| Show t tI r 1 r I A JE i I t t tI r I TODAY I I II I Salt Jak Laki theatre John John Mason Iason In An AA An a 1 atan I tan Sinn Thinks 8 p p. p m. m Orpheum theatre theatrE Vaudeville 1 15 p p. p m m. nd 8 16 p p. p ni in t tI Utah theatre nobert flobert Robert Alice Fleming I I and stock company In Sherlock Holmes p p. p m m. m I I Empress theatre Vaudeville 2 30 p p. p in tn p p. p m m. and p p. p m m. motion picture pic plc- I American theatre Licensed I ture tureS ture concert orchestra with pipe or organ Special Special t Bi BIt x League t tIn cial feature Breaking Into tho the In two reels Continuous performance Libert Liberty theatre motion pictures I and ond music Special feature The Po Power cr of Conscience Con Con- science In two reels Matinee i 2 to 5 w evening con I 7 7 to 11 I A 4 4 T r Jl SALT SAIT A IT LAKE THEATRE TRE TOrIN rASO rAso In Augustus Augustu Thomass Thomas's As 8 a aTan Tan ran TanJ J JOnis Thinks s. s opened tho season of 1913 1 at tho the Salt Lake Lahce theatre last nl night ht playing to a largo large audience In a. a renovated theatre The Thc play pIny Is a modern sort Bort verging on th the tho powerful drama o of the tho problem play but differing from It In some essen- essen It II Is Js ably abir handled not only b by Mr Ir Mason a athe as th the bus busy abrupt kindly hearted physician blessed with an nn Immense amount of ot understanding bu but also by b- bear ear every member ot of his company compan To Miss Mis Herne particularly must bo awarded muc much praise for tor the convincing manner In which sh she handlon handlei p. p strong emotional role Nor or can le less s b ho he said for John Flood as Frank nl Clayton Claton the InjurIng muir- lag Ing and injured husband who learns tho the lesson lesso that ho must cast hate out of or his heart for tor his ow own spiritual mental and physical health or for tor Lyste Lyster In whom the Instincts in In- In Chamber as Benjamin Do De Lota of or the suffering Hebrew race raco threaten t to take a a. perverted course un until tit he is brought to a a. a halt t b by tho physicians physician's doctrine of As a a. Man Ian Thinks Inks Briefly Brley tho the plot of oC the play pla IB Is ono OflE In which th the eternal triangle so familiar on tho the stage is complicated complicated com coin by b the thc strife old as the present era between be be- tween Christian and Jew Judge Hoover has le let lct himself b bf bo swayed by time-honored time prejudice In refusing tho the hand of or his daughter to De Do Lota Lots on She Sho marries Frank account or of the tho laUer's latter's race mcc Clayton and eight or nine years ears later the tha play op opens In th the meantime Mrs Clayton has found thaher that tha her husband clings to the double standard o of morality and aften aCte promising better has haR continued con con- tinned deception She rebels fiercely a against ln l t this and her former r orm sweetheart returning about this thi time she Rhe oven goes JOPA so 80 far ar as to visit his rooms accompanied only b by h him m Tho Incident all the angry ry passions passion her husband is capable of and in a stormy scon scone which follows tho the wife is only saved ed from being driven from her home home for for doing far less than that tha against which she was rebelling b rebelling rebelling-by by the serious illness o of their child The Tho lather fattier goes Instead I Later ator th tho separation lon continues Mrs Mr Clayton Claton curiously curl curl- enough h finding refuge In tho the home homo of a n physician of or the raco race Into which she he was refused permission to that narry-that that of or her family physician Doctor Seelig It so happens that Seelig ha has been en enraged engaged ged to Do Lota but sho she falls faUs In love lov with a a. young oung Christian artist instead wherein once more comes the race question For he her father and mother estimable as thc they are arc and liberal lib lib- hib- hib oral eral In their views robel ouch euch an attach attach- mont ment Finally through the theories of ot the efficacy o olove of love as ng propounded by Dr tho the Claytons ar are reunited and then the kindly old doctor ha has hns to live up to the spiritual medicine h he has Just administering so earnestly cl to Prank Frank Clayton the thc the principle o of forgiveness Mr r. r Mason ason says hardly a a. t score of o words In a 1 hit of ver very effective acting at this point really point the only place In th the pl vIa play y where ho Is called on to let himself out out- But ono feels a sympathy o or of for foi tho old father when ho he learns that tha lila ills only daughter daug has wounded that pride of ot raco race which meant t so much to him b by marrying marrying- th the young Christian And so the tho pia play ends th the giving up the Iho pleasures of an evening at homo at one ono o of tho the times Umes In his life lIe Wb when n it seems most mort Imperative that t he be at home to tu attend to sumo some Important operation on a child child foin from the Ea East t side somewhere I really cannot recall the tilo name une while the time little I is II anticipating Claytons' Claytons boy I happily ing the dell delights of Christmas eve 0 with his father and J mother moth or the tic first time he has been with them both In months nut lint in the he sketching of or the story tory little can be bedone bedone bedone done except to hint at the opportunities for tor powerful powerful power power- ful mi work that it Introduces The opportunities are seized b by Mr Mason ason and his company and tho the star stai himself adds s those little HUlo touches that mean so much ranch to the understanding ln of or the time play pia yet jet can bo be introduced capably and effectively on only b by a rca real artist such artist such as Mr Mason Iason proves himself to he be Mr Mason Iason will give ghe three more performances here including the matinee tomorrow Concerning tho the attractive chan changes es In the playhouse itself p perhaps one could coul not do better than quote quota from the thc program The old oM playhouse se has not had such a renovation renovation renova renova- tion In years oars as it has just undergone The entire auditorium has Ijas been decorated and the old gloomy gloom greens have havo been beon replaced with brighter colors On account of or the time red color of the chairs which could not be replaced the red color scheme of ot carpets carpets carpets car car- pets and hangings 5 has hs been n necessarily retain retained ell Side walls wails have been treated with a rich effect of Roman noman gold highly lighted with the pure variegated vane varie I gated gatei pale gold luster Dado has tho the finish of or antique green gren bronze wl with h ba j ba-j relief reller ornamentation tion in the d delicate touches to of or all tho the oriental art Galleries and proscenium arch give ghe the grand effect of soft sort coloring in grays rays and yellow ellow carrying carry carr lug inS the Roman noman gold throughout Columns and capitals have been treated with the rich Roman gold which Is entirely in l keeping ee with the tho Architecture of the historical theatre of or orthe the west And best of or all the tho work orl has been en done h by home lome artists D. D T T. had hall the contract for Cor tImework the tIme work and he lie was as assisted in the color scheme b by G George orge J J. J Maack 11 |
