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Show Dear Sir: Merit and sincere endeavor demand recognition. I am writing to commend you and your company in the heartiest and most enthusiastic manner. It was my good fortune to be in Salt Lake when you opened your cozy and attractive playhouse this season and to witneiss your two first bills. The Wilkes is restful and places the audience in a comfortable condition to enjoy the best efforts of your splendid company. You, Mr. Cloninger, excelled yourself as Gypsy Jim and Miss Elliott proved herself to be an actress who can create something fine from a part Every member of the company was splendid and I actually lost myself in the theme of the play. After twenty-year- s of attending theatrical performances and paying double and triple the prices you ask, I can freely say I never enjoyed any performance at any price more than I enjoyed Gypsy Jim in your theatre. Accept my congratulations. gay boy into the peaceful joys of mesticity. The visitors including a deacon, a mature choir singer, her demure old fashioned daughter and her comic suitor, a young professor all caricatures of familiar types succumb instantly to the temptations of the big city and duing the temporary seclusion of the cousin indulge in all manner of high jinks and are speedily transformed into the gayest frequenters of the White Way. Soon the gawky village maiden, metamorphosed by the arts of the milli- ner and dressmaker, is revealed as a fascinating beauty who excites first the jdhlousy and then the ardor of the rejuvenated sick man. Complications come thick and fast providing hilar- - JllllllllllllllllllllIIIMlii,llllIIIH. ; m in tlic Paramount Picture Agnes Ayres and Antonio Moreno 1 Irvin An Willat 'Production The Story Without A Name At the Paramount Empress for one week commencing Today. let featuring Jeanne Douglas, accom- plished young actress and violinist, and Charles C. Echard, distinguished actor and playwright who, with Miss Douglas, has appeared scores of times in the playlet, Ragged Stockings." This picture introduces Miss Douglas as a violinist and is, in reality, a combined play and concert. Pathe News and some other short subjects will be shown and Kimball's Little Symphony will play the usual good music. THRILLING FILM SCREENED AT VICTORY THEATRE. Betty Compton, whose lateit starring vehicle, The Female, opens Saturday at the Victory theatre, knows how Daniel must have felt in the lions den. In her brand new Paramount picture which Sam Woods produced from Agnes Christine Johnstons adaptation of Cynthia Stockleys gripping story, Dalla, the Lion Cub, Miss Compton, who portrays the title role, that of an ignorant, primitive, little Boer girl, is called upon to play with several full grown lions. Furthermore, in a very tense scene, at the thrilling climax of the picture, she has to kill a lion who is about to attack the man she loves. When Director Wood complimented her for her courage and fearlessness Betty admitted that she had been too excited to be scared! Film fans, ever on the alert for the unusual in photoplay enteita?nment. will find The Female mighty interesting screen fare. It combines thrills, tense drama, secret plotting and a different sort of a triangular love story. While sections of the story are laid in the African desert, the majority of it Quakes place in the big social centers of the largest African cities. In support of Miss Compton will In seen such sterling players as Warner Baxter, Noah Beery, Dorothy Cummings, Freeman Wood and many oh- - Starting Sunday Night The Female is bound to be one of the most talked about picture of the coming season. The Victory bill also includes Harry. Langdon in his latest Mack Sen-necomedy, The Hansom Cabman, supported, of course, by the usual bevy of Sennett beauties. Pathe News will also be shown and Emery Epperson and the Victorians will entertain in concert. tt ENTHUSIAST PRAISES WILKES STOCK COMPANY. The following fine tribute to Mr. Cloninger comes all the way from Playgoers have a treat in store for them next week at the Wilkes theatre beginning tomorrow night when Ralph The Alarm Cloninger will present Clock, the latest comedy fronj the pen d of the noted playwright, Avery and produced in New York by Charles Frohman, Inc., with Blance Ring, Bruce McRae, Marion Coakley and other well known favorites in the cast. Hopwood, be it remembered, wrote The Bat, "Why Men Leave Home and other big stage successes. The Alarm Clock move's with all the speed of his former offerings, is rich in romance, spiced with satire and enlivened by rich comedy. The story concerns a family from a nine oclock town imported into New York by a married woman who is too solicitious about the health and morals of a gay bachelor cousin and who conspires with a doctor to frighten the Hop-woo- I WILKES I i RALPH CLONINGER i Present s The Alarm Clock I SENSATIONAL COMEDY PRESENTED BY CLONINGER. ers equally well known and popular. The entire production has been made on a lavish scale, and every effort has been made to reproduce the life of Africa down to its minutest details. Philadelphia: All Next Week I LEONARD B. BARNES, 2211 N. Uber St., Philadelphia, Pa. I 1 I 5 s 5 Avery 1 1 op wood' Lnteat Biff lilt Every night at 8i30. Price: 1.00. 23c, 50c, 75c, Tliurmlay 2:30. and Price, Matinee Saturday : at 25c and 50c. Coming: THE GnEEN GODDESS' A Mnrvclou Scenic Drama fiiiiiliiiiilMliiliiiiiliiiiliiliiliiliiiiii:iliiliiliiliiliiliiliiliiliil' ORPHEUM Commencing Sunday Bridge Players Americas finest musical comedy company, featuring AL IN Nobody Much By Mnrffnrct Echard Big: Beauty Choru With a MIS I CAL C03IEDV and PEAT CHE PICTURES Continuous, Betty Compson and Warner Baxter mthe Paramount Picture A Sam Wood Production The Female At the Victory Theatre for one week commencing Today. do- 1 p. m. to 11 p. m. POPULAR PRICES. |