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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1921. -- man and heads Monroe Salisbury Signs Contract With West Coast Film Company of scresn . v for Sunday and Monday, In which Jack Hoxiefeis starred. Is a tala of the old west In the days when might made right and every man was a law unto himself, depending upon his ability to handle a pistol for his very existence , This marks Jack Hoxles first appearance as a star in feature pictures, hs having previously been starred tn eertals, notable among hie successes being "LightJack." ning Bryce" and " Thunderbolt Ho has proved to be one of the biggest successes ever produced, and has establfearished himself as one of the mostbesides less and daring of serials stars, other and to do "stunt" riding ability deeds of strength, that are required of a RB CASH, former Salt Laker, known to fame on the stage and screen under West Coast tie --name of Monroe Salisbury, has signed a contract with tire Francisco, for a senes of western motion Prim company at San Mateo, uear-Sapicture productions experience, Cash, or Salisbury, as he prefers to be known, has had aheunions went direetly to , Leaving Fait Lake lu 1MW, without auv stage experience, from the "made and au gmi.l" he obtained engagement 3Sew York,- - where Mrs. Fiske, night of his first appearance. Later he was with Richard Mausfield, ' Jvance ONeil and John Drew. and since has been one of the most brilliant stars la 1913 he entered pictures, In the Cinema firmament. A special to The Tribune from San Francisco sajs: Monroe Salisbury, the wrilo western star of the screen world, has signed a new and lucrative contract for a series ot western motion pmture productions to be made by the West Coast Film company at Facilie studios, ban Mateo, a abort distance from this city. Under the supervision of laadofe Bernstein of the West Coast hum company and general .manager of Facitic atiiilin, the first picture starring baliabury, a tew days. "Ethan of the Mountains, will be plaT?4 mot production within the ( anadian woods and Toronto, is a stony "Ethan of the Mouutains part will be portrayed dealing with a young but haul fisted missionary, which by baiisbury, a part said to be especially adapted to dils capabilites. tfs second of huge stage units to The Pacific studios will dedicate the company during a period of Salisbury and it will be occupied by bis producing nearly one year, which will be required to produce the West Coast Film series of productions. Monroe balisburv- - is a prime favorite in .northern California. During the at two theaters here, the star premiere of The Barbanau, m awhich was shown made personal appearances campaign to bring a poftiou of the motion picture industry to uortheru California.of local capitalists who were forming the Salisbury attracted the attention The Barbarian, and a longterm West Coast Film company by hia work in contract for a senes of productions followed. will of ' As Ethau in Ethan. the Mountains, Salisbury bring Ethan Allan down to date, and present a composite puctuie of the Ethan Allans , The theme carries Ethan, a young theological student, from lus mountain home, where he is engaged to a youug girl ot that section, to Toronto, where he is completing his training. He meets a youug aud wealthy society girl interested in social service aud settlement work, and a powertul love theme is Ethan returns to his mountain home toru between his promised bride developed. aud the new love. The latter, broken hearted, enters a convent, and his borne coming brings the knowledge that his bride to be is tu love with another. Ethau gives her up, and his life is devoted to the regeneration of the men of the woods fend mountains. The scenic investiture to be used will include the beautiful Hpnng Valley lakes of the peninsula region aud the fir and redwood forests in Mann county. 'The entire company has not been selected, but at bast one Utah girl, it is re ported, will have a prominent part in the production. star He demonstrated remarkable ability re-as with the an actor of the sult that the producer, Ren' Wilson, secured his name to a contract by which o make a series of four pictures. ' he I Helen Holmes, in The Tiger Band. and a special comedy completes the bill flist-clas- st next door. old grouch THEEverybody knows they know him. But they dont com-pany- s of-fa- Sammy Lee, of song and danca fame, with his lady friends is Orpheum this week. - BURTON MEYER of the local Marcus Loew vaudeville house a message recently of the opening in Buffalo, X. Y., of the 133rd playhouse on the Marcus Loew circuit. THIS BILLS One of the greatest collection of movie and stage stars ever assembled attended the dedicatory peTtoimance of the house. Marcus Loew arrived in DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. Buffalo with a delegation of twenty screen stars in two special cars. Mayor WILKES "Loaibsrdt Ltd, every evening st Buck of the city, together with other city officials, and representatives of 8 JO the Rotary. Kiwams, Dress, Film and Buffalo Women's Fress clubs, also OUPUKl'M Last times today vaudeville bill tfehte aud Wilbur Mak with Kigiis aud were in attendance. and eoun.uuy Nw bill with Sammy t.ee Among the movie stare at the opening of the house were Doralinda, Mae Wednesday uigbt and Wilham llalllgun Murray, Eugene OBrien, E'dvthe Baker, Lee t'arillo, Winifred W estover, Zeena PAM At, ER Harold Lloyd tu Never Weakeu La bndis. la vis aits.Sfi.. vundecllie live Hiding Helen Diana Smiles Keefe, Allen, Davis, dune Caprice,. Hope Hampton, MargueM t oy Adeuii, Lew Hartman, ( lemena Bel rite Marsh, Maud Marsh, Kenneth Harlaud, Audrey Maple, Betty Browne, Lillian company ling VValkefand others. The new Marcus Loew house is one of the largest in Buffalo. LOKW'B STAIE-A- lt Vaudeville new today MANAGER WEEKS V hardly think it of dashing Harry Carey, popular delineator of western but he recently ndmiuistered an unmerciful wallop to. a coterie of censors, who visited him at bis San Franeisquito canyon ranch in California. The wallop was delivered in a general way about as follows: Now, folks, said Carey, suppose you have all seen a horse shot from . under a rider in western pictures. , 'es and I cut out every foot of it! said Harry Knapp of the Pennsylvania board of censors. , I am going to show you how we do it, said Harry. MrB. K. L. Short, the dear little lady from Kiuisus, started to clear out. Dr. George Heller, a censor from Maryland, said that he would pist as soon not see it. it was a tense moment; the first cloud on a gloriously glittering horizon since rrived in Los Angeles to learn something about motion pictures. m,?8018 They Wfre still talking about it when Harry strode across the field and climbed on a hammer-headelittle mustang. He clattered down the field. Uue of lus cowboys, otf tQ one sole, opened UP with a six shooter. '' the first of roar the gun the pony leaped into the air and came down on A,1 hi side. He lay still. Harry slid off. No one applauded. Another idol had beem smashed to smithereens. Harry Carey, the best beloved mail on the screen, the kindest, the bravest had killed a horse to make a rodeo holiday. ' Harry snapped his fingers. The pony lifted anear, then got up and trotted over to his master, rubbing hm cautiously muzzle agonist the stars arm. 'no that s enough for today, said Harry, He slapped the pony on the flank and sent it frisking off to the corral. 1 d Then he began answering questions. If borses had to be killed to make western pictures, he said, I would be doing society drama. No one loves horses more than I do. My only unkindness at pony do his trick as ojtten as J Ca0 1 lut tlme to hw wants to When that pony is touched under the right shoulder'with the toe of a boot hl8 t0 leap into the d play dead. The only priv restriction is L'Vk must not move until I snap mv fingers. tout, H likes to do it t0 e ltlr0UKh bls tricks. He has been carefully aie hlle8 Ik ,a"l ,ln th8 ere of pictures in which he has fallen he has , suffered gflt slightest scratch. ceDsor8 Were frank 1 that deleted scores of such he ,D1Pr08810nthy that were actually killed! air-an- inaUCh.Sc,rt They routny mo"" " 8r hl LULU M COY,, who is playing at the Pantages theater, is none other F- thaa. th lauh,et' 6f Dani McCov, former manager of the Empress, & Sullivan Consign vaudeville house, of tins city h ' Mlss MtCo-nWTls her school days 1 8t the at t 8 8 U8V flme her old acipiaintauces ha'TB rewing in the city. W ben her was to Denver Miss McCov went to a boarding school and Las since transferred chosen the theatrical profession as her away life1 jlllSS tt h9vchblaJCsC ?,l of fun, fashion, Lombardi frivolity Is Ltd-- , the new play opening at the Wilkes Frederic and Fanny Hatton, tonight. authors ot the play, have filled it with witty, clever lines and situations, and jrst kept It human and dramatic. "Lombardi Ltd. ran steadily for more than a year at the Morosco theater, .New York, and has been unfailingly popular on the road. It Is not only a hut It has also strong dramatic and seal timental appeal, together wtth an artistic setting and gorgeous costumes. A distinctly nsw and different stage character is the hero of the play lito a master designer of women's Lombardi, clothes. His dssh.onaole Fifth Avenue er, op, where women of society and the stags and men about town come to select the creations of Lombardi Is the picturesque setting of the action. Beautiful mannequins display his models, and hs drapes new costumes on beautilui girls who pose for his customers. , Lombardi is a great artist but he has DO business sense and he proves only an amateur in love. He is deeply in love with ar show girl, but business reverses and the schemes of a former sweetheart him perilously close to bankruptcy poetic ideals wreck his world ACOMEDY-PRAM- A laugh-produc- Sg ' When ruin faces him, his establishment Is saved through ths efforts of one of the mannequins. Alexis Luce has the most difficult role to which he has been assigned In any of ths Wilkes productions thus far, that of Tito Lombardi. Eloiss Clement will be seen as his assistant, Nora. Blake. Gene Cleveland has another role calculated to bring eut her ta.ent to a nicety aa PhylLombardi's sweetheart. lis Manning, Clark Marshall is Riccardo Tosello. a vermicelli king, a character part that Director BJyden says fits him like a glove. AH ths other Wilkes payers favorites srs In ths cast. "Lombardi Ltd." Is ths first production under ths reduced scale of prices. Manthat the ager John Cooks says. However,' production is being put on with every at-of tention to detail that is characteristic ths Wilkes attractions. The reduced admissions were ordered by Thomas Wilkes In order that ths playhouse might have a stronger popular appeal. i v QLLDOM has an actress achieved aueh kJ ar. overwhelming success In a play imported from forelg'h shores as has Miss Nance O'Neil in The Passion Flower, by Jacinto Benavente, Spain's greatest dramatist. Which la announced as the at the Salt Lake theater soon. The premiere at the Greenwich Village tlitster In New York was a personal triumph for the atar and for Richard G. Herndon, her manager. Since that memorable night, however, the works of Bena-venare much better known on side of the water, and two volumes this of his plays have been published by Scribner a. f finest coin pitmen ta paid Miss P O Neii after the premiers were the words ofmetropolitan Hey wood the eminent dramatic critic of theBroun, who, among other things, said: Tribuna, "Nancs O'Neil gave an extraordinary performance in J a, into Benavente's still play- The Passion So. '.ItnurdlnafyAt times the Impact between the play and the player was so terrific that It shook the theater and everyone In It J these moments we wanted to eland up in our seat and heer a person who could bring such terrific force, passion and fire Into theater it is one of the most excitingthe pieces of act.ng we have ever seen. hifn or tnlnks or he wouldn't be the and mean and cranky and won't let the children run across his lawn. Ali lit all he's just about the worst neighbor it is possible to imagine. And you swear bv all that is holy that if his house burned deign, and you could save him, you d let the old crank crackle In the flames But you wouldn't. You Just think so That's Just what Christine, Trevor always said she would do. v Joshua Barton tvas the old man next He was everything a good neighdoor. bor shouldn t be. And . Christine hated him. The Then one .night came the test Barton house caught fire! The old man, a hopeless Invalid, ths only one in the place. His cry for help shrieked above The roar of the flames There was no Indecision no hesitation Christine Trevor the' little spoiled flapper, who never did a willing favor for aiiione in her eighteen spoiled years, ran into the biasing In Lombardi, Ltd.. a play of comedy and romance, opening at the Wlikea home A little girl, dragging a prostrate form tonight, Alexis Luce, talented leading man with the local players, will play a very . of an old grouih. came out just as ths difficult and heavy role fire engines stopped In front. And the girl next door learned that the old grouch Wasn t an old grouch at all That he was just a dear, aweet old mail, who needed some love to come into his wrinkled heart. an adorable Alladvs Walton makes Christine In her latest Universal feature, at the which Heels," opens High thester'. tddaj, while the distinW liliam a'nd actor director, guished is the Worthington, He s eccentric , YOUD supporting cast Lambert HlUyer di- a' strong players rected and Joe August. A. Sz C.. photoBROADWAY FAVORITE HEADS graphed. BREEZY ORPHEUM OFFERING it a MAN FROM NOWHERE, feature A attraction at the Broadway theater and Truth. I.arrth Hughes in oanuenta of MOTION PICTURES. . S. Hart William PARAMOUNT EMPRESS The Three Word Brand", In the Ituh atory, ( ontiuuoua loim-dy- . Welt (iet Vou Vet High Heels", klNEMA C, lady a Walton In jack Perrin in Both Barrels", liter comedy. International Nevva Weekly. BHOAUW At Sunday and Monday Jack Hoaie tn "A Msn From Nowhere", Helen Holmea tn "The Tiger Band."; and a special comedy. of playwriting In contemporaneous stage literature. A audeville lovers will hail with delight the return of those great favorites Harry and Fatima Stiarrock, whose "Behind the Grandstand" la a vaiicty classic and of laugha. always good for the maximum The clever pair have a. lot of brand .new atuff to offer in their highly diverting way. The Qulxey Four are a quartet of pepway py boys who deliver melodies Ijt a calculated to arouse audience to th equals point. They have few as purveyors of real melody Leon Gautier will present his "Brieklavera," the most unique of animal acts It s a gem In stage productions depending upon canine actors and a treat for old and young alike Arthur Millard and Minnie Marlin will present "Honev mooning. It la a melange of fun and melody that finds high favor The work of the popular everywhere. cleverness and funmakers sparkles are clean wit. Loa and Fav Durbvelle and the only women shadowgraphlsts exare on- - the stage. They magicians ceptionally clever girls with a knack of entertainment thad has made them big favorites. Aesop's Fables. Paths News and Topics of the Day are bright fend snappy. and his latest scream HAROLD LLOYD Never Weaken." Is "stacking them In, in the language of the mang; g i ial association, at the Pantages. IsBe-a sides the Lloyd laughing hit there fine line of vaudeville headlmeis. IncludMcing the Three LeOrohs, Davis and Lew Cov Clemens Belling company. Adonis and company. Hoffman and The bill may be termed one of great as each act novelty from start to finish, Idea which Is has some particularly novel outstanding as a real feature. An addifurnished is tional picture feature by Earl Williams In "Toe Silver Car." Beginning Wednesday, besides. a new w SCENE FROM a:rav of vaudeville talent, l(!r Pantages is sending an exceptional picture in The whlih Is, conceded Son of Wallingfoid, to b- one of the most tuilliant successes of the recent screen releases. bill opening at Loews is touted by Manager Burton Meyer as being somewhat above the aveiage In point of var.ety and quality Gareth Tlugbes. the versatile, film comedian.. will be seen ' in his latest Garments of Truth This picture is one of the few farces which has gained tn the filming process rather than lost The story has to Jo with the adventures of a young fellow with advanced ideas on various phases of married life and other important subjects On the vaudeville section of the bill no less an act than the Lone Ktar Four is headlined. This quaitet is an organisation of former musical comedy stars who are making a little trip over the Loew time A melange of harmony, is the billing given the act, which has received favorable notices all along the ciicuit. Another act on the blT which should please Niate patrons Is that of Lialsy Dean and company, who will olfer the J. B LH.no t an skit, "The Crisis," a one-asketch with a kick. Tommy Dooley is back again, w4th a new line of chatter and chaff and a couTommv Is a sure-fir- e ple of new songs laugh-gettin Salt Lake, and has a host of friends here. Mike Roder and the Sky Drop. Y Jack Dean will offer tollertion of the harder-to-d- o acrobatics, DoT Duel ami Archie and Woody will present "A Box Office Attraction This team ts of the nutty variety, and usually the garners laugha In addition to the foregoing, Manager Meyer has booked a news reel and a comedy. and Curg Peterson and the States jaxx orchestra has a special program arranged for the first three days of the ' week. THE three-da- y today farce-comed- y, ct er interest centers on CONSIDERABLE S Hart picture, "Three Word Brand." which opens a four days' run at the Paramount-Empretheater today, from the fact It Is a Utah etoiy with scenes taken In and around Salt Lake Additional interest follows the announcement that Mr Hart plays three roles in this production, that of the pioneer Indian fighter, and, later, those of the twins, one the governor of the territory of Utah and the other a typical ranchman. A western photoplay that Is as full of action as the conventional egg is or meat, ts Thiee Word l'rand " Dora the Trego, after opening scenes, when Bell placing h'a twin sons In safe'y, b'ows himself into fragments by Igniting a keg of gunpowder to escape a band of savages that had him caught In a trap, to the final fade out when he holds the girl of his heart In his arms, there isn t a wearisome moment. Mr Hart plavs thres roles and he portrays them ail with consummate artistry. Jane Novak ts his leading wo ss the new placet to tin IGHLOWBROW," be seen at the Orpheum this week, Ib unique It is one of the most distinctive bits of playwriting In contemporaneous stage literature. The author. S. Jay Laufman, takes the theater seriously and has maintained that good books, good plays and good music aie as understandable and much mure Interesting than the other kind In Highlowbrow" b has taken three of the most famous stories written In the English language, condensed them Into short episodes and shows their interest These stories are and their humanity tie Maupassant's Regret, Dunsanys The Guest," and U Henry's The Gifts of Magi. .The scene is unusual. The stagetele-Is At either side Is a man at a dark One is asking the other to spend the evening with him doing the town. The friend declares there Is much inors pleasure In his library and. attempts to the prove his statement by reciting stories of these famous books. As each out the fade the and figures story begins storv Is visualized. been has accepted as "Highlowbrow fe dramatic gem and for its Interpretation a' company of exceptional merit has been engaged. William Halligan la the star. He and his assot tales give a fine performance of Mr. Kaufman's little play. phone. blooded dogs, BESIDES her horses,herherbeautiful home, cars, nestled In Beverly hills. California, and her intensive work at the studio, Pauline Frederick still finds time for one popnlai indoor sport, feh colieits stamps' She is a confirmed philatelist! Which is simply another wav of saying she, is a and collector of postage stamps. Collecting stamps seems an odd thins for a motion picture star to be doing, and vet It Is natural enough, when you thins of the hundreds of Itlterg from all over the world that tome to Miss Frederick every dav Moreover, It helps her to keep geographical posted or the nalines that separate tho tions of the east and central )urope. Miss Fredericks colle tlon Is quite a stamps of every large one There are, from letters that snade and color, taken have come from every corner of the -- stu-oe- nt ever-shifti- world tOLLEHJING matchboxes from all over wA the world Is one of Alma Rubens's means of enjoying herself away from the one of Idea from the Alma atudio. got Anutele France s books and found it a She says it perlevtly fascinating pursuit. of Is remarkable how many varieties boxes are to be found. THE SON OF WALLINGFORD te ... m pjp'm. jiiw. !r T WO headline attractions, both of superlative merit In their particular vaudeville fields, should provide Orpheura patrons with some delectable entertainment on the new bill opening Wednesday night, but there's several other offerings that also rank as real headliners. The coming of Sammy Lee, Broadway favorite, with blB Udy friends, four and talented girls, gheslthe localpretty Orpheum Its first girl act In several weeks, and fof this reasod the superb dance ana song offering will doubtless bo very welcome. Mr. Lee is himself a dancer of renown and hip production in its entirety Is bright, dashing and diffeient In Its e original ideas of dance ateps, William Halligan. the other headlnef, heads a fine cast In HlKhlowbow. the newest of vaudeville play lets, and a truly S Jay sensational offering Kaufman wrote the niece and it has created a Th big pageant scene In The Son of Wallingford, coming to the Pantages soon, is one of th big spectacular furore-ove- r me Orpheum circuit. la a dramatic gem and ciltica incidents in the production. The town of Whittier, CaL, wae turned over to Vttagraph for the purpose and some 8000 declare It one of the most dibtinctrve bits persons were used in the mob Scenes. A menagerie of camels, elephants and the like were used in the paraae. "Hlgh.-lowbro- w Ina Claire is pretty as the wife, but plays By GEORGE JEAN NATHAN. .Ittle finish YORK. Oct. 22. If thus -- far .with Breese Is extraordinarily bad season you have come . bS as Edmond the Bluebeard of the occasion. He NEW uses his hands as If he were shadow-boxinand otherwise a himself like comports for the fifth-rat- e banalities of actor tn ham melodrama. The loudest eighth-rat- e writers, grab your hat and applause, on the opening night, was for a Juvenile actor, hlght Baxter. What it coat and gallop to The White-Heade- d Boy at the 'Henry Miller theater, it was all about, I dont know. will once again restore your faith In the theater aa ah aesthetic barroom, and you Ingenuous Shindig. "The Blue' a play made out will come out at li o'clock expansively full of the booze of laughter and with the of H. de Vere Btacpooles story of similar an is title, Ingenuous shindig. As a steltipsiness of a fine satisfaction. For this play, ably written, excellently lar attraction, it offers a series of spectacular scenes of the kind faImagined and a delight to the ear withal, theater back tn the eariy emphasizes once again the high talents vorite in the 90s.. One of those "spectacular scenes of Lennox Robinson, its author, and vina shows papier mache steamship about dicates the Judgment of those of us who, over a period of eight yearsr have been three. feet long, Illuminated by red Tire hence burning, on the horizon of steadfastly proclaiming him the first of and some canvas waves Another shows a the jounger crowd of Irish dramatists. wherein several tall The present. play is full of the sound great windstorm, hither and thither - bv laughter that is brewed by an under- trees are pulled while several the wiles, of stage hands- In the quirks of character and standing of Mennens of human the idiosyncrasies nature the wings blow quantities across brown talcum the stage powder Without a kick in the Rest of the pants The play opens with a scene on board a In It from beginning to end, without a trace of whatis commonly- - known as ship. On deck are two stage children hokum, It vouchsafes a humor as fresh and Cecil Yapp, made up to look like an as a lettuce salad and as penetrating as old Irish sailor Suddenly, someone erlea out that be smells Bmoke. No sooner has a needle , The story It spins Is a simple one, the the cry rung' out than, sure enough, the tale of a mother's pet son who, despite smoke of several large stogies (puffed the indignations and stratagems of his vigorously by some secreteiF stage hand! beheld coming up the trap-dooneglected brothers and sisters, In the la Mr. Yapp puts his arms around the two end gets everything his heart la set upon, and all Ifeis without lifting a hand. The stage children protectingly, and the curIn the next act. we manner in which the spoiled young fel- tain conies down low brings this about constitutes the play find Mr. Yapp and the two stage chlldien a play admirable in Its observation of on a deserted island Toward the close character and alert to the humors that of the act, Mr. Yapp eats sortie poisoned berries and, after rolling around on the lie therein. The Abbey Theater company has been floor for two or three minutes, dres. The curtain falls again. brought over by Charles Dillingham to do the pluv; and the evening Is one of the safest that I can recommend to you when Eight Years Glide By. f you visit New York. Eight years pass while I am out in the And when the lobby smoking a cigaret. Skinner in New Play. curtain goes up on Act III. the roles of Blood and Band ts a dramatization by the two stage children are seen to be Thomad Cushing of the 'tome of the same occupied by Miss Frances Carson and This means that the name by Blasco Ibanez. It is a tuigid Harold French. and obvious tale of a who two children grew up while I was out and succumbs to the charms of a gaudy smoking admiring Percy Hammond neglects his fiau, is finally poked new fall suit. Miss Carson wears the kind of costume by a bull, apd shuffles .off the mortal Ann Pennington wears In her lioocb coll, the while his wife whom he misy takes for his old charmer bends dance, and F'rench la dressed like a runner. To the deserted over him. A piece for ladies who thrill to a single island cornea presently a fat man with a Daquiri cocktail, "The Sheik and sen- goatee. This Is the villain. He casta i timental phonograph ballads. Mr. Otis wolfs eye at Miss Carson and soon therebkinner plays the role of the young to- - after tries to work his wicked will upon eador. He js much too old for the part. her.. Young French then to the rescue. The leading comedy relief 'of the play. And the villain is no mors. There Is an additional of Indeed, cornea on such occasions as the other characters refer to him as a "boy." an hour In which we are shown that InMiss Catherine Calvert is a surprise as stinct is a wonderful thing, that man the beauteous Dona'Sot, the siren who seeks a god to worship Instinctively, that a lot of whispers Into the toreador's toupee and love and nature are one, andnews. makes him forget tlye. wife. This She plays other such surprising pieces of a. whole in for ran an sense of London! with accurate year values, and play manages the scend of passion In the secSentimental Fable. ond act with exceptional effect. The chief defect in the lo at exhibition A. E Thomas's corned v, Only 38," It Blueof Alfred Savolrs Paris farce, sentimental fable of a clergyman's beards Eighth Wife," Is the poor trans- the widow who blossoms out into something lation by Charlton Andrews. Disregard- of a butterfly In the late '34 8 of her life ing the merits or demerits of the play, and finds love anew In the person of a the translation Is so hard and stiff that professor. This story tg related college much that Is theatrically effective In the The hunjor Is of the platitudlnously. original text goes tor naught. most obvious cut, and sentimentality Nor la this original text a difficult one stalks manuimperiously through the to tiansplant. The translator has made v the mistake of Injecting Into It a note of script On the Is the whole, play considerably starchiness that stiffens it out of counteMr. Thomas's not especially signance The play itself la a fairly amus- beneath nificant watermark. Miss Mary Ryan lias directed in farce and acted ing locally role and plays It In the so slow and deliberate a tempo that, the the leading manner. Perey Pollock Is the Impression remaining in the spectator is stereotyped ruober-sdani- p And yokel. Of a moving picture of an express train C. Matter the usual clean-cu- t, Browne run off at the rate of about ten feet a wholesome" hero. minute. As a result, the affair loses It ts strange to find this production most of Its sauce. ' listed under the managerial banner of One would expect to Sam H, Hams, Has Penchant for Wives. find K sponsored by Miss Jessie Bonstelle. The Bluebeard of the title la an Amer- or the huilding fund committee of the ican billionaire with a penchant for wives, Asbury park Second Baptist church. , the play begins, lie has had seven when " and is on the hunt- - for an eighth. He mdear! finds her in the person of the daughter of WHOOPS.' Keaton, frozen faced comean Impoverished French aristocrat. They strike a flnam Ial bargain before the cere- dian, finally smiled "on the set at his mony.' With the cerempny over, the wife Hollywood studio the other day. and It lefuses to be other than a wife tn name tool an extra to accomplish the feat. Said extra" was bemoaning hia fate only. Her husband yells bawls, trots around because his laundry had failed to 'put In ths chamber, begs. Implores but to no an appearance. "M here Is my laundry?" he yelled. "I avil., . In the end, when the wife has turned the tables on her husband by as- want my laundry." the one answered. herself of of hia No love, purity suring "M'hcre ts my lajfidry?" he again etc., etc., she gives In. This story reaches its climax In a bedroom disrob- queried. ing scene that probably makes poor A1 "Here's a collar, the property man Moods tear hia hair for Jealousy. But, answered. In a facetious spirit scene The "extra looked at It, and for all this jdunce, and a sevond-a' wherein Bluebeard bites hia wife, the afit " Mho wouldn't smile fair Is not cspe lolly lively going. Mss the theater with more or lees roars like a as a fog-hor- n, d dumpln-grtjun- -- r! er sen-orit- hundred- lachry-mosel- -yard-dash three-quarte- rs er , -- ct replied-"That'- s |