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Show H1 With The First Nighters ' ' M AMERICAN H Triangle and Keystone features of unusual H , strength are scheduled for the American for the H week beginning on Sunday. The program for Sun- H day, Monday and Tuesday will be headed by the H Triangle drama "The Wood Nymph" featuring H Marie Doro and Frank Campeau. The companion H feature for the same days will be a Keystone H comedy, "Perils of the Park" with Harry Gribbon S 'and Alice Daenport in the principal roles. Hj The program for the latter part of the week, H commencing with Wednesday and' continuing H through Saturday, will be the return of WJHard B) Slack and Enid Markey as co-stars in "The Con- H queror." Wilth "The Conqueror" will be shown Hi the Triangle-Keystone comedy "A Movie Star" in Hi which Polly iMoran and Mack Swain have the im- H portant ports. H 'YTho Wood Nymph" is a play that mingles H very beautifully the atmosphere of aesthetic H Greek life with modern times. The locale is in H the heart of a forest of giant trees. According H to the tale Miss Doro as the nymph has grown Hi to young womanhood under the care of a mother who has forsaken civilization in a log home in B the' woods. The nymph knows nothing of the H society of men. She has been taught the stories H of the ancient Greek divinities and plays hymns to these personages on her harp. The inevitable H happens of course in the end when she sees and H meets a young hunter on one of her trips through M the forest. 1 "The Conqueror," in which iMr. Mack and Miss fl Markey are starred is a drama of love and finance. m During the week the Pathe News will be shown H with each program, giving the usual series of anl- H mated news events. As an added attraction for M each afternoon and evening Miss Agnes Yon M Bracht will appear in a repertoire of soprano H ORPHEUM m The most ardent vaudeville fan who claims H tMartin Beck is the father of the country, could H have nothing but praise for the bill provided by H Manager Levy at the Orpheum this week. With H a whole cluster of headliners of various descrip B tions, including Eddy Foy and the Little Foys, V Swan Wood and her ballet divertissement, lime. H Donald-Ayer and others, the audiences are having M a happy time and so are the performers. M Eddy Foy is growing older and the lilt has H left his larynx, but he is funny just the same, the H good old sport, and he and his happy family have H made it delightful for everyone. But the Little H Foys are shooting up at such a rate that it will H bo but a brief time until they are Little Foys no H longer. Howevor they are all clever and they H should worry about the passing years, for their H place is assured with everyone who has seen them Hf and nearly everyone has seen them from New H Rochelle to Mexico. H Miss Swan Wood and her company of beauti- H ful dancers present one of the most pleasing acts H of the kind ever seen here, including individual H dances and others in which the entire company H appear. The act closes with "The Bacchanal," H and if Miss Wood will permit us, we suggest that H she wear u costume in this number more in keep- H'i ing with the spirit of the thing. The white one H she affects is not becoming and should be out of H the picture. H Mme. Donald-Ayer was heard to advantage in V! various selections from the old masters to Irvin Bi Berlin and created a splendid impression. H After several miles of pictures, Leo and Mae H Jackson open the 'bill with a cycling novelty and It are followed by Jean Challon who sang her way to popularity. Then wo have (Fatima who escaped from some place in the Orient, preceding the getaway of Princess Athena, but no comparison is meant, for Fatima has a repertoire of dances, the novelty and beauty of which are not lost in suggestiveness. Mary Shaw, exponent of woman's rights, uplift worker, prominent American club woman, and actress act-ress will appear at the Orpheum next week, starting start-ing with the Sunday matinee in "The Dickey Bird." Other features of the next Orpheum bill will be Stuart Barnes, famous monologist; Bert La-Mont's La-Mont's Cowboys; Reynolds and Donegan, dancing skaters; The Crisps formerly with Mclntyre and "Heath in "The Ham Tree;" Florrie Millership; and Flavilla, a girl accordeonist. PRINCESS ATHENA Owing to the lateness of the arrival of the new troupe at Pantages last week, it was not possible to mention one of the most disgusting performances ever seen on the stage here or elsewhere, else-where, that of the Princess Athena, who was supposed sup-posed to have escaped from some place in Turkey. 'No matter what it happened to be she got awa fiom, it couldn't have been any rottener than her appearance and supposed dance in which the leg and arm work were nothing and the dilatation of the hpyogastrium was all. In fact she had such remarkable control of all the muscles in her trunk that she could take one or more any old place and flip them around to suit herself. If it suited anybody else we haven't heard of it. It is surprising that she wore anything whatever, foi what little she had on, simply added to the vulgarity. vul-garity. It was up to the chief of police to Btop her performance or close the house. WILKES STOCK The Utah theatre will be rechristened the Wilkes next Sunday night and be launched as the 1 ' now home of the Ernest Wilkes Stock company. With the removal from the Empress to the Wilkes, the Wilkes company closes one of the most successful runs ever recorded in Salt Lake and commences on one that promises to be equally satisfactory. The company has made many friends who will undoubtedly follow it to its new playhouse. For the opening bill "Inside the .Lines" has been secured. With Gibraltar as its setting, the great war as the background, an American girl as the heroine and spies of every belligerent country coun-try to make the excitement, the piece is said to be very exciting. One of its chief merits is that j ib is as neutral as it is timely. ij Every effort is being made to avoid confusion in changing from the Empress to the Wilkes. Season Sea-son ticket holders at the Empress are being af- forded rresponding seats at the Wilkes, and in eve. er way patrons are being provided for. Job' Cook will be local manager. REX The rise to fame and fortune of Audrey Mun-son, Mun-son, famous artist's model and the inspiration for works of art throughout this country and abroad, has been woven into a Mutual Masterpiece in five acts entitled "Inspiration." Miss Munson, widely known as the "Panama-Pacific girl" because she posed for many of the pieces of statuary at the Panama-Pacific exposition notably among them "The Fountain of Eldorado," by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, wife of the New York multi-millionaire, as well as for the statue called "Evangeline," by Daniel Chester French, which has "been placed i before the home of the Immortal Longfellow, at Cambridge, Mass. Miss Munson was also the inspiration for the figure of liberty adorning the Maine monument at the entrance to Central park, in New York City. ea, "Inspiration," in which Miss Munson appears In the leading role, was screened at the Than-houser Than-houser studios in New Rochelle, N. Y. The story, much of the locale of -which Is laid in New York, deals with Miss Munson's arrival in the metropolis, her inability to find work during which she all but starved to death, and finally an accident a fortunate one in this instance which resulted in her securing her first step on the ladder that later brought her fame. "Inspiration" will be shown at the Rex theatre for three days only, beginning Tuesday, Feb. 1. DADDY LONG LEGS $k $ All the fascination of a pretty girl's winning fight for a chance in life is set forth in "Daddy Long Legs," which Henry Miller will present at , tTTe Salt Lake theatre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next. This story of a modern Cinderella, Cinde-rella, written by Jean Webster and first published in a woman's magazine, has since, in book form, charmed over six million readers. "Daddy Long Legs" has youth, charm and quaint humor. It is the story of a pretty waif in a bleak New England orphan asylum, whose head is full of dreams of becoming a great author. One day, while the trustees are visiting the asylum, Judy rebels against the tyranny of the austere matron. One of the visitors, Jervis Pendleton, a rich and philanthropical man of the world, admires ad-mires her spirit and decides to give her a chance in the world. Judy is not to know the name of the man who befriends her, but is told to write him monthly letters addressed to "John Smith." She sees his grotesque shadow cast on the wall by the lights of his motor car as he departs at dusk and nicknames him "Daddy Long Legs." And plain Judy of the asylum is transported by the magic wand of wealth to a big college for girls. The little wild flower of the asylum rapidly rap-idly blossoms into a beautiful rose and the saucy letters she writes her unknown guardian soon be-gin be-gin to interest Pendleton. He goes to the college, col-lege, ostensibly to visit his niece, and meets Judy. And then it is that the charming story begins to move rapidly and the whimsical humor, touching pathos and tender sentiment of the succeeding acts give the play an indescribable fascination. LIBERTY That somewhat barbaric epoch in the history of Oklahoma known as the "border days," has been almost lost to memory in the development of that state, but occasionally someone, by oral or written ty word, 'brings again to mind the tragedies tinged with romance that accompanied the raids of those sinister riders known as outlaws, and who preyed upon banks and railroads and merchants and the wealthier private citizens of that commonwealth. Salt Lake is to have the opportunity" during the week of January 30 to February 6 to learn with the exactness of the accuracy of an eyewitness eye-witness what really transpired, what penalties were inflicted, what sufferings ensued, what pursuits pur-suits were inaugurated, and how captures followed with succeeding imprisonments and deaths. "The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaw," a .jrphotodrama dealing with facts only, telling the historic story of Oklahoma's eradication of the outlaw and the means used to accomplish that end, will be the feature for one week at the Liberty theatre beginning Sunday. "Arkansas Tom," a member of the notorious Doolln-Dalton gang, who served his time in prison; Henry Starr, the recently captured desperado; & former United StateB Marshal E. D. Nix; former Deputy U. S. Marshals Bill Tilghman and Chris iMadsen and many others who actually participated in the events of Oklahoma's earlier history, enacted en-acted their roles of years ago by living through them again that the camera might preserve a perfect per-fect likeness of men and events. WILKES STOCK No play presented by the Wilkes players since the beginning of their highly successful season has met with more approval than "The Woman" by William C. DeMille. To begin with, it is an exceptional play so filled with Interest and tenseness, tense-ness, though frequently relieved with the wittiest of lines, that even an average company would have difficulty in spoiling it. But the people who are playing it here, particularly Nana Bryant, Claire Sinclair, John C. Livingstone, Clifford Thompson and Ferdinand Munier bring out all of the strength contained in the lines and situations, and the work of Miss Bryant, as the telephone operator op-erator about whom most of the action revolves, and that of Miss Sinclair (The Woman) is parallel paral-lel with the best they have been credited with since their arrival. The story of "The Woman" is the old one elaborated upon, of a political ring attempting to make a recalcitrant bend the knee to their will by getting something on him. They learn of the woman in the case whom he has known some years before, but the telephone operator cleverly comes to the rescue and all ends as it should. Scenically the play is splendidly staged, and the entire production one of class. PANTAGES A Willard Mack sketch played by Les Morgan and Beryl Gray, Naomi, a violiniste who also sing3 and dances; John and Mae Burke in "The Ragtime Rag-time Soldier"; The Girls of the Orient; La Toy and Ed Vinton make up a bill at the Pantages this week that will keep tho crowds and Manager Newman busy exchanging smiles and big iron men. It is a good bill all along the line, though the alleged headliner, "The Girls of the Orient" mean nothing in one's life unless their dancing comedian may be excepted. The bill is well worth seeing, containing real vaudeville from start to finish, though it includes no princess stripped to the buff for the delectation of those who care to study anatomy. |