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Show in m i1 1 ! ' i' '" -a i ' "' ' "3 Theatres AT THE UTAH Why is vice, especially crookod gambling, gam-bling, defiant and triumphant, despite Its negative character, in the cities, when all the good citizens, all the positive pos-itive forces, are opposed to If Hundreds Hun-dreds of great sermons have been preached lu attempts to answer this question, but none is more powerful than the photoplay at the Utah theatre tonight and tomorrow, which opened last night, entitled "Man's Woman," in which Ethel Clayton and Rockcliffe Fellowes assume the stellar roles. The underworld political boss, the weak and unintelligent district attorney, attor-ney, the one or two strong men who fight for the right against any and all odds, with nnal success, the supreme power of love over hate, all are depicted de-picted In a manner true to life. The thrills are continuous. The climax situations are novel and startling. Problems of domestic life are solved and false notions of right and wrong are revealed, showing the frequent causes of unhappiness and Iioav to eliminate them. One would go far to see in real life the typical metropolitan gunman, who slays fellow beings without compunction, compunc-tion, to whom murder is a pastime, but this photoplay presents him as he Is in real life a mere animal, vicious and dangerous, half insane from the use of drugs and alcoholic liquor. He is one of the type past redemption and finally is removed as a vile and loathsome loath-some thing. The district attorney, subservient to the crooked political boss, so common in our cities, without a sense of honor or duty, Is revealed in true colors. Masquerading Mas-querading in the guise of respectability, respectabil-ity, he is In reality a social monster and public enemy Fate removes him, too, and the righteous finally triumph. A spectacular police raid upon a palatial pal-atial gambling den, operated by the political boss, supplies many genuine thrills. The boss gets tho treatment he so richly deserves, together with a sound trouncing, and takes his rightful right-ful place among the common malefactors. malefac-tors. A sweet little baby plays a stellar part. This play is belter than any social so-cial problem novel or fecture on political polit-ical progress The great moral lesson is the emphasis upon the necessity of electing decent and honebt men to public pub-lic office, and especially the .necessity of electing honest and courageous and aggressive men to the office of district dis-trict attorney for the purpose of enforcing en-forcing the laws. AT THE ALHAMBRA "Awfully rough" is right, describing "Kick In," the Alhambra's offering tonight and tomorrow, which opened I last night to a large audience But It Is clean and thrilling throughout. Thousands who visit the metropolitan metropoli-tan cities yearn to see the seamy side of life, the underworld, and by special permission, with experienced guides, some of them get a glimpse of "how the other half lives " Few. indeed, see the Real Thing, however In this Alhambra photoplay, by Wil-I Wil-I lard Mack, the midnight curtains are drawn completely aside, revealing all the lights and shadows, joys and fears, the good and the bad, of the metropolitan metropol-itan underworld. The light is flashed deep with X-ray intensity into the nethermost social strata, revealing the causes of the criminal epidemic in our "melting pot" cities. To see and learn one-tenth as much in a year's personal research would j cost an Investigator hundreds of dol-; dol-; lars. A New York City slum town guide charges $5 for a glimpse of just one of the scenes depicted. This great photoplay embodies scores of thrilling scenes, in which William Courtenay and Mollie King are star perfoimers, in which everything Is true to life. This was the original purpose of the "movie" and Edison's ambition to bring these scenes squaiely before the i people of the world, that the negative causes might be cured and the evil conditions remedied Two boys, victims of vicious environment, environ-ment, are graduated from the slums into desperate criminals. They steal and murder, loVe and hate. Life is to thorn, as to men on other levels, a battle terrible. Like the others, they strive to win At the grand crisis in his life, one of the desperadoes, beset , by death, for the first time Is touched by the power of religion The all-conquering appeal of the Christ reforms i him. The other man persists in crime, 1 not having the advantage of tho holy I influence He pays the inexorable penalty, pen-alty, like all wilfully vicious men, just I as the book says Ho Is "suddenly destroyed nnd that without remedy " Police officers, brutalized by their i environment, hidebound and unscrup-, unscrup-, ulous in their methods, combatting crime, "fire with fire," are shown to jeuTTn- i g-" u i in .in . jii i i.m be stupid, Inefficient, unintelligent But all-powerful love the one touch of nature na-ture that makes tho whole world kin i finally triumphs and even the brutal. ized police become sympathetic and human. -, MONEY'S WORTH. |