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Show TH E 6 CITIZEN ing of the stars latest picture, My Best Girl, now showing at the Capitol wind, tempered by the zep&yrs of youth and the soft breeze of beauty. It is a show one may take the children to, and the children will love it; so will their parents and grandparents. A score of youngsters, remarkably drilled through endless new, fantastic and intricate formation, steps and maneuvers, work with breathless pep, spirit and skill that bound through The Madcap. Of the individual players, Mitzi, of course, takes the lions share, and she is superlative. Other notables in the big cast are Sydney Greenstreet, Ethel Intropidi, Harry Puck, Ethel Morrison, Charley Sylber, Marie Dayne, Marcella Swanson, Lillian Lane, Arthur Treacher, Patrick Clayton and Duane Nelson. The music is jingly, and it is predicted that Mitzis songs will be whistled by nearly every boy in town ere the engagement is ended. Franklin Parker, who will appear as a young newlywed in The Ghost Train, the world famous mystery play, which will be presented by the Wilkes Players at the Wilkes theatre every night next week starting with the matinee Sunday afternoon. passes the station occasionally in the middle of the night, drops dead. To delve into the story would spoil it for playgoers. However, in the words of the New York Mirror, If you want a g ride, buy The Ghost your tickets early for Train. Among the passengers is Teddy Deakin, an Englishman, (Ben Erway), two newlyweds, Charles and Peggy Murdock, (Franklin Parker and Daisy-DeWilcox), a quarrelsome married couple, Richard and Tlsie Winthrop (Arthur Loft and Mildred Paver), and an old maid, Miss Bourne (Miss Fan-cho- n hair-raisin- g, seat-grippin- l Everhart). Miss Gladys George will he seen as Julie Price, who is possessed of an overwhelming desire to look upon the ghost train again, having once seen it, as she tellb the passengers, when she wanders into the station. Noel Leslie and Richard Tracy appear as the uncle and doctor of the girl, while Huron L. Blyden will be seen as the station master. As the train dashes into the station, one of the most thrilling moments of the play is enacted. The Ghost Train will be presented every night next week with matinees Sunday, Thrusday and Saturday. . MITZI IN THE MADCAP A MERRY MUSICAL PLAY The Messrs. Shubert are presenting the inimitable Mitzl In The Madcap, adapted by Gladys Unger and Gertrude Purcell from a successful French farce. Clifford Grey Is responsible for the lyrics and Maurle Rubens has provided many catchy melodies for this merry musical play coming to the Salt Lake theatre November 5 and 6, with special Tuesday matinee, direct rrom seventeen weeks run in Chicago. The costuming of The Madcap is refreshing, the scenery is splendid, and the staging the breath of the whirl- - theatre. To make the final sequence of the film, Miss Pickford, with her leading man, Charles Rogers; her director, director, Sam Taylor; the cameraman, Charles Rosher, and a group of assistants, boarded a big Honolulu liner in Los Angeles harbor, and shot her scenes as the steamer went down the channel and out onto the pacific. A tugboat was to pick up the company somewhere off Catalina Island and bring them back, but as the liner neared the appointed rendezvous, a dense fog descended, making it impossible to locate the tug. Constant whistling of albacore fishboats made it Impossible to recognize the tugboats signal. Miss Pickford grew anxious, for mail steamers cannot turn back to port, and to continue to Hawaii would ruin the picture schedule. Finally, however, the tug suddenly loomed out of the fog, having been able to distinguish the steamers hoarse whistle above the din of the tooting albacore fleet. On the stage Fanchon and Marco present a very exotic and beautiful ofThis act is undoubtfering, Jade. edly one of the most unusual presentations of this type ever offered in this country. The first scene reveals a giant Buddha before which are two statuettes represented by Thleme and Le Noix. Jade, lights and jade green color predominates. A curtain is drawn from the lower portion of the oriental god representation, revealing five adagio dancers, all of them completely painted in gold, and posing in a posture representing a famous group of statuary. One of the most important parts of the presentation is the lighting effect which gives every performer the appearance of being cut out of jade or GREAT MU8ICAL COMEDY COMING TO S. L. THEATRE What is said to be the funniest and the most elaborate of all the musical comedies on tour, The Cocoanuts, with those aces of comedians, The Marx Brothers, in the leading roles will be the attraction at the Salt Lake theatre, for four nights only, commencing Wednesday, December 7, with matinee on Thursday and Saturday. The book is by Geo. Kaufman, auMerten of the Movthor of "Dulcy, and the ies and To the Ladies, lyrics and music by Irving Berlin, high-prieof jazz, whose songs have had a world-wid- e appeal. The story deals with the recent real estate boom in Florida in a satirical vein. It presents Groucho Marx as a shoestring proprietor of a hotel In a new resort development in Florida, Zeppo as one of his clerks, and Chico of Italian mein, and Harpo, a nondescript, as adventuring and questionable guests. The guests include also, a crook couple, the man of which pair has persuaded a rich woman to match him with her reluctant daughter, who loves the handsome chief clerk. The girl crook and her accomplice steals the wealthy womans jewels and put the His suspicion on the chief clerk. goose would have been cooked to a cinder had It not been for the caprice d Harpo. of the The principal thing Mr. Kaufman does for the Marxes, however, Is to furpish them with an almost endless lot of nifties, puns and doubly diluted nonsense. In the company of 100 are many well known entertainers, Including among others, Olga Elsler, Roy Strom, Margaret Dumont, the Lovey sisters, the Cansinos, Nell Jewel, Marian Benda, Philip Mann, Edward Metcalfe, a Porto Rican string orchehtra, and the peppiest and handsomest chorus to leave New York In many a day. st light-fingere- wise-crack- s, CAPITOL PRESENT8 MARY PICKFORD IN MY BEST GIRL The mechanical skill of a tugboat engineer saved Mary Pickford and her staff from having to make an unscheduled trip to Hawaii during the film- - . Each man on the team believes himself to be her future husband. The Big Game is almost won. The gift almost secured. Papas job almost saved. Then appears fate, in who tells the form of a jealous co-eBilly Jones how he and all the rest, have been dupes of Jane Witherspoon. Billy rebels. So do the others. Jane explains. They surrender. All but Billy. Then Jane deftly winds Billy around her little finger, and all things d, TRIPLE FEATURE CARD MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT THE HIPPODROME Frankie Barnes vs Young Hodson 6 Rounds Ernie Ross vs. Red Davis 6 Rounds Jake Garfinkle vs. Babe Herman G Rounds Jack Salanger vs. Jack Carroll 4 Bob Harvey vs. Jimmie Green 4 DOLORES COSTILLO NOW EARNS COMEDY CROWN Dolores Costello is starred as Jane Witherspoon, college widow, wooer and winner of men, most pensive, most demure, most, determined of all the flirts of the silver screen, at the American for one week. She thinks, too, that her armor is invulnerable not having met Billy Bolton, alias' Jones. 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