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Show THE CITIZEN 12 With The First Nighters cal romance in three acts by William B. Friedlander. It requires an elaborate organization nowadays to present with due distinction a daring dancer. Miss Terry is assisted by two gentlea men, one a singer and the other dancer, who are supposed to be suitors for the hand of the dancer. In the finale she puts on a $5,000 ermine coat and walks off stage with the gentleman who finds most favor with the audience. That is a new way to choose a husband, but it is as good as most of of flame old ha been an the ways that are popular today. In Tancee, real life the husband provides ermine Freddie has alwS Tonys complicate matters just before surrendering to the sheriff. tbe ""5 Sheila wants few clothes here below Bernice, is attending ball in rages While the dancing and does not want them, long, but what a slight with Betty is ta bed she has are gorgeous in color and dashwith a con is is tack ol the grip- - She ing in design. Her style of dancing and a combination of the classical and a desire to dance jazz dress herself and tte jazz. Some dances are fifty-fift- y E ssS ds that lt and classic; others have more classic She Places her than Jazz and vice versa. Vernon Wallace and Maude Powers have evolved a clever and funny skit which they have entitled Georgia on Broadway." The appealing Georgia ina he'miasi m ra. thinks dialect is used in bright dialogue, terspersed with songs of a quaintly The Girl in the Limousine playing at the Salt Lake theatre, is not a girl He at all, but a bold, bad holdup man. maand his comrade bandit wreck the of rob him chine of Tony Hamilton and clothes. everything, even his weakness a moment of sympathetic out ot the they carry Mm nearby house. It happens century hu was going to that very Mr. party given by NeviUe to kedMe Neville. Betty Mrs Tony's and raining at-roo- m is a comedy satire by George V. Hobart, who could make even a funeral funny and he does e very well with a no prize fight to get a number the telephone. Who ever thought there was anything funny about Maizie, the telephone operator, who frustrates your cleverest efforts to get a number. But George has provided a Maizie who is 'amusing and a Number Seeker, who is a visitor to our shores and doesnt know much about anything, not to mention American telephones. He is one of those chappie Britishers who instead of says Aw you theah, Hello. The American way is better because you can put a fierce accent on the first syllable without fear of breaking the company rules. boneless One of those lizard-like- , creatures who usually figure in extravaganzas all green and gold and shimmering stuff, contorts in store clothes and makes much comedy out of his wondrous turns and twists. Dogs who pose with all the skill and classic grace of a posing Venus are an admirable feature of the bill. At the Phone long-distanc- SALT LAKE comic turn. t0hern, e0" E irons on because go shall Tony on his head an bump a big has Is not feeling well. that he basis of a Parisian Plot TtI is the intenselj unny which grows leahmsy game ot lying, The compilations and mad confusion. is are so many that the fun seemingly short three long-tho- ugh hide-and-see- James P. Conlon and Myrtle Glass manage to squeeze the rich wine of laughter from The Four Seasons, which tells the story of courting in fallspringtime, marriage in summer, in ing out in the fall and reconciliation the winter. It is a bundle of delightful nonsense. s oPtash and Perlmutter began to hire a vampire in Business Before Pleasure, the celebrated Eltinge theatre comedy success, which A. H. Woods will present at the Salt Lake theatre for an engagement of three nights, starting Thurs m As soon as Abe 1917-191- acts. of the I Apparently the suspicions bu 1 blotted out, jealous can never be men have gone chances that the holdup as the to sleep in the garage and just to begin the shootjealous are about discovers the robing, the chauffeur bers and they confess. By the simplest 8, New York. The authors are Montague Glass, who created the two characters in his Saturday Evening Post stories, and Jules Eckert Goodman, the noted playwright. KINEMA Maw-rus- k, Harry Careys latest photodrama, West is West, which comes to the Kinema theatre Sunday, is a story of the west that is different. It is one story in which the time worn chase" scenes, the cowboy shooting and all the rest of the old western bunk goes by the board. As the hero, Harry Carey is a man who can shoot to kill, but who doesnt pull a trigger from the opening of the an picture to the fadeout. He rescues innocent maiden from a gang of under- H world jackals and sends her home. He stakes his horse and his gun on a full house and loses to four aces. To get another grubstake he takes work in a mine. When he finds he is expected to act as strikebreaker, and that the girl he has already befriended is the grandto daughter of a miner, he determines do his part to straighten things out. How he takes his life in his own of hands, and, unarmed, faces a squad rasgunmen, and how he shows up the cally plot of the mine superintendent to best the owner of his property, i seen in the picture. There is a dual a love story, for there is another grl, lovely heiress, concerned. twist the entire puzzle is straightened out to the satisfaction of all. ice Of course, the plot skates on thin authors all of the time, but the skillful make it their business never to let the subice break. The suggestiveness is ordinated to the fun. It is only the idea that is reprehensible. Everybody in the and plot is perfectly respectable Had the play been served jn the Parisian style nearly everybody would have been not quite so respectable and the ice would have been frac tured in many places. In a word, the theme is as strong as an onion poul as men tice, but the treatment as mild tal suggestion. The play is presented by a company of admirable artists, well-meanin- g. o & ! i 1 Sue Harry Careys leading woman is Mason. Delightful little Mignonne, who has graced several of the Universal stars recent dramas, again is seen There Is als the in West is West. famous villainous trio, Charles Brook Moyne, Joseph Harris and Ted while others in the cast include Inward Latell, Otto Nelson, Jack , ORPHEUM With dainty Sheila Terry, whose foretwinkling feet have won her a most place in vaudeville, are such overhead expenses as a musical conductor, a business representative and a musi ' , day, November 25, care is iorgoi-tenand the audience settles itseu tu three hours oi continuous ana sidesplitting laughter. as a ".business Before Pleasure, whole nation of theatregoers know, inour latroduces, or rather Potash and minar friends Abe Mawrus Perlmutter in an entirely new business that of moving picture producers. As such their sayings and misunderdoings, their quarreling and standings were never funnier. Those who remember them as cloak and suit partners in Potash & Perlmutter and as Potash & Perlmutter In Society, will find a new fund of laughter in the experiences of their old friends in the movie world. Business Before Pleasure was one of the great and conspicuous comedy successes of the season of playing to capacity audiences month after month at the Eltinge theatre, a rw i'j i : wi-- HARRY FOX. FAMED STAR OF MUSICAL COMEDY AND THE 'MOVIES' WHO WITH BEATRICE CURTIS, HEADLINES THE ORPHEUM BILL OPENING NEXT WEDNESDAY EVENING William Wickersham, Arthur. Milled Adelaide Halleck,. James ONeill Scott McKee. In addition to this thrilling fixture will bo shown a two reel Universal sP |