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Show L1ISS MARY NEWTON TO SlTiG IN HONEYMOON HOUSE, JACK NORYORTHS THREE YEAR STARRING VEHICLE, RALPH CLONINGERS AINT WE GOT FUN BILL AT THE WILKES AinWe a Fun? Vic and Ray are going to sing and so is Mary ALL NEXT WEEK Starting' Sunday Night. Ralph Cloninger Presents Three of the players of the Rail Clonlnger company will be seen fat tinging roles neat week at the Wilkes, starting tomorrow night in Honeymoon House Jack Norworths Aint We Got Fun week because the play is a starring vehicle for three years, which will be presented in Salt Lake for the first time. The Goninger players are calling next week Clifford will strut their stuff in one of and Remember" and Ray Miss Newton will hilarious comedy and they expect to have a lot of fun potting it over. sing Mary yktor Jory their comedy duets. - These two players sewed heavily in their comedy numbers in Baddies" last fall and both expect to eclipse their former efforts. Charming Play; Hozaymoon House, O&Srinner IrtcrepsndWtlh-Scr- g j Ifciars, . HOUSE, a play said to be a charming as its name, which was Jack Norworths starring vehicle for three years will be next weeks laugh provoking offering of Ralph Clonin-ger- s company of players at the Wilkes theatre, starting toONEYMOON morrow night, - - In addition to its mirthful features the play will be spiced with song numhers. Miss Mary Newton will use her voice in song for the first time since she returned following her tonsil operation and Victor Jory. and Ray Clifford will be seen in one of their rollicking comedy duets. These thrye have the outstanding roles with' Miss Lucile Holder in anr i other. , , Jane. Blaiss pal. The couples determine that Cupid shall not separate them, so one bungalow, - a ready-chousa put together by tbo boys, becomes the homo of both. 'When the brides ir escorted in they find a stairway which leads nowhere bet np and other inconveniences. Then come complications In fha way of unexpected guests and other difficulties which put tbs honeymoon on tho rocks to the disappointment of tho and to the amassment of There Is a period of playgoers. rives leaving and - returning and other confusing obstacles to the joint honeymoon. "Honeymoon House" wtll be presented every night next week with matinee Thursday and Saturday. yakawa as 1U star, recently reopened at the KIar treat re. New Theatrical Tid Bits o 'e Balt lake friends of Hollis Vaudeville . continues to reach out grans Schubert and Gertrude for big names, chiefly with the Xdung (Mitsi) former members of Hip pod roms In mind. Anna Cass tboBloaaom Time" company which and Percy Grainger are listed, more visited this city more than a year or leas definitely, for Hippodrome ago. will be Interested to the an- engagements la the spring. nouncement that they are teaming together in a musical act made up Wesley Barry, well known In of high class selections Recalling films, at the Bnahwtck will tho "Blossom Tims engagement, In Brooklynappear this week la a sketch, Mr. Davenny.la thus quoted by s n n e Bfalladoclphl newspaper: "Captain Furry," Otis Skinner's "That engagement in "Blossom launched for a Time" was ons of tbs most enjoy-abl- o play was recently We have ever hed on the stage. second time m Hartford. The play It will be remembered, was writWe never got tired of tho melodies. by Mr. Skinner's daughter, That, of course is because they are ten Cornelia Otis Skinner; between of such genuine merit. No one has it has been rewritten written more touching nruaia or productions by Mary Kennedy one of the anmore beautiful than this composer, them "Mrs. of Partridge Presents-- " whose life story wee so touching It la unlikely to corns to New York and pathetic. In our concert pro- this season. gram we have endeavored to maintain n high standard of music and yet to keep from the banal or the Here Is Novel Plan in Inferior." ut w hi honey-moone- ru tort Dav-enn- y, nee fa fat Bo?" (American) looks Uke a "smash" hit at tho Apollo - Theatre Construction flu Masse r Shubert announce Bon don. This American comedy a g'gsntle and novel plan of theaof indication having tre const rvetloa that will have an glees every Incalculable effect upon tho future taken the West End by storm, e e of mm production in this conn-trIn New Anne Nichols is reported According to tho plan each of York to have finished "Abies tho main cities of the United tos to to have a Gellkdasd Children , which will be a eeqnSl te "Abies Irish Rose" and prohearing the name. duced when, if ever, the first play "Caston de Parte," similar to New Torks new theatre of that name, n a now honotog -- g. Night he Porto" "Tha OorHla" I in Its fifth vert Chicago. Boston. Dee Angeles and hi Baltimore and meeting with Philadelphia have already been determined won as leeehdee for the great success y. a e - type of I'aw Hearly3--t Review of at -- - Tit, ml good-natur- 1 ty "'" Uueht0n in, nowjSt " ?"?: n on-s- ib . Irving Berlins London Venture . Rialto -- A NEW YORK. Teh. II, !new theatre called the Mansfield was opened in New York jest week. .It is beautiful edifice, costIt I difficult to reaRxe that the and comemorates the appointed, ly jovial, stm youthful, Otis Skinner, one of tho finest acIn memory of now in a new characterisation the American stage has ever the title role of Cornelia. Otla Skin- tors Ram bean was known. Marjorie -ner's play. Captain vary." is chosen to dedicate tho new theatre soon to celebrate his golden anni- with e trifling melodrama called Duel." a rather tawdry, versary as aa American dramatic Tha Night gawklah and unworthy affair. The artist. Yet this is the case, accord- erratic Miss Rambesu, who, when ing to - the - Philadelphia - Public aha desires, can give ns acting of a high order, does the best sbe can lodger. Mr. Skinner,' the son of a New with the matter handed her by the and Edgar England clergyman and with ' a authors, Daniel Rubin letter of Introduction from P. T. McGregor. The local reviewers comBarnum, made hie professional do-b- agree that the theatre is cony, at tbo Philadelphia Museum, fortablealsoand pleasing toThatha eye. that Night agree Otober. 18T7. His first character They wee that of Jim, an old Negro, In Duel" la tiresome and unworthy consideration. of serious n play called Tho Woodleigh." following season bo waa in 'the '"Right Age to Marry. stock company of the - Walnut "The Right Age to Marry" is a Street Theatre. Philadelphia, sap- - happy combination of comedy and porting such stars aa Janauachek.pgyera. H. P. Maltby la the au- Lotta John McCullough. Lawrence thor. and Charles Coburn and his Barrett. John T. Raymond. Fanny wife, with Hilda Spong. are the Davenport and Ada Cavendish and most conspicuous players, but there is a large cast which gives full gaining vast experience. He then went to New York, mak- play to tha excellence of the writA I encash Ire ing his metropolitan appearance in ing and situation. a spectacular fairy piece called dialect is used by most, since the mill owner who has ar"Enchantment," . produced bv tho bluff-olBrothers Klralfy nt Nlblos Garden rived at the age of 4t after H Theatre. During this season he first years of labor, and decides that he played with Edwin Booth at Booths has a competency which will enTheatre, New York, and elsewhere. able him to retire and spend the A few yrare later found him in remaining days In enjoyment of support of Edwin Booth end Hel- gentleman sports. Ho finds, howene Modjeaka in their joint tonr. ever, that It is tar more trying end strenuous to play nt eportamaa During the Seasons of and llll. he' was leading takb for thnar It had been at the mill.- and Margaret Mather, during the when suddenly bo finds himself second season was manager, and confronted by the fact that all the r. rich men and women. Including Here to o chronological record fascinating widow with a purpose of Skinner's repertoire as a star, of her own. with whom ho Is producer and manager; "His Grace brought In contact are simply home and de Orammont, The King's Jos-- grafters, he goes back hto work once mom. Mr. ter." "Villon the Vagabond," Thel takes Merchant of Venice, (Shylork).' Coburn te n rare delight aa the A Lady of Lyons, "Brines Ro- -i blurt old mill owner, who dolt, "Shenandoah," 'The Rival,1 putty la the Banda of a skillful The Liars, "Prince woman, whila Mrs. Cobum, la n "Rtaemary, Otto. On a Balcony," "Laxarro, skillful creation of a "Francesco da Rtmlnl." "School housekeeper who knows what to for Beandal. 'The Taming of the best fee her master and proceeds "The In her own way to put it into efShrew, "The Harvesters, fect, was effective la her restraint. Duel," The Honor of the Fam- Hilda Spong has the rote of a "Your Hu mb's - Servant. ily. widow with an eya on the main Sire." "Kismet." The Silent chance, end her fllratatioue scene Voice. "A Celebrated Case." "Cock height of delicimia o the Walk." "Mister Antonio."," thAntbTT knful, byer tnxd Dumpty." "Pietro. "At Dicken-the Villa Rose," "Blood and Sand "Saaebo Fanxa." and "Cap- ? ch,rV"' tain Fury." la which ho is 7U Imylne. In tort "Tho Age 4o Marry to clean and appearing. clever comedy, delightfully acted, an dte a deserved success. Bozo Makes His Debut "Right to KlIL" to Kill to a sordid The Right "The Boso has arrived. melodrama, and as presented by Because tha word cannot be Charles Bryant nt the Garrick the- found in either Websters unabridg-w- l defln- or in Roget's Tbewuru amusing when U eras not supposed h amusing. Th audience rs-to Goorsa Conner In Frank1?".0 vsrsattlo comedian. who though Borman Bernstein, Lloyds next production for First made the adap-atiofrom th Ran- Notional, Tho Wise Guy. ? te Boso a la other words, the !7V,tOT. p"f?or,n0d roughneck, whose mouth Is forever !?taak with skill sad Intelligence, about the only com men datwitched into n sneer; whose hand is always disdainfully motioning bte feat urn of tha evening. Tho tho fort that 'aallright. kid. Jos noting waa exceptionally mod leer, o the staging area hardly leaa leave it tuh mo"; who. In feet, te In met, tho general tough that he knows hell go to oepragtag. heaven cons ha's too tough to impression seemed to bo that Tho ham; wbe'd Jot aw soon stag os Right to Kill was entirety JoattO-ea-t. provtoad . . i: Be By DIXIE HIKES. Years ca Stage NextWeelisC'fcrng at UCies Consequently next week nt the Wilke might be labeled "Aint we fan week, "Honeymoon pot House to said to be aa hilariously as Married. "Just tunny It formerly waa the mother-in-lawho was the alleged bane ot married llfe.1 Now It la the newly-wed- a so optjfoisttc on matrimonial existence as to, think that by pooltheir expenses into one coming mon bungalow,he greatest amount of bt'as will derived. But they find that their happiness also must bs pooled and newlyweds ara selfish when It comes to happiness. With this as the basic idea of their play. Emil Jijfttray and Herbert Hall Winslow wrote "Honey-- . - moon House - - Herbert tiJod) Spencec .marries Bsis.sod - Billy, his chum, ., wed tie -- waa bestowed upon thorn responsible for tbo affair. "Yon Cant Win." "You Cant Win" waa given for matinee performances at the Klaw Theatre. It is an American drama by Ralph Cullinan, and while there were many points against the play. It to dus in ths main to lack of preparation. The story relates the trials and troubles which befell an honest man who waa a witness to a fatal automoblte accident in which an Italiaa baby waa killed by a car driven by a notorious politician and bootlegger who had a brother on tho uniformed police staff. The brother and the culprit, when they learn that the mu is to testify against them, dig up an old story from police records about tho wife of tho witness, and using this as blackmail aeek to coerce him into silence. Happily tho honor of ths man is retained and tho caaa does not come to trial. Ths story of tbo wife. however, which hs learns for ths Drat Urns, bring about a separation until hla eyes are opened to her innocence Then Wo do there to a reconciliation not need plays to confirm our knowledge that an unscrupulous policeman uses his official power to gain hla own unlawful ends, but ft is ss well to bring it out occasionally. Mr. Cullinan baa written skillfully and effectively, and Carroll McComas aa the wife, and Jack Roseleigh aa the righteous husband, were highly effective, Claude Cooper was amusing aa a bootlegger. CbdiMh-er- d Woman.' 'The" Unchastened Wornth,"' By Lute K. Anspacber, was revived by the Stagers with Violet Kemble Cooper in. the role that Emily Stevens won great success in several years ago. Tims has dealt harshly with this fine piny, and notwithstanding the fact that a fine production waa given, It failed to enthuse the audience. The Beaten Track. The Beaten Track," by J. O. Francis, was staged by Gustav Blum. Mr. Blum put his whole heart into the production, but when It waa all over there waa nothing to writs borne and rave about. a Pity. T1 a PUy," the fin old Restoration drama, by John Ford, te being continued at the Cherry Lane Theatre. la addition to seeing a play that te historical, those who visit tbo theatre may be able to read on tho program ever the entire title of the ptay which has been deleted by our ovar cautious newspapers. -- Italy Hag a New Version of Hamlet !. MILAN. Fet. AP) Still another Hamlet, this time an Ital-io- a version of tho great English classic, will be seen this season in London where John Barrymores Interpretation and the plus-torendition already have been applauded. Buggers Ruggeri one of the best actors In Italy, will give "Amteto at the R. James theatre and later ur at Jack Norworths Famous Starring Vdhide for Three Years. Oxford. Cam bridge, Edinburgh Written by Emil Nyitray and Herbert Hall Winslow. Is Announced a. Here is a hilarious comedy with Miss Mary Newton, Victor Jory, Miss Lucile Holder and Ray Clifford cast in principal redes. Miss Mary Newton will sing Remember while Victor Jory and Ray Clifford will give one or more of their famous comedy duets dr Irving Berlin, as ths dally news columns have already reported, will write the tunes for a Lonsdale Drury production in London, but the full story of how it tall happened is something distinctly else. This gentle account (omitting only a summary of Mr. Berlin's career which records hla authorship of numerous tunes for an entertainment referred to oa "The Zlegfried Foil lex") te reprinted from the London Dally Telegraph: "That Londoners dearly loVe a romance te a truth clearly established, not by any means for the first time, by the recent arrival within our gates of Mr. Irving Berlin and hla youthful bride. But there are moments when even romance must yield to business considerations, and ons of these has just occurred to cause a revision of that popular composers plana A start in that direction eras made test Friday afternoon, when he was Invited to meet Sir Alfred Butt, anxious to put a proposition before him-- . It took that form of an offer that Mr. Berlin should write 's the muate for Mr. Frederick play. now. well on toward for and completion at Drary Lana next auproduction tumn. ' Mr. Berlins unhesitating t hat nothing would vm reply please him better, and that no question of terms should bo allowed to stand in the tray of his acceptance. The only condition he wished to make waa ha added, that be should himself write the lyrtca Naturally this was ft once agreed to. - An outline of the plot of Mr. Lonsdale's play having subsequently been given him. he expressed himself . as even more pleased than before, and promptly announced bis intention of making England hla homo for tho next six montha la order to keep In close touch with the author." Lane-Frederi- Get Tickets Early t Every Night at 8:30 Prices 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Matinees Thursday and Saturday at 2:30 Prices 25c, 50c. Lone-dale- ed All Seats Reserved : COMING The Goldsmith Comedy Well Done at Provo PROVO. Feb. 17. "8ho Stoops! To Conquer." Oliver Goldsmiths classical comedy, a a presented by I the student body of Brigham Young met with university test week-en- d. i unstinted praise. , Ths quaint and beautiful sigh-- , teeath century costumes met with hearty approval, and the performers did highly creditable work. The as irrepressible Tony Lumpkin, played by Bill HcCoard. was perhaps ths outstanding character of tho piece. Other members of ths cast plaved their parts well. Miss Libbie Cook as Mrs. lfardcastle: Miss Zos Hanson, as Mias Kardcae-lland Mias Connie Osmond, as Constanee Nevtlla were charming Louis Catermeyer, famous New York critic and poet attended the first performance of the play. Mr. Untermeyer was kindly in hla reaction to it and praised Professor Pardos for the staging of the quaint old comedy. I e. Latest Hit of John Willard, author cf The Cat and the Canary Wilkes Theatre A i |