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Show THE CITIZEN 7 With the First Nighters V FRANCIS RENAULT GIVES PANTAGES PATRONS REAL THRILL. Manager Ed. S. Diamond is giving W the Pantages theatre patrons the best show for the money in the entire west em. country.. That is one reason that this popular show house is always full of people and busines is always good. The best pictures that are screeened and the best actors that appear in vaudeville are secured by. Pantages for his. circuit of theatres, and this city is plucky to possess one of the theatres. Francis Renault, the slave of fash ion, coming from the Alhambra theatre of Paris, and who is known as an international star, heads this weeks bill. His impersonation of the woman . 0: is perfect and defiles detection. His imitation of the great operatic stage stars in their favorite solos is most wonderful, artistically and classically performed. He dances gracefully the eastern dance, and his costumes are the most elaborate which money and designers can assemble. He has one diamond gown which weighs 100 pounds and is valued at $3,000. It is a piece of brilliant, dazzling and glittering stage dress artitecture of plain design, but handsome and becoming. He has a Japanese robe, a wonderful piece of work, which was presented to him shortly before the great Japanese disaster. His many and pretty costumes go a great way to make his act so popular. As an entertainer and soloist he has few equals. Many an opera singer would give worlds for his "feminine voice over which he has perfect control. He is a wonder. Sonia De Calve, accompanied by her mother, Madam De Calve, at the piano, is a violinist and "song bird. The music actually flows from her throat in sweet, soft and blending tones which immediately captures the audience. Her interpolation of violin solos and song are greatly appreciated and her equal has not been heard on the Pantages for a long time. Ruth Herman appears on the stage with a large hatbox. When she opens it out steps a little man, less than half her size to the great amusement of all. They have a song, dance and chatter act which is pleasing and takes well with the audience. Hart and Helene in "Ive Got Another One, are a young married couple who have an easy way to pick at each other, find fault and the resultant family quarrel. They mix comedy with music. Helenes solo in Irish brogue makes a hit. Joe Tilyou and George Rogers in Dancing Grand Daddies, have an entertaining feature act. Appearing as old men they perform difficult athletic and tumbling, feats. Their claim is that the older they get the younger they feel, and like wine, the better they get.' It is a song and dance act worth while.' Billy Wells and Eclair Twins, in "Mirth, Modes and Melodies feature dancing. The girls appear in pretty costumes, set off by a pretty stage set play. The action of the piece starts ger, Percy Winter, James C. Lane, Jesin a logging camp in the backwoods sie Pringle, Margaret Campbell, Minof Nevada. The first act is laid in a nie Palmer and May Duryea; while little hotel un by Lightnin Bill and others who will appear in leading his wife, which, standing half in Caliroles are Ann Merrick, Ruth Chan-ning- , fornia and half in Nevada, attracts Henrietta Tedro, Priscilla Platte would-b- e divorcees from all over the and Robert Lowe. country. The place booms when it is AMERICAN THEATRE GETS discovered as a resort where one may on THE WHITE MOTH DRAMA. live the Nevada side and acquire :the necessary six months residence The White Moth, a First National for a. quick, divorce, while hiding their Reno ambitions from the folks, at picture, which begins a weeks engagement at the American theatre today, home. While "Lightnin is a happy blend offers exceptional screen entertainment and marks a signal achievement of tears and laughter, its tremendous for Maurice Tourneur, the director, and popularity is really due to the appealing qualities exhibited by its leading the artists who enact it. It is a beautiful, fantastic, absorbcharacter, Lightnin Bill Jones. He is AN EARLY "LIGHTNIN'" IS absolutely worthless, fond of his glass ing piece of cinema entertainment reATTRACTION AT THE and his story, but still loveable, symvolving around the gay night life of LAKE THEATRE. pathetic and humorous, recalling fond Paris and the whirl of society in New SALT York. memoles of Jeffersons Rip Van WinThe management of the Salt Lake kle. He .is destined to live in the Barbara La Marr, as the White s theatre announces that arrangements hearts of. theater-goerMoth, an American girl who becomes long years afhave finally been concluded with John ter most other stage characters have the dancing sensation of the Paris been forgotten. Golden, the New York theatrical manstage, with a legion of suitors, was ager and producer of Lightnin,, "Lightnin has been running now for never better cast, and Conway Tearle, will almost six years, but an amazing fact with her as a millionaire whereby this famous stage success bebe seen in Salt Lake for one week, is that the cast still embraces thirteen who marries her to stop the romance 4. of his brother, gives a powerful perof the original players who appeared ginning Monday night, August a is just winding up with Frank Bacon on the night of the formance. "Lightnin sensational tour of California that has New York premiere, almost six years The White Moth in reality is a little rebeen marked by a series of civic choir singer who has left her home in ago. This includes Jason Robbards, of Paul Stanton, Thomas Maclarnie, John Kansas to study music abroad. Failing ceptions and ovations in honor Frank Bacon, the author of the play. Hamilton, Sam Coyt, William F. Gran to realize her ambition, she is about In San Francisco Lightnin continued in sensational popularity for thirteen weeks, and followed this up by achieving a hundred consecutive performances in Los Angeles. Of course, the sensational career of Lightnin, beTHIS WEEK fore coming west is now a matter of theatrical history, and without a doubt EiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;1; witmany Salt Lake theatergoers have FRANCIS nessed the performance of this famous RENAULT run at the E comedy during its three-yea- r THE SLAVE OP FASHION S DIRECT Fit 031 THE PARIS Gaiety theater, or at the Blackstone at ALHAMRRA Chicago, where it chalked up two solid years. I BILLY wells Had Frank Bacon lived he .would i AND THE ECLAIR TWINS have seen the fulfillment of one of his most cherished dreams, which was to TILYOU & ROGERS appear in the character he created and of made famous, before theatergoers the far west. But fate decreed otherSONIA DE CALVE 1 ACCOMPANIED HY wise, and Bacon now sleeps, surroundS 3IJIE. DE CALVE ed by his beloved orchids, in the little town of Mountain View, California. :.RT & HELENE However, Percy Pollock, his lifelong friend, cto3en by Bacon just before his death to be his successor as LightI ERGOTTI & HERMAN nin Bill Jones, is carrying Bacons message to theater audiences. Pollock, s THE TEN MILLIONTH like Bacon, has spent a lifetime in the 1 FORD theater. He achieved a splendid personal success in this famous role, first in Boston and Philadelphia, and later JACKIE We in San Francisco and Los Angeles; COOGAN Never and he is reported to be qualified in i iv S THE him. task the for assigned Raise way every S HOY its from s OP title its Lightnin acquires Our S FLANDERS m central character, Lightnin Bill Jones, Prices Shiftless, good natured, bragging, and somewhat of a tippler, he is yet a figure to be loved and admired. Around his vagaries is woven an appealing riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii love story of a young law student who, by outwitting a couple of land grabbing lawyers, provides the basis of tho ting, and Billy shows the audience some fancy steps and twists not seen before. It is a good act and well received. Jackie Googan in "The Boy of Flanders is a. screen story showing how hard it is for the average poor boy to makehis way through this world. It is one of the great pictures of the day. Ambition is finally, awarded with riches and. glory, and. Jackie awakes, wondering if it is all a dream, after he had been picked up on the church steps during a blizzard and snow storm, where he was slowly freezing to death. The present show concludes next Tuesday night. . . . , . . co-featur- ed PANTAGES |
