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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With the First Nighters PANTAGES. Like a cool wave the spicy, breezy, refreshing bill at the Pantages for this week has a most decided cheering effect. It was greeted Wednesday at the opening performances by large crowds, both afternoon and evening. The bill opens with two excellent film features showing David Butler in his masterpiece, Smiling All the Way and a Christie comedy, Red Hot Love, featuring old time screen fay-orite- s. The action part of the weeks offering is headed by Yes My Dear, starring Nat (Chick) Haines and a company. of artists well up in their parts. It is a very musical bit of farce comedy and the chorus is extremely well balanced and was in most excellent voice on the opening night. William Cook as the hotel clerk, Evelyn Rose-vera clever ingenue, with rare ability, and Sadie Duff, as the mother, are entitled to special mention. The farce is billed as a whirly girlie show and it is all this and more.Honeybunch,. a very tuneful, lilting song caught the fancy of the First Nighters and the singers were e, sin-in- g - roundly applauded. The rest of the bill is in keeping with the head act. Perhaps Charlie Murray, because of lus screen record, gets more attention than some of the other short stunts, bui he is entitled to all of it. He delights the audience with a string of movie actor chatter that is very catching and unusually new on the vaudeville stage. Lee Morse, billed as the Girl WTith the Big Voice, was a big favorite. She has a remarkably deep, intoned voice for so small a girl and swings it around with great charm and marvelous dexterity. Her impersonations are unusually good and she can slide from the full soprano tones to the freakish deep basso profundo with ap- parent ease. A thrilling aerial stunt is the offering of Charles and Mayme Butters. They also do some nifty slack wire walking and intersperse their stage business with some witty and catching is a story with a decided feminine angle, since the three studies represent a successful actress desirous of finding the right man and marrying him for love, a silly young matron in love with the pursuit of pleasure, and an equally young business woman who marries .a poet when he permits her to continue a literary career. Her love is a selfish, mercenary one. The moral is obvious that love and happiness can only be found through giving up foolish pleasure and selfish ambitions. And when the picture is finished it is the first who is blessed with supreme contentment, the others finding tragedy. Mr. Tourneur has kept his scenes compact and moving, which speaks well for his direction considering the three plots. He never allows the picture to become preachy. It is a tale of New York life of how the big city conquers the foolish, while those possessing moral stamina are left untouched. The director has punctuated his scenes with flashes of the metropolis. The silly matron is while living in a southern city. She urges her stupid husband to move to New York and its bizarre side conquers her. Enetirely unsophisticated, she accepts the advances of the other man in her mad pursuit of pleasure and pays the penalty for playing with fire. Her husand casts her out. It is this story which carries most of the dramatic substance, since it involves a triangle. The second story gives Doris May her biggest part and she displays exceptional talent in the portrayal of the foolish wife. Charles Meredith in the opposite role is compelled to execute scenes which show up the stupid character of the husband. This man and the third husband are sympathetic stage-struc- k , drawings. The author condemns Broadway, but he also condemns women who lack sufficient moral fibre. The third husband becomes a drunken sot and dies in his mothers arms, the wife realizing too late the error of her life. This :A ast V?. story is the sentimental flourish in a picture which carries about every element. Mr. Brynes idea is not new to the screen, but the director has treated it in a way to win attention. It possesses considerable local color and good sets and is acted by a well known and thoroughly competent cast. itf ra Charlie CENSORSHIP. Why is a censor and what is a cens sor? Thus queries Benjamin de in the New York Times, which he proceeds to answer by quoting from Websters dictionary: A censor is one of a council in some states of the United States whose duty it is to see that the Constitution remains inviolate and also to inquire into the conduct of the state Cas-sere- officials. And then the writer continues to comment more or less humorously and also truthfully on this greatest of indoor sports: The censorship of moving pictures the greatest indoor sport in the various states goes on with giant strides. There seems to be a mania for four thousand to seven thousand dollar job politicians to make us moral. As we have always been the most dismally moral and correct people in the history of civilization there does not seem to be any reason why we should not become still more moral. When heads of oak lecture spines of rubber on what they shall or shall not see in the movies, then comes the lug of jaws and thats about as far as we ever get in this country. They always that anonymous they put over on us whatever they will. We e.a&s back for a while, and then resume the even tenor of our somnolence. In the matter of motion pictures different standthere are forty-eigards of morality. These forty-eigstandards are subdivided into as many as there are men on the State Board of Review. The result is bizarre, to say the IN PERSON YES, MY DEAR Big Musical Comedy 0 WM. H. ARMSTRONG & CO. 'I ; - In The Expressman V LEE MORSE Little Girl With 'ti A ;a Big Voice CHARLES & MAYME BUTTERS Wonders on a Wire s. ht ht sub-standar- ds I DAVID BUTLER 8millng All the Way -- I Shi i 7 O t 3 remarks. The Baggage Man, an original comedy skit, makes a decided hit. It is a lively bit of nonsense featuring Will H. Armstrong and MisS Maude Smith, both performers of exceptional attainments in their respective characters. As usual the Pantages is cool and inviting and the organ offering of Joseph R. Wayne constitute a feature of 3 I the bill. AMERICAN. The author of Maurice Tourneurs has succeeded in fashioning a story based upon three distinct character studies, the theme of which revolves around the pursuit of love and happiness. It . latest picture, Foolish Matrons With you every day year. ft |