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Show 0RPHEUM BILL EXCEPTIONAL tJ t5 g FUN RULES AT THE PANTAGES Vaudeville Programme Has Dash, Punch, Pep, Kick, and Then Some. TF we besrin by applying to the Orpheum . -1 head liners those favurite laudatory terms dash, punch, pep and kick we will save time and pace. M uch more might be said of their songs, dances and blithesome quips, but it would be like gilding tine rouge. An additional word, however, must be said about gowns. Miss Pi leer has devised a smart burlesque of Gaby Des Iys and this gives her an opportunity op-portunity to wear four or five of those dazzling creations for wthich Gaby is celebrated. Dudley Douglas, who appeal's with JUisa Pilcer in this act, has an excellent ex-cellent voice for vaudeville songs and knows how to cut just the proper capers. The whirlwind dancing of the pair is a lively feature of their act. Will M. Cressy has a new one-act play. It is typical of his style, revealing Mr. Cressy in One of his familiar Yankee characters, tills time a New England country lawyer, who gels "A City Case." It is filled with good fun which is derived de-rived for Lhe most part from the wit of! the lines. One-act plays presented by ! Will Cressy and Blanche Dayne have be- ! come a kind of institution of Amer- i lean vaudeville. j One of the most praiseworthy character: studies of the stage today is Foster Ball's . interpretation of an old union soldier who i sits on a bench in the public park wear- ing his uniform of faded blue and his cap of the days of 'CI. The mannerisms are all the result of the closest observations of the ways of a very old man. The sketch Is devised for laughter mostly, but there are line touches of pathos and patriotism. pa-triotism. "Tho Unexpected" Is a. sensational crook play dotted with quick surprises. A most beautiful burglaress and a most astounding burglar rattle out shocks and thrills as a machine gun sputters bullets. bul-lets. And then we suddenly discover well, the unexpected. The play is by Aaron Hoffman. George Nash and Miss i Julia TTay take' the leading roles. ; Ambrose and Peggy Barker feature j songs by Mr. Barker. A spectacular, pyrotechnic scene Is "The Dragon and the Owl." Zeda, a contortionist, first appears as a dragon, '' breathing fire and sulphurous fumes. He , twists and contorts amid grisly surroundings sur-roundings such as a Iante or a Dore might imagine. As a dragon Zeda is so fearsome that he would "throw a scare into" Saint George. The giant owl which blinks In a most absurd fashion and dances grotesquely, is enacted by a young woman. Samaroff and Sonia visualize Russian peasants on a sunny afternoon in their native land. In addition to Russian dances and acrobatic stunts there are cute tricks by some wonderful Pomeranian Pomera-nian dogs. The Hearst-Pat he news review shows the food riots in New York and some preparedness pictures. Appreciation of Audience Is Shown From Rise to Fall of Curtain. TF PRISONERS at the bar who are to come up for trial during the present week could have their choice of courts, tlie one included on the bill of the Pan-tages Pan-tages theater would surely have a crowded crowd-ed calendar. Tiie judge, jury and the bailiff are all women young women, good-looking women handsomely gowned and otherwise other-wise embellished as no juryman could really afford to dress upon 3 a day. Only the prisoners are men. One answers j on the stage before the court to the j name Brutus Onlet. i Of course the chap's real name is not Brutus at all, but rather Robert Milliken. i If he can be trusted off the stage with- j out a guardian then he la a wondrous 1 actor. His simple ton -like manner Is so genuine that one feels ashamed almost when provoked by it to laughter, which is about all the time that he is before the footlights. The curtain raises upon the performance perfor-mance of the Four Portia Sisters. They are contortionists. They are not ema- i elated, lean persons, but rather are plump, shapely young women, who do not look as if they could tie themselves up into all sorts of queer human knots. But they demonstrate that their heels I are upon the most intimate sort of foot- j ing with their heads. There are two good musical numbers on the bill, that of "The Three Symphony Sym-phony Maids" and the quartette of Cook sisters. The first three enhance their singing with violins and a piano. The four sisters don't look at all alike. Neither do they sing alike. Their voices are a startling assortment, but they have one thing in common. They can sing. There is a sketch acted bv Chris Chis-holm Chis-holm and Viola Breen that is a burlesque built out of puns. It is a laugh raiser, j DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. ORPHEUM New vaudeville bill now on. Four headliners. Matinees on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. SALT LAKE George V. Hobart's morality mo-rality comedy drama, "Experience," all week. Matinee Saturday. WILKES "Little Women," by stock company, all week, with matinees today and Saturday. PANTAGES New vaudeville bill, headed by "The Courtroom Girls," all week. MOTION PICTURES. AMERICAN Today and tomorrow, Nance O'Neill in "Greed," one of the "Seven Deadly Sins." ME HE S Y- ' 'Wages of Sin"; cartoon comedy, "Mr. Fuller Pep Celebrates"; Cele-brates"; "Brute Force." Bison Mountain Moun-tain drama; "Dorsey Travels." ORPHEUM Next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, new photoplay bilL Performances continuous, 1 to li p. m. PARAMOUNT-EMPRESS' Marie Doro In "Castles For Two." Westminster college drama, with local celebrities in the cast. Continuous, 12:30 to 11 p. m. BROADWAY Today, tomorrow and Saturday, the supreme Salt Lake favorite, fa-vorite, Marjorle Ram beau, in "The Greater Woman." STRAND "The Girl Phltlppa," from the novel by Robert W. Chambers, all week afternoon and night. |