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Show 8 THE CITIZEN With the First Nighters PLEASING VARIETY MARKS PANTAGES STELLAR BILL. The cinema effect at the popular Pantages is most attractive this week including a highly picturesquqe production featuring Alice Joyce in The Scarab Ring and a Christy comedy, bearing the euphonious title, Falling for Fanny. Miss Joyce finds herself at home in a picture portrayal bringing tragedy, mystery and pathos forcibly into view, with a charming touch of passion and love interwoven. The Christy comedy, as usual, is a bit of sparkling wit and humor woven into a film story that is refershingly amusing. It- is a far cry from the cotton wharves of New Orleans to the Chinatown of San Francisco and thence to the cabarets of Broadway in New York, yet the transition is complete and satisfying as portrayed by Stone and Manning in their vaudeville in which they feature the El Roy sisters. Garry Owen, assisted at the piano by Marty Bloom, furnish a few joyous moments in their attempt to disprove that they are there and drawing frank approval from the audience. For No Reason Whatsoever. Garry Owen is clever with understanding of what an audience likes and wants when in a facetious mood. Mile. La Lucy as The Spirit Color, in The Edge of the World, one of vaudevilles prettiest and most elaborate scenic novelties, dwells with the artistic in a mass of living colors that glow, expand, merge and fade to nothingness. Her poses and steps are a tribute to her endeavors. Lester and Moore, exponents of ludicrous steps, cleverly demonstrate that even ostensibly silly movements of the feet and legs in dancing have their appeal no less than the more serious and stately forms of terpsich-orea- n art. The Royal Pekin troupe, mystic Chinese wonder workers, deal in oriental tricks that astound by their complexity. Derterity seems their second nature, as they throw boomerangs, spin plates, juggle spears and perform innumerable other aweinspiring stunts. Amoros and Jeanette, the Frenchman and the American girl present with no mean ability their little skit of humorous nonsense entitled, Mon Chapeau. - ' !? '! ' ' that is amazingly child-lik- e and en- chanting. Their clever work virtually amounts to an epitome of the poetry of motion. Jack Rose, as a laugh producer, is in a class by himself. His irresistible drolleries send the audience into convulsions of merriment. The brand of nuttiness Jack offers is as destructive to ones dignity as his bursts of excessive emotion are to his hats. Although he is the laughing hit of the bill, there are others who play a strong second. Gum Drops is a little skit built for amusement purposes solely and in the hands of Thomas F. Swift and Mary H. Kelley does not fail of its aim. Swift has a persuasive tongue and as an explainer must be accorded the palm. Miss Kelley, besides demonstrating some histrionic ability, is the possessor of a voice whose wistful sweetness appeals. The gum drops offered by this couple are the sort of sweetmeats that tickle the palates of vaudevillists. Bill Dooley and the delectable bit of femininity who is his partner present a hodge-podg- e of songs, dance steps and comedy. Not the least entertaining ingredients of the concoction are the stories Mr. Dooley tells while his companion changes her scenery. Mr. Dooley closes the act with some fancy stunts done with a rope of which even Will Rogers need not be ashamed, even though Mr. Dooley confesses they were taught him by a New York cowboy. Remarkable range in vocal tones is displayed by Margaret Ford, whose billing as a vocal surprise is no misnomer. Miss Fords act was some- what marred by an unfortunate attack of laryngitis. The male member of the team of Van Cello and Mary, openers of the bill, gives an extraordinary exhibition of pedal dexterity, while Mary, ip some dashing dresses up the act. If we must have an animal act on the bill, and it would seem that we have had almost a surfeit of them this season, it is pleasing to witness one of the excellence afforded by Gauntier brothers, The Animated Toy Shop, in wihch several exceedingly intelligent ponies and dogs assist their mas- q cos-.tume- s, ters in clever comedy evolved from the visit of an inebriated customer to the toy shop. Fathe screen news of the world and a modern Aesops Fable, which has a particularly apt application, complete the sort of bill, the return of which at some future time is pleasurably HELEN KELLER, THE NOTED WONDER WOMAN, AT ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK. ROYAL PEKIN TROUPE CELESTIAL MARVEL WORKERS I to K, i H THE TALE OF THREE - iced CITIES ELROY SISTERS STONE AND MANNING rpheui 1 . i t table GRACE MOY GRACE CHESTER Kelle interlc laities her ii jfbei AMOROS & JEANNETTE HUMOROUS NONSENSE MON CHAPEAU athy I fev a I by Imai Inly ised in the appsarance . at the Orpheum next week of Miss Helen Keller, the most talked-o- f woman in the world, who is blind, deaf and was formerly dumb. She is assisted by Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, her teacher and friend. As illustrations of the power of the human mind over material obstacles, the incidents cited and theories propounded by Sir Oliver Lodge and oth- - I GARRY OWEN FOR NO REASON t: hu land WHATSOEVER ap T i not iborx: LESTER & MOORE is life-lon- g ft hi pit, WORLD A t an THE EDGE OF THE b FUTURISTIC FANTASY had OF COLOR MLLE. LA LUCY SPIRIT OF COLOR eui Ms eui be nt ALICE JOYCE THE SCARAB RING ber fri CHRISTIE COMEDY FALLING FOR FANNY be S it GEE BUT BUSINESS ch IS y realms of yester-land- . It is a spritely, vivacious, memorable bill made elegant by the pleasing dancing of The Cansinos, who portray the RwirLaftLwIiriajrThefamed voi t, This week the Orpheum gives to the ardent playhouse fan a glimpse into the fairy land of youth and action, tempered with a bubbling, effervescent thesis that carries the rues and the world into the blues of this work-a-dafar-of- s; difficu GREAT ! tl bad deaf One of the Orpheums most interesting bookings of the season is prom- ORPHEUM THEATRE OFFERS SCINTILLATING PROGRAM ; c tad f Frederick Forrester as Dean the Beachcomber, and Ellen Mahar American Girl, in a scene from Richard Walton Tullva of Hawaii The Bird of Paradise,-- - which come, to the Sa next week commencing Monday night. invr.i I ke ni a J3 .u Theatre 0 |