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Show THE CITIZEN 8 ning Thursday, January 1st, at the Salt Lake Theatre. This will be the initial engagement here. The organization has just finished a most successful tour of the principal cities of the Pacific coast. .' It is now two years since this was first presented at the Cort Theatre, New York. The engagement there continued for sixty weeks, and from the first Merton of the Movies was one of the outstanding successes of the metropolitan stage. It was the talented young actor, Glenn Hunter, who created the title role of the comedy that of Merton Gill playing it through the long . com-edy- . It was York engagement. through Mr. Hunters masterly conception of the unsophisticated country store clerk, so severely bitten by the movie bug, that he has rightfully won his title to the bright heavens of New stardom. Mr. Hunter will be supported by Jean Ford (who will play the Montague girl), Edward M. Favor, Bert Melville, John Webster, Fanchon Campbell, Eugene Ordway, Romaine Callender, Matthew Smith, Jr., Tom Hadaway, Georgia Prentice, William Adler, Billy Janney, and others. In fact, the cast is little changed since stands between them. Finally he un- housetops and into the sky; the wingderstands that Miss Montague is the ed horse, with the thief, galloping off its long run in New York City. to and through the clouds; the magic Almost everybody has read Harry girl who has been doubling for Beug lah in all her serial stunts, rope which the thief throws into the Leon Wilsons famous story, Merton and his illusions fall shattered to the ' air and climbs into the sky, and a of the Movies, published serially in the Saturday Evening Post three ground. But worst of all his funds hundred and one wonders that were years ago. The Kaufman Connelly are getting low, and as yet he has not thought impossible to produce upon stage version follows the story very found a director who sees; in him the canvass. closely, and runs something like this: qualities which would make a great Manager George D. Pyper of the star. in The most unfolds a story to Merton Gill goes out Hollywood Salt Lake Theatre says that this picso Merton manner. is truthamazing with two hundred an! seventy dollars ture will not appear here again this ful and ambitious he a that accepts he earned working in Gashwillers year. It is a picture which is worth of as star a position (he picture double the price charged for it. general store in his home town, Simsresembles Harold Parmelee, bury, Illinois. He believes himself in strongly There will be a matinee this afterlove with Beulah Baxter, the popular the great matinee idol) which he benoon, and the picture will be shown movie heroine, whose serials he has lieves is serious drama, but which this evening for the last time. been following for some time, so he turns out to be the comedy hit of the decides to try and enter her company. year. This is the last straw for AND RUBENS ARE He believes her to be a woman of Merton the last of ms ideals is NAGEL FILMED IN FEATURE ROLE a high set of ideals, who never al- broken and now he feels that he is f. lows anyone to double in her parts for the laughing stock of the country. is who Conrad Nagel, too The course of much. blow is But her, because she could not break the Montague Girl saves the day, both with Anna Rubens in The Rejected faith with her public. for Merton and herself, and just how Woman, will be seen at the Victory So Merton becomes Clifford Armit-agshe does it is one of the charming Theatre when this distinctive feature and enters the movies. Yes, he open a seven days engagement in surprises of the comedy. realizes that he will have to strugThe comedy is in four acts six that house, beginning today. gle and sacrifice, but he does not realscenes in all. George C. Tyler and Nagel is taking the position of forely know what he is up against. He most leading man in the American meets Beulah Baxter, but fails to find Hugh Ford are the proprietors and Then he meets managers of the Merton of the films. His following is now numberthe set of ideals. Movies company. ed in the millions. Mr. Nagel did the Montagu Girl, who falls in love wonderful work in the recent producwith him, but his Ideal of Beulah SO THIS IS LONDON IS tions of Name the Man and in Three Weeks, and now in The Re BIG HIT AT THE WILKES jected Woman he has a role which So This Is London has proved gives him acting opportunities never one of the big attractions of the week before afforded him, with the result and as a result large crowds have that his ranking in the world of cinebeen going to the Wilkes theatre, ma actors is undisputed. where the Ralph Cloninger company Alma Rubens was born in California of stars are presenting this famous and makes her feature pictuers in Play. New York City. Although every tenth The lines of the play are exception girl in the country has an ambition to ally clever. It is a keen satire on the go to Hollywood to crash into the stubborn animosity ex- movies, Miss Rubens reversed the present-daisting between Americans and En- usual procedure and , after making her glishmen, and the views and concepstart with Triangle on the coast sevtions of the two countries as they eral years ago, she went east and has come from the tongues of the players been there ever since. It was there are heartily amusing. Of course there that she appeared in such notable is a charming romance in which Anne as Under the Red Robe, EneBerryman, as the English girl, mies of Woman, and in The RejectEleanor, and Ralph Cloninger as ed Woman, her latest starring veJunior Draper, an American lad, play hicle in which she will be seen with the leading roles. They receive stelConrad Nagel. lar support form Victory Jory, Victor hair-raisin- co-starr- ed e, y suc-css- Gillard, May Roberts, Norma Deane, Harry Jordan, Josephine Challen and George Cleveland. Notwithstanding the fact that this play is one of the most difficult, it is presented in a most natural and artistic way and every member of the company is praised for their excellent work in their respective DISTINCTIVE PICTURES CORPORATION Presents TIIE TIIIEF OF BAGDAD AT SALT LAKE THEATRE Alma Rubens A Distinctive Picture Conrad Nagel and Wyndham Standing rQoidwaty Qosmopolitan At the Victory Theatre for One Week, Beginning Today 0 5 Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad, an Arabian Nights tale, is presenting a picture worth while at the Dalt Lake Theatre this week, and one of the greatest pictures that has ever been brought to this city. The magic which permeates throughout this old fairy tale is marvelously transferred to the screen, which magic is so cleverly executed that it defies detection and appears uncanny. One sees the magic' carpet going over the 5 All Next Week Starting Sunday Night I WILKES I RALPH CLONINGER roles. There will be a matinee this afternoon and a performance tonight. es Presents I I ! TME IPOOIL. Ch mining Pollock Miixteriiiece 1 With I MISS ANNE DEIIRYMAN ? " " m Kvery night nt 8:30. Price: 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Mutineers TliurNilny nnd Saturday nt 3:30. Priced, 25c nnd 50c. Coming 1 5 2 Nl It. ANTONIO Olid Skinner lilg ! lilt Tllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1111111111 I i |