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Show Former Rowland Hall Student Winning Fame in Light Opera 'ANOTHER former Salt Lake girl J York. Eleven tu eeored heavily in light opera in New Prince' wai rear ago this month, when the'ele play, The riven at Rowland Hall, under the direction of Mrs. Eugene B. Palmer, one of the youngeet membeV of the class played the part of the prince. Thi girl wa Mis Tessa Koeta. 8he had been called to take the part at the eleventh hour because of a sudden attack of illness suffered by the girl who had been chosen for the role, but so wonderfully did she acquit herself that Mra Palmer strongly advised her to make the stage her vocation. Mis Kosta took the advice, and the following year wont to New York and applied to George Lederer, the widely known manager, for a position. At this time Miss Kosta wss only 15 years of age. Mr. Lederer was immensely pleased with the ability ahown by the girl, but he frankly adviaed her to delay her debut upon the wtage for a eouple of year. The little western girl was greatly disappointed, but she took Lederer advice. In the meantime she continued her studies, and when the two years had rolled by she again went to New York. She was immediately engaged as the prims donna in the touring company of Madame Sherry, and so well did the please the publio that the following year she- - was engaged by George The Vagabond. aa prims donna in Following these successes she with Basel Pawn, and etlil later with Raymond appeared in The Pink Lady in New Hitchcock in The Beauty Shop. Punng the long run of Lassie ' York Mis Kosta sang the title role. Recently it was decided to revive the famous light opera, The Chocolate Soldier," in New York, and Mist Kosta was chosen to eing the title rolo in that production. The Chocolate Soldier is on view at the Century theater and the critics of New York are nearly unanimous in declaring Mis Kosta to be one of the . greatest prima donna in light opera in the United States. , 'ttf, A m The last picture in which Mr, McKim appeared is the twelve-ree- l production, The Count of Monte Christo. to bs released at an early date. Tuesday eveIn his Mr. arrival Salt McKim was greeted by a telegram from Lake, ning, upon Douglas Fairbanks asking him to return to th coast to take part in another picture. Th Retake, which Mr. McKim is offering at Pantages, presents th ezset condition in a motion picture studio. Tho set, the many accessories to obtaining the proper emotions, the master hand of the director and everything connected with the making ef motion pictures is shown Mr. McKim is oyerioyed to be in Salt Lake again. He says that since his appearance here in stock, he ha had a great desire to appear before Sait Lake audience again, for the reason that they are alway appreciative of the efforts to entertain them. He will conclude hi local bJt f engagement Tuesday at-"I- 19 a dandy bill at th Fantagos this JTweek to calebrate the Christmas holidays with a real film star an the head- vaudeville section and a photoplay attraction- - Robert McKim, the screen's area leal villain, who ha appeared In such recent as The Mark of Zorro," The Silver Hoard," The Mysterious Rider' and A Certain Rich Man," te appearing In with Rhea Mltoheul and Burt drama enHadley In a studio one-atitled "The Retake, which is novel in Its development, full of surprises end possessed of an undeniable punch. The Brazilian Heiress" Is a clever musical comedy, with a lot of pretty girls and a comedienne of the first order, aided and abetted by two clever chaps, who can sing and dance and comede" on their own hook. Kennedy and Rooney are clever la their comedy presentation and dish up an enjoyable lot of nonsense In a thoroughly laughable manner. The Humberto brothers are a pair of acrobatic downs who offer something different in the Une of knockabout athletics Ann 8itor la a vivacious young woman with all manner of pep and a way of putting over a song that la all her own. Harry Bueaey has a new Una of Patter and fun and Harold Lloyd never appeared to better advantage than In bis Man." latest laugh feat, A Sailor-maA sew program will be inaugurated Wednesday send run through until after the Hew Tear' holidays liner of the double-head- sue-cnw- ei ct de romance of ancient illa PHRODITE, Egypt, presented on a scale of great magnificence by F. (Ray Comstock and Morris Oeat, with a cast of IbO people, promises to he the sensation of the year when It cornea to th Balt Lake theater for four performance, com- mencing next Thursday night. A. matinee will be given Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. , ' ! , , Aphrodite" It a gorgeous and brilliant staging on a massive scale of on of th most celebrated romances known to modern (lotion. The original story by Pierre ).ouys, a Frenchman, waa a sensation. Various versions In Engllah, much subdued, have been printed for private circulation, but the story remained chiefly In libraries until Pierre Fronds! made the dramatic version which was such a sensation In Farm that Mary Garden afterward appeared In It In grand opera. Then George G. Hazleton was engaged bv Morris Geet, who bought the Amor- -, Iran rights, to adapt tho play for th American stag. It was produced last December In New York and waa th big- -; gest theatrical sensation known In a gen- -j .ration. Now th original company and mammoth production, conalatlng of den stage pictures of gorgeous splendor, will be brought her Intact. is partly historical and Aphrodite" partly fiction. The two historical charac-- , ters are Demetrtos, a sculptor, whose mutilated statue of Aphrodite etui Is ex-- hlblted as on of the prises of the Louvre In Farts, and Berenlke. Quen of Egypt, et th period of th novel, g B. C. De--t metrlo Is loved by Berenlke, but be re- pulses her advance becaus of his pur lore for bis statue of Aphrodite, only to fall a victim to the Ilea of Chryaii, a courtesan of Alexandria and the most notorious of women from th Temple of Aphrodit. n outlay of beAphrodite" tepreeent tween K&4.000 and Itoo.&oo to It pro- -, been and baa ducert, produced on a scale of magnificence never before attempted In ' sny theater In th world, a special Christmas treat, th ASplayer will present Willard 'Wilke Mark's great melodrama. Smooth As Bilk. with Mr. Mack and Miss Ehspard In tna lead in keeping with Ing role.- - Decoration to gay holiday spirit make the theater a home of real cheer and Christmas JoJItr. "Smooth A 8,1k" is a typical Mack drama, filled with romance, thrills, love, and, best of all, a twist th nd that U vaatly different from the ordinary and which given the audience omeihln to think about, "bmooth At Silk produced by the v who originally aleo appeared in the author, title role, at the Lexington theater In New York City, where it played to reconi breaking housea It le one of the totalled crook' - play, but Jump " the 'ci i j! 't t V. if s V i A .i A) A, - l V4 V , f it ' ' - , V t r - t - '' -- , ff - p ST ,s . -) " X vi A - It-- , . a a 7 V , U L. , a seen from tho famous Comstock sndGost spectacls, Th Feast to Bacchus, December 29. This attraction is said to ho tho largest on tour In America. traces of set rulss In th manner In which It ends, thus affording a novelty turn that is aa Interesting as It Is unezpeot-eIt Is on. of the most unusual plays of its type that has ever been a Broadway aensation. The action of th play revolves about a band of clever crooks and deals with their lives, their relationship to the polio methods of th present day. and their efforts to play the game of Ilf aa they eee It. It is a remarkably true picture of the real human life and emotions of the underworld, full of "color" and atmosphere," but with none of the crook that is often present In plays. Willard Mack has used his master ability tp drew a stag picture that la gripping, convincing and logical. Silk" was a clever criminal, but on Powslip sent him up to do hta bit. erful Influences decided they could use him for their own nefarious ends on the outside. The opportunity was given him to make his escape and he took the 811k" chance. Here the drama opens. has been permitted to escape from prison In order that politicians may use hi tklU as a safe breaker to procure certain d acumen ta that are essential to their political security. The complications, nar-ra- w escapes and thrilling situations In which Silk" finds hmself; his final reformation, end the manner In which- he deala with these people to whom he has been nothing but a pawn form the story of this absorbing play. A beautiful and unuaual love story Is one of the delightful and touohlng elements of the play. New York critics, at the time of the original production of Smooth As asSilk" one at the Lexington theater, hailed It of th most remerkable stage offerings that has been presented in yeara. Willard Mack, the author of the play, will himself appear in the leading maecu- d. offen-slvenc- - as Silk'1 Mulane and the finish and artistry of hi performance can be depended upon. Hie appearance In this role lo th original New York production created a sensation and mad the drama a big, popular hit. 811k" haa the outward smoothness of Raffle," th of Areen Lupin and th aoul of a man big enough to renounce the thing he holds dearest for th love of another. Iva ehrpard haa tha rola of Bertha Carrolla, known as Boota," a part different from any she ha played during her engagement her. Her clever performances In past Wilke production! promises a very artlstlo interpretation. Clair Sinclair haa a really big role, not a comedy part, in this week' production ea Nellie Daly, and Wilkes petrous will have a rare treat In her finished, sympathetic performance. Jack Vosburgh will play "Snap" Graham; Fred Manly, Mooney, and Huron L, Blydou will appear as Johnny Daly. Norman Feusler will have an excellent role as Big Frank Powers" and Clark Marshall will have a fin opportunity Gene Cleveland will play Taxi Jimmie. Rosie, and Verne Layton returns to tb cast this wetk aa Freeman Holding. Leon Cluff wilt play Blogge. Smooth As Silk" wUl play all this week, with matinee Thursday and Saturday. There will be no Christmas matins on Monday. Une hole 1 Aa z'i Aphrodite. - 4 , V...i ' ' V 1 - r i, I t ' brU-Da- ' ft 1 v $$, P H K8S ulna Swanson, BY GEORGS JEAN NATHAN, th character - ly deviltry EW YORK, Dec. it. Mr. BeUco and charm- that th adapter 'adaptation of Andre , Ploarde pudonc tol Jrom It. She takes an adaptaton 'K1W boulevard that ls no more French than a eetdet Lenor of Pilsner serves to elevats Mib and actually makes it Frencn. our Ulrich to a high position among Surrounded by a company of actors who Her performance miss entirely th underlying comedy of American comediennes. humor the occasion, she yet heroically pull I an eleetrlo thing, rich JtS pathos: a them up to her own comlo plan. The and remarkably tender ln d picture of no little brllUanc and of fine entire last act she contrives to Invest with humor, despite the equally theatrical effect. Have for ten minute when act second to tb of conclusion heroic efforts of her associates at th jump she permit bald caricature to lay low upon that humor with both feet whennot ever it struggles to show Its head. Hers her Interpretation this Is doubtless Miss her Fault so much as het director char- is a performance worth seeing. It Is difficult to under land Mr. Belas, Ulrich never once let go of her co's costing of tho play. Whatever th acterisation, and the result ie a Interestour aa achievement histrionic faults a of this may be, th casting in a number of ing of actor producsr la not one of them. H'e staga has vouchsafed record in that direction la too well known th Belasco adaptation, not much to need recalling. , , can be sold. By way of making the for safe Lead. Actors as democracy, manuscript original Heavy he has purged it of most of It Gai.ic Yet her wo have him casting a pier more juices, and what remains Is littleexhibit that depends upon Its lightness of Interthen a mild Peg o My Heart" with a company of actors ex-aa with the characters given French names. pretation Samuel B. Hardy, for The story, as the adaptation handlescor-it. heavy asle lead. for the role of the music vast ample, Is of a hoyden of the Pari street hall dlreotor: a role that cries for a deft ner who sets her cap for a musio hall and play It Ilk a director and who finally, after three acts tackleeasy atouch. Hardyfootball tea m. He professional of excessively pur love, wins him away rushes oq at It. chargee heed oown, grabs it Th sedulous purificafrom his to earth around th kneee and It brings tion of th original results in a them the progress ef th evening. that Is neither fleh, flesh, fowl nor good throughout belanoe Tb of th company provides red 'erring. him with excellent Interference, for whenever tb play show signs of getting th Prim as Maiden Aunt.1 better of him they adroitly clear th way Thi Americanized K.kl Is as prim as a for him again ana permit him a free field. school class aunt. The maiden Sunday But, a I have sold. Miss Ulrich goea may be taken to ase her without a qualm. blithely on her way non tho less and she you may. suspect, In th original, makes the evening ner own. La Sourlant Is not quit so virginal, but all that w Another French play, have left of her her are a few swear Madam Beaudet, by Denys Aralel and rear tho of Andre Obey, don Into English under ih words, a periodic saucy wiggle Is tha eklrt. ana a scene wherein sho undresses title, "The Wife With a Smile, ss far as on elaborate pink under- latest offering of th praiseworthy Theare directors ater guild, whose garment. responsible For th rest sho Is a sister to Folly-annfor the most consistent and Interesting Peg and Topty. But despite th stag In New York. This play Is not elaborate morality with which tha adap- adapted, but translated, and tn result is ter has Invested her, the Kikl of Miss therefor twice as satisfactory. Ulrich takes on a life nr sparkle that th Th tol her Is of bumptlou and deodorised manuscript lacks. 8h gives vainglorious bourgeois who driva hla wife SSSSS3SBZ1, 'JP to frensy with his braggadocio, his petty bickering and his absurd farce-eouned- y, El- lntk single-hande- naceaserlly on at smaller scale. He called in Theodor Reielg, tho celebrated aeon carpenter and artist who built alt of Oscar Hammrte4n's operatic production 1. Between them, they evolved a reproduction of tho pharos whichx stands feet forty-tw- o feet high. It Is twenty-siIn diameter at th bos and I built of solid wood and fireproof material. It le built In two Met lone, as the combined weight of th tower would be too great to permit of this enormou "prop being Each section u handled aU St once. mounted on a platform, which In turn is mounted on steel wheels. Electric motors mstds tho apparatus movs it across as it is too the stag and into position, heavy to be moved by even an army of s. ? ' a, 'J us mulodrgnaa. Dangerous Practice. GREAT HIT IN ORPHEUM COMEDY par. -- cuckooed Popular Italian, play Revived. Tyler revival of th late Paul Armstrong t melodrama, "Alla Is, Ilk the majority Jimmy Valentine, of Breadway revivals, chiefly Interesting for th opportunity tt affords persons Interested fa such pastimes to compare th tetort presently on view with those who played In th opus when It was drat unveiled. For myself, I confess to a calm amounting almost, to catalepsy ta such ms tiers. Whether Miss Msrgalo GUlmor Is better or wore than Miss Lauretta Taylor, who played the hero.ne's role when th melodrama was ahown st Wsllsek's, Is not a matter of e particularly great moment to me. nor am I as murh exercised over th question e to Otto Kruger' or Inferiority to H. B Warner. Georg el ever-popul- 4 I te piece an On of his practice empty revolver close to hi temple and observe that if so and so eventuates hs , Driven te desperation, will kill himself. hi wife surreptitiously loads the revolver and waits. But this time th fellow . alms not at himself but et her. He v misses and, a the cloud of smoko slowly evaporates, oomes to a better underin this standing with her, though even crlel his overpowering vanity esuses him to believe that his wife bad not plotted hi death, but hey own. The pley suffers from exaggeration tn th drawing of its leading character. The husband and wife approach dangerously to caricature. Nor is th observation especially eearohlng, Th manuscript, at Its best, only scratches a nior or less obvious surface. Yet the piece le not without Interact, for It has flashes of and of Ironlo humor. understanding Arnold is excellent as tb husband. Mis B.ench Turk overplays th rolo of th wife, but does well In such moments a hsreelf In hand. she Is abl to Advertised as th musical sensation of an opera by Fpatn. The . Wild Cat, Manuel Pensile, disclose llttl of sound value. Tb musio Is for tho moat Imitative, and tha book la banal to the last degree. There. Is th second act, a brilliantly colored scene In the Patio Just outside s bullring a scene rich In dss-sllhuts and adroit In stag dlractlon but the rest Is perfectly conventional stuff. Th story Is th stereotyped soufand gypsy toreador of bandits, fle I far more sweetheart, and the musio Italian than Spanish or- - I 4buld say hP -- " . ex-w- lf. BABY GRANDS OF MOVIES HAVE '"S i ... ( liott Dollar and Wallace Held In Don't Tail comedy, Aeaorted Here." Bvdrvtlitag;Hoaot Davoiton ; comDown la AMERICAN edy, Snookya Froah Heir; Path Xawo. BROADWAY William Falrbaaka la Wcarora Burrtcano Pap"; Ckarlra Hutch loon la apecUt comedy. Hutch; Jaroho Oliver Cnrwood'l Howa of KIXEMA tho North"; comedy; International Now Weekly. To a Finish, a west-er- a OEM Ruck Jems ta , drama. SMOOTH AS. SILK IS BIG HOLIDAY FEATURE AT WILKES " . to be seen at tha Bait Lake theater for three night end Saturday matinee, commencing Thundiy. THIS WEEKS BILLS PA RAM017NT-E- THEYLL Ik -- Ad 3, Vl Su W Man. (ALT LAK& Aphrodite," open Thursday for foor performaec. Including giitlne Saturday sfltmona. WILKBS Willard Mack la 8aaoth aa Uk, every ersalBS at S 80, OBPHEl-sr-Lstimes today, vanderilt bill bill with Hevuo. hew with Cortona Tilton Jane and Katherine Lee open Wednesday eve. Tsar' night. Bxtra how New LOEW S iTATRAU now today. "Whoa Daw liras" sad feature viudevllU. Popular prtcei. XoaUanoua porfonnaacet. MOTION PICTtTlES. dra-mat- lo Handling V AOBETOLE.- VkAKA AgO FAXTAOKS Bobvrt McKloi Is person-- F1T (bar lets. Harold Lloyd Is A Sstlsr Hod LI vvBxe&-- V A" be stepping lively at th this week with th big New Year's joy feat and its two shows to usher 1431 and with an unusually In young bright bill of features headlined by those inimitable yeungstera of th movlea. Jan and Katherine Le The New Years ev reebratton at th Orpheum is scheduled for Saturday night. Th first show or regular performance will open at 7.30 oclock ana th extra show or midnight matinee at 10 90. Aa a headline attraction the Lee klddlea are an offering par excellence. They are th stage-handvary biggest little stars upon the stag Immediately after th Bacchanalian rev. today and th only children who are ab1. which end the second act, stagesolutely stars In their own right. They hands and electricians moy this gigantic are not only film stars, but their offer- ligtuheue Its moorings In a corfrom oiieeoxvt1 3fceg sV a comedy skit, ner of th tdv v0a. 4 ing. "Th New Director, and It is then projected is declared to be on of th biggest hits out Into th steg center. It Is up to this lightever scored In vaudeville. They are rol- house with It winding path around the licking kiddles who know how to act and outside, that Chrysls, th heroin, rilnvbs their spicy doing make their skit a wheif she make the supreme sacrifice to . regular wildonwow." She .climb to the top the great bill are Kramer stone for her sins. Featured and In th story is supand Boyle, who spread just about as much of the tebeaeon down to Abe poprobe her throw fun In their offering aa can be imagined, posed while she poses naked upon and Mary Haynes, a singing comedlenn ulace below to be beacon tho of pretending of rarest talents. The Kramer and Bo)l th top bit Is a decidedly appetising amusement Oosttased ea Fag Tour morsel, with one of the fellows doing a blackface and the other a straight Miss Haynes has won untold laurels with her specially written character tongs and her distinctive personality makes her a shining luminary In aongland. Eh Is accompanied by a clever pianist. Charles Harrison and Sylvia Dakin have In Th Three of I s" a truly snappy It revels In musical comedy offering. class, style, action and vlvta personali- It ties. Mr. Harrison Is responsible for and Billy Hogue at th piano help Put it ver big Jack Joyce, a British "Tommie" during the world war. In which he lost a leg, Is th possessor of a splendid voice and versatile talents a a ranconteur. HI offrom many fering le most enjoyable oddity presented angle. Th delightful by Sylvia Loyal and her company, Le Charmeus liiona." Is typically French and a most diverting novelty. Another something new In vaudeville Is "Th Knight .and HI Knav, a European novelty, presented In fashion to astound Fable, Rathe and bewilder. Aesop' v't J News and Topic of th Day are filled with timely and Interesting matter to add movie variety to tho sparkling list t of noteworthy attractions a big scenic spctoi uk which plays four performances at th Balt theater, beginning Thursday, December 33, Is an The stag hand of penslv proceeding. th theater In h!cb this big attraction has been appearing have been making fabulous wage beoaue of tb demand for their service, and Morris Oeat, who produced Aphrodite In association witha F. Ray Comstock, has been paying out email fortune every week to electricians, Ad this soen shifter and proprty-mn- . I due to th fact that Aphrodite" a a Is unquestionably th eoenic spectacle, meet elaborate s'ag offering ever shows In a legitimate theater In this country. The biggest part of th potol and th feature which cause more trouble than anything else, is the great tower which is used In the last act. This oolot-eaffair Is n exact duplicate of th celebrated pharos or Ugh house of the port of Alexandria, Egypt. Th original pharos, built by Alexander th Great when h conquered Egypt and founded th city that bears hla name. I more than sixty test high. Its ruins may still be seen On th by tourists visiting Alexandria. top of this tosrer glar an enormous beacon, the fir being lighted at night to warn the mar leers entering th harbor. It was reached by a circular Incline which extended round th tower three or four until It reached th top. , atar and playwright, who will appear la tha title times Willard Mack, In staging "Aphrodit." E. Lyall Swete, a which determined to reproduce this eenwtlon created melodrama own hla In the director, role Mulua great Jan and Katherine Lee top Orpheum Mef York, Smooth as Silk. pharos as accurately as possible although oBllk atin 1 4' u ooo rnONAU) KIRKHAM, son of Mrs. C. L. Watson, 24 Westminster avenue, has - returned to Salt Lake for the Christmas holidays, 'following an engagement of two years with the Seattla Jaza Band, an organization of young Utah and Idaho musicians, who htve been taking the east and middle west by storm. The band has spent the pnst two years in concert, vaudeville and dance When engaged to play in Chicago, the original engagement was for three weeks' duration. However, the group made such a great hit that the - engagement was extended to seven weeks This engagement was filled at th State restaurant, in conjunction with a revue which boasted a cast of thirty persons During the past two years the boys traveled from Michigan to Kentucky and Tennessee and from Kansas City, Mo., to the eastern coast. They played three weeks in Indianapolis, two weeks in Evansville, and one return engagement of a week; one week in St. Louis sad one week in Kalamazoo, Mich. Th young musicians deft Salt Lake two years ago, playing their first engsgemsnt in Rock Springs, Wyo. They played throffgbout Wyoming and into Montana, Washington, Oregon and northern California, thence to Chicago and throughout th eastern states Another Salt Laker who is included in the organization is Leo Neibaur, former student of the East high school and a member of tho East high quartet, which was popular at club luncheona and other affairs about four years ago. . pOBERT M'KIM, the most famous villain of tha screen, who is appearing at the current Pantages show, is renewing many friendships created during bis engagement her in stock. Mr. Me Kim played her in 1913 with the Utah Stock company, eoatarring with .Alice Flemming. Mr. McKim remained with the company for severs weeks, Wing which time the most striking and popular presentation was that of Puddmhead Wilson. Former Governor lieber M. Wells and Ada Dwyer Bussell were in t the east. Mr.'McKim hs appeared in Salt Lake in person oneo since that time. His screen productions, however, particularly the Zaneonly Groy pictures, in which he has been appearing recently, have been received with great favor because of . I hn 1 A.V2.L lt 4ha AVAflllnnt I f IS" sVl.iy new hill opening Wednesday night. " ' C. Oestiused es Pag year. |