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Show I With The First Nighters & i i I lit "vffc. IIB FLAME" was ii II a(7 I seen at tnG Salt Hi 1 m. J Lako tlle first K II r I part of the week. m III HI It does not de- M " g1-'!' isj serve to be plac- H ' ed in the same M class with Tully's former successes, H "The Bird of Paradise" and "Omar, H the Tent-Maker." At that, it is a H unique production and well worth see- H ing. H "The Flame" attempts a rather pic- H turesquo but impossible portrayal of H mother love. Had the author not an- H nounced the theme of the play in ad- J vance via press notices and program H the probabilities are that the first H nighters would have missed it alto- M gether. The production could just as M ' well be featured as a stage satire on H this government's policy of "Watchful H Waiting," a few years back. Then H again it might truthfully be adver- fl tised as a spectacular reproduction of M the rites of the voodoo worshipers m somewhere in the Antilles, surround- m ed by considerable local color and hav- M ing no plot in particular. H The scenic effects were magnificent M and viewed from this angle, the play M is a marvel, of realistic stage craft. M . The vivid reproduction of a storm in fl the tropics was more than spectacular; M " it bordered on the sensational. Sev- fl eral of. the character sketches were M excellent. -The acting of Bessie Lane H in the difficult role of the native girl H Who is converted to Christianity, was m particularly pleasing. James Seeley m was splendid in the role of the Texan, M and Godfrey Mathews played the part j of the young American planter in ac- M ceptable manner. The music of the M play weird but strangely beautiful at M times and the new dance, "The Rum- m ba," remind one strongly of Hawaiian m melody and motion. H H ORRHEUM M jjs?HERE is a wordless melodrama m JU at the Orpheum this week that m is played on the screen and in the m jungle in picture first; in reality sec- M ond. And it is out of the ordinary. H, It is filled with thrills in the picture; M it is more so in the real action, for M the monarchs of the jungle, two pair H of them, are in the play and they are M magnificent specimens of wild beasts HL and splendidly trained. The picture W shows the Lion Hunt and the same H artists and animals appear in combl- B nation. It is a melodrama well worth M seeing. B Frankie Heath is billed as the head- M liner. She presents a quartet of song M stories in a most pleasing manner. Her i act is clever. The Jordan Girls are a ;. comely trio of tight wire performers HA and are extremely clever dancers be- H sides. Ventriloquists, it was thought, Hl had had their day and when a ven-triloquial ven-triloquial act is on a vaudeville bill the audience settles down as a rule to listen to tho same old stuff. But William Wil-liam Erb has a new stunt in this line with a real punch to it. You will enjoy en-joy his act. "First Aid to Father" gives the grand old man of baseball, Captain Adrian C. Anson of the old Chicago White Sox, and his two charming daughters, opportunity to present a pretty sketch written for them by Ring G. Lardner. Lillian Gonne and Bert Albert in "On tho Way to School" do some clever work, and Sassy Lillian is as cute as she is pretty. In song and dance and chatter Edith May Capes and Nelson Snow present a pleasing act. The screen pictures, concluding the bill, are up to standard. PANT AGES QANTAGES presents a bill this week that is splendidly diversified. diversi-fied. However, if there were no other act than that presented by the De Michlo Brothers in. their musical offering, offer-ing, the show would be worth the price of admission. They get delightful music mu-sic from the harp and violin and the vocal solo was exceptionally pleasing. The "Girl from Starland," featuring Lillian Tatum, is a pretty act, and new. The scenic effects are unique. One is asked to guess who is "The Maid of the Movies," an act in which some clever work is done by a mysterious mys-terious film star. Tho allegorical comedy drama, "Everybody's Sister," is well presented present-ed by Frederick H. Spear and his company. com-pany. It deals with the problem of the double moral standard. The playlet play-let is gripping and the climax affords a surprise. In "Miss America," a miltary satire, onportunity is given Miss Jean Waters lisplay her talents as a fun maker. I oe is assisted by a chorus that can really sing and dance. Chester Gruber, with a way of his own, presents something some-thing different. The thirteenth episode of the "Fatal Ring," featuring Pearl White, furnishes the thrills on the bill. GLUCK DISCUSSES CAREERS "TLMA GLUCK, the soprano, whom 1. tho Musical Arts society will present at the Tabernacle November 26th, believes that wanting to accomplish accom-plish a thing and being destined to accomplish it are two distinctly different dif-ferent matters. "When I see the hundreds hun-dreds of singers who are striving for a career and when as frequently happens, hap-pens, I grant a hearing to some aspirant aspir-ant for concert or operatic honors, the truth of the old, old saying, "artists are born and not made," impresses me more and more," said the famous soprano in a recent interview. "Because you want to be a singer or feel that a career awaits you is no reason rea-son at all, to believe your talents will make you famous," she continues. "Unless singing or playing is tho greatest thing in your life, whether that knowledge is conscious or not, no amount of study nor ambition will avail. Oj the other hand, I do not believe any obstacle can Interfere for very long in the achievement of great success if ri person has the 'divine spark of genius.' I have never yet seen an artist of mediocre ability who did not blame a lack of opportunity or a lack of 'pull" for her failure to win fame. And, also, I have never met an unsuccessful artist who would aaniu that he or she had any faults." Miss Gluck is an American singer, who has climbed to the top of the professional ladder in very few years and her words are of value to all who seek a place in the public eye. Her success was not won without a hard struggle and she is qualified to speak upon the subject of a career. It is not saying too much to describe her as the most successful American singer of this generation. LIBERTY HE Liberty theater is the first J vaudeville house to take advantage advant-age of the recent order by federal officials of-ficials that a theater may pay the war tax and thus save all the trouble of making penny change for the patrons. Thursday the Liberty instituted the new order of prices which precludes the necessity of patrons bothering about pennies. The new show includes Guess, Try and Guess, a real novelty; Farrington and Cornell, who supply the comedy; Jack and Jean Massey, in "Music Land;" Ben Tidwell, the demon acrobat; acro-bat; Mile. Mario, dainty classic dancer, dan-cer, and the Pathe News. j, WAR SONG OF 1898 XN professional circles, the biggest1 question of today is: Will there ' be an American war song to take the place of "A Hot Time in the Old Town?" But there are few who know that it was Jim Mclntyre of Mclntyre and Heath, the veteran minstrels, who are now playing the Orpheum circuit, who was the inspiration for the old song. The story dates back to 1886 when Mclntyre and Heath's Minstrels were touring Louisiana. , While on the train they passed a, small place called "Old Town." A fire was in progress and the inhabitants could be seen trying to put it out with buokes of water. This led Mclntyre - -to remark "There's a hot time in Old Town tonight." The musical director of the troupe, -Theor-A. Metz, overheard over-heard the remark and immediately took it for the title of a new march he had composed. It was not published pub-lished until ten years later when Metz asked a friend of his, Joe Hayden, to write the lyric from the title inspiration. INEZ NESBIT WHO WILL APPEAR IN "THE NIGHT BOAT," THE FEATURE OF NEXT WEEK'S BILL AT THE ORPHEUM THE SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE B CABLEGRAM from Sweden tells that Christine Nilsson, the great prima donna of a generation ago, recently received a medal from admirers all over the world in honor of her approaching seventy-fifth birthday. birth-day. Nilsson is another example of a singer who attains to longevity, even though the life of a prima donna, supposedly sup-posedly a bed of roses, is in reality one of struggle, self-denial and constant con-stant strain. It is extraordinary, the age to which many of the great singers sing-ers have lived. Nilsson was, in her way, a rival of Patti. Sho was called the Swedish Nightingale, and although unknown to the younger generation, she attained such vogue and such tremendous popularity pop-ularity that her fame still lives in the memory of hundreds of thousands of people. She was a woman of commanding com-manding presence, almost masculine in some regards, and of great dramatic power. She had more warmth than her great Swedish predecessor, Jenny Lind, though there are many who would tell you that her voice lacked the exquisite purity which distinguished distin-guished Jenny Lind. s- "THE VIRGINIAN" GHRONIC disinclination to be amused is the one excuse possible possi-ble to the man or woman who sees Owen Wister's famous dramatization of his own- novel, "Tho Virginian," and fails to wax enthusiastic. It is asserted assert-ed that 'The Virginian' has been witnessed wit-nessed by more people than any other play of equal age, and one who has seen it does not usually rest content until he has marshalled his friends for a return visit. The New York Producing Pro-ducing company is responsible for the present production which means that Dustin Farnum's famous play will have the benefit of every accessory that liberal management may be provided. pro-vided. "The Virginian" comes to the Salt Lake Theatre for three nights, beginning November 22nd; the seat sale opening Tuesday next. N 'UNNECESSARY WARNING "This seems to be a very dangerous precipice," remarked the tourist. "I wonder that they have not put up a warning board!" "Yes," answered tho guide, "it Is dangerous. They kept- a warning-board up for two years, but no one fell over, so it was taken down." Harper's Magazine. HERE, TOO. iHY is it," an old timer in-vl in-vl quired yesterday, "that these follows who own tin lizzies, and got up at the unearthly hour of 4 o'clock in the morning, insist upon opening up the engine on their car so that the noise it makes almost raises the dead. I'vo tried to solve tho question, but thus far have been unable to do so. "Up where I live in an apartment in tho eastern part of the city there are six families who use the sleeping porches. Now 4 a. m. is about the nicest part of the night to snoozo, but tho tin lizzie boys will have none of it, and from out of tho garage- which stands back of the apartment and is not owned by the apartment house company, and by the way none of the owners of the cars live in the apartment apart-ment comes the tin lizzies at an unearthly un-earthly hour with muffler wido open and the engine making a million revolutions rev-olutions a minute. The sleepers are awakened, of course, and the cuss-words cuss-words that saturate the atmosphere are simply astounding. "The would be sleepers have petitioned peti-tioned tho management of tho house to abate the nuisance, but ho declares that he is powerless. He has promised, promis-ed, however, to see if he cannot induce in-duce some one to erect a boiler factory fac-tory in the neighborhood so that the noise from the latter may aid in mitigating miti-gating the awful noise which the tin lizzie owners insist upon making." All the Spectator can say is that he nurses a similar grievancp. |