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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUXDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1916. DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. ORPHEUM New vaudeville show opens Wednesday evening, headed 'ny Alexander Can and com pa ny in "An April Shower." Six ol her bis: Performances and Box office now open. A TAGKS-- Xe bill will open Wednesday. headed by "Funs Chny," Ilodnev Hillam's Chinese Other ijood acts.

WILKES Will open with "A Gentleman of Leisure" on September 3. with many of the old favorites in the east. MOTION PICTURES. A A i i 1 he li n.yjiKiied Japanese actor, Sessue Jayaka wn. in the rem a rkahle I.a ro'i urt ion of "The Honorable Paramount Pictographs, tudav, Monday and Tuesday.

AMERICA'S Today and tomorrow, an I nee Triangle drama, "I I MEHKSV Romance, mystery and sti am-- adventures are interwoven in I he unusually nppeaiin? three-a- draum, "The Holly House," in whirl Vi ian Rich and Alfred Yosbnrtjh are starred. BROAL) WAY Sundayonly, return engagement. Mine. Petrova in "The Soul Market." Monday and Tuesday, the sensational feature, "Forbidden Fruit." Wednesday and Thursday, "ThePrimrose Path." ORPHKUM Second bill, exclusive feature phoLoplays, v.h Lucille Lee Stewart in "The Destroyers," a Vita.vrraph drama; "Tlie Mysteries of Myra," featuring Joan Sot hernand Howard Estahrook: "The Mishaps of Musty Suffer" the Hearst International News pictorial. SALT LAKE- "Ramona," the great photographic spectacle, will bo the b'U openingSeptember 4.

the 2s ew York Review of August IN '2 is a Hattering mention of another by Otto llauerbach of Salt Lake, Pair of The says: Otto Kauerhach is at work on a eomeuy tor Charles Dillingham, and at the same time is getting ready lor the production ot hislatent farce, "A Pair of Queens," Tor H. li. Fra.ee. Mr. Hauerbach has also completed the book of a new operetta for which Rudolf has written the music and which will be produced, by Arthur with a new coat RESPLENDENT fresh, rich, dark in the auditorium, the Wilkes theater will make its buw to thetheater going public on Sunday nignt, September at which time the viiKcs piayers will reopen for their second fall auu winter engagement, it will be interesting to Salt iane to Know that the excellent company of a year ago will the main return to Salt Lake thisfall and such changes that have been made by the management are lor the better.

Among the members of the cast will be found Miss Nana Cliff Thompson, Ancyu T. Ferdinand Mumer, Aliss Charlotte Treadway and George Barnes. New members include George Jtiand, who will be leading man for tnc company; Prank Bonner, Thomas Murphy and a new lady whose name the management at this time willnot divulge. Mr. Rand, however, will not open with the company until the second week, it being deemed advisable to cast Miss Bryant and Mr.

Thompson in roles that wij insure them a sincere welcome from Salt Lakers. Huron L. Blyden will be, as usual, the director general ofall productions, as in the past, insuring the usual performances of high merit. "A Gentleman of Leisure" has been selected for the opening bill, a3 it will serve to introduce each" member of the company in a most pleasing fashion. It Is a story that carries a world ofrich comedy indeed, has been termed a comedy gem of the Jaat two years.

Young Robert Edgar WiUoughby crosses the Atlantic as a second class passenger and is attracted by a beautiful young woman. C'pon his "arrival at his destination he entertains and during the course of the evening a wager is made by his friends that he has not the courage to rob a house and display a trophy aB evidence ofhis success. After the guests have departed he falls asleep and during his slumber a genuine burglar enters his apartments. This burglar is madehis partner in the adventure that is to come. Together they rob a home in Riverside drivo and are caught by r7T.

mi a'f f.J-- tyr zgF- ws. i.i. Scene from the photo-operati- spectacle, "Ramona," which comes to the Salt Lake theater September 4. The good padre blessing his simple converts. tho young girl whom "WiUoughby met aboard ship.Complication pon complication ensues, weaving a web of suspicion that is not anticipated, and tho unveiling Tf this mystery furnishes many laughable situations that make the play so unique.

The production has jiut been given by the Wilkes players at their Orpheum theater in Seattle, and so great was the success that the play will be repeated within a very sliort time. The box office at the Wilkes is now open and season reservations arc in order. and replete with infinite CLEVER is the bill now playing There is comedy in generous doses, novelty to add a bit of spice, grand opera selections, syncopations and other offerings that go to make up a high-class- vaudeville bill. With three performances every day of the week tho present early season "bill is proving a magnet, and the cool, comfortable houseis filled at every performance with happy Pantagos patrons. Topping the bill is the La Scala sex- tette, who delight with excerpts from grand opera.

There is a colorful stage arrangement and the singers in their colonial costumes, powdered wigs, beauty patches and allmake a beautiful picture. The sextette is characterized by such charming personalities as that of Signora Lillian Bianca, coloratura soprano; Mine. Jennings, mezzo soprano, and Signora Luisa Silva, contralto. The male vocalists are Signors Artnre Brava, Emanuel Puccini, Pietro Rubens, tenor, baritone and basso, respectively. ohnson, I Toward and Lizctte are a funny trio in the garb of tramps with conspicuous red noses.

Their act is lively and consistsof some clever tumbling and other acrobaticperformances, a bit of dancing, singing and whistling and so on, all reeled off 'mid a melange of comedy patter that makes a hit. Charles Masou and company nresent a clever farce comedy Is Who!" Two men named Daubenspeck, strangely alike in appearance, rent apartments in the same building. With the respective wives ofthe two Dauben-speck- mistaking the identities of their spouses there are a number of amusing situations developedwhich are extremely funny and which are portrayed excellently by the six members of the company. The Five JTorimonds, clad in bright jollv tar" costumes, have a noval acrobatic' act, with manv colored lights illuminating theirladders and other appliances used in their splendid act. The act is all work, but it is performed with such grace and skill that it looks easy.

The performance is featured by its splendid team work and is a number that is meeting" with popular approval. Harry Breeu is a nut, so he says, but he isthe cleverest one of his kind seen in many moons. There isn't a moment of an thing but fun in Harry 's act, which' is a most delightful take-of- on popular kids' games and songs. He sings new songs, too, and cracks a few jokes and makes up impromptu rhymes about people in the audience JAPANESE-AMERICA- PHOTODRAMA AT PARAMOUNT-EMPRES- TODAY p. JV Sessue Hayakawa will be rememljered for his great personal triumph in the recent Lasky photoplay, "The Cheat," as well as in the stellar role of "Alien Souls." His remarkablecharacterization in "The Honorable I'riond" leads the management of the Paramount-Empres- to predict a sensation today.

about twenty verses in about as many seconds and presents a rattling good, rapid-fir- seriesof comedy that fairly convulses the audience. Lillian Sieger is an exceptionally fine cornetist, playing with an expression and technique that places her jn the first class. She varies her playing with singing, and she has a particularly sweet, mellow voice. The fourteenth chapter of "The Secret of the Submarine" is the screen number. Next week Manager Newman has promised another big bill, headed by ''Fung (hoy," Rodney Hillman 's Chinese operetta, and suchnumbers as Kose an Ellis, the "Jumping Mabel Harper, "just a nut Joe of the Storm and Mar-sto- in "His Brown and Fletcher trio in a song-stor- Eve." The Inst series "of "The Secret of theSubmarine" will be shown.

CARR, who will ALEXANDER Orpheum theator at tho bill which opens on next Wednesday evening in "An April Shower," is the son of a rubbi. He was born in Russia and when he was 5 years of age the family came to America and settled in Winnipeg, Canada. There tho boy was brought up in the serious and reflective atmosphere of the rabbi's home, lie was given as good an education as the means ofthe lamily permitted. Cnrr's father believed the boy to be gifted as an artist, but an artist who was to work with oils and brushes. Carr wanted to be an actor.

The father frowned on the professional stage. His boy should be a painter that was determined. Carr laughed as he looked back on those happyWinnipeg days. "Every time a trodpe came to town I was as close to the theater and to the stage as 1 could get," hesaid recently. "The climax came when I was 12 years of age.

There was a circus in town. I left a note telling my father what I had done and promising him that 1 (would never return until I could greet him as a star in my chosen profession. I kept my word to the letter. It was a long and hard road I had to travel, but when next I saw my father 1 was a star in a musical show in San Francisco. The family had moved from Winnipeg during my professional wan-- derings and had settled on the coast, i "in the circus I was a clown.

It was while ou one of my many trips across thecontinentthat I became stranded in Nashville, and appeared in a store show there during the centennial, doing twenty-fou- performances a day at $7 per week. I next sang for a traveling medicine show. Ciraduallv I went intothe varioties. singing in honky-tonk- or any kind ol a theater that would have me. It was a rough and rugged road to be sure, but a good teacher.

"By hard work andmuch struggling I gradually got ahead it would take too long to tell tho long and often bitter stages of the journey. 1 broke into the straight dramatic game while playing in Detroit years ago. I have made a study of character acting and I lovo it. It is my life work. I have consistently striven to vary my character acting.

1 can play a Scot today, an Irishman tomorrow a Jew in the afternoon and an Englishman in the evening. People say I succeed, for which 1 am grateful. Carr created the part of Perlmutter in "Potash and Perlmutter." He is said to have mado of it one of tho most realistic characters ever seen ou tin American stage, andit was his acting in this role that did much to bring him to the forefront of American character actors. have been some remarkable THERE shown at the Paramount- Empress during the past four months, but during the coming week the management ot this home of screen features promises three which, united, make it a week. Commencing today, Sessue llayakawa, the remarkable young Japanese actor, introduces a new per- sonality to the screen during the unfolding of the California-Japanes- story, "The Honorable Friend." dainty little Marguerite Clark comes back in Mark Twain's immortal "The Prince and the Pauper," which affords wonderful scope for the double-exposur- art, Marguerite playing both roles.

Foi the last two days of the week the anddiscussed "Victory' of Conscience," with audi Cleo Ridgoly in tho big roles, will be the feature. The idea for the thrilling photodrnma. "The Honorable Friend." the Jesse Lasky production of which will bothe attraction at the Pnrnmouiil-Hmpre- today, Monday ami Tuesday, came about in a most unusual manner. Elizabeth McCafl'ey, the author of the story, returning from a recent visit to Jnpnn, was standing on the dock at the San Francisco harbor watching the immigra tion ohcials checking up the picture brides as they came to shore. Marrying by photograph is the usualmethod oi: procedure among tho Japanese in this country.

They send a photograph of themselves to' a friend in Japan, who hunts them up a bride, and her picture is then sent to this country. The necessary passage money is forwarded to Japan and the couple meet at the dock, where the marriage takes place. (Jeer 10UO picture brides come into this country every year, as many as twenty or thirty frequently being on one ship. In this instance the brides were in line being turned over to the prospective bridegrooms as they arrived on the dock. Each photograph was inspected aud compared carefully in order to avoid all deception.

The Japanese girls in their native costumes were toddling forward, submitting their photographs to the inspectors, and among them was a femi-- nine antique who was probablv a mem-- ber of the Nipponese old ladies' home at the time ofthe Japanese-Unssia- war. She came up to theinspector, who looked at her and remarked, "Someone has picked a lemon." The author, and subsequently the Lasky company, at once saw the material for a good story, and "The Honorable Friend" is the result. JUST why they called it is some perplexing question; but the author of a Triangle play featuring Bessie Love and Wilfred Lucas has hitched that title to the production which is being shown at the American today and tomorrow. The theme is a big lovo story, somewhat conventional, perhaps, yet there is a sting to it that keeps one firmly interested all the way along. The scenes are chiefly laid in the woods near a lumber camp, where all the action takes place, excepting where the heroineis seen at boarding school and later in questionable society in New York Citv.

Along with this foature attraction are CleverGirl Coming to the Pantages f4 li I j- it" 4 's 7 i i 1 i ft A if 3 1 I 7 a 'J 5 y. i id i 11 i 4 fV i i Mabel Harper, the "Sunbeam ofj Vaudeville," coming to Pantages next! Wednesday. the Pathe news and a Triangle comedy, "Skirts," featuring Fay Tincher in a part that fits her nicely. Professor McClellan" gives an organ recital Monday evening at 9:15. and the American Concert orchestra, under tho leadership of Walter Poulton, continues to add masterfully to the always high class entertainment.

With the next episode of "Gloria's Romance," on Tuesday? Wednesday and Thursday, there will be presented the William Fox racing picture, "Sporting Blood," with all theelements of the rack track prominently portrayed. rpiK SOUL MARKET," a sensa--- tional five-par- Metro wonder play, produced by Popular Plays and Players, in which the gifted emotional actress, Mme. Petrova, is seen in the stellar role, will be presented upon the screen hero at the Broadway today, Sunday only, in a return engagement. "The Soul Market" deals with life along the great white way and behind the scenes of a big Broadway theater. There are scores of interesting scenes in this production, decidedly novel and unusual.

The photoplay was written Aaron Hoffman, the well known author and playwright, and directed by Francis J. Grandon. Mme. Petrova essays the role of Elaine Elton, a musical comedy prima donna, who becomes disgusted with her environment and looks upon the gay life around her as a repetition of the ancient Babylonian days, when the girl slaves were sold in the open market to the highest bidder. To depictthis thought an elaborately mounted allegory is produced as her reverie.

There is a faithful reproduction of the court and slave mart in Babylon, wheregirls are put upon the block and sold. THe theater life, showing membersof the company on the stage, before and during a performance; behind the scenes, in the dressing rooms, in the boxes, foyer and in and aroundthe theater, are also portrayed. A troupe of pretty show girls from tho Hippodrome were used in making these scenes, and the handsome little Princess theater utilized for staging the scenes. There is a thrilling automobile accident, in which a large automobile in which Mme. Petrova is riding is seen in collision with another car and completely wrecked.

Mme. Petrova is supported by an ex- cellent.cast in "The Soul Market," among whom are Arthur Hoops, former leading man for Mary Pickford, and Marguerite Clark; Gypsy O'Brien, a newcomerin motion pictures; Fritz de Lint, Fraunie Fraunholz and Evelyn Brent. UrVTATURE INCORPORATED" is a splendid two-ree- Saturday Evening Post story of Sinclair Lewis. An goodfellow mafVies a deaconess of nature andmakes the best ofthe unusual life. An excursion to the city andthe old life convinces him that the nature colony is the realthing.

Herbert Rawlinson and Agnes Vernon are dolightiully romantic in the leading roles. Vivian Rich and Alfred A'osburgh are the featured playerB Holly House," theMutual's three-par- otter- ing at tho Mehesy today. In this feature production MissRich is presented in the roleof a charming little miss who finds herselfthe center of a most unusual story of love and adventure. Harry Von Meter and Leona Huttom, in addition to Mr. Vosburgh, have been cast forimportant roles.

The early scenes of "The Holly House are laid in England, on a deserted estate known rar and wide as "The Holly House," tho former home ofLord Sylvestor. Rolin lienderson, a young writer, seeks the locality because or its picturesque and romanticbeauty, and is doubly affected by theair or mystery surrounding it. ilis interest is deepened by the factthat twenty years before, Lord Sylvestor, after spending his fortune in gambling and dissipation, ordered his wife from the placo and later deserted it himself, and had never returned. Rolin uses tho history of Lord Sylvestor for the basis ofhis novel. He brings in the high lights ofhis past life and the losses that lead to his downfall.

He shows the old village innkeeper and the old village doctor, each taking his part in the drama of "The If oily House." He shows Lady Sylvestor ordered from the family mansion and quotes common hearsay that she soon tnereafter bore a child. And here the writer paused. The story was unsatisfactory to him. He could not end it dramatically because he had run out of material. And just here, history again comes to his aid.

Beautiful viewsof Watkiu 's glen, the Thousand islands and the St. Lawrence river a.re pictured in "See America First." MISS LUCILLELEE STEWART, woman in "The Destroyers," the new Vitagraph Blue Ribbon! feature which heads the new photoplay bill at the Orpheum theater today, tomorrow and Tuesday, is a valiant champion ofthe blonde. think," says-Mis- Stewart, "that all this talk about blondes being unfaithful and having but little sentiment as compared with brunettes is the most silly talk 1 have ever heard in my life. I have never known a single instance iu which the blonde whenever compared to the brunette was not just as true and just, as loving as tho b'runetto could possibly be. Why a woman should feel less deeply because she happens to have yellow hair instead of black hair is somethingthat 1 cannot understand.

"As a matter of fact, all the great love affairs of history almost without exception have blondes as the familiar figure, and it is certainly true that constancy is not the least of all romance. "Who was more constant to any love than Cleopatra was to Antony, and it is a proven historical fact that one of her greatest charms to the Roman was the fact that she was a blonde in a brunette country. "Helen of Troy, whose" constancy to her lover. Paris, cost her life, her' lover's life and the sovereignty of Ilium, was blonde; as also were ileloise, Roseinande, Iseult aud Penelope, wife of Odysseus, and nearly all 1 jf it jf 1 jSderiSAj Is 'A ic 1 Viwv Jj 0yJ y- a 'I 4 i i lle- Artists who will appear on the next vaudeville bill at tho Orpheum theater, opening Wednesday evening. of the women whoseloves aud lives are written in letters of immortal light upon the pages of human history.

Other features of tho new picture bill at the Orplnmni aio Ihe second episode of tho hypnotic serial, "The Mysteries of Myra another of the clean and exceedingly popular comedies, "The Mishaps of Mustv Suffer," and the regular inslaliueiit of the minute animated newspaper, the Hearst International News pictorial. Performances are continuous from to 1 p. m. each dav, the full conceit orchestra under the direction of Professor Edgar Short being iu attendance both matinees and evenings. itT AM0NA." a cinema-oper- LJ built by W.

H. dune on Helen A Hlint Jackson's romance of the southern California missions and Mission Indians, will be seen at the Salt Lake theater Monday afternoon, September 4. The engagement is forthe week, with two performances daily. "Ramona," as presented by Clu ne, is a pictorialization of tne inc- identsof Mrs. Jackson's novel, photographed amidtho actual scenes described the- late author.

Mtb. Jack-so- based her story on the actual occurrences that transpired during the course of the period when California was being transformed from a Mexican into an American province. American settlers went into the rich new lands and, too often, ruthlessly and shamelessly dispossessed the Indians, Mrs. Jackson made a first-han- investigation of conditions and drew up a report so indignant and explicit that the United States government took official notice and proceededto right the wrongs, so far as they were capable of being righted. Mrs.

Jackson returned to her home in Colorado Springs, and there conceived the idea of embodving what she hail learned and what she' felt in a work of fiction which would have a universal appeal. The novel was an instantaneous sensation, and has takes its place among the foremost works of American fiction. Not only are the scenes and incidents of the novel faithfully and artistically portrayed in the production of "Ramona," to be seen at the Salt Lake theater, but the whole is accompanied hy a musical score of grand operatic calibre, interpreting every incident flashed on to the screen, andrendered by a sym-- I phony orchestra of twenty-fiv- musicians. Another striking feature of "Ramona" will be found in the rendition of the beautiful hymn at dawn and other vocal numbers by the California, mission singers. Colin Chase Engaged.

COLIN CHASE, who recently DustinFarnuin in "The Parson of Panamint," has been engaged by the Morosco-Palla- companies under a long-ter- contract for character leads. Those who have seen Mr. Chase in "The Making of and also remember him as Old Barry in "David Garrick," have remarked on the way in which Mr. Chase's work caused the characters to stand out. So manv exhibitors and patrons wrote to the Morosco-Palla- studio commenting upon Mr.

Chase's work, that bis engagement was really a matter of satisfying public demand. Mr. Chase is very as well as an accomplished and his success, judged by the leading comments which have been made on previous photoplays, may be considered as permanently assured. Two new buildings are being added to the Morosco-Palla- studio. One is for the workmen who makethe stucco and plaster houses, pillars, friezes and, in fact, allthe varied use to which skilled stuccoworkers can put this plastic medium.

It is a two- storied structure. The other building is a greenhouse for the palms and potted flowers used in the scenes and will be well supplied with all types of greenerv. Russell Stapleton has been placed in charge ofthe enlarged prop-ert- warehouse and C. W. Comegvs has been transferred to the purchasing department.

Orpheum Boohs Hearst. Salt Lake City is regarded as THAT of the most important distrib-utin- centers for motion pictures in the United States, is indicated by the fact that the International Film Service, ot which William Randolph Hearst is president, has now added this city to the list of important points from which the service is being furnished. The other a cities are New York, Boston, Philadel- phia. Washington, Chicago, Pittsburg, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Francisco aim Los Angeles.

H.I. Krause, with headquarters at 131 East Second South street, is the International Film this territory, and is distributing he service through their local exchange. He has arranged, with the Orpheum theater to show "The Mysteries of Myra," the wonderful International serial, beginning August 21 and 22. serial, which is iu fifteen episodes, will be shown weekly at the Orpheum, ast! will also the Hearst International Ms Pictorial, to which the cream of Hearst cartoonists contribute. Anioug the enrtoons that have been: picturized are Krazy Kat," ''Jerrv': on the Job," "Maude, the Mule, 'and "Has It Ever Happened to You? b) T.E.

Powers. What Is an Extra? agent for a liability." AN blew into the Balboa motion picture plant a few days ago and asked Secretary Horkheimer: "What's an extra?" "An extra! Why, every kid ntr in the United States knows what aa( extra is," replied the chiet. 3, "I know," persisted the agent, define an extra." "If yon want to know what is just look outof the window, j. a bunchof 'em." DUt "I know what they look like, come across with the definition. "You are certainly a hanger on.

extra is a person, employed in tn duction of a moving picture as 'A tho members of tho regular cast. run along." rrMh-woo- that isn 't what a 'producer called 'cm. I n.t.0U'Tt rll the other day to check up and he had not included the 0 I called his attention to this, waxed indignant ttrast" the "Whv should I lucludo ho exclaimed. therf'g 't "They are employees, Tasked. not "Employees! No, plovees.

Of course noU 'Well, what the ther "They are they are WB, props, of course! just as Easy. is the (t If the hat is becoming nrettv, ami if the irl I hat is becoming. ea.j Answers. 'n!.