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Show li With the First Nighters . ORPHEUM MB H Those who are strong for eugenics can find Hi nothing but joy in the bill at the shrine of vari- H eties on Second South street this week. The bill Hl la distinctly eugenic. First we have "The Naked Hj Man," then we have the pardon we have Gert- H' rude Barnes, and then we have Luis Ilardt, who Is H aiso on the figleaf circuit, and who has a faculty of B showing you how to manipulate a muscle so you H can put it In almost any old place without the slight. H' est difficulty. All the clothes that "The Naked H Man," Gertrude Barnes and Mr. Hardt wear In H their three acts, If bundled together, would rattle H around In a locket. Ah! 'tis spring and ain't na- M ture grand! H' What better exploitation for their arguments m could the exponents of the new health theories H desire than such a "bill as Dr. Beck has provided. H Beside Hardt and "The Naked Man," Rodin's cor- M ner in the Metropolitan .Museum of Art is a sell- B ing plater and In comparison to Gertrude Barnes B , ithe celebrated "Bacchante ' is all dressed up B like. a horse. However, this is not a treatise on B eugenics, but rather a cutting of the lemon which m came to the Orpheum for Conference, after three H weeks of the best vaudeville ever seen at the H house. M The bill opens with Alclde Capitaine, a gym- H nast whose feats were worth all of the applause B she received. Billy Rogers followed. He had M "That's All" below his name and surely that was H enough. Next came Binns, Binns and Binns, and M if they had been ash bins nothing rottener B cculd have romo out than tho romedv they were H guilty of. Next we have Foster and Lovett. B Three rousing cheers! When they got by the H booking agency, Pat Casey must have had a day M William A. Brady offers the sketch of the H week, "The Naked Man," with Miss Grantley and Vfl company, a dramatic playlet by Richard Harding H Davis, which deals with social climbers breaking H into society through a case of mistaken Identity H in believing that a social arbiter who suddenly H dashes into the house minus his apparel is an Hj escaped convict. H Gertrude Barnes, the headliner, pink, white H and dimply, with a clubby little hunk of court EH plaster just above her right ankle, a musical ftVfl director, a couple of company, a drop curtain M and everything, sang and acted some songs that were never meant for a Chautauqua meeting, and M her gowns were literally revelations, at least they H permitted the revelations. As a startling head- H liner Gertrude filled the bill with few other ac- H cessories than nature had provided. H Luis Hardt English, not German a portrait H painter by profession, finishes things with an ath- PJH letlc act which Is all the more remarkable when fl his height and weight are considered. Styled SjR "The Gentleman Athlete," the appellation seems M to fit him exactly and he gives a finished and H unusual performance, in a unique setting dis- H tinctly medieval. BAV As a whole, however, the eugenic bill will bare-H bare-H flH The Uieadliner opening the bill tomorrow is AwJ Bessie C.ayton, one of the greatest of American jH dancers, who with a large ballet corps and a B special tango octette will be sure to please Or- B pheum patrons. Miss Clayton's fame is not in B America alone, for she captured Paris with her B dancing and other European capitals where they B are supposed to know everything about the art. B She was one of the big stars in the Weber and HL Fields' revival and has just returned from Euro- B pean triumphs. JH With her on the bill are Eva Taylor and com- H pany presenting ''After the Wedding," a farce by B Lawrence Grattan; Armstrong and Ford, the Eng- !' lish Johnny and the cop; Miadge P. Maltland in original songs; Welcome and Welcome, the European Eu-ropean gymnasts; Vernon, the ventriloquist, and Leroy and Mora, comedy acrobats. Eddie Fitzpatrick will be there, too, with his perfectly gcod orchestra. 4 UTAH Thompson Buchanan's society comedy, "A Woman's Way," will be tihe offering at the Utah theatre all next week, beginning Sunday evening. even-ing. This attraction will mark the close of the present stock company for the season and will afford the last opportunity to see .Miss Lillian "$-& ' ' )!- ir HHHmmKr 7Hy BB BS rf HR , iM-Ti F v SSr mm Mm. W fv '' Kr BESSIE CLA YTON At the Orpheum Next Week Kemble, Hallett Thompson, Richard Vivian, Fanchon Everhart, Howard Scott and other Salt Lake favorites this season. This play was selected se-lected because of its great succe .3 when Miss Grace George played the leading role, and 'because 'be-cause it will afford Miss Kemble ample scope to display Ihor talents as an actress of rare attainments. at-tainments. The story pertains to domestic infelicity; the estrangement of husband and wife; "the other woman," and a threatened divorce scandal. In every one of the many interesting situations there is a vein of subtle humor. "A Woman's Way" explains the methods adopted by a clever young woman to regain, the love of her husband and keep him from the snares of a wily woman, without resorting to extremely harsh methods. It centers about the troubles of Howard Stanton, a young millionaire, and his beautiful young wife, Marian. They become estranged because Marian goes in strongly for social prominence. The husband feels himself neglected to a certain extent and just at a time when he wonders what to do "the other woman" in the person of Mrs. Blakemore, a dashing young widow, who in some respects is close to the adventuress type, appears on the scene, and there is an attachment between her and Stanton. Stanton and Mrs. Blakemore are seen in each , others company muah of the time and when Mrs. Stanton discovers this, she is enraged with jealousy. jeal-ousy. Stanton takes Mrs. Blakemore for a "joy ride" and they meet with an accident in which the automobile is wrecked and Stanton suffers a broken arm. The newspapers get the story and "play it up" for all it is worth, and there is a merry row in an attempt to submerge the identity of the veiled woman with Stanton. iMrs. Stanton, by cleverly laid plans, brings together In her home a number of mutual friends " and among the guests Is Mrs. Blakemore. Through clever ruses she manages to show her husband the real character of the woman with wihom he is infatuated, the result being that husband hus-band and wife are reconciled and all ends happily. hap-pily. PANTAGES There is a clean little show at Pantages this , week which has been packing them in. Starting with the Thoshi Jap company and finishing "with ' Zena Keefe with Gaxton and Cameron in "Col-lego "Col-lego Town," there are only one or two numbers that might be eliminated to advantage. Th6 others are all good. The clever Japs finish their act with a performance on a rope stretched from the stage to the upper balcony which is a corker. And then appear Manne and Bell, billed as singers. sing-ers. Why, nobody knows. Max Fisher, the ragtime rag-time violinist, made his usual hit, and Bob Albright Al-bright sang his way to popularity. Schrode and i Mulvey save themselves in a whirlwind finish, but i were it not for that the cries for help would I probably be heard from all parts of the house. ' In "College Town" Zena Keefe, Gaxton and , Cameron have plenty of opportunity to exploit their music and comedy and do so to advantage advan-tage In front of a fine set and a good looking collection of well trained young men. The Pollard Opera company is announced for next weey with Teddy MlcNamara and a com- j pany of sixteen people presenting the "Mikado." j Five other big acts will niso be on the bill. For the week following the management announces the vaudeville sensation, "Hanged. REX "Clothes," the successful drama by Avery Hop-wood Hop-wood and Channing Pollock, Jn which Grace , George starred, and which is now produced in motion pictures by Daniel Frohman and the Famous Fa-mous players, will be shown at the Rex theatre Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. iMost of the scenes are laid in New York. The interiors of ! the Watling's home in the metropolis by theii j luxury indicate the expanding financial resources ( of the head of the family. They are in sharp contrast with the charming simplicity of the first domicile out in Omaha. In fact, it is apparent that the husband, as he observes the bounding ambition of his wife, as ho is compelled by her to leave his little daughter and his pipe by the fireplace and come out and meet her guests, longs to be back in his old if humbler surroundings. The story of the Wotlings may not be the main theme of the play; neither is it an unimportant one. It is closely knitted to the chief action, and it carries a moral. Arnold West is a scoundrel who sells worthless worth-less securities. He unloads a block' on Sherwood. When he learns of the death of Sherwood he suggests to Olive, the daughter, -whom ho mot on his only visit io her home, that she come to live in New York. Olive has extravagant tastes; she craves the life of which she hears through her former neighbors, the Watlings. In New York, West pays her "dividends" on her father's fath-er's stock. He pays her a, commission on a sale of stoek to Watllng. He pays for a gown she had ordered. In each instance he takes a receipt. re-ceipt. When at a house party West locks Olive in a room and attempts to embrace her, Olive repulses re-pulses him. When he is brought to book before the assembled guests by the indignant fiance of Olive he denounces the girl and shows the receipts. re-ceipts. The girl will not explain. He goes back to Omaha. Watling, disgusted, believing he has been tricked by Olive as well as by West, tells his wife they are going back home; ihis business has taken a slump, anyway. Burbank, the former fiance of Olive, goes to ihave it out with West, but enters the swindler's office as he is in his death throes from heart failure. A clerk who lhas assailed West tells Burbank of the man's crimes. Out in Omaha little Ruth straightens matters out to the happiness hap-piness of the survivors. The feature of today's bill is "Diplomatic Flo." Sunday's feature is "The Spider and Her Web," a two-part Rex drama featuring Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. "DEARIE GIRL" Preparations are complete for the production at the Salt Lake theatre next Friday and Saturday Satur-day of "Dearie Girl," Margaret Whitney's new musical comedy. This is Miss Whitney's seventh opera. Miss May O'Neill will play the title role, "Dearie Girl." Kent Cobb is Jack Bertin, the American sweetheart sweet-heart of "Der 'e Girl;" Florence Hudson will be seen as Lady Chat-' Chat-' " Ja&s&v&x. "" ' Br's' arvev Pierce , - ' 2j3$&li Josie un English "x - 'ifflliil cos-er s'r' an(i Jmmmlm Fred Boyd plays . , -iX the butler. Florence Tllllillli Campbell, Alene W iS4S Taylor, Gladys 0 -S Youns and Bettv' ?' ' m scl1001 friends of myr 'k "Dearie Girl." Rus- mMm sel1 McIntyre win be seen in a num-MARGARET num-MARGARET WHITNEY ber of individual dances. Mignon Heywood is to play Eliza Mag-dalina Mag-dalina Florentine Jones; Frank Brown will be seen as Bob White, a reporter; Wanda Lyon and Florence Midgley wi 1 play the roles of famous women; Clifford Walker will be seen as Lord Barrington; Fred Grant Redman will play Lord Wouldbe and Miss Beth Whitney is also in the cast. Winnie Parry, Frankio O'Neill, and Frances Anderson will take the roles of customers. Opening on an afternoon in a London tea garden, the finale of act one will be an actual rain storm, then the action changes to Bertin's music store in America, two weeks later, and the third act closes in a ballroom. The coming production is causing a great deal of interest among theatre goers. tvHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHi EMPRESS j Nothing very startling is to bo seen at the H Empress this week and though pleasing in spots F the bill is considerably be.ow the average ut I that house. The bounding Gordons are three w gymnasts of ability, Brown and Blyer in songs H and piano selections seem to strike a popular H chord and there is more or less fun in Alfred ' LatelFs dog Impersonation. The Rose Tiffany sketch "Cheating the Devil," is the same old fl story, matrimonial difficulties patched up after H too much talk about it. There is nothing new H or unusual about the Jennlngs-Dorman act, ex- H cept that Miss Dormau is good to look upon and Jennings sings a song or two rather well. Plenty B of skill and humor mark the cycling act of Mer- H rill and his Yip Yaps, and the Keystone comedy H film contains the usual laugh. j The Empress is ready to inaugurate on Sun- H day its now policy of two moving picture shows H each day, in addition to the regular vaudeville H performances at that house. H It is Mr. Considine's idea that there are a H great many people who would like to patronize H moving pictures between the hours of 11 and 2 H in the daytime, and 4:15 to 7 o'clock in the even- H ing, and he has decided to give them this op- H portunity at the Empres. It has been arranged H to run a program of at least five reels and these H programs will be changed twice a week. The bill H of moving pictures that opens on Sunday will H run through until Thursday and a change in pro- H gram will be made each Thursday. H "In Missoura," with Burr Mcintosh in the role H of Joe Vernon, will be the opening feature. The H Vaudeville bill for the coming week is headed by H Maxwell's Seven Dancing Girls. H Warren and Blanchard, black faced come- H dians; Spissel Brothers and Mack, in an eccen- H trie acrobatic sketch called "The New Chef;" H Gertrude Clark and Spencer Ward, Patrick, Francisco and Warren, who will be seen In "Fun Down on the Farm," and Gladys Wilbur, in southern songs will complete the bill. CHAUNCEY OLCOTT That Chauncey Olcott's popularity hereabouts does not wane from season to season, but on the contrary grows stronger with each of his visits even if he is not quite so young as he used to be, was very apparent at the Salt Lake theatre Monday Mon-day night with the house crowded to capacity when his old friends and admirers gathered to see him in his latest play, "Shameen Dim," from the pen of Rida Johnson Young. In other years Mr. Olcott has been seen in more appealing plays than his latest vehicle, but this was beautifully staged, as was to have been expected when it was known that the staging was undor the direction of Mr. Miller. His company com-pany was all that It should have been, and the costuming in the same taste and richness as always al-ways characterizes the productions with' which Mr. Olcott is identified. His songs as usual were greeted with great applause and he was forced to sing some of his old ones and to make his usual speech. Perhaps usual is not the word for his speeches are always unusual, soft with blarney blar-ney and illuminated with a wit that seems to ripen more and more with the passing seasons. There is a delightful charm about Chauncey 01-cot, 01-cot, an ease and grace of manner that Is always al-ways with him, and his performance with the excellent ex-cellent support of Miss Mollneaux, Miss Franklin, Frank-lin, Miss Lamont, Mr. Glassford and Mr. Sparks was a real delight. |