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Show I WITH THE PLAYS, PLAYERS AND H THE ORPHEUM. H ,i'rfTiic s. n. 0. sign will undoubtedly bo H I vigbmod Sunday at tho Orplioum on tho H' '' Occasion of woleomlng bacK to this city K WJllard Mack and Marjorlo, Hamboau, H lioadllnors on tho now bill which opens H' this afternoon for a week's run. Those H tvfo popular p!nyor3 supported by tholr B lKtlo company hayo boon scoring: heavily H all Qver the circuit in their playlot "Kick H: ' lpj While this story or classy crooks H Ijeai'S tho samo tltlo as tholr offorlng when H tlioy lert tho city last Tall the playlet has H boon changed so much that not an original H thread or tlio plot or scene is lert. In IH Now York and over the Kleth circuit tholr B altering was n vorltablo sonsatlon, Miss B Hiwibonu particularly coining m ror praise R pfflilse at tho hands or tho leading critics M or. tho country. Tho new version or H ''Kick In" ,1s a story or two hotel thieves H ' vftio have stolon n valuable diamond neck- m -laco and are about to leave tho country M rbr South America. Tho woman crook H has a brother who is a drug n'ond. He H - has Just lert tho hotel leaving- bohlnd M him his hypodermic needle when a crooked M dotectlvo arrives, tolls the two hotel H thieves that tho brother has been arrested B and has "squoaled." An Interesting and H thrilling dialoguo rollows, thon comes Hj a struggle and while Mack is holding the H dotectlvo and calling to Miss Ilamboau to H got his gun she seizes tho cocaine needle jVfl and injects tho drug into the arm or the HH plain clothes man who soon loses con- B sclousncss. H Another ' unusual and striking act on H tho new bill is that olTored by Theodore VJB Dondlx, tho wellknown composer and op- Hj oratlc conductor. Ills name has long been rnmlllar to tho musical patrons or tho tlioatro, as ho has boon associated with many or tho most popular operatic successes suc-cesses from tho days or Gilbert and Sullivan Sul-livan down to tho presont. Mr. Dondlx has associated with him artists who are ramous Tor tholr solo worK .as woll as tholr onsomblo playing. Tho program throughout, It Is promised, will be u ver-ltnblo ver-ltnblo musical treat. Miss O'Day has been associated in the minds or vaudeville patrons Tor several soasons past with a sorlcs or classy sketches. This soason slio has broken away rrom this lino and is now appearing In what is known In vaudovlllo parlance as a single, nor efforts bolng given an unusual un-usual tltlo or a "songaloguo." This bcau-tirul bcau-tirul vaudeville favorlto is said to be making mak-ing a big hit in her new lino or onter-talnmont. onter-talnmont. Sonp, dance and story, whon woll put across by a capoblu toam scoros heavily with Salt Lake audiences. This line or ondoavor will bo tho offering on tho new bill by Fred Watson anu rtena Santos. Mr. Watson and Miss Santos have been associated together In vaudeville ror a number or soasons and tho fact that they always keop tholr act crisp and now has galnod ror them an onvlablo reputation. Not evorybody can throw a boomerang. Still rower can accomplish the feat with ordinary hats. Frosh rrom Europe where they have gained considerable renown, Moran and Wiser uro Included on the new bill. This team makes an innumerable numbor or head pieces describe all sorts or figures in mid air bcroro tho hats return re-turn to their hands. "Tho Boll Uoy and tho Atheloto" Is the I IDA O'DAY, in Songalogues, at the Orpheum T.HE BENNET SISTERS, Athletic Girls, at the Empress, next week tltlo or a knockabout comedy and gymnastic gym-nastic turn that will be presented by Walsh and Dentley, a couple or athlotes who aro capable or holding their own on any bill. Tholr comooy is said to be bright and scintillating and always good Tor hearty laughs. one or tho clearest contortionists bcroro bc-roro tho public Is Edgar Dorgor. This flexible lndlvldutl is destined to exhibit some dirncult evolutions with his lithe body that havo to bo seen to be credited. He twists hlmsoir Into almost unbolovc-abl'. unbolovc-abl'. shapes apparently without effort. '."he Orpheum motion pictures In the Torm or Patho's Wookly devoted to views or current nows, and tho regular preliminary pre-liminary concert by tho symphony orchestra or-chestra at 2 p. m. and 8 p. m. dpily will also obtain on the now bill. UTAH THEATRE. The popularity or Miss noglna ConnelU, the clever little ingenue or the Utah theatre stock company, has boon attosted as many times as she has appoared be-roro be-roro Salt Lake audiences In a mannor that has lert no room Tor doubt as to tho standing sho has with Salt Lake playgoers. play-goers. She has boon soon in many dir-rerent dir-rerent roles slnco tho well known and popular StaJ .J :et theatre changed from vaudeville to stock productions, and in each Miss ConnelU has more than ruiniled tho expectations or her many Salt Lake rriends. Next week sho Will bo scon in a char-actor char-actor totally different .from any sho has tssayod this season and thoro can bo no doubt that her work will be rully up to the high standard sho has maintained slnco her ' av to Salt Lake . Jlencos. Tho play seloctod ror tho approval or Utah thoatro patrons the coming week Is a sparkllnng comody In three acts entitled en-titled "NlQbe," and Miss Connolll will be soon In the tltlo role. The clover little actross has a part that suits her to a nlcolty and that she will mako tho most 1 or it is a roragono conclusion. "NlobcM Is tho central" nguro or a story that few present day thoatrogoers aro ramlllar with. Strange as it may soom, It deals with Oroclan mythology and presont day condliilons; tho on'tranco into i modorn Uro or a Grecian hcahty who Hvod 3,000 years ago. To Imaglno tho offoct the chango has upon her and how sho is rogarded by prosont day mortals, the mistakes that rollow as' a natural sequence, Is to gain In a measure an idea or "NIobo." I "Niobo" was a beautirul girl who lived j about 3,000 yoars ago. Sho was much . boloved but sho had ono rault that do- i 9 PLAYHOUSES ALL OF NEXT WEEK I HHHHfl tinted from her cliaims. She was al-iys al-iys In tears. Tho liablt or crying" ln-, ln-, rrod the displeasure or cortalnn Grecian ' gtdji and to punish nor thoy turnod nor l)itD a marble statue. In the course of tlmo the beautiful statue showing: the fjjctiulsltc lines or her body,, her beautiful nice and souttul eyes, was sold many tjmS and eventually came Into the pos-"SoSsIon pos-"SoSsIon of Jefferson Thompklns who leaves it in the caro of an old friend, Peter Amos - Dhjin, x hc statue Is pliicod In the drawing tr&om or the honorable Mr. Dunn's icS- lllehcc and an electrician making repairs ;abtutt tho place winds a coll, or several $ifs, or wire about the baSD or tho j Statue. The electric current Is turnod on iin some manner and "Nlobe" Is lelleved t rfpm her long- suspended animation. awakens, ffazes about her In a bewildered ytiy and finally discovers the mgnliied Peter nodding In an easy chair. She j steps down from tho marble base alio has decupled Tor so many centuries and speaks to blm. Then tho run begins. "Jlobc" thinks Mr. Dunn a lord and ' SlEginptly rails In love with him. She embraces him, selecting the unhappy thomonl when other members or tho household appear on the scene. Explanations Explan-ations aro demanded but dirncult to glvo In a satlsractory way, and a veritable riot or run is tho result. There Is conrusion, and more conruslon as, f "Nlobe" nits rrom one exasperating ' s,5one to another. How peace is nnally (rettlrnod to hor proper sphere rurnlshQS a cllmax to the amusing story that will havo to bo seen to bo appreciated. iPotcr "Amos Dunn will bo played by 'Arjluir Morie Moon. Cornoy. Grirnn,wlll bVtjortrayed by Walter Gilbert. Another , edmedy character, that or Phlncas Innings, , wilffbe In tho hands or nchaid Vivian Finnic Jonasson plays Sllo; Gavin Young, " f . Jerrerson Tomklns, owner, or the statue; Haimon Weight, James. Miss Ida Duo has boon cast Tor tho rolo or Carrie Dunn, Miss Function Everhart will play Helen Grimn, Miss Dlllle Summer tho part or Miss Mirton. There will be tho usual Thursday and Saturday matinees. Pro-rossr Pro-rossr Wfllard Wolhe has arranged a line musical piogram ror the wepk. SALT LAKE THEATRE. , g. "Quo' Vadls," that mafvdlous " photo-drama photo-drama production that Mr, Oegrgp Klolrio Is presenting In New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, Chicago and hair a dozen other j Nero and Tigellinus plotting the burning of Rome scene from George I Kline's photo-drama novel "Quo Vadis" ! cities with such marked success- is frequently fre-quently described by the press-agent as a visualization or the conflict botwe,on the pagans and tho Christians In Nero's time It Is all that and more. To the thought-rul thought-rul observer or this day and hour It means something else. It means a conflict between be-tween the camera and tho actor Tor tho possession or tho stage and public patronage. pat-ronage. And tho big question is what is to become be-come or the actor? When a photo-drann can hold the rapt and uninterrupted at tentlon or arvast audience ror two hours and a quarter as "Quo Vadls" docs, with out a single utterance or thC human volie and to the occasional accompaniment or an organ what chance has tho poor actor? Tho camera can compass things or greater magnitude and proportion than any stage production by moie man. What theatre In this country could hold tho wonderful pageant displayed In Noro's court scenes the feasts and banquots? What stago could reproduce tho thrilling episodes or tho Arena with Its chariot ruco, combats, lions, otc? In tho Plct-ui Plct-ui os thlrty-ilvo hundrod people aro shown In a state or mad excitement and onthus-lasm. onthus-lasm. No stago In America could hold tills scone with living actor?. Tho moWng pictures soveral years ago put tlio cheap melodrama out or business and the Toature photo-drama spectacle will soon complete tho Job. ir over thoy porrect the synchronism or the volco with tho action or tho camera and obtain tholr results In colors all or which Is purely but a matter or time the actor's occupation, like Othollo's, will bo "gone " Thousands or actois today are profiting profit-ing by this new Industry, rorgotrul or the ract that thoy aro digging their own graves losing Individuality and Hist becoming be-coming simply parts or a machine, willfully will-fully hurling themselves heroic tho Juggernaut. Jug-gernaut. It is a part or tho terrlblo sacrifice sac-rifice tho world Is constantly making to progiosslve sclonco. THE HIQH ROAD. In the field or llleratuio thoro Is an occasional oc-casional book, in tho Held or tho drama an occasional play that attracts thought-Till thought-Till attention and wide discussion. Usually Usu-ally tho elomonts that bring about such ipsults aro tho onos whoso roots aro im-boddod im-boddod deep In somo phase or human sympathy sym-pathy or in a readjustment or individual or national thought. During tho past row years thoso readjustments, owing to tho awakening or public consclonco, have boon (Continued on pago 13) 'Tkeatrkal and Atiiiisitiikkts " (Continued from page 0) "J th&most conspicuous elomonts or our national na-tional llro. Tlioy liavc permeated the entire en-tire Soolnl fabric, their ramifications taking- In tlio physical, the moral and the ' civic Status of our people, in no direction direc-tion has thoro been a greater advance, a greater enlightenment, than In the now attitude at-titude that has been assumed by and granted to women. The days of sex slavery slav-ery aro over, nnd the now proclamation of emancipation has markod as great a step In our national destiny as did that which freed the blacks. The movement for women is still going further on, and in so doing is leaving behind many Ideas codes and standards that have stood fast for centuries. A conspicuous one of these Is the attitude of society toward the woman, who, through Ignorance, lias sinned, but who, with knowledge, has sinned no more, and who has, partly through her knowledge, become a power ror good. Under the old moral regime there were no graduations of moral responsibility; re-sponsibility; the only color was scarlet appllod alike to a Hester Prynnc and to the most dissolute woman of the streets. And, withal, a few spoken words and a goltion clrclot were considered the woman's wo-man's crown of glory to which every effort ef-fort in life should bo bent, and which, in rortaln circumstances, would wash all stains whiter than snow. These monstrous mon-strous iniquities aro now giving place to the realization that it is usefulness and accomplishment that count, nnd a relation that Is one far deeper than that or mere convenience It Is certain phases or these broad questions that Edward Sheldon has touched upon In "The High noad," which, when produced by Mrs. Flsko last year, Immediately aroused shell widespread and vigorous commont. Tho play became a Trultful thomo for newspapor controversy, contro-versy, club discussion, and tho like, attracting at-tracting the attention or many minds promlnont In the social uplift. Among tho leaders in tho advanced thought or tho country, and ono or tho most orroctlve moldors or It Is Norman Hapgood, who, as editor or Collier's, was such a power ror rororm in many directions, direc-tions, and who now, as editor or Harper's Weekly, has an oon more rrultrul Hold. Mr. Hapgood was so Interested by Mr. Sholdon's thomo and his presentation or It that lio wroto as follows regarding It: t "Tho heroine or Mr. Sheldon's play represents rep-resents a new morality. Hers is a view or right and wrong which rew women have 'hold In the past, but which Is held by ithousands now. It is held especially by the most intelligent and the best educated. edu-cated. Yearly a swarm or young women rrom tho collogos relnrorce those othlcs. Tho now morality means tho substitution or courago and truth ror convention. "Although Mary pngo has boon living with Alart Wilson Tor three years as his mlstross, a marriage would not 'make an hopost woman or hor.' It would bo degradation. deg-radation. Whon sho lert home to llvo with him sho Tollowed the lllght or her mind. She thought sho lovod him, but under-noatl) under-noatl) alio was seoklng experience. Sho wanted lovo and sho wanted boautirul things. Sho got experience and sho got culture. Then sho passed along. Sho noodod truth to her own expanded nature. She could not live with a man unless ho hart a complete grasp or hor personality, and a oomploto acceptance. We aro moving mov-ing rast. Women ovory yoar have more Influonco on tho spiritual concepts or so-cloty. so-cloty. Ono or the evolutions thoy moan to bring about Is to tako away honor rrom tho ompty rormallty or matrimony. Thoy moan to honor it only whon arroctlon is sorlous, comploto, and holprul to tho best Ideals of both." EMPRESS Tho Emporors or mirth and melody, called call-ed "Tho Exposition Four," John White's Animal Circus, and "Tho Trainer" a dram atlc tabloid comprise a triple headline combination leading tho program this week at the Empress. Alexander Brothers, and Willing and Cooper, comprise the Expos! tlon Four. They are recognized stars in the rirmomcnt or music, burlesque and comedy, and Willing and Cooper were, until tho company closed ror tho summer, associated in a stellar capacity with Nell O'Drlon's Oreat American-Minstrels. Their ropcrtolre Includes topical and character songs and instrumental numbers ranging rrom the classic to tho popular. A black-raco black-raco cutup succeeds admirably in lending laughs to tho art. Almost as much or a feature as their playing aro tho quick changes this quartette makes. They cause ono to wonder when In a fraction or a second, sec-ond, It seems thoy make a complete change in costume, oven to the shoes. John White's Animal circus bids Talr to becomo exceedingly popular with tho older patrons or tho Empress as well as tho younger set. In this act a high school mulo dances tho "turkey trot" bows like a roal actor in response to applause, picks up a handkerchier at tho bidding or the rider, and does many other surprising tricks not expected or a mule. Another mulo by tho name or "Maud" or the un-ridablo un-ridablo type, kicks, bites and snorts at all who como within sight or tho stage. Mr. White has a standing reward Tor any person who has ncrvo enough and stlck-to-lt-ivcncss to ride tho mulo onco around tho stage Leaping hounds rorm another part or Mr. White's animal circus and they porrorm as IT they were real human actors, ac-tors, so ralthrully have they been trained. Clowns are another roaturc or a rirst-cluss rirst-cluss circus and Mr. White provides a number or these ror tho amusement or tho audience. Next comes "Tho Trainer" a splendidly written and most superbly aotod dramatic tabloid. Tho production is under tho management or Joe Maxwell while tho presentation or tho playlet is in tho hands or such capable legltlmato stars as Paul Dullzoll, Geo. Pierce and Jack Harrington. Tho production is well staged and presented with ovcry detail carorully looked artor which make it ono or tho pleasing things to have a presentation presenta-tion at tho popular Sullivan and Consldlno vaudovlllo theatre. Marcou, tho shadowgraphlst, Is another or tho pleasing acts on tho Empress bill and like tho balanco Is a comploto diversion. diver-sion. Ho provides boundless amuscmont ror old and young. He sits bcrore a lamp , or his own creation, and with tho use or his hands only ho casts comedy shadows on a canvass and every ono or them elicits groat applause. Tho charming rcmonltp part or tho program is In tho hands or Llghtnor and Jordan, both clevor young womon with an unusual brilliant wardrobe. Thoy aro winsome comodlcnos, and rur-nlsh rur-nlsh a singing, dancing and piano playing act that Is thoroughly entortalnlng and out or tho usual, noymond Teal, tho old time minstrel man, is certainly a blackraco runstor. Ho has little dirriculty in keeping keep-ing his hearers in a convulsive state during dur-ing tho ontlro tlmo ho holds the stage. Ho writes his own songs and is original In all that ho says or does. His Is a big romody spot on tho program or unusual vailoty provided patrons or tho Empress, tho present week. Tho unlquo bill will oloso as usual with tho dally porrormanco to bo given Tuesday. The new program will rocolvo it's Initial performance on Wodnosday and tho Empress management makos tho statomont that It will bo up to tainod. tho usual high standard stoadraatly main- , " WILLARD MACK I Salt Lakers favorite actor who returns for an extended engagementrat the Utah Theatre, with Marjorie Rambeau, beginning week of Aup fell H in "Hawthorne of U. S. A," ''' 9 |