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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters war fortunately took from us THE German comedians who made themselves into cartoons and strung puns for the delectogether rapid-firtation of the groundlings, but unfortuardnately it also cooled the artistic ors of such actors as David Warfield and Louis Mann. Early in the war, to however, Mann wras lucky enough obtain the comedy drama, Frien'dly Enemies as a vehicle for the exposition of his extraordinary talents in character acting. Written by Samuel its obShipman and Aaron Hoffman, inspir-inglvious purpose was to convey the lesson of patriotism. Its less obvious purpose was to keep on the which stage the German characters r Warfield and Mann had made popu-lst- the line shadings of character. He is ably aided by Marie Iteichardt as Mama Pfeifer and by the players who take the parts respectively of Henry Block and the German spy. e y at Friendly Enemies, the Salt Lake theatre, tells the story are forof two rich, old Germans who One ever wrangling about the war. Geris Karl Pfeifer, who reads only out man papers and every day figures end the how Hindenburg will soon his war with the blotting out of all States enemies. Even when the United enters the war Karl is so obsessed by that he his love for the Fatherland of his will listen to the arguments Wall street friend, Henry Block, the with him. And banker, only to quarrel these are the most exquisitelyeverfunny put quarrels of two old Germans is afraid to on the stage. The family son has volinform Papa that his and unteered in the American army at lad is awray they tell him that the of eve sailing for college. But on the to wed France the son returns home necBlocks daughter and it becomes news as gently essary to break all the atas possible to Karl. The friends afford tempts, which are failures, in much mirth. Finally Karl rushes conunexpectedly on the whispered lieua ferences and sees his son in tenants uniform. In his fury, chagrin old and pathetic disillusionment the all man leaves home and stays aw'ay now' playing Then he comes back with two tickets to Mexico and tries to perto suade his son and bride to flee that country. Meantime Karl has been contributwhich the ing large sums to a fund master spy tells him is being used to combat propaganda aganst Karl remains stubborn in his fealty to the kaiser until the master spy calls him up and informs him that a transport carrying 5.000 American soldiers has been sunk. It is the transport on which Karls son has just sailed. After that Karl cannot rest in his desire to kill the spy, but he listens to reason and arranges with his old friend to effect the agents capture. In this the son, who appears as if from the dead assists. The transport had been sunk, but all except a few of the soldiers had been taken ashore in safety. The role assumed by Louis Mann gives him a chance to display all of his skill in comedy and emotional acting as well as his wonderful talent for night. German-American- s. girls and two more, WITH Rock puts on a dancing act at the Orpheum that is a dream of grace and gorgeousness. Here and there are splashes of comedy, but Rock himself is awfully funny. Not that he means to be. Oh, dear, no! Rock has assumed a pose which looks perfectly veracious to those who dont know him and is a scream to those who do. A lady at our right watched him scampering about the stage with the dancing girls and said: Isnt he a wonderful dancer for an old man? That is the pose. William wants folks to think that he is a blase youngster of about seventy years. He likes to sing songs that support the great idea. Perhaps he is that old in the sense that a man is as old as he feels, but the fact is that William is in the young fifties, if not the later forties. But he enjoys himself thoroughly tottering into a dance like an old roue and then winding up with a whirlwind effect that makes the spectators marvel that such a sad speci men of the antique can show so much William is a crafty star and pep. he knows that the pose adds to the zest of his act, but, let who will be serious, we perfer to give him the laugh. The Alexander Kids are cute, cunning, captivating and clever children in the estimation of some fond parent who has driven them into vaudeville after a wealth of training. They are like the cute children your neighbor likes to brag about and they are not a bit cuter. In fact, they affect you with the same extreme ennui you feel when fond father tells you the latest funny saying he has invented for his youngest hopeful. It must keep some of those fathers busy after office hours digging jokes out of the funny papers. Charles ODonnell has written a great part for himself that of a deaf and dumb piano tuner. The lines are filled with laughs, but they are hard lines. They consist of hard knocks and tumbles. The piano tuner enters an elegant apartment presided over by a pretty matron and soon wrecks the parlor by pulling down draperies and knocking over furniture and he makes the havoc worse by trying to set things in order. In other words, it is a revised version of slapstick and crackles with mirth. Phil Baker carries an accordion with him by way of disguise. Of course, he can play it and does whenever his jests begin to pall. Most of the time, however, his jokes do not wear a pall, as they are not a bit funereal. He also carries with him a nut who sits in one of the balcony boxes and joins Phil in brewing merriment. Dan Mahoney & George Auburn introduced what they called a novel specialty" with a hitherto unheard of instrument called an Indian club. An Indian club act is about as novel as East ' Lynne. And because the audience did not shower them with laughter when they essayed some jests older than Indian clubs, they whispered bright, young, cynicisms to one another. We wish them nothing worse than the electric chair, which might put a kick in them. Basil Lynn no kin of East Lynne and Howland are awfully jolly pronounced with the English intonation. One of them is a monocled chap typifying the popular conception of the Englishman. The other vies with him in being funny and does even better when he sings, for he has a very engaging voice. They are quite a classy BILL NOW PLAYING LITTLE HIP AND NAPOLEON The ,unniest animal comedy ever sent over the circuit, with Napoleon, the jazziest monkey on the stage, and Little Hip, Americas smallest baby ele- - jjj phant, in a fast and furious jj jjj trickfest. I should save Galli Curci photographer. Ten thousand or more of the spectators massed in the Tabernacle were surprised to find the diva beautiful of form and face. With a headdress that had a tiara effect, with a wonderful dress, of turquoise blue embroidered in pearls, she seemed like some princess of ancient Egypt or Syria. The pictures of her in the newspapers conveyed the impression that she was a homely peasant girl who had suddenly found her way into high society. One picture made her look like Dores Dante; another like an Italian housewife contemplating a plate of mode the mode that ecclesiastics from Paris to Mexico City have begun to denounce. It was held rather infirmly to the shoulders by straps and was cut away behind as far as the eye dared to reach. Once during the concert she faced about a sang to the choir that chattering magpie song, Calvelitos, and one could not tell whether she was trying to compliment the choir or show the west that Paris is itself again. We met people who were thrilled by the entire concert and, no doubt, we should have been, for is not Galli Curci the most wonderful soprano of our times? Cannot she juggle roulades and trills and stacatto effects with an ease never excelled in our day? If, therefore, we should confess that we did not swoon into an ecstatic trance at every song we would at once invite the annihiliating criticism of the elect. Therefore, we cautiously avoid details. pearl-studde- d i TEXAS COMEDY FOUR Spick and Span Singers of a Sizzling Songs I ? WINTON BROTHERS h Exponents of a Super-Strengt- BENDER & MEEHAN Drop Us a Line GERTRUDE NEWMAN The Little Jazz Girl From Broadway a PANTAGESCOPE Fatty Arbuckle Comedy SOMEONE spagetti. The singers gown was of the latest m Extra Added Attraction HAWLEY & SAXTON In Business Is Business pair. The excellent bill concludes with the tricks and wonder workings of Choy Ling Hee and his troupe. One of the diverting stunts of two of the troupe is to sit at a table high in the air apparently dividing a bottle of 2.75 soap suds. They suspend the table on their knees and are themselves suspended on ropes hooked into their pigtails. As they swing back and forth over the stage they seem to be enjoying high life. a PANTAGES a I ORCHESTRA Three shows daily 2:45, 7:30, 9:15. Prices: Nights, Lower jj Floor, 50c. Matinees, 20c, 30c. Entire Balcony, 30c. illlllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIHIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllillllllll, Of course it is not a breach of the moral law or even of etiquette not to like every song that the queen of all the sopranos sings but it is dangerous to admit ones lack of appreciation. It is, in the estimation of the superior, to write oneself down a Missouri mule or worse. There is no department of life in which one can assume such an air of devastating superiority as in .music. And if some swashbuckling Bolshevik in the field of art dares to hurl stones at the popular idol he finds the whole artistic mob madly pursuing him as hotly as the witches pursued Tam O Shanter There could be no doubt, however, about the triumph of Galli Curci when Bell Song from she sang the a "Lakme, Sempra Libera from and the Shadow Song from DInorah. The audience was interested in comparing her manner with that of Tetrazzini, wrho appeared in the Tabernacle only a few months ago. Galli Curci obtains the most marvellous result with a simplicity that sometimes seems sheer coldness. Tetrazzini is all mannerism. She avails herself of-many stage tricks to ingratiate herself with her audience and yet one feels that she comes by her warmth of manner honestly and that her natural fervor betrays itself into extravagant exuberance. Tra-viat- , |