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Show THE 10 CITIZEN With The First Nighters A GOOD BAD WOMAN, presented at the Salt Lake theatre by Mar- garet Illington, Katherine Kaelred and others of lesser note, is a good bad we wish to commend him for his courage. He went into the first-lin- e trenches bravely and took his monologist; Baines and Goodrich in A Trip to New York, and Gordon and Day in a novelty bicycle act. play. Its goodness is in the moral which is pointed by the remorse and repentance of a good woman tempted to race suicide by a vampire. In passing it must be noted that Katherine Kaelred is not the Kipling type of vampire, although she has a wondrous hank of hair the same being red. Nor does she suggest the style of Theda Bara. Nevertheless she is a most effectively vicious, if smiling, vampire. Margaret Illington enacts the role of the wife, who, selfishly wishing to keep her husband all to herself without the interference or annoyance of children, succumbs to the suggestions of the vampire. The natural consequences of this sensational beginning ought to furnish forth a drama of tense and appealing scenes. The trouble is that, far in advance, the audience knows just what the doctor is going to say in the last scene. This poor woman is so innocent that she did not know that I had deceived her. She still has hope of motherhood. All very delightful for the sincerely repentant wife and quite secure for the doctor who delivers the final speech with the husbands revolver trailing his left lung around the stage. Originally the three leading roles were to have been taken by Margaret and Illington, Katherine Kaelred Wilton Lackaye. Mr. Lackaye was called away by the illness of his mother. As the husband, Mr. Tiden gives a most acceptable interpretation, Miss Illington is not quite up to her usual standard of effectiveness and Miss Kaelred, as the vampire, is good just as good as a good actress trying to be a bad adventuress ought to be. A talkative maid, who is tango mad and wins a silver cup for the method of her madness, is the one really bright spot in a sea of gloom. In fact she might be called an entire lighthouse of gaiety. The playwright tried manfully to fill out the necessary percentage of humor with a young couple, just affianced, but only succeeded in pouring a bottle of diluted ink into the black waters of the aforesaid ocean. I suppose I ought not to turn the shafts of sarcasm on the doctor. It is so seldom, however, that one can have fun with the doctor that the temptation is irresistable. The departure of Mr. Lackaye disarranged the cast radically, for the stage manager was cailed upon to essay the d doctor. He role of the could not have been more wooden if he had been the stage carpenter. He carried his clothes with somewhat less grace than an undertaker and his attempt at the old college days and college pals stuff was as cheering as a post mortem. Nevertheless AMERICAN PANTAGES in photoplay features for the American theatre for the next week has announced three hits with the stamp of American quality. Saturday The Midnight Patrol, a picture that is different from the usual run, is announced. On this program is an Arbuckle comedy and one of the famous Outing Chesters. On Sunday, however, comes one of the hits of the year. Ranking in the same class with Oh, Boy! the photoplay that broke summer house records in Salt Lake, is Prudence on Broadway with dainty Olive Thomas starring. This photoplay feature is guaranteed to appeal to all classes, critics in the east state, and is one that will remain long in the memories of the audiences. Briefly, the plot deals with the adventures of a little Quaker maid in New York. The success among the elite is astounding and introduces many funny situations that will keep the audience in an uproar. Jack Pickford, lately released from the aviation service, returns in his first picture by his own company on Bill Appersons Boy is a Tuesday. picture that will appeal to all. It has all the human emotions depicted in a masterly fashion. This photoplay will run three days. MAYNE MANAGER GEORGE of the most soothing summer seen in many a day is the blithe College Girl Frolics, headliner of the bill now playing at the Pantages. With a charming garnishment of pretty girls, a tiptop comedian and two singers of pleasing voices, this little musical melange provides fifteen minutes or so of genuine enjoyment. Big Ben Lin all by himself piles up the laughs in heaps, for his line of singing is exceptionally ludicrous. John G. Sparks is a comedian who can extract all the humor and pathos out of any situation and in Willard Mack's sketch, A Friendly Feud, he makes a big hit wtih his audiences. Klass and Termini have a A Musical musical act entitled highball, in which they render some violin and accordion playing t hat goes over with a bang. Two Chinese singers and dancers are Joe and Rosie Moy, in Hawaiian dancing, singing and a Chinese cakew'alk. An interesting reel of news views and musical enterEddie Fitzpatricks tainment conclude the .bill, which plays through Tuesday night Those wonderful terpsichorean artists, the Denishawn Dancers, will be led by Ruth St .Denis herself in' a series of medieval, symbolic and dramatic dances as the starline attraction of the new show opening Wednesday. The rest of the bill includes the Stampede Riders; Eddie Ross, blackface comedian; Jimmy Britt, ONE - (i THE - FOLLIES EW YORK, July 19. The The I who goes to see this year true as it was oi - edition that went before, it is most especially true this year must be pos- sessed of all his senses thoroughly to enjoy the very real feast offered in almost bewildering lavishness. For a blind man would leave with the imand a pressions that The Follies deaf man would declare it to be a vision of beauty many beauties and an amazing kaleidoscope of ever pleasing colors. Its pleasant to record htat this, the thirteenth Follies, is without hoodoo. It is futile to do more than attempt to convey an impression of what The Follies of 1919 is. There are so,-'- ; many episodes, so many scenes, so many persons deserving recognition, it is quite impossible to name them all. So let us not even bother with the order in which the scenes come, nor consider it an imperative duty to name each person or every song. view Lets Just take a birds-ey- '' e of-th- e whole. Follies is different. The curtain doesnt rise, for its already up, and the audience is welcomed from the hot street by the contrasting coolness of the theater and a Joseph Urban scene of blossoms At the very beginning, the thats refreshing. The orchestra ap- pears and plays the overture. Suddenly you become conscious of an enormous salad bowl upon the stage and Eddie Dowling standing beside Its it singing The Follies Salad. ingredients are very lovely girls, and then the lettuce leaves part and up from them springs Florence Ware, The Follies Girl of 1919. From this moment until the very last, there is a seemingly endless and delightful succession of scenes, songs, dances, pretty girls, tableou. And surprises. Lets glance at a few: Theres Miss Mary Hay with her pet dog Phil Dwyer, the animal in a dog shell and they do Theres a many amusing stunts. tableau entitled Hail to the Thirteenth Follies which is very beautiful and is the best thing Ben Ali Haggin has achieved in this line. Johnny and Ray Dooley do a burlesque called That Spanish Frolic as Toreador and Carmen with a bull of comic possibilities, every one of w'hich is corn-media- n, seized. high-minde- N AZIMOVA in THE RED LANTERN SCENE FROM THE STUPENDOUS PRODUCTION WHICH BEGINS AN ENGAGEMENT AT THE ORPHEUM SA7URDA Y, JULY 26 Marilynn Miller makes her evenings bow in Swet Sixteen and with the aid of sixteen sweet girls combines the song with a dance that is charming. Marilynn Miller is as beautiful as ever, and more than one sculptor as well as painter again this year will probably try to immoralize her. She dances delightfully and she sings pleasingly. There are Manhattans popular pests the janitor, the waiter, the hall boy the hat check boy, the taxi driver and the servant girl, who demands out four days each week. The janitor is Bert Williams and the hat check boy is Eddie Cantor. Later Bert Williams, George Lemaire and Jessie Reed convulse the audience with ' |