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Show THE CITIZEN 8 With the First Nighters GAYEST OF ALL REVUES GREENWICH FOLLIES" COMING TO SALT LAKE Starting next Thursday, March 16, the second annual edition of that gayest and mo3t artistic of revues, the Greenwich Village Follies, comes to the Salt Lake Theatre. Each year the Bohemians, Inc., produce a Greenwich Village Follies at the Greenwich Village Theatre in New York. The Follies that comes to the Salt Lake run Theatre direct from a twelve-wee- k at the Garrick Theatre, Chicago, played all of last season at the Greenwich Village and Shubert theatre in New York. It is even said to surpass the first of the fantastic series, well remembered for the furore it created when shown here a little more than a year ago. The Greenwich Village Follies is a smartly designed and executed spectacle, with its rich drapes and hangings, its motif curtains, its wizard lighting effects, its daring costumes and exquisite settings. It is devised and staged by John Murray Anderson the same imaginative genius who created the first of the Follies and to him goes the credit for its rare artistry and exceptional beauty. Thomas J. Gray is the author of the dialogue. A. Baldwin Sloane composed its melodies. The lyrics are from the com- posite pens of Arthur Swanstrom and Mr. Anderson. The Follies has a naive grace and whimsical charm that sets it quite apart from its fellows. John Murray Anderson never permits, his revue to drop into the stale haphazard routine that identifies the great run of musical cemedies. There is not a touch of stridency, garishness or rattle in the three hours entertainment. The personalities in this first and antic annual are the same that made the "Follies the vogue of the sophisticated in New York and Chicago. Con spicuous among them are Bert Savoy and Jay Brenan, with their hilarious travesty oh the gossiping and intriguing females. Pee Wee Myers and Ford Hanford, with their rural comedy, their amazing steps and exceptional singing; Phil Baker, the gaily impatient monologist; the droll McCarthy Sisters, and their equally droll scngs; Louis Berkoff and Sister Frieda, who might have wandered in off the steppes, so barbarous is their whirlwind Russian dance in the Samovar scene; Collins and Hart, performing highly amusing burlesques on current acrobatics; Ada Forman, whose dances interpret the classic Benda Masks; Julia Silvers, Russell Scott, James Clemons, Virginia Bell, Hap Hadley, Olga Ziceva, Mildred Mann and Har-iett- e Gimbel. One of the striking decis orative features of the Follies formed by famous, artists models group. These young women thirty of them have a refreshing beauty, and a natural grace that sets them well above and beyond the conventional chorus with its stenciled maneuvers. selecThey represent a tion from the studios of our leading illustrators and artists. For those who lean toward amusement that floods the eye and intoxicates the ear, the curhand-picke- d rent edition of the "Greenwich Village "'oMies fills the bill. To its last strut and gesture it reflects the bizarre atmosphere of its birthplace, Greenwich Village, New York Quartier Latin. PANTAGES OFFERING AN ALL STAR TREAT TO SALT LAKE FANS Pantages, this week, besides showing a clever picture entitled Conceit, depicting the mannerism and idiosyncrasies or a conceited man, has a full run of headliner vaudeville acts. One of the most strikingly pleasing stage numbers is a comedy stunt, Songiflage, presented by E. Charles Bensee and Florence Baird. It is a pleasant combination of song and dance, well done by clever artists. Guy J. Sampsel and Lily Leonard head the long bill. This team represents a rare combination of two vaudeville favorites, both versatile beyond the average. Theirs js a swift and catchy melange in dialogue and snappy song, with Don Mathews at the piano. The Waltz Song, from Florabella, was most exquisitely rendered and scored a decided hit. Craig and Cato take a bit of comstuff and weave it into mon, every-da- y a line of chatter that wins great applause. I Dont Care is the somewhat trenchant title of the skit, and thp nomenclature is most fitting and becomes the slogan of the playlet. It is a mirth provoker par excellence; as good as any that has come to Salt Lake recently. For those who are skeptical about the accomplishments of monkeys, bears and dogs, Smiths Animal Novelties is a revelation. Who ever heard of a bear riding a bicycle or a tricycle? Well, these bears do, and, to use a slang phrase .they certainly are bears. The monkeys show the result of great training, as do also the dogs. Usually bake shops are looked upon as places where men make bread for the rest of the world to consume. The bake shop which the Lunatic Bakers use in Fun in a Bake Shop is made into a fun factory in which the bakers manufacture rolls of laughter by their comedy gymnastics. If a man hates himself; if he likes to make himself appear as a hero before the eyes of the world; if he likes people to think that he is one of the most wonderful individuals ever created, if he is conceited. "Conceit is a picture portraying part of the life of just such a man. But he is made to see himself as he is, in later years. The picture is entertaining because it portrays a character such as one is i ) W it apt to meet at any timelC qualities of the p.ctureon tional, it having been 4 mountains of British Com The orchestra, under of E. R. Runswick, anjil played by Joseph It. the bill, with the usual (' U gram of music. in STUPENDOUS SPECT CABIRIA" C0Mlof THE AMERlCjtbc dy The massive spectat M opens Sunday at the An10 for a four days run. The stupendous history in the struggle Carthage for stands by itself in the $ production. Gabriel wrote the scenario, W story of the heart inter that only a man who it own beloved country e Js picture has a plot that terest. Cabiria, a young girt after the eruption of T, throws her in the hand. ians, where she is savi rificial altar by Macistt who is with his master sion from Rome. Cal!: but Maciste is sentence onment chained to a the unleashing of thel the coming of a vied army brings a fitting C Ml HAROLD MACGRATKigu HEARTS AND I the LOEWS STA' in illy The millions of read and been fascinfctR MacGraths stories, hff treat in store for them ez; theatre, starting Sundajtert where the screen versfcef DU The Girly Chorus in (Ircne'( at the Salt Lake Theatre |