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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters you want to make a bit in IF vaude-vill- e learn to Jingle in rhyme. Whether ybu arq extemporaneous like Bob Hall and can condemn to rhyme anything you set your eyes upon or whether you can rhyme only in the secrecy of your study you will achieve grandly as a vaudearlet. Nowadays jazz introduces itself with rhyme. The girl who does a stunt on the trapeze or on other aerial apparatus, as does Ruth Budd, the girl with the smile, patters, chatters and laughs at the audience in rhyme. Time was when stage rhyme was confined almost exclusively to opera or the popular song, but even the juggler and the ventriloquist jingle at you across the footlights these days and nights. If a young lady is to blossom forth from behind gorgeous velvet draperies to whirl through jazz, popular or classic dancing steps she must not appear until some long, lithe young gentleman in a dress suit weaves a purple mist of rhyme. But of all tne exponents of doggerel Bob Hall and the extemporaneous bards of the stage are distinctly the speed demons. They will rhyme you a dozen couplets in almost as many seconds about your bald head and your foolish grin after attention has been called to your shiny pate. And if you abandon your grin and nervously cross your knees Bob Hall will say something embarassing about a sneeze or a breeze or a cheese, but, of course its all a tease by Bob Hall who rhymes with gall. The Tale of A Shirt is a brief comedy about as long as a shirt tale ought to be. It is a comedy of laundry life and is as comic as you feel when your collars come home from the laundry, as they usually do this winter, with a wide gray streak along the outer circumference. In fact, the purpose of the play is to make you weep at its deep and poignant pathos, but it falls just a little short of its purpose. It would be unjust to abandon the piece without giving praise where praise is due. Jane Connelly achieves a purpose, whether the play does or not, and her purpose is to act well her part, and Maud Adams could hardly do better. Besides, Maud is not, and never was, half as pretty as Jane. The second edition of The Four Mortons comprises old Pop Moiton, Mrs. Morton and their two youngest children. Joe, about twenty, and a daughter who is fresh, pretty and charming. The sketch is entitled, Then and Now. The Now of it is tsome Hibernian humor, delivered in ai broad style, by the elder Morton with Mrs. Morton as the target. The Then is a reproduction of some of the lines and horseplay of the Morton act of thirty-nin- e yearB ago. The disinterment of ancient acts is also a fashion of today in vaudeville and usually anything thirty-nin- e years old cannot evoke a squak of laughter, but there are still some traces of gold in the worked-ove- r Morton ore. How- - ever, we prefer the Now" to the Then. Dances and Tunes of 1920, is the offering of Lew Brice, assisted by Adelaine Mason, a dainty dancer, and Rube Beckwith, pianist. Lew does mpny kinds of eccentric dancing, but perhaps the most distinctive is the Atdance called The Bookworm. tired as a long, lean school boy with just a speck of a hat on one corner of his cranium, he dances like an inspired spider while keeping his eyes glued to the printed page. McRae, The Intruder and Gertrude Clegg, The Queen of the Wheel, is not the story of a cowboy lady shooting across a roulette wheel at an intruder who demands hands up. That is moving picture stuff. This is simply a bicycle act with comedy by the intruder who rides the queerest kind of wheels, tall ones, short ones, bulky ones and broken ones. Ruth Budd, the girl with the smile, is an aerial alarmist. She tries to scarce you to death while laughing at you. smoothness that causes amazement, while their posing wins the awe and admiration of the crowd. Ray Lawrence flashes a surprise In his act, when hep ulls oh his feminine camouflage after a round of soprano songs that jazz happily along and discloses his identity. Artistic dancing in a rare stage setting and with a marvelous display of costumes and headgear win for George and May LeFevre the unanimous approval of the house. Archer and Belford have a laugh skit, The New Janitor, while Hyman Myer on the piano sways the audience with his music snatching. A cinema comedy and Eddie Fitzpatricks orchestra round out this blue ribbon bill, which continue through Tuesday night Another vaudeville feast is promised with the opening of the new show Wednesday, which will be headed bj Goldens Corinthians in a dazzling musical act. Other numbers include Howard and White in The Gad about Mary Dore in A Little Bit f Everything; Danny Jameison in As U Like and the Hickman brothers, blackface comedians. s; PANTAGES It; that is considered one of A BILL the best of the seasons vaudeville menus is capturing Pantages audiences this week. Eddie Foy takes the house by storm with his gags and his merry songs, while the younger Foys deserve the approval they win on every hand. Slumwhere is the title of the Foy skit, and serves as a captivating setting for the versatility of the Foy family. The Five Patrovas have an act that for beauty of setting and artistic dexterity ranks head and shoulders over anything of its kind. Their acrobatic feats are put over with a skill and CASINO OF THE FLESH, a new William Fox photoplay starring Gladys Brockwell, will be shown at the Casino, starting Sunday. In this play one receives a vivid impression of a wide variation of human emotions. Gladys Brockwell, the girl of a thousand expressions, gives a forceful impersonation of a waif of the world who experiences amazing transformation of character. It is said that (fn A LAMES in this production the plays hold th audience in spellbound silence as they enact a drama teeming with Intense situations. These well known players support William Scott, Ben K. French, Louis Fitzroy, Harry Spingler, Nigel De Brullier, Mme. Rosita Marstinl and Josephine Crowell. The story Is by Forrest Halsey and the production was directed by Edward J. Le Saint. vaudeville olio will A new six-aaugment the photoplay feature. Miss Brockwell: Deely, Charles . ct KINEMA histrionic vivacity to bear upon the subject, Nazimova has achieved probably her greatest success in The which is Brat, the feature photo-pla- y being shown at the new Kinema theatre this week. Life is a cheap chorus, an experience in the night court in New York City, the snobbery of society, together with a Nazimovian atmosphere, are welded into the play with a precision and careful thought that is admirable. Nazimova has every opportunity to give full rein to her accomplishments. She is sunny and humorous, sad and tragic and seems to make an audience weep or laugh with her. This is the first time for her to appear and she has never in a comedy-dramappeared to better advantage, according to critics. Besides Nazimova, there is also presented the first authentic picture carried on a showing how destructive war on the high seas in sinking merchantmen in the world conflict. The pictures were obtained from German the government archives, the commanders of the sub- her BRINGING great a U-boa- ts . . SCENE FROM EXTRA DRY," A SPARKLING MUSICAL COMEDO DRAUGHT COMING TO THE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK ' |