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With the rirst rvishters s ?r ;
Hj "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN"
H What wonderful memories arc as
H sociatcd with the famous old play.
H What man or woman does not recall
H the pleasant anticipations that came
H with the announcement that "Uncle
H Tom's Cabin" was coming to town?
H Can one ever forget poor old Uncle
B Tom, Little Eva, George Harris,
H Eliza and her baby, Simon Legree
H and Marks, the lawyer? The mere
H mention of the play brings to mind
H the Mississippi river steamboat
H scene where the slaves were bought
H and sold, and the plantation scene
H where Uncle Tom was killed by his
B fiendish owner and where Legree
H met a better fate than he deserved.
B It has been years since a real
H "Uncle Tom's Cab-
H in" has been staged
H in this city and
K (.here are hundreds
H pf Salt Lake play-
H goers who have nev-
H er seen it, but they
H will have an oppor-
H tunity to do so next
H week at the Utah
H theatre. "Uncle
H Tom's Cabin" will
H be the bill during
H the week with matl-
H necs Thursday and
H Saturday and it is
H said that the produc-
B lion will be tho big-
H gest and most elab-
H orate in cast and
Hj scenic effects ever
H attempted by the
H Utah stock com-
H pany.
H Years ago manag-
H ers outdid each oth-
H er in the announce-
H ment that this one
H had so many Topsies,
H so many mules and
Hj so many blood-
B hounds. While the
H management of the
H Utah does not pre-
Hj tend to say that all
B previous productions
B will be eclipsed in
1 these respects, there
Chloe; Topsy will bo played by Elean
oro Haber; Baby Moore has tho part
of little Eve, and Pearl Ethier plays
Aunt Ophelia. There are twenty-eight
characters named in the cast, and
Mr. Mack has gone to no end of work
to secure tho players. Alice Conrad,
Henrietta Holle, Itoscoe Ashworth
and Albert Richards 'are also Includ
ed in the cast.
"THE QUAKER GIRL"
"The Quaker Girl," the famous mu
sical hit comes to the Salt Lake thea
tre on Monday night next.
John P. Slocum is sending the en
tire company headed by Victor Mor
ley, who will play Tony Chute, the
FINE FEATURE AT REX '-
The first of a series of notable mo
tion picture features to be presented
at the Rex theatre in the near future
will bo shown the coming week.
' Absinthe," a four-reel drama with
King Baggot and Leah Baird, will bo
seen Tuesday and Wednesday. Imme
diately following this production, Miss
Cecilia Loftus with the famous play
ers will present "A Lady of Quality,"
in Ave reels, to appear Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. The Rex has just
closed a contract under which The
Famous Players features which in
clude all the Frohman productions,
will appear exclusively at that house
and at frequent intervals. Arrange
ments have been made to obtain other
.Ghamps ElyJ3ees, he Oliver Spine,
Montmartre, the Paris tenderloin,
and other places of interest. Absinthe
bears to Frunce about tho same rela
tion that opium bears to China. So
general Is its use there that the
French government is about to fol
low The lead of the United States and
oii.er nations in preventing 4'q impor- '
tation, manufacture or sale
The story In which Mr. Buggot de-
picts the terrible nature of the hab- i
bit, is naturally tragic in theme. It
tells of a bright young artist, led in
to the habit by an adventuress who
proves unfaithful after he has been
disowned by his family for marrying
her. Sinking deeper and deeper in
to the clutches of the drug, he robs
robs his own father's house and fln-
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Uncle Tom and Little Eva, in the big revival of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," at the Utah Theatre next week.
B will be a Topsy, Marks and his mule,
m I egree and his bloodhounds, and
m every material character, faithfully
m portrayed.
1 This is a new version of "Uncle
H Tom's Cabin. ' It is in five acts, and
m was recently produced at the Aca-
H demy of Music in New York with
H great success. It was originally
JB planned for Willard Mack to play the
IH title role, but he later decided to play
9V Legree, and will be seen in the char-
Ht actcr of the despicable slave driver.
R Leon McReynolds will play Uncle
B Tom, Howard Scott plays Mr. Shel-
H) by; Frederick Sumner, George Har-
H ris; Arthur Morse Moon will be seen
WBtj as Marks; Millard K. Wilson plays St.
!! Claire; Marjorie iRambeau will have
I the part of Cassie; MIbs Morland
plays Eliza; Mrs. Rambeau will play
role of tho young American who
sings and dances his way into the
heart of the Quaker lass during three
acts of tuneful and amusing enter
tainment. The story conceives a de
mure Quakeress who chafes under the
stern restriction of her religion and
finally foresakes her home in an Eng
lish Quaker village for gay Paris.
There she becomes a model in a fash
ionable modiste's salon and straight
away is taken up by society and no
bility and her demure frocks become
fashion's rage.
She is involved in state intrigues,
saves a prime minister from disgrace
and is finally won by a gay young
American after he has made love to
her assiduously for three acts. Lionel
Mockton's score is famous and the
"Come to the Ball" Avaltz is said to
be enchanting.
big productions, which, with the en
larged orchestra, promise unusually
good entertainment for Rex patrons.
"Absinthe" presents Mr. Baggot in
what is said to be without question
the greatest role he has ever under
taken. Elaborate preparations were
made for the picture. Mr. Baggot,
Miss Baird and their company made a
trip to Paris especially for this pro
duction. Mr. Baggot's preparations
included living for an entire week
amid the haunts of the absinthe
fiends in the tenderloin of Paris,
where he obtained an insight into
their habits that could bo had in no
other way. He presents for the first
time in a motion picture, the exact
methods used by an absinthe fiend to
prepare his drink and the victim's
conduct afterward is shown in detail.
Scenes In the picture show the
ally joins a band of
Paris Apaches. Dis
covering his wife's
jnfidellty, he takes
her into the coun- "
try and chokes her,
leaving her for dead.
A, pathetic scene ,,
with his family fol
lows and the pic
ture leaves him a
wreck, following u
troop of soldiers and
jeered at by the rab
ble. So intense is the
action of the play
that Miss Baggot?
fainted twice when
it was being taken,
and at another time
she struck Mr. Bag
got a blow that lac
erated his lip and
removed one of his
teeth.
Miss Loftus makes
her debut in motion
pictures as '"Clorin
da" in "A Lady of
Quality," by Fran- j
ces Hodgson Bur- '
nett. A more suit
able subject for the
powers of the distin
guished character
actress could hardly
have been chosen.
As "Clorinda," tho headstrong, tern- '
pestuous hoyden whose father's con- I
tempt for the other sex extends oven
to herself, but who later wins his re- j
spect and grows up as a man among
his dissolute companions, learning to
drink, smoke and swear as freely as a
any of them until the derision of the
man she loves prompts her to re- jv
nounce her masculine dress and man- fS
ners forever and become "A Lady
of Quality," Miss Loftus has a cap
able part. One of tho strong scenes
is where Sir John Oxon, a dandy of j
London town, wagers that he will win
her heart, not as a hoyden, but as a
woman. He wins tho wager and
hastens back to London to boast of
his conquest, while "Clo" waits in
vain ofr his promised return and then j.
receives word that he is wed to a
lady of titlo. The tragic episode