashed for tor him hint a counterfeit coun t c currency currency bill For this she is arrested arrested On her information the p po police lice learn much of the gang and bring bring about the arrest A A nursery room has been opened opened on the balcony floor where maids will be bein bein bein in constant atten attendance ance upon babies left there and the management is now making preparations to place the nursery nursery nursery nur- nur nur nur- sery un er the direct supervision of some physician