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Show "T EVENING NEWS DESERET SATURDAY SECTION 1919 MARCJI events written large In the annals of b rated stage storied pf American life world. In the South at the close of the Civil the Lotted Stated and-th- e Th life of Colonel Roosevelt has War and tells the atory of a Southern afbeen so closely linked with "public girl who, faced with 'the necessity ot fairs thattt was necessary for the- - marrying a Northern adventurer to Roosesave her father's fortunes. Is about to "The of producers Fighting 14 vetta to portray many events of ex- - resign herself to that sacrifice, when treme historical Importance to make the day is saved by intervention of ga tha screen version accurate and com- - old negro slave couple. The adven-pletturee of the girl, her father, her lover Much of the customary dryness of and the old negroes furnish a tale of contemporary history has made It Im- intense human Interests The play Is and filled with dramatic practical for motion picture produo tlon. not only from its lack of central momenta, relieved by plenty of com' characters for whom audience aym- - edy situations, and the plantation pathy could ba created, but for its singers; and it should prove one of absence of the dramatic and humor- - the most popular of Mr. Clonlngers ous contrasts essential to satisfactory offerings. I Miss Gertrude Bondhlll wlli have screen entertainment, In producing the life of the late a congenial role as the daughter of Colonel Roosevelt the abundance of the Southern planter, while Mr. material and humorous- - lngef will be at home in the part of events which characterised, hla pub the young Northerner who wins the lie life gave the necessary founds- - girl and balks the schemes Of the n upon which to build an excep- venturer. Mtss Msy Roberts, the poptional structure, embracing incidents ular character actress, and George and situations that loom large in tho Morrell, who la making a name for himself as a versatile actor, will be nation's life, , seen In the negro parts. PANTAGES. A scenic production, equal to any B 400NLIGHT, Incense, Comedy and of the fine mountings that have characterized other offerings at the lYl drama are mingled at the Vanla promised by the tage this week In a pleating potpourri of sense and nonsense Incense pervades the atmosphere when Kyra and through their graceful and terpalchprean number; their are all of the Orient and are wonder-- . sldered by many critics and actor, fully beautiful. Dashing Laurie Ord- - among them, Maude Adams, to be the way affords delight with her hilarious strongest of American dramatists, and The Nigger Is considered his strongest Play. In fact Miss Adam has been noted, a that when she brings a play tosaying the Art Theatre for the Vanity Players, she Intends to have Sheldon write it. The Nigger" is distinctively South-erIt is a romance based on South-er- a Ideal and the race problem, and it Ss3' develops into a powerful drama, the climax being almost x melodramatic. The dialogue Is characteristically Southern and the characters and setting portray the plantation spirit,, the, spirit of the sunny South. Moroni Olsen and Edyth Barlow will have excellent to show their versatility inopportunity this play. Miss Barlow's role being a delightful surprise as she has been in the past two performances. Frank Rasmussen has his strongest role of the season, and .the Varsity cast will include most or those who have already won favor. The play will begin Monday and will run throughout the weekXXX Edna Pendleton, Who Heart of Annie Wood ; It- - Coming To Orpheum a; Distinct Novell e. I publication of tho fact that the late Charlee Frohman died p9or mio., baa drawn out Of , man; reminiscence which luck through daye hard tamoua manager paeaed. I HE , swift-movi- . How many people know he wee once Clon-drama- many, we branded In Salt Laks? Lnk-erof Salt mlnda In the for opine, with allied wa alwaye has name such a blaring Hat of -aucieiwea aa Maude Adame. Jhn Drew, Ethel and Barrymore, Olllcttei BUlle Burke, maoy other. n Yet it waa In Satt Lake that Frob-mamoot oneofhla paaaed through trying period. The date waa May. lUl a young man of 29. He when he t the continent In crowed frequently manager ot l nose day aa advance various 'attractions, and on thl occasion waa In charge of Haver ly's MaplOdon 'ministrels, fresh (row then at chubby London fated, rosy checked bov, alwaya reg stored at the Valley House, th proprietor. Andy llrixen. being hia warm From the Valtcy House 1K fnen a. ad-tlo- ... t her-dancl- pe-ci- al f - - "" -- two often walked over to the old Her-- , aid Office, where the writer of this -- n. dramatic j,aluinbad charge of the On" this musical department 'N.j.artlcular day, Frohman waa bubbling uar-ntae engase-w'Kfi -- epthuataam London. mcnlpf the Maatodona In was the Among lvi other anecdote one frequently narrated since, of how the big troupe hf forty played before royalty at the llayjnarket Theatre. and he told how the boy were reto direct all thehttentlon hearsed and to turn their eyee towa4 the InstrucThey followed royal box. tion to the letter, until a box on tfie other side of the house opened, and the fair Lily Lfftoirv, then, at the rcnlth of her beauty, entered, clad In regal robes, and with the lowest cut , gown the American boya Uf totha time, had ever beheld. Frohman stood the bark of the house, and gasped ea Ttejvaty'avery man In the company transfer vita eyes from tho Frlnce ot r Waif and his wife, to the Jersey Lily. He did not "know what the effect - w da e, but was later told that the prince waa quite good natured about it. and. In fact, rather led the .In the homage paid the fall y- - ty - f and '! I V f a V s"J t : V4 t- fr if'A v irT-'t- i ? . ' fY A i S' i V I t At one left ih la n gets the Constaa ferent f 'i man&gei life. H of the by her her flln big car. tt than troduce with Ci MIS ALEXANDRA CARLISLE ALAN In a Some From Booth Tmrklngton's "The Country Cousin," at the Salt Lake Theatre the last Three Days of Next Week. Tho Original Production - DALE-SAYS- 1 Starring In Dramatic Musical Halftone such a seasoned actress ai Mih p J son should have been willing to ,ppeif In It. : Exactly why such an ifh Will Be Seen Here; . "Frocks and Frills" tempted the fe" Written For The Saturday News by. Alan Dale. by opening In Alanhattan at ttl ployed in digging graves near Coblens, ance being given next Wednesday eveStandard Theatre Is a myetery fcl after all. the Standard, though out J Germany, had a somewhat startling ning, preceded by a matinee the same EW Mar. YORK, day. sponsored by "The Scibilia Theatrical the beaten Broadway path, u yl effect, especially to the old friendi-c.One act of Enterprises." A good many humorists York, and on dull weeks, crllico hr.i Bertie, th Lamb. Investigation re- "COCNTRY COUSIN NEXT WEEK. Shaw la really are of the opinion that Jests can be ' been known to go there That hr veals that the Stuart Robson referred combination of Miss Alexandra made safety on such topics aslpened on this occasion Itvuzgi quite an exhil- death, with funerals, and family grief, but I Lenten week, and a certain to is the son of th famous original, yUE with the American comia the three have never been able aration. It to agree with lng press-agesent out Invitation who enlisted for the war, and at Us edy "The Country Cousin, scheduled or four-aShaw play them. Funeral merriment to me la us all to be "among those prenn' close appeared In theatricals for th for the Sait Lake Theatre for three Ul never that gets on the nerves satisfactory, and It is generally Alas! we were! u wa certainly Thursday night, He days commencing-nex- t the very worst taste. . very curious performance, designed $,One tale. hbWevef, which Frohman, entertainment of the doughboye. and makes us wish in In baa proved a happy one. The play is Wise" some extremely H- - should aay to cater to th haldhe; af Vsr 'Penny was for fire under many days neglected to tell, waa that at tha moand Julian y Booth Tarkington that the art of speech literate and Lancashire of Oshkosh, of Sfcowhegan, or p,j,, 10 cent per ment he waa spinning stories In Salt dun, gnd although nearly Street; and when first produced. Miss were less spontaneous. folk resolve to secure certain insnr- - Post if baldheads lurk In thow u In the cole of ance take, he had telegraph wires out ap- of his comrades were gassed, wounded Carlisle was featured money by pretending that the ate climes. In emulation of the Nfe one-haFor about made such a hit in and Nancy Price, worked or he lout shell was the insured shocked, village through pealing for financial assistance for ter Garden, the perpetrator the part that she was promoted to hour, the breezy dia- JwJr.Thfe? PUin ,t0 nd party lo an- - "Frocks and Frills' had devised the big forty.r Neither Andy Brlxen the battle 44 hours at a stretch with- btellar honors and since then has of Bernard Shaw logue eondu5t ,8.? hla irl'CLlnttsMe He writes been starring in the piece. runway which ran across i no the newspaper man ever heard out being Injured. , la genuine entertainThe Country Cousin" is not a rural portion of the auditorium, u thou Thirlratt ; any intimation of the trouble from mother. Airs. Stuart Robeon in- - New play, It on New that satire period. a than but ment; for longer Frohman, but nearly 40 years after. York, of his unique experiences as a York society.scintillating Its brilliant authors ar becomes a terrific bore something th lout to bo eiaaiii rurtnep, it was in AirrigMid toftnl seen at their best in Its clever dla 1 wtarf "The Life of Charles Frohman soldier, actor and gftive digger. that taxes the powers of endurance to hi widow, and the incredulity of the rI!y ern to hope f Robson' had logue and humorous situations The Before enlisting, young was. printed by hla brother Daniel the fullest extent. worst, one of whom declares that neighbors, no a in and small a concern 40 young girl minutes, There are Just she saw the corpse walking about the Neither an author nor a com', and Isaac Aiarcosson,' an eloquent an important part In the production of I 8tY Ohio town who decides to break away , more of Augustus Doe Hia Bit," at room where they had forgot- - acknowledged any claims to Trod J from Treasure Island. page appeared, telling of Frohmana home and mother, and see life. put on ten to upstairs the Comedy theatre, where it nd Frills." It was on the prognnl pull down the blinds! J She has a fortune In her own name. hard luck In Salt, Lake. The book i ahead of the gentle, innocuous little Thl ad libitum! There was no wIthout PnrenU. merely announced w Friends of the veteran theatrical an(j tj,ig her father it anxious to Just JO known as Tobys Bow. play toys that one morning in May, 1441, satirical farce in two rooms.' Bet other theme. The incessant harping Ben Stern, wyl regret to die. He had been divorced years be minutes divided between three characw no atlre- - that 1 ther tlustave Frohman, brother of Charles. on minmarried the death of about-1fuand the and hla 111 the mother, has fore, so his each at is ters by that that he critically there was only farce of thcVft couson one' nerves Shaw - then in San Francia-- o with the "Hazel learn the a got and is neral, Pride, when country finally Nancy It again. utes apiece. talk, Mr. Stem is in New "York. home most Iftrke girl has Clonlngers ' personage chatters incessantly for at there were hree acts of it. It seemed mot obviousAsand company, received the fol- known all over the west' as the old in, realizing that the young a matter of fact then been taken up wholly because of her limits of Impossible to escape from It, and It description. the 90 that least minutes, from Charles at Salt lowing dispatch York and became not only monotonous but pos- - waa touch ot pathos in the one's patience is reached. time manager of Fanny Davenport, money, follow her to Newhouse tlon. It seemed rather melancholy Is Eeke: . , . at the party Aunt Caroline, In "The Sweetest Girl objectionable. In "Augustus Does His Bit" Shaw Lillian Russell, and other notable en becomes a guest at the Hippodrome Next makes fun of the British army, and There were a few amusing momenta contemplate all those poor, being given In the young gtri's honor. jn Dixie "Am stranded here, with tha 'big seen between two old cronies in ln PeoPl asked to brave Broadeay terprisea Nancy is made unwelcome, snubbed the British management of varloua forty, go is Frank ganger with the least upper Broadway for nc and insulted, but she wins out in the which they both tipple gin, waa quit or In a perfectly harmSALT LAKE THEATRE things military 'Bunch of Keys Theatre manager has end and takes the girl back to Ohio who endeavors to good, although L don't think that the Imaginable reaaen. They did the best less way. Anybody In ffciled to send railroad fares. Wire me LEXANDER surpassed himself with her. More than this, she makes characterizations and songs; James the impression that Shaw talks audience waa unduly enthusiastic. The they could, poor aouls! Theim vu not thkt'kort of thingof George Tawksberry Reynolds III a Grady and company present a forceful duioyllty.'Vnd'ku his marvelous work at the ifliat you can. Will return the amount village lout himself waa a droll type, an Invigorating task, and tint they and Toll sketch called The candidate, tt at alt. under the Plattsburg Bridge," make the game kin1 0f accusation but he wras out of Tecelpta Bush Street Theatre." matinee yesterday at the prospective placed. In fact Lan- achieved was that Is some achievement, for he waa which is replete with fine dramatto &kaInst the iate w. 8. Gilbert, who In cashire waabadly rather remarkable the victim of very untothe moments as well as touches of mirth; .H, M, g, pinafore satirized the rGotave promptly compile and Salt Lake theatre, by answering ques- according to Nancy's opinion, ward and FrlTU" enH we and However. circumstances, had "Frock enever she and Guhl are a couple of choc- jgj, navy most amusingly, and made a enough of the locality. Young Frohman and hla big forty tions in a way that simply amazed most heavenly snob" to Introduce ns to Miss Tommy All d funsters who have a Joy- - great success In England! Mis got out of Salt Lake In time to make those who asked them. Most of the countered. a a Molly Pearson, breezy and singularly clever, breezy and tunnMiss Carlisle comes to Salt Lak oua Une of patter; and dainty ghaw does say some funny thing artistic little actress waa "featured" ing entertainer a bit "rough to their San Francisco dates. "The other feature of the program were with the original Near York company jittle Jenniecomedy own her has which of n this tiny sketch, the story McCJaughlln in the comedy, but was unable to Susceptible to argument. I should to Bunch of Key, in which Frank Dan- - emitted-an- d the Urae devoted to and oducton under the management gpgjjy jighted moon In which she is so slight that tt scarcely warrants do anything with It. quite Her part wa iele made his how here, also received questions, this being done only at of Klaw ft Erlanger and oeorge u. ging out over the audience to- - the attention. . A certain young woman a bad one, and tt Is inconceivable that (Continued en page six). tadies-onl- y matinees, where nearly all Taylor. Her support includes Alfred accompaniment of popular melodies, has made A het that she can abstract assistance from home, of those present come prepared with a Lunt, Genevieve Tobin. Grace Hamp j A cho)ce musical program by Eddie from Lord Augustus a most lmpor- After the Balt Lake engagement. query to propound. f papers nihcT. JThe Smtianvhas Flttpatrlck, and the.Pantagea orchea- -, tant military person-cer- tain Qharlee Frohman did not long remain Th first part of Alexander's prot0 ,featr conclude the that show England's list of antt-al- rCompleted a successful tolrot bill, and with the Haverly forces. That famous gram differ slightly each day. as he Just wiff which craft arrangements. play through Tuesday Pacific coast. v This she does so easily that Lord showman was paying hla youthful has a large array of magical creations the 'ght to select from; while the second and AD movies is seen to be rather too much A spicy program-o- f high class actaf Augustus manager 425 a. week, but when he third part introduce daily new and of fool fs for a Shaw eatlre. 8uch ORlHELM. promised on hs hew bill opening reached San Francisco, his brother of-- 4 difficult testa that cause be even In a eatlre! foo,g couldn't, tomafternoon. The chief Wednesday of entertainment has a slat VAUDEVILLE fgred ib multtply hit salary hy three. unceasing wonderment. Ha one inary- will be Odiva, famous Hawaiian Lord Augustus has three brothers-in- OrIn store for will la write anything wishes, ln Gorman army, and he has If he would go out as advance manager that ia'd'lver, who come the puxzllng feature being that people this to say in extenuation of the con for the Hase) Klrke company No. J, In the audience actually hold the dtt'on: Nothing In the world gives Wednesday evening, the bill including swimming and diving act that is said - He accepted the offer and the while th writing is going on. -"big late, M. Mia Marion and the Kartell Sisters Th. K..rt ln the casualty forty knew him no more. Include and h; UsU.1 are contributing to th pleasure of the steal halftone with Edna Pendleton ,h stringed Hugo Lutgens, the Burns quintet; cast; a and their with entertainment supporting capable original iA recent newspaper paragraph statsongs and dances The engagement is and Frablto, clever comedian, ia Swede Billy Sunday; Noodles Fagan The fun of the lines is continuous, ing that Stuart Robson was now cm- - drawing to a close, the final perform- - "Shoo's, and Bert Baker and company ; nd Elsie tn "Impromptu Idlosyncra-i- n end clever lines are so rar en the 'Prevarication." one of the funni- - cie of 1919;" the Tybell Sisters In an stage today where wit is sacrificed aerial ac'; and a cinema feature. est tarce comedies ever offered. for the sake of muety-furt- y situatione Miss Pendleton, a charming j singer that "Augustus Does His Bit" waa WILKES. In vehicle and actreaa, has a splendid welcoma The Heart of Annie Wood" for the If you say that the 'English are KENDALL," display of her many gifts. Fouroth-.inot fighters says an orderly, "you c ful farc that , nY"teed ghould era, Includiog two clever girls, assist to seehem bn Saturday nights nd the audlenee home chuckling. her in prestuung the unusual offering. , Thig Mm, orderly is MtontahedUuit aA of music J and. a combination which will be presented by the Wilkes play- - 1 whisky can only. be boeght by th Vv witty dialogue by Frances Nordstrom. rer all next week. Nana Bryant has a quart and opines that the war has t The act is presenttihy Emily Ann role of exceptional appeal, which she developed mans powers .drinking s Wellman and Jack Morris, a guaranty will doubtless delineate with her usual mightily. of freshness and originality. charm. J. "One great advantage of the war" Smythe and Cliff Burnt and Frablto are two of the Thompson Anthony i that nobody cays, the also have of unusual Another lino most popular medians on the vaude- - fitness and Interest, parts '5ttontiOfl,-to'- ; the house ot whl de- is Vllle stage and their bhoos Be seen in suit- -i common." . a. .Uv, In the dlrec- Shaw errs Occasionally 1 4- Th hfr0 of hI" merry comedy Is 0.0n words which-whcserrTher tart a cheap entertainment, g Kendall, railed Keno? Westony fipato'a most famouB 7'an 5 driving and a?d b a"8 more frequently. in, to an artistic mu- - bcaU3e of hi dare-devU he pt8' money. Life to yi i ill1 W" ..S? Shrapnel Dodgers, offer "A Night In b,mls JPrtnebaret after another; to. a season in Billet," a trench entertainment b a "riain little girl rf First of all, with, the mo. which song, music and dance are mtn- 18 f lured Into and ..pathos; Scot comedy gled with lmp8t Gibson," a" kilted komicXha'a't 'funny f marriage with a beautiful siren, but oi tonl 8ave4-froAtn0 this fate by the appear- - SmTmonologue with Scotch songs and ance on rn0re ln 5emand the scene of his father.' wh'o dances fth Three Mizuma Ja"pa pre- ,n eviaence. bribes to disappear. The sent An Oriental Fanta." one of Tr,,w-- r, rn- - 8"d the beat of all Japanese vaudeville h?ro then becomes very 111, but Is Norman Trn,,... back to health by the certain who acU; while Klnograms, screen nr as of In thhcom7y. appeared Mn all the world, and the Orphgum travel iittle girl" who Inspires in him so Druce aa the ittipt was par- weekly supply the ustial element of much ambition and love 4h in . . motion picture entertainment o perfect v?nt "THE FIGHTING ROOSEVELTS" AT !!n'dPV.e,,mhmW0VhrwOt h" ,0V th. coram Touch to ?h.Tarti world. the orderly, and Misa Maddern.who la ORPHEUM. Kendall" will play always delightful, was th woman With all next Aeek. with usual matin. Roosevelts," an who fooled him! Those who eee "Au- T1IE Fighting and of verelon Thursday life the Does and gustus Saturday. His Bit" Three ahead of Bow will understand preciselyToby's works of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, what - HIPPODROME. I mean by the difference Tybeil to be presented at the OyphSum between Sweetest Olri In Dixie" will be cleverness and theatrical stuff. 41 and April 1 for th.e benefit March 5uTERf of the Balt Lake City Teachers' asso- THE bill at the Hippodrome thea- . Poor "Penny Wise!" It came; It ciation fund, is a screen history Of the tre next Pantagej week, -- excepting Monday was seen, and It wa wasted career of America because It Amerigreatest with the usual matinees Wed- did not night, It eras billed aa "a can, from the cradle tp the Whit nesday and Saturday, presented by comedy conquer." of Lancashire life farcical" House, Who in which, itod the tho of Trtrtl is bisters, One picturteinit, Ralph Clonifiger and hi players. Plenty of Tbrlll to the. New Blit Mary Stafford Smith and Leslie A Merry Moment tn virtually a dramatic recitsl of many The play is one of the most cele- - by Kendall, n With Nan Bry88 Yyner, end It was said to have been Anthony Smythe and UIltr Tlionwott tn Uie ( Kolce. 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