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Show THE CITIZEN PERSEVERANCE MAKES LON CHANEY GREATEST ACTOR Appearing As Yen Sin in Shadows the New Screen Production at American Theatre. (f i Lon Chaney, the screens greatest character actor who achieves the most remarkable triumph of his career as Yen Sin, the Chinaman, in Shadows, the feature of the program that opens at the American theatre for the week beginning with Sunday, May 13, says that the darkest days of his life came ' just before his greatest success. " Picture acting is no profession for anyone who becomes easily discour- aged. Chaney claims. Like every-- . else one must find his proper ' .tfcpng groove in it to make good. I started j a long way from the kind of work I am doing now. When I left vaudeville I naturally thought I was adapt-- . ed for screen comedy but somehow the tricks which used to get me by on the stage were absolutely no good to me when I got in front of the camera. Hard Task. I was doing worse and worse every time until I had almost decided to return to my original work. I was finding it difficult to get a job in eyen the lowest kind of slapstick when a director whom I knew offered to take me on as a heavy in a picture he was casting for. I had never thought of doing anything of this sort but he consoled me with the beautiful thought that I couldnt possibly do any worse. When I finished that picture he kept me for the next and pretty soon I was getting offers from practically every studio in Hollywood. Then George Loane Tucker took me for The Miracle Man and since then I have been doing character parts constantly, but none offered more interesting possibilities than my latest work in Shadows it is one of the best things.lve ever done. . , , . 1 Succeafei Although there ar scores of capable Chinese actors available for such roles in the picture colony, B. P. Schul-ber- g insisted that Chaney be engaged for the part of the aged laundryman in the Wilbur Daniel Steele prize story. So Chaney, having played a . Chinese role with brilliant success in Bits of Life, set about the task of that would visu- devising a make-u- p alize to the last strand of hair in Yen Sins, pigtail, the picturesque Oriental pictured by Steele. But Chaneys secrets of the dressing table are not of the lightning variety, so often shown on the vaudeville stage. A deft touch is required for the laying on of the wrinkles, eyebrows and slant eyes and other details of the Yen Sin face some of which,' by the way, are too minute to recorded by the camera, but all serving to add to the convincing characterization. tt 'j( ' jbe Perhaps the news that Lord Robert Cecil was coming to this country was what persuaded Hi Johnson to go to Europe. New York Tribune. THE SHIEKS FAVORITE WILL THE YELLOW JACKET COMING BE STAGED AT THE PANTAGES TO SALT LAKE THEATRE Margo Raffaro and Jimmy Gildea Lead Theatrical Cast of Thirty-fiv- e Community Drama League Stages One of Most Popular Plays 0f Present Season. Famous Stars. Encouraged by the smashing success scored with its fourth presentation The Very Idea, inspired by the message of hope delivered byv Leo Ditrichstein who said at the luncheon thirty-fiv- e theatrical stars with Margo given in his honor during his recent Raffaro and Jimmy Gildea as the leadvisit here that the community theatre ' ing woman and man. The play is on is the one institution which will place the order of the Winter Garden, the the American stage on a plane as Follies and the Passing Show, in fact high as that of the European stage; it combines the features of all in one visioning a 4 season of of the greatest stage creations of the greater achievements than the curpresent day. It has never been west rent one, the Salt Lake Community and eastern prices have been held at Drama League presents its final of$1.50 in vaudville houses, but Manager fering The Yellow Jacket at the Ed. S. Dimond announces that he will Salt Lake Theatre, May show it here at the regular Pantages No more interesting play could be is Show It Unit the first prices. than this masterpiece, writthat has ever been sent to this city presented ten and produced by Americans. Comand the first nighters will have to bining pathos with rare humor, glamcome early to get a seat on the openorous and poetic language with stiring day. ring action, philosophic treatment, of The beautiful costumes including universal problems with thrilling sitmany of oriental design and special uations, this play has stirred the emostage settings all combine to give the tions of millions of playgoers. Aldesired and pleasing effects so essenin the a dramatic tial in adding popularity to any play, though cities of thetriumph modern world, are given special attention in The greatest translated and played with Shieks Favorite. To fully describe although success in French, Spanthis play would be folly to attempt. It tremendous must be seen and when the end comes ish, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Magyar have it is more like a dream than a real and other languages, Ealt Lakers never had the opportunity of seeing play in which men and women take the The Yellow Jacket. parts. It takes about an hour and a A Real Treat half for this act alone, and in connection with the rest of the Pantages bill No amusement seeker, no lover of will be the best show secured so far thrills and laughter, no searcher after it this year. the novel, the weird and the beautiful People who have seen it in the East should miss this play. To see it is an say that The Shieks Favorite is a adventure, an event never to be forshow that one can see two or three gotten, an artistic revelation. times without tiring, and there is no A remarkable story is attached to doubt that it will make as big a hit the popularity of the play. When in this city as it has in the East. first produced in New York in 1912, the critics were unanimous in its Twould be impossible to isolate the praise. But the public refused to go United States. The European lecto see the play. A round robin signturers would find their way here. ed by the leading writers of the naToledo Blade. Yellow The tion recommended Eva La Rue The Shieks Favorite, one of the most talked of shows in the country, is coming to the Pantages theatre for the week commencing next Wednesday afternoon. The cast is made up of r s' - . IN Little Cinderella "" 0-9- -0 1923-192- 24-2- 6. . ..." GAUDSMITH BROTHERS 0-0- -0 MORRISEY AND YOUNG 0-0- -0 FERNANDO DE PAGE 0-0- -0 RIAL AND LINDSTROM 0-0- -0 0-0- -0 0-0- -0 . O RPH E.U M Direction Ackerman New show every Monday 1 & Harris p. m. to 11 p. m. THE STORY OF ZAREDA, THE r . BEAUTIFUL: SORCERESS, ' TOLD IN TRIFLING WOMENIS - SOMETHING THAT THRILLS AND HIRAM! ENTHRALLS. IT In His Favorite The Night Clerk Jack Levy and His Symphony Sisters Four Acts Motion picture, SO DIFFERENT PAGE FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE ...... Four Acts AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE Whitcomb Rileys immortal poem. from James GENERAL ADMISSION Matinee, 30 cents; Night, 50 cents; Children, 10 cents. T f |