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Show THE CITIZEN 10 I With The First Nighters accompanist, show us that both the classic and the jazz music have charms. It is a pretty act done in rhyme which adds a tone of distinction. Jack Clifford and Miriam Wills are back again At Jasper Junction, but they bring some new things: Clif ford does a rather masterful impersonation of the coke fiend, the best, in fact, that we have seen in a long time. The bill concludes with the daring and artistic feats of that agile pair, Emile and John Nathane. very name Trixie Fraganza beginning to sound like the THE name of a trick elephant Gone are the days when Trixie was the prize contortionist comedienne of our variety stage: She was agile, sportive, lightsome, 'gay. She is still gay and even sportive, but as for agility and them was the lightsomeness ah, happy days. There is nothing elephantine about Trixies good humor. It is a three-rin- g circus and the concert after the main performance.- It pleases Trixie. in her. present act to picture for jus; in. terms of laughter the doings atone of those. block parties which served to. rake in the cash for the war charities: As she describes the fete. it. is; more. of a knock party'.'" than a block party. Many a quip and Jest has she to hit . . DELIBERATELY to choose a theme com- to make a edy of it requires both daring and genius. Such is the achievement of George Scarborough, artificer of The - the various characters at. the party. For example, Nora was there, all in white except her neck. .And Mrs. McPhee declared .that. her. favorbrick. Of course, ite stone was-.-these lines are not Trixies. They are by a genuine funny fellow named Jean Haves, but Trixie is there with the mirth and the girth, the boisterousness and the en bon point. Not that there; really is any point to off n : a t physically speaking. She ' does not run to points, but is so stout that she very effectively rounds out the whole performance. Speaking of her stage, name she alludes to it as a name which sounds like something that once was chicken.! Sheila'Eerry, a blonde flash of stardust, is. a-- . dancer of wondrous dexterity and ..charm. She appears in a musical, romance, entitled Threes a Crowd, which is really nothing more than a dancing playlet. Sheila has all the witchery and grace that youth, beauty and the dance madness can in inand she throws give, an added as solent ..'nudity She is assisted by provocative. a young man wrho sings and acts well, and by another, youth who is the He acquired incarnation of jazz. that "jazzy, ragtime feelin right here in Salt Lake, where we use both salt and pep. He is certainly the jazz kid, and heres hoping he never grows old or- fat, especially around the head. Juggling Nelson- is the eccentric juggler who continues to squeeze water out of a brass jug after it has gone dry. Perhaps he knows how to juggle a few quarts of booze out of a dry town.- Well say he does. Harry Hines, who was over, over there somewhere in France, appears in Welcome Home," a sketch in which he joyfully welcomes himself home and hopes, the audience will do the same. He learned to crack jokes to the sound of bursting shells and naturally he cracks them with a loud, splitting noise. At that he's funny. Rene Chaplow in Eddie Janis-antheir ddity, Music Hath Charms, with Gteorge Edwards as their capable Merrie Month of May, which appeared at the Salt Lake theater. An actress of less delicacy, charm and elevated intuition than Miss Ruth Chat-tertomight have filled the springs of laughter with coarseness. To rid herself of unwelcome suitors to whom she has promised to give her answer on the same night Judith tells them a story she has just heard from her aunt, and makes herself the heroine of it. It is the sad story of a beautiful Washington belle who, in the merry month of May, with the moonlight beating madness into her, womans irretrievbrain, commits able error and is deserted ' by her lover. One of the suitors is a congressman who wants congress to appropriate a fund for fallen women and found for them a home somewhere in the west The other suitor is a fop. To each she tells the story, with herself, as the erring sister, knowing that this will Trixie, , . - drive them away from her and give-hefreedom of choice once again. Naturally the story produces all sorts of a ruction, especially as the fop tells her father, Senator Baldwin of Arizona. The average man would have been willing to' lay a tall wager with the playwright that he could not make such a plot funny and that even if he gave it a semblance of wit he could not help but make it vulgar. That the playwright has succeeded in making it funny without coarseness is evidence, that he is an acute judge of good humor. The favored suitor, the modest suitor in the background, is the young foreman of the senators ranch who has just returned from flying in France. Naturally he gets an earful of the scandal and sets out to shoot up Washington, but is rescued just in time by the daring miss who has defied conventionality and got herself into the deepest and hottest kind of water. Only with the help of her aunt and a wise widow, who has wed the senator, is she able to extricate herself and, to boot, make the con-- 1 gressman and fop ridiculous. Incidental music composed and arranged for Miss Chatterton by Guillermo Posadas, formerly conductor of Banda da Rurales of Mexico City, has a fine Castilian flavor. It is rendered r SALT LAKE 1 by the orchestra. Patrons of the. Salt Lake theatre were much disappointed that Tea For Three could not be served on any of the scheduled nights, but the ruthless railway strikers prevented the. company from leaving sunny Cafeteria. The Man who scheduled for a return visit to Salt Lake City. 'Which announcement should suffice to put the local theatregoers on the qui vive, for during his past visits to the city he left behind thousands of mystified admirers- who swear by him and his mysterious powers to apparently see into the future. . Alexander, - .. . ' It will be recalled that Alexander is the genius who answers any and all questions, written in any language and sealed as the writer desires, these same queries being written in the privacy of the home or the office and brought to the theatre. In this demonstration the mystic disclaims any connection with the supernatural and claims no other agency than a lifetime of study and a close application to his particular line of endeavor. Whatever his added faculty may be, after witnessing a performance one must have admiration for the consummate skill of the wizard of mental - i and physical phenomena, for his many feats of dexterity, illusions and psychic prestidigitation leave a lasting impression upon the auditor. The Alexander program this season is arranged in three parts, the Simla Seance, or crystal gazing, being the closing portion, as uppn former occasions. The first part is comprised of new feats of magic, while the second act introduces the psychics attractive assistants in a- series of oriental dances, notably among them being the beautiful dance of Abbai Radhi Myrai, or the crystal dance of India, which is given a 'wonderful interpretation by Lillian Marion and the Nartellj sisters, - - - d SCENE FROM " THE RECKLESS EVE" JOYOUS MUSICAL COMEDY HIT AT THE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK, A WILLIAM Sr FRIEDLANDER PRODUCTION. |