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Show SECTION THREE EVENING NEWS SATURDAY DESERET t 2(V;' 1U10:Jkwfe JL&Y 'CRJOOooaoooooaorroCTii Why ni- of charie the organization perpetuated the play-- producing ldenls of the late Charles Frohman. ia the promise contained In a statement that the control of the company haa been acquired by the Fatroui Players-Lask- y corporation. Arrangements in the transaction were completed by Alf Hayman, treasurer and general manager of Charles Frohman. Inc. who will continue In the capacity of executive head of the theatrical enter..Charles Frohman prises, and Adolph Zukor, president of the Famous Plajers-Lask- y corpota-tion- . ture's true Expansion Elaborate seasons of dramatic entertainment., are ..being planned for both the Empire and Lyceum thea-tre- s by Chat les Frohman, I ne , am d the presentation of plays on tour. The relutions between Charles Frohman, Inc., and the Klaw & Erlanger circuit throughout the United States well as the foreign connections' of Charles Frohman, Inc., will be fortified and expanded under Ihe new It is extremely probaarrangement. ble that new theatres devoted essentially to the legitimate drama will bo erected. Paramount-Artcrapictures will draw upon Charles Frohman, Inc., for screen materialMr. Zukor will be elected president of Charles Frohman, Inc. Mr. Hay-ma- n will be managing director. Daniel Frohman will be vice president, and Etek John Ludvigh will be secretary. ORPHEUM. Nazlmova comes to the Orpheum today in The Red Lantern," said to be the supreme triumph nf her screen career. With the special features of mupic and dance arranged by the local Orpheum management, the Salt Lake production of the " Nazimova picture should rank as a pretentious entertainment. The screen drama Itself, the advance notices say. dazzles In its superb grandeur and the added features help carry out the Inspiring oriental atmosphere In many ways. The Red Lantern" Is romance filled with mystery, expectancy and tragic possibilities. - The rtar essays a dual role In the telling of the love story of a modern goddess spun of gold and with gems of amazing artistry, The Red Lantern Will Be Presented With Superb Art and Acting Paramount colors. Pioto-- g rap ha. and a comic cartoon. Catherine Calvert is the star of the powerful apecial photoplay, apd her beauty and artistry are conspicuously displayed in this fine picture, and supported as she Is by Crawford Kent, and many screen artists of reputation, her latest vehicle should be an, attraction of superior merit. l AMERICAN. Kimball for Clara THE cast forthcoming Select Picture, The Better Wife, which comes to the American theatre the first of the week, Is one of the most remarkable that haa been assembled In all of Mlaa Young's productions. man in "The The leading Belter Wife will be Nigel Barrie, who Is celebrating his discharge form the Itobal Flying Corps by playing the role' Of Sir Richard Beverly. Kalhlyn Williams, another well known motion picture actress, is cast for an important part in - this - production, while Lillian Walker, a .star of both stage and screen. ls seen as Helen Kingdom an English girl. Irving Cummings has an Important part. He is seen as the Comte de Cheveral, a gay French count who cuts a wide swath among the ladies. Little Ben Alexander, one of the sweetest child actors on the screen, also Included, while th remainder of the- company Include Bartara Tennant and Edward Kim ban. In "The Better Wife, Mias Young plavs Charmian Page, an American girl who marrie Sir Richard Beverly, a British baronet. It is a marriage on the baronet's part to secure the American girls wealth, hut she soon proves to be "Ths Better Wife. 1 ft 8ennett have been Invited to contribute articlea to the motion picture supplement, which will be part of the next edition of the Encyclopedia Jtrluumtca. Virginia Pearson and her company are at Lake George where exterior scenea for her next production "Impossible Catherine" are being taken. Miss Pearson i delightfully cast as the Impetuous heroine, a sports lov tng society girl, who does everything gowned from appearing .wonderfully functions to playing a at s game of polo and going up f"re thousand feet above the ground In an aeroplarie. That original stories for screen play and are preferable to book stories,formof the that the palpable dearth er forces the producer to use more and more book plays. Is th opinion Dustin Farnum expressed In a rec Interview, , Can you- imagine a drama or the eternal triangle played by dogsTLnl a versal announces that It will stage real drama of the eterfiaT'trtangts' ex-Of domestic life, using real canine achuman clusively. There will be no Norman Dawn is to direct the tor three dogs w ho will play the principal and only rolea The tentative title le The Eternal Triangle,- The costume picture is coming back and Bessie Barrisqale Is glad of her stage career; Mies loved the costume plays most of all and she declares that the screen must In the very near future come to them. She predicts that when they do come the modern stuff will be out of vogue for a long time. - Mack - Bar-nsca- N AZIMOVA Picture Triumph Opens Engagement at the Orplieum Preceding Regular depicting the glowing charm of the far eastern girl of two races. The drama is an artistic Inspiration, with ltd odor of springtime In the land of cherry blossoms and willow trees e maidens for the slant-eye- d that dream beside the lily pools. It reveals the life of a strange people. Is full of romanpe and "passion, intrigue and oriental mysticism. It shows Nazlmova enacting a dual role that of Mahlee. an Erustan girl and her English half sister, two character as widely apart as the pole, but which the artist contrive to portray with equal strength and conviction. A most enjoyable feature of the- - local performance will be the appearance of Miss Renata Freeber and her Chinese dancing girls In songs and love-tim- This Afternoon .Vaudeville Season appropriate to the atmosphere of the drama. The Orpheum concert ttrehestra Will tender a special mutreat in itself for sical program- -r evrry humic lever. Performance will be tnntlnueus, starting at 1:0 p.m. . PM. Popular adm tort on prlee3 VUl prevail. d&nees 401 PARAMOUNT-EMPRES- S. of Katherine Ruah, THE Olyns much discussed novel, haa been filmed, and will be shown for the first time the first three days of the coming week at the Paramount Empreas. The other features on the nw bill are the wonderful Prizma picture, showing scenery and objocts In na Career L. E. Kennedy, formerly manager of the Fog Exchange at Los Angeles and at one time manager for Paths in the same city, has been appointed local manager for Vita graph. He succeeds F. A.- Wagner, who ha joined the sales forces of the Fsmous Players-Lasky corporation. Mr. Kennedy assumed hla new duties this week a did also Mr. Wagner, - Quite a i few yeare ago not so many, at hat I was playing In must- cal comedy repertoire Jn the west California, Washington. Oregon, etc. We would Btay six months or eo In ono city and .then, move elsewhere and do it all over again. I wasnt piling up a fortune' though I was comfortable enough and as thing went in the show buinesa, I was pretty well situated. satisfied Still- - I wasnt altogether and whan I heard the other girls talking about the. movies" and how aa person might make as high as $10 day working in them, I began to take notice. But I didnt know Anything about the films and 1 didnt feel that my metier lay In that direction bwany manner of means. You doubtless know how we all felt about tnem tn those-day- s which wss the period of the two- - recler they were Interesting as a scientific novelty but as a great national rivalling the institution, spoken drama, impossible. The t&llc went on and I heard of the big salaries and the carefree life of the film actress fir actor from all source Some of the girls in. our company drifted swan and I heard of them later as Jumpfcig off bridge leaping from moving trains and, falling out of ballponsbefore the camera. Possibly my adventurous disposition was appealed to by theae things and this may have been largely responsible for the fact that when a certain marrsiger ef a movl company who had aeen me In the musical-shooffer. I decalled upon me with-a- n cided to accept. I thought It over and discussed It consented to with until I had try 4t out Not. however, our of aeen the manager company and to bold him induced my job open for a while in case I should return. But, like tfie girl in the old song, I never came back to the stage, My first work was In western which were all the rage at the time to the exclusion of pretty nearly everything also. It was tpe dime novel screen,-Al- l the Dead wood stag of theW-liBills of the yellowDicks and back at or tea found their way to the movies by devious paths and under Indians scalped deassumed name fenseless pioneers and burned them at the stake with the utmost freedom. I had always liked the west because I was born there, I suppose, and had once known an Indian who. told me lot about the early days of the plains. But I couldn't ride a hors. That was to be sadly Incapacitated for the screen. Oue might as well be unable to sing and try to work In a musical show. So I had to learn to ride In a very brief time. I suppose It came more or Ism naturally to me. Nowaday when I am asked by girls and others how to learn to ride horseback. Iay, simply, get aboard and ride. If you fall off, try again and keep Big preparations are being made for the drive Tor better pictures to" be the feature of Paramount-Artcraweek, Aug. 11 to Sept. (. During that week all theatres booking Paramount and Artoraft pictures will show those pictures exclusively. Louis Marcu district manager of the Famous Play. corporation. has gone to New York on a business trip. WDfrid North, who directed the filming of The Undercurrent, Select Picture corporations great Special attraction starring Ouy Empey, recently expressed himself In highly enthusiastic terms over this production. During the coming year Thomas H. Inc will present a number of big special productions, with alt star cast and put these on under his personal direction. The first of these was started this week. It Is Americanism vs. Bolshevism, the story bf which was written by C- Gardner Sullivan. It la estimated that several thousand people will be used In the spectacular scenes in this picture. ft Lehman Begins Production For First National Henry Lehrman, who, is about to begin production at his new Culver City studios on the first nf his screen comedies for the First National Exhibitors circuit, has announced the signing of contracts with a number of well known people who will be prominently identified with future Lehrman . comedies. One of his Important acquisitions is Lloyd V. Hamilton, creator of the in the Ham and character Bud picture and more recently a In Henry Lehrman Sun-shlleading player comedies, where he headed the producing unit which made "Roaring Lions and Wedding Bells" and other riotous product Iona Billie Ritchie la another famous comedian who will in future be seen In Lehrman comedies, and who was also under this producers direction in the Mr. Ritchie Sunshine organization. was formerly a member of Fred Kar-no- 's companies, and has appeared in many Sunshine comedies such as The House of Terrible Scandal" Jack White and Henry Symonds have been engaged to direct Lehrman comedies under the personal supervision of Mr. Lehrman himself. A1 Herman has been appointed superintendent of the-bl- g producing plant. Dorothy Dalton, Thomas H. Dice star, has begun work In New York, on the second production to be made-fo- r . the screen by ber In the metropolis. This Is a film version of the novel The White Rook," by J. B. Harrls-BurlanIt fma pteturixed by R. Cecil Smith and will be directed by Joseph DeGrass , two-reel- Hampton Purchases Bret Harte Stories Following an outlay of a considerable sum for three Bret Hart stories, Jesse D. Hampton, whose feature are productions for Robertson-Col- e distributed by Exhibitors Mutual, last week paid $18,000 for a trio of stories which he will film during " the coming year. The three are Creasy," In a Hollow of the Hills" and MaruJa. William . Deemond very likely will give the leading character Inter- pretationw j PRICES Mats., 25c; Boxes and Logea, 50c. ' Eves., 25c, 50c; Boxes and Loges, 75c. .e w , , BKOADWAT DAYS FIRST A grew 1 OF WEEK society play ETHEL CLAYTON , la THE MAN HUNT pleasing from Thoroughly start to finish, unusual In theme, delightfully acted and presenting many scenesInof exthe traordinary beauty winter wood this feature Is one of the best comedies ever filmed. . Fllul Chapter Man of Mtght. 1 Where the Family Goes to See Good Shows.' LAST TIMES THIS EVENING The Great All Laughter Bill , BoFOtlltoy. "Gislk In Nnactl Nell Also the Drew Comedy, 'BUNKERED, Bureaus FIRST DAY NEXT WEEK, ELINOR GLY1TS With every Universal exchange in this country and in Canada now thoroughly equipped with a successful service and exploitation bureau. Universal Is preoaring to extend the system of Its foreign exchange Already a Universal representative has sailed for London to Install a bureau In the London office of Universal and to launch Its work with the advent'ln England of the Eddie Polo company. Preparations are being made alsobu-to establish service and exploitation reaus in Universal exchanges In Cuba. Mexico and South America.Nine months ago service and exploitation bureaus In exchanges were practically unknown. Carl Laemmje, Universals The Career oi Katherine Bush (This is not a picture for Young Folks.) The Wonderful Nature Color PRIZMA Pictures Comic Cartoon Paramount Pictogruphs. The Usual Good Music, d n, i (Continued on page seven.) Frltzie Brunette and ' Mitchell Lewis last Time Today! Jacqn.es .ol the Silver in Arbuckle Comedy Joy Ride. Outing Chester North Seale to Antler." Program For Next Week FIRST OF WEEK TUFA WED. THUR - FRL AND SAT. d. The announcement . that William Fox had annexed Pearl While as a star is followed by the news of almost equal Interest that William Russel, stage and screen artist,' is to appear in the Victory series, which also features George Walsh and Gladys BrockwaiL These pictures are to be adaptations of big stories from novel magazines and successful plays which reflect th spirit of alert and American aggressive . . smanhood. 'Mr Sidney Drew appears ss Polly Dexter, a woman 'of golf champion In Bunkered," her latest Paramount-Drecomedy which 1s a July release. The story was written by Emma Anderson Whitman and Mr Drew wrote the scenario and staged the production for the V. B-- K. Corporation. . Film e D.. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Inc Marshall Nell&n, Cecil De Mills and' er To Organize Foreign Film Service - You will want to see this mighty drama, featuring the worlds greatest actress bar none. . ; play-differ- EMPRESS KZ ne - . -- . " e - two-reeler- k, e W. H. Swanson, owner of the Swaneon rooving picture theatre,-- ! now exclusive owner of the First National Exhibitor Circuit franchise for Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. Mr. Swanson recently bought out the Interests of H. T. Nolan, of Denver, In the franchise.' trving till you find you- are wither gifted with the ability to stick er not. I got many bumps but Itookthemall . ss a part of the game. And when I could ride, they start-- v ed me off in a wild thriller that made my practice rides seem like cantering about on a hobbyhorse. How I stayed on the animals back I ehall neve- rknow. And when I saw the film on' . the screen, I was astonished to find that it looked quite well. That gave me eascourage and my next efforts were - ier of accomplishment. So it went. I played Indian girls and western types and worked steadily, liking the work, too, which Is a great '1 help, needless to say. As the length of the photoplays so my roles grew to be more and more Important and I began to sorts of characters, ex- ... of screen all the while. tech"1! Finally, about a year ago, I went with J. Stuart Blackton for a Para- mount picture, The World for Sale, and shortly afterward beedme affiliated with .the Famous Players-Lssk- y f Corporation supporting Wallace Reid In Paramount picture I may add that my confidence in the future of the films remains as undls-'- . turbed as at any time in my expert- ence. Certainly it Is far stronger than -when I first entered the movies in the- day ly le the Movies BY ANN LITTLE. - others-and-flnal- BROADWAY. EWITCHINO Ethet Clayton Is coming to the Broadway theatre the first of the week in an entrenching new World Picture. This thoroughly pleasing production bears the title of The Man Hnnt and It Is an unusual and likable comedy. Ethel Claytons role In this picture win appeal to the motion picture fan. The Man Hunt concerns Betty Hammond, a wealthy girl whom father Is dead. Her fortune Is so vast that her attorney say she ought to marry some good man who would look after It for her and take care of her. She at one recalls James Ogden, her girlhood sweetheart, and decides to look him up. She finds that he has become manager of her mines and as he M clean, good looking, and brainy, she decides to marry him. But Ogden refuses to marry her. Then rite. takes matters In her own hands and imprisons him with a declaration that be is going to be her prisoner until he t consents. In the end, of course, they art 'married. But the marriage comes only after some exciting adventures and a great many surprises. Also on the program la the final chapter of The Man of Might,1 featuring Wm. Duncan. in "THE RED LANTERN" I Went Into woman would What sort of make tlie IUitter Wle? And 7 Clara Kimball Young (With Iher own company) In The Belter Wile Quest. A wild ride through the danr An automobile wreck. One soul wen tout to the Great Beyond. But! Be; what happened la--. t , ter! (Harold , Lloyd Comedy Review i see tonic? Need Then mins this program. Norma Talmadge I ' dont 8 Wi liam Russell In The Way of a Woman From the book. "Tim Lore , Man! Oh, - 444 From the book Nancy Lee." This latest Talmadge picture is conceded by critics to be her, besti And Norma Talmadge at- - her best wild delight and entertain . ah! A Sporting Chance - Mystery Thrills! Adventure! Romance! Arbnekle Comedy HOODOO DAY." Outing Chester TEDDY BEARS. PATHE NEWS COMEDY - Perfect Ventilation. Dally American Features: Symphony orchestra. Return engagement of (Yank Glbnry. baritone. In popular song .Orchestral Pipe Organ. I i I |