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Show H With The First Nighters H vrp'heum H "Tho Decision 'of Governor Locke" with Claude H Gillingwater and an excellent cast composed of H Miss Stella Archer, George Thompson, Frederick H Forester and Robert Brott, is a hcadliner so H tense and dramatic as to make it distinctive with H a very few other vaudeville sketches of the day. H In reality the story is along the same lines as H have been ofteh used before, that is, a political H boss bringing pressure to bear on one to whom H he is opposed, by a threat of exposing an act H that happenedNin the early career of a woman. H This same situation was strongly brought out in H that remarkable play, "The Woman," and in vari- H ous guises has been portrayed elsewhere, but H that makes Mr. Gillingwater's sketch none the H less effective and, on the contrary, the climax is H lead to so adroitly and with such splendid technic H that the interest does now wane a second and the H acting is so perfect that nothing is lacking in the H production. Tho Mann act is used as a basis H but in such a way that one never knows it un- H til tho f 'h and tho reference is dramatic, not M offenbi H Bui. i e are lots of other good things on the H bill which opens with the Flying Werntz Duo. M Lots of good things oven if Sherman, Van and H Hyman are allowed to pull a lot of Lizzie stuff. m The one who does most of the falsetto work gives the impression of a female impersonator too H lazy to put on a makeup and most of the act is M disgusting. Will we never get away from such M things in vaudeville? M Winnie Baldwin and Percy Bronson, beauti- M fully and sometimes strikingly dressed, bringing M with them a list of new stuff, are charming Or- 1 pheum audiences in a manner that is wholly de- M lightful and Miss Baldwin is particularly fascin- M ating in more ways than one, whether you look M or whether you listen. She is everything you M would like her to be and her flirtation with the Hj ukelele is an inspiration. H Claudius and Scarlet, back again with their H old songs of the Sixties that seem to grow more U popular at their hands each season, have landed M big at every performance and Diamond & Bren- M nan, especially Jimmie Diamond, are making a H great hit. All the makeup James puts on you mM can put on the head of a pin. But he doesn't H need any makeup, Just a mouth and legs and H arms which are working every minute stirring H up the laughter. As a foil, Miss Brennan is not H particularly brilliant, but acceptable. H The show ends with the Six Schiovanis in the H acrobatic stunts that have made them famous H across two continents. m H AMERICAN ' H Two Triangle dramas, two Triangle-Keystone Hj comedies, a five-reel Pa the Gold Rooster comedy- H drama, a comedy cartoon, a travelog and two edi- H1 tions of the Patho News have been booked for H the three programs of the American theatre for H the week beginning with the Sunday matinee per- H formances. In accordance with the policy of the H American all of these pictures have Veen person- H ally inspected by the management of the theatre H in order that it may be assured that they meet H the required standard. Photodramas which do H not meet with the high standard set by the Amer- H lean theatre cannot be shown in that house. B' Helen Ware, who was seen here at the Salt H Lake theatre early in last season in "Tho Price" r is at the head of tho Triangle cast which is sched- H uled to present "Cross Currents" Sunday and fl Monday. The story is one of the renunciation H of love by a woman who finds that her sweet- H heart had become attached to her sister. The accompanying comedy for the Sunday and Monday Mon-day show is "Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts," produced by the Triangle-Keystone company. It feutures Charles Conklin. For Tuesday and Wednesday the Patho Gold Rooster feature, "Excuse Me," will be shown. George F. Marion, the author of tho farce plays tho leading role, that of the colored porter on a transcontinental train. The action all takes place on board the train which is enroute from Chicago to Reno. Accompanying this picture on the American Amer-ican program will be a Colonel Heeza Liar cartoon, car-toon, "The Nature Fakir;" a travelog on "California's "Califor-nia's Rocky Coast" and the Pathe News. Tho week-end bill at the theatre incorporates two Triangle subjects, the drama being an incident inci-dent in the lives of traders on the New York stock exchange and the comedy featuring Weber and Fields. "Between Men" is a story of the rivalry between be-tween two men for the hand of a girl and tho pitting of their wits in the stock market. One of the tremendously powerful scenes in a replica of the big metropolitan market in full swing during dur-ing the trying moments of breaking a corner. William S. Hart, House Peters and Enid Markey play the leading roles. Weber and Fields in their second Triangle-Keystone Triangle-Keystone vehicle have a counterpart of their former picture "The Best of Enemies." The new subject is entitled "The Worst of Friends." Tho Pathe News with the latest animated news of the war will also be on the bill for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. "THE BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE" Cosmo Hamilton's exaggerated essay advocating advo-cating that unsophisticated maidens be imbued with a thorough knowledge regarding a little bit of everything, has been the attraction at the Empress Em-press this week, if it may be called an attraction, attrac-tion, and the audiences have literally eaten it. So much of the same kind of stuff in better shape has been seen latterly that Mr. Hamilton's effort is anything but inspiring. However, it was delightfully de-lightfully played by tho Ernest Wilkes stock company com-pany with Clifford Thompson as the particular star of the production in tho role of the young man fussing along the primrose path. He gave a most finished performance. Paul Harvey was also oxcollently cast as tho vicar and Nana Bryant and Clair Sinclair, both of whom may usually bo depended upon, gave nice performances though it was hardly in keeping with the part for Miss Bryant to wear a wedding ring. A nice bit of character work was done by Merle Stanton as Cookie. The play has its dramatic moments, but as a whole is a bore and all that saved it for those who appreciate dramatic art, was the scenic in- , vestiture and the acting. At the end of the month, the Wilkes Stock company will move to the Utah theatre to finish the stock season, a deal having been consummated consummat-ed through which the Paramount people represented repre-sented by L. Marcus of the Notable Feature ' Film Company of this city will take over the Sullivan-Considine and associated interests in the Empress which will be turned into a high-class moving picture house. "IT PA YS TO AD VERTISE" In view of everything that has been said regarding re-garding "It Pays to Advertise" written by Rol Cooper McGrue and Walter Hackett, the play was more or less disappointing except for those exactly in the mood to enjoy it, and so were most of the members of the comapny. The farce would make an excellent vaudeville sketch, but in its present shape it is drawn out to such an extent that it becomes p. bore before it is half over. There is a laugh in a lot of the lines, and with this particular company, Elmer Grandin as Cyrus Martin was the most luminous personage, though the Ellery Clarke of Cliff Worman was a character charac-ter gem of the highest order. .In condensed shape, "It Pays to Advertise" would provide ample amusement for anyone for possibly twenty or thirty minutes. REX The second chapter of the detective serial "The Red Circle" heads the Rex bill for Sunday and Monday, featuring Ruth Roland and Frank Mayo In a chapter which is entitled "Pity the Poor." " "The Red Circle" series of stories is built upon the conquering of the instinct to commit drime, a heritage which comes to an innocent girl. . Its various chapters deal with the efforts which are made by her to overcome the tendency and the many mysteries which are the result of her , uncontrollable passions. For Friday and Saturday the feature will be the second installment of the "Graft" stories, "The Tenement House Evil" which is the work of Louis J. Vance. The "Graft" series of pictures are of especial interest because of the description descrip-tion of conditions as they exist in many American Ameri-can municipalities under the present system of y, government. The mid-week feature, which will run on Tues- . day, Wednesday and Thursday, is a detective story from the Essanay studios, "The Alster Case" is a murder mystery story which is differ- , ent in that it gets away from the old scientific detective idea and shows the sleuth as he actually works. WILKES STOCK The Ernest Wilkes stock company will present pre-sent at the Empress theatre during the week commencing Sunday night, January 9th, a thrilling thrill-ing story of the Hudson Bay country. This piece ft 5pf is from the pen of Stewart Edward White and $ was published In book form under the name of "Conjurors House." George Broadhurst put this in form acceptable accept-able to the play going public and named it "The "l Call of the North." It is a story of the far north country where Indians, trapping posts and wilderness wild-erness form a little world. There is a wealth of scenic equipment in the four scenes that go to make up the piece and the Wilkes favorites will be seen it their best advantage. Paul Harvey ," will have the leading role and Nana Bryant will play opposite. LIBERTY Easily the biggest motion picture which has ever been shown in Salt Lake will be "The Bat- ,v tie Cry of Peace" which begins an engagement '? of at least two weeks at the Liberty theatre at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. There will be five performances every day. "The Battle Cry of Peace" is an argument for preparedness. It is a call to arms, against war and is based on Hudson Maxim's "Defenseless America." The lesson it teaches Is that we must be a unified people and that there is a time when the hyphen is dropped from Americanism. A terrible picture is painted of New York sacked by a latter day power, beautiful homes destroyed, de-stroyed, handsome buildings wrecked and the women folk of the land seized after fathers, husbands, hus-bands, brothers and sons have been slain. The invading army is of nondescript uniform. As your tendencies may go you can picture it to be any nationality with which we might come to war. During the two and one-half hours of the picture pic-ture there are scenes and incidents of thrilling appeal by the score. Texts are interspersed. For instance Avhen John Harrison (Charles Richman) finfis his sister and mother slain by a bomb dropped from an aeroplane, the text is flashed upon the screen: "This is what is happening in Europe today!" "The Battle Cry of Peace" is too big to describe de-scribe in a short article. It must be seen. There are scenes of such compelling pathos that your handkerchief will be wet. Again you will want to jump to your feet and fight for the picture heroes and heroines. The picture Js a bugle call to war. It means that war must be invited if necessary, but invited in such a fashion that the invitation will be refused. The theme is that we must protect the wealth of our country, the lives of our youth, and the virtue of our women, by safeguarding our skies, our waters and our shores. |