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Show t I THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters Cnee more Fannie Usher has found a vehicle for her surprising genius. Mr. and Mrs. Usher, who are the head-liner- s at the Orpheum this week, ape Home, but pear in The they might just as well call their sketch The House of Usher or any Bide-A-We- other meaningless thing. It is simply a new medium for Fannie Usher, who has no rival in portraying the girl who is brought up in mean surroundings and seems to be dead tough, and can say things in slang as funny as Ades fables, hut who, nevertheless, is a pearl of gooddness. In the conclusion she turns out to be none other chee-ild- . Goody! than the long-los- t Goody! In a most acceptable bill Flo and Ollie Walters appropriate a large share of the applause. Flo or mayhap it is Ollie is a cemedienne of the grotesque who has somewhat the manner of Eddie Foy. The other Is just a cute little girl who sings such pretty songs and appears in a fetching costume as Priscilla, the Puritan of a sweet home town. Both are excellent and each is a foil for the other. Janet of France is really a French girl and she has all ze pep of the boulevard. With Charles M. Hamp. who speaks only Americanese, she appears in a piquant musical playlet All entitled Parlez Vous Francais. the time that Janet pirouettes and cavorts about the stage she is one grand hebe, with an acute accent above the final e, which cannot be by this typewriter. She sings popular American songs so that their own mother wouldnt recognize them. She is not a jazz artist, but she has seen jazz and likes it and makes some droll attempts to imitate it. Don is just a dog, but he is a dog who acts so drunk that he looks almost human. His master manufactures much amusement for the audience oul of Dons funny inebriety of manner. The Ramsdells are two pretty dancers who have as their partner the agile Mr. Deyo. They dance nice little things like The Poppy and The Bridal Path of Love and La Folie and occasionally whirl shyly into jazz. And, whatever the dance, they wear the most engaging costumes of the most gorgeous coloring. Stuart Barnes is there, too. You-al- l know Stuart, he of the famous song Ha My Wifes 'First Husband John. apologizes for singing this old friend and neighbor, but it has proved so popular that it sticks to him like a poor relation. He just cant get rid of it, and nobody wants him to. Lillie Jewell Faulkner & Co. present The Miniature Revue, which is a marionette caricature of various fol- leis, including baseball. New Yorks Bohemia, will play an en- gagement of three nights at the Salt Lake theatre commencing Thursday, March 31, has attracted much interest. Described as a unique revusical comedy of life in New Yorks Latin quarter, this unusual revue comes to the local playhouse direct from its triumphant tour of all the larger cities of the east. First producedd in the quaint little Greenwich Village theatre in of 1919, its seven months season in the metropolis is the longest ever experienced by a revue of the kind, and it comes to this city with the same unique company and unconventional production which made it the mecca of pilgrims .in New York mid-summ- er and Chicago. The producers of the Follies quite properly discarded the card index, the rule book and the theatric blue prints when they set about to construct it. Tradition and convention are flaunted at every turn; in its scenic and lighting devices and effects; in the costuming and portrayal of its players; in its tempo; in the routine of its incidents; in its melody and in its coloring. Gone are the usual stage settings of wood and canvas. In their stead hang gorgeous draperies and tapestries of satin and silk and velvet upon which the deftly pointed lights play with fantastic trickery. Gone is the customary group ot show girls. As a substitute, twenty famous artists models illuminate the ensemble with their beauty. Gone also is the plan on which contemporary spectacles are fashioned. The heavy hand of professionalism has been superceded by the dpft fin- - gers of artistry. Novelty lurkg . heels of sensation exotic daiir with comic episode; nicely travesty follows fast after vivid pictures; riotous cadenzas of balanced by light and airy satire jousts with ious burlesque. Among the players in this Bohemian revd James Watts, a jocular imitatg' Pavlowa; Ted Lewis, the jaa and his laughing trombonei"; Herman, well labeled the la , ( razor-edge- d Sylvia aJson, tive comedienne; Verna Gordoik of the dances Javanese and thejy ionettes; the droll Hickey Jane Carroll and Mabelle j; Irene Olson; Emilie Fitzgerald Vf: Warner Gault. laugh-make- r; PANTAGES . feature and pep headline offering at Pantages week. You never saw bellhops Action as fast as the Four Bellhops in novel acrobatic act. They fast as a bellhop can move whenfsQS pageing a five dollar tip and fog seem to enjoy their work. U.'rft Juggling and jangling three at one and the same time, Geoilf Howard shows how a juggler j shine as a musician, but a little he proves that juggling is simpl;? of his lesser talents, for he is i - " :t markable musician when it com. c evoking sweet strains from a V He is assisted by Kitty Ross, are especially good in their epe : parley-vouse- d I selections. Constance Talmadge is star of, tensely interesting picture this A girl, alone in the world, has at! fight of it against bitter unfrfc ness and finally triumphs because cannot be diverted from her cber .S' J i outlook on life. Doll Frolics, a storybook rev a pleasing musical act. The H ley sisters, supported by a chons girls, put the act over attractive Walter Baldwin and Geraldine! cat and company have a rapid-fir' offering in The Petticoat Man." plot is woven about a domestic e gle. Redmond and Wells in All fork are vaudevilles champion V Their dialogue is up to the comedy and their ability in the ar, of terpsichore winds their parts program up in good style. The Melnotte duo. offering A & Out, have a novel comedy pres tion. j Joseph R. Wayne in his usually class selections on the organ of pletes the vaudeville portion I program. A CUBISTIC SHOCKED SALT LAKE The announcement that the Greenwich Village Follies, t hat unprofessional spectacle from the heart of Verna Gordon, creator of exotic Javanese dance In Greenwich Village Follies at Salt Lake Theatre three days commencing Thursday, March 31. Few motion pictures have more interest, advance and exft acfC panying, than the latest German duction to reach this country, thef, bistic photoplay, The Cabinet of |