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Show With the rirst rvishters s ?r ; Hj "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" H What wonderful memories arc as H sociatcd with the famous old play. H What man or woman does not recall H the pleasant anticipations that came H with the announcement that "Uncle H Tom's Cabin" was coming to town? H Can one ever forget poor old Uncle B Tom, Little Eva, George Harris, H Eliza and her baby, Simon Legree H and Marks, the lawyer? The mere H mention of the play brings to mind H the Mississippi river steamboat H scene where the slaves were bought H and sold, and the plantation scene H where Uncle Tom was killed by his B fiendish owner and where Legree H met a better fate than he deserved. B It has been years since a real H "Uncle Tom's Cab- H in" has been staged H in this city and K (.here are hundreds H pf Salt Lake play- H goers who have nev- H er seen it, but they H will have an oppor- H tunity to do so next H week at the Utah H theatre. "Uncle H Tom's Cabin" will H be the bill during H the week with matl- H necs Thursday and H Saturday and it is H said that the produc- B lion will be tho big- H gest and most elab- H orate in cast and Hj scenic effects ever H attempted by the H Utah stock com- H pany. H Years ago manag- H ers outdid each oth- H er in the announce- H ment that this one H had so many Topsies, H so many mules and Hj so many blood- B hounds. While the H management of the H Utah does not pre- Hj tend to say that all B previous productions B will be eclipsed in 1 these respects, there Chloe; Topsy will bo played by Elean-oro Elean-oro Haber; Baby Moore has tho part of little Eve, and Pearl Ethier plays Aunt Ophelia. There are twenty-eight characters named in the cast, and Mr. Mack has gone to no end of work to secure tho players. Alice Conrad, Henrietta Holle, Itoscoe Ashworth and Albert Richards 'are also Included Includ-ed in the cast. "THE QUAKER GIRL" "The Quaker Girl," the famous musical mu-sical hit comes to the Salt Lake theatre thea-tre on Monday night next. John P. Slocum is sending the entire en-tire company headed by Victor Mor-ley, Mor-ley, who will play Tony Chute, the FINE FEATURE AT REX '- The first of a series of notable motion mo-tion picture features to be presented at the Rex theatre in the near future will bo shown the coming week. ' Absinthe," a four-reel drama with King Baggot and Leah Baird, will bo seen Tuesday and Wednesday. Immediately Imme-diately following this production, Miss Cecilia Loftus with the famous players play-ers will present "A Lady of Quality," in Ave reels, to appear Thursday, Friday Fri-day and Saturday. The Rex has just closed a contract under which The Famous Players features which include in-clude all the Frohman productions, will appear exclusively at that house and at frequent intervals. Arrangements Arrange-ments have been made to obtain other .Ghamps ElyJ3ees, he Oliver Spine, Montmartre, the Paris tenderloin, and other places of interest. Absinthe bears to Frunce about tho same relation rela-tion that opium bears to China. So general Is its use there that the French government is about to follow fol-low The lead of the United States and oii.er nations in preventing 4'q impor- ' tation, manufacture or sale The story In which Mr. Buggot de- picts the terrible nature of the hab- i bit, is naturally tragic in theme. It tells of a bright young artist, led into in-to the habit by an adventuress who proves unfaithful after he has been disowned by his family for marrying her. Sinking deeper and deeper into in-to the clutches of the drug, he robs robs his own father's house and fln- 1 Uncle Tom and Little Eva, in the big revival of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," at the Utah Theatre next week. B will be a Topsy, Marks and his mule, m I egree and his bloodhounds, and m every material character, faithfully m portrayed. 1 This is a new version of "Uncle H Tom's Cabin. ' It is in five acts, and m was recently produced at the Aca- H demy of Music in New York with H great success. It was originally JB planned for Willard Mack to play the IH title role, but he later decided to play 9V Legree, and will be seen in the char- Ht actcr of the despicable slave driver. R Leon McReynolds will play Uncle B Tom, Howard Scott plays Mr. Shel- H) by; Frederick Sumner, George Har- H ris; Arthur Morse Moon will be seen WBtj as Marks; Millard K. Wilson plays St. !! Claire; Marjorie iRambeau will have I the part of Cassie; MIbs Morland plays Eliza; Mrs. Rambeau will play role of tho young American who sings and dances his way into the heart of the Quaker lass during three acts of tuneful and amusing entertainment. enter-tainment. The story conceives a demure de-mure Quakeress who chafes under the stern restriction of her religion and finally foresakes her home in an English Eng-lish Quaker village for gay Paris. There she becomes a model in a fashionable fash-ionable modiste's salon and straightaway straight-away is taken up by society and nobility no-bility and her demure frocks become fashion's rage. She is involved in state intrigues, saves a prime minister from disgrace and is finally won by a gay young American after he has made love to her assiduously for three acts. Lionel Mockton's score is famous and the "Come to the Ball" Avaltz is said to be enchanting. big productions, which, with the enlarged en-larged orchestra, promise unusually good entertainment for Rex patrons. "Absinthe" presents Mr. Baggot in what is said to be without question the greatest role he has ever undertaken. under-taken. Elaborate preparations were made for the picture. Mr. Baggot, Miss Baird and their company made a trip to Paris especially for this production. pro-duction. Mr. Baggot's preparations included living for an entire week amid the haunts of the absinthe fiends in the tenderloin of Paris, where he obtained an insight into their habits that could bo had in no other way. He presents for the first time in a motion picture, the exact methods used by an absinthe fiend to prepare his drink and the victim's conduct afterward is shown in detail. Scenes In the picture show the ally joins a band of Paris Apaches. Discovering Dis-covering his wife's jnfidellty, he takes her into the coun- " try and chokes her, leaving her for dead. A, pathetic scene ,, with his family follows fol-lows and the picture pic-ture leaves him a wreck, following u troop of soldiers and jeered at by the rabble. rab-ble. So intense is the action of the play that Miss Baggot? fainted twice when it was being taken, and at another time she struck Mr. Bag-got Bag-got a blow that lacerated lac-erated his lip and removed one of his teeth. Miss Loftus makes her debut in motion pictures as '"Clorin-da" '"Clorin-da" in "A Lady of Quality," by Fran- j ces Hodgson Bur- ' nett. A more suitable suit-able subject for the powers of the distinguished distin-guished character actress could hardly have been chosen. As "Clorinda," tho headstrong, tern- ' pestuous hoyden whose father's con- I tempt for the other sex extends oven to herself, but who later wins his re- j spect and grows up as a man among his dissolute companions, learning to drink, smoke and swear as freely as a any of them until the derision of the man she loves prompts her to re- jv nounce her masculine dress and man- fS ners forever and become "A Lady of Quality," Miss Loftus has a capable cap-able part. One of tho strong scenes is where Sir John Oxon, a dandy of j London town, wagers that he will win her heart, not as a hoyden, but as a woman. He wins tho wager and hastens back to London to boast of his conquest, while "Clo" waits in vain ofr his promised return and then j. receives word that he is wed to a lady of titlo. The tragic episode Rg9mg aiHH.. SH ANNA PAVLOWA. . Who, with her compa ny of Russian Dancers and Orchestra of thirty will be seen at the Salt Lake Theatre changes all the rest of her life, which is traced through the film with impressive im-pressive charm and appeal ORPHEUM There is a splendid bill at the Or-pheum Or-pheum this week even if Joe Shriner and Doll Richards do start it off. They quickly mako room for the others though and the others make good Shriner is not so bad though he has a funny face to be singing, "I Am Dreaming of Erin, the Land of My Birth," but Doll, well she is about as funny as a call to make your overdraft over-draft good. Marshall Montgomery is not only an extraordinary ventriloquist, but has an ability to put over the clever little lit-tle touches that go to make up a sue cessful monologist His opening stuff is a bit too fast for some audiences. , He was forced to explain a lot of it, f, but in the right crowd it would bo Mr immense. T Despite the incongruities in "The System" the melodrama in which Taylor Tay-lor Granville and Laura Pierpont and their company are seen, it is entertaining enter-taining from start to finish, and Mr. Granville's personality would carry it alone oven if he had not able assistance assist-ance It is a pity that he will not I take some of the advice he receives frequently and polish up the rough spots. He could also eliminate the two supposed newspaper men whose intrusion in the playlet is fierce. Lyons and Yosco are making the big hit of the bill with their music and fun; The Six Samarins are whirlwind whirl-wind dancers from the land of vodka and thick whiskers, and the picture play called Explosive D is one of the most interesting productions of the kind ever seen. rFor he coming week the manage-, ment nnounces as the headliner "The Birthday Present' with Catherine Countiss and her company; John F. Conroy, the great life saver with his models and diving girls in an aquatic spectacle; Ed. Gallagher and Bib Car-lin Car-lin in a nautical traveBty, "Before the Mast;" Nounette, a singing violinist; the Three Dolce Sisters, singers, Mar-low Mar-low and Duffy, gymnasts, and Nick Verga, the newsboy Caruso. AMERICAN The vivid portrayal of Henry Blossoms Blos-soms "Checkers ' at the Ameiican during dur-ing the week drew largo audiences and none of those who witnessed the cleverly arranged production were more enthusiastic than those who had seen Mr. Ross in the part in real life. The play was one of the most entertaining en-tertaining that has ever been put on at this popular picture house and together to-gether with a series of pictures taken on the Isthmus, including a landslide at the Culebra cut, the house furnished furnish-ed its patrons a great evening's entertainment. en-tertainment. Without "Checkers the last named series of pictures would have been more than worth the money, but the double entertainment provided an exceptional treat For Sunday and Monday of next week the management announces "The Perfect Truth," a comedy drama with nine principal characters and many others of less importance. It was produced under the direction, of Walter Edwin and stars Mary Fuller in the first of a series of incidents in the active life of "Dolly of the Dail ies ' by Acton Davies "7 HE FIREFLY" In "The Firefly" which was seen at the Salt Lake theater early in the Cecelia Loftus with The Famous Players as "Clorinda" In "A Lady of Quality," at the Rex theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The picture is in five reels The Famous Players' productions will appear only at the Rex theatre her fter. week there were numerous surprises (jl which combined to provide an even- Pl ing's entertainment such as is seldom H had by local theatregoers. The first ifll was the Trentini voice, the second the H realization that so many capable sing- 'lH org practically unknown have been H gathered in ono company, and the IH third that there was an opera in which H the book was on a par with the mu- (H IrW' MMjWBH H BR V' "90HsKVrar iV 'J 1 uUCIE uIRARS H In the musical success, ' The Quaker H Gill," at the Salt Lake Theatie H February 2 and 3. H sic and that music of a beauty sol- H dom equalled in modern attempts. H Thrill Is an overworked word in- H deed, uut there is no jther to describe H what the little Trentini created with H her scngs in the first act She won H her hearers in a minute and had them H in a spirit of wonderment and joy II from then until the end. Additional interest was lent the production because be-cause the book and lyrics were written writ-ten by Otto Hauerbach of this city and in ' The Firefly" he has done his best work to date. The music by Rudolf Friml is entrancing and to- ' E ether these two have formed a com- . blnation that should be productive of ' great things While Trentini is the bright particular star of "The Firefly" Mr. Hammerstein has surrounded her 1 with principals and a chorus possess i ed of exceptional voices, among those who made the greatest impression being be-ing William Wolff as Herr Franz, Mel- ville Stewart and Grace Hanson who i Hhi were fortunate in being assigned the Hft song "Sympathy' Miss DeRoso as I Sybil, Dotty Burnoll as Suzette, John Ilines, as Piotro, Craig Campbell as Jack Travers and Jenkins. wo must HL not forgot Jenkins, played by Oscar H " Figman much in the same way as ho H has played other characters in "The ll Merry Widow" and "Madame Sherry" H in the past but funny just the same. H Trentini and her company in "The H Firefly" provided an opera in a hun- H dred for four of the finest audiences H that have been seen at the theatre H during the season. H EMPRESS H Headed by "A Night at the Bath," tfl the new bill at the Empress is fair H j enough though the headliner is not M I new to local audiences. "Willisch a m ' German juggler, opens the bill and 1 . does some things cleverely though his H j act could be -greatly improved if he H i would stick to the fast work he fin- R Scene from "AbBinthe," the four-part feature at the Rex theatre next r Tuesday and Wednesday. The picture was produced in Paris by King H Baggot, Leah Baird and their company, who make a special trip abroad H for the production. B ishes with. Most of his humor Is a H saddening spectacle. D'Arcy and Will- H iams are scoring with their ragtime H songs, Mond and Salle have an Im- H personation act that is cleverly done and is a complete surprise, Lou Wells is a hit in monologue and with a uaxaphone, and Sandwina, tho champion cham-pion strong woman of the world is entertaining even if she does make the henpecked fearsome. The bill wnich opens on Wednesday will be headed by Prince Floro, the man monkey, and Joe Maxwell's scenic production of girls and comedians "A Night in tho Police Station' is the second headliner. Besides the bill includes in-cludes 'Mary Dorr, character comedian; comed-ian; Wilson & Rich in songs and dances, and Arthur Geary, tenor PANTAGES Powers' hippodrome elephants, five in number, who are so intelligent that they tell their right names and all tho family secrets are making a smashing hit at the Broadway house and if you have not taken the kiddies to see them be sure to do it because you will enjoy the intelligent work of these beasts as much as the youngsters young-sters do. The bill In general is one of the best ever seen at that house, the Dem-itrescru Dem-itrescru troupe of three being respon sible for a horizontal' bar act In a class by itself and then Billy Link and Blossom Robinson make things Interesting. Benson and Bell have a line of singing and eccentric dancing MABEL BELL, OF BENSON AND B ELL, AT PANTAGES. that makes a prominent place for them on the bill. For the week to come Manager Newman announces Cole, Russell and Davis in "Waiters Wanted," the Six Musical Spillers, the LaBelles in comedy com-edy work and Weston and Young in "A Modern Flirtation." PAVLOWA Pavlowa will be at the Salt Lake theatre on Wednesday next. Pavlowa is supreme in that she makes all that see her dance enter into her spirit completely forgettln0' technique whereas where-as great dancers of bygone days were praised because they could pirouette or do this or that so many times. Pavlowa Ib not only a dancer but a creator of moods, a lyric poet so to speak. The transcending art of the Russian ballet as exemplified by Pavlowa and her grqat troupe, is really not fundamentally funda-mentally Russian at all, but German, French and Italian. And although ballet bal-let dancers have been trained at the personal expense of the Czar for cen turies in Russia no native Muscovite dancer attained world-wide fame till Pavlowa's time. Until a generation ago j the Imperial ballet masters were not I Russians. And today the basic tech nique taught at the Imperial Mar- 1 iensky Institute of the Dance is Italian. Ital-ian. With their innate love for music, and their aptitude for the graceful national dances, Russians were naturally natur-ally adept pupils for the ballet. It is strange then that unitl Pavlowa's time the greatest of the dancers who appeared before the Czar were Italians Ital-ians or French. But now the Russian dancers, having made the art of the other nations their own, are beyond any dispute the greatest dancers the world has ever known. THE PRICE "The Price" is nothing to rave about and though containing many dramatic situations Is a vehicle providing pro-viding little for any one in its cast with the exception of the part Miss Ware, the authoress, created for herself. her-self. As was to be expected, Miss j Rambeau played the part to perfec- j tion ably assisted by Mr. Mack, Howard How-ard Scott, Mrs. Lillian Rambeau and j Frederick Sumner. ' |