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Show j At the Theaters . j Mitzi Is Charming in Fine Rendition of "Pom-Pom" MTTZU Hajos has a charm that is all , her own. She is bubbling over with originality and youth, and "Pom-Pom" is r sparkling musical comedy that furnishes fur-nishes an excellent medium of expression for her- inimitable cleverness. Mitzi. is not unknown to Salt Lake audiences au-diences and her appearance last night at the Salt Lake in the charming musical comedy provided for her this season by Henry W. Savage brought the warmest greeting from her many admirers, who filled the historic old playhouse almost to capacity. That "Pom-Pom" will run to full houses . during its stay in Salt Lake goes without saying. Mitzi would fill the house every performance alone, but in addition to her exceptional charms, there are many other attractive features about the production that spell success for it. "Pom-Pom" Is something better than the average musical comedy and much more pretentious on the whole than anything any-thing In this line that has been seen here recently. The music is especially good. It has a linger -longer note to it that gives it exceptional charm. There are not, perhaps, any tunes such as some musical plays have, which set the gallery gods into an epidemic of whistling after each appearance of the attraction, but the music of "Pom-Pom" is high class; it is full of harmony and melody and sort of lingers' with you. The lyrics are good. There is plenty of good, sparkling humor, the situations are mirth-provokine: to a degree and the entire ensemble makes one feel that the time spent in witnessing the production has been well spent. One of the striking features of the production pro-duction are the many pretty girls who are present in "Pom-Pom'" to a greater number than usual in productions of this sort. Their costumes are calculated to make the gentler element of the audience au-dience sit up and take notice. They do especially between the first and second scenes, 'when the comely girls of the show pass in a sort of fashion revue before be-fore the drop-curtain, displaying some most wonderful opera cloaks and gowns. And, It may be said, the girls have voices in addition to good looks and other things, and the men also can sing some. The musical features are particularly par-ticularly pleasing. In the plot of the comedy the theater, the underworld and the police are almost inextricably intermingled, and this furnishes fur-nishes the settings for the fun and frolic with which the production abounds. Among the particularly good numbers of the first act are "Cuddle Me," sung bv No. lo and Evelyn; "Only One Hour,'' iri which Boyd Mars-hall as Bertrand. the inspector of police, has an opportunity to displav a remarkably good voice. An Apache dance done by Mitzi and Lillian Morton is exceptionally clever and well executed. Mitzi can not only sing and act. but she can dance. Probably the most charming bit of music of the first act is the finale entitled "In the Dark." in which Mitzi and a male chorus of policemen po-licemen sing their way into the hearts of t he audience most effectively. The second scene opens in the Black Flephant, the underworld resort of crooks in Xice, and It Is hei-p that Mitzi conies into her own in the line of clever entertainment in her own way. "The Circus in the Moon" is the title of the corny on nd of fun and foolishness which she and hf r clever assistants hand out to the auilienr-e in plensing and large doses. "Evelyn," "Ships in the Night" a nd "Kiss Me" are features of the musical mu-sical numbers of the last act. Margaret .Ta rman. as "Therese." has an excellent voice and uses it well. Lillian Morton, as the "dummy"" In the dummy dance with Miizi. was very clever. In fact, every one deserves special mention for lile hi her cleverness, but there are too many names to mention them all. "Pom-Pom" "Pom-Pom" is more tha n well worth seeing. DRAMA AND VAUDKV1LLE. SALT LAKE- Tonight, with regular matinee tomorrow and special Red Cross matinee today, Henry W. Savage presents Mitzi 1 lajos In "Tom-Pom. " PA NT AGES' New show. "Bon Voyage." Voy-age." pretty girls. Other big acts. Three shows daily. LIBERTY Six feature fl'is; featuring featur-ing Little All Right, Japanese Wonder Won-der Worker. Three shoe's daily, tiros today and tomorrow. WU.KP:S "Mother," all week. Matinees Mati-nees today and tomorrow. OK PHEUM Eddie Foy and the Seven Younger Foys. Orpheum Red Cross benefit this morning. K:i." o'clock. j MOTION PICTURES. ISIS -'Who's Your NViisIihor?"' by I YVillard Mack, all week. BROADWAY Today. "The Painted I Madonna," featuring Mire. S mia Ma rko A. PARA MOT NT-EM PRESS - - Wallace i Roid in person, and Sessuf Tla a- i kaua in "The Secret Cmr"." Co:n- edy and Burton Holmes. I AMERICAN Madge Kennedy in j "Nearly M a rri d : " ; t " n i e rs;i I c:r- rent events; rro:e.-.-or .1. .1. M vlcl- bin in organ polo;; at T : and 9. I'm. I STRAND -Dorothy Fb-lips in "Pay j Me"; I "ni verbal Weekly ; comedy, j M EH ESY--An-''omo.iy rhv. Sidney ! Drew; Victor or,iedy : "Soaps: id:; 1 and Sirens." Vitacr.tp't ; P. is I" pro- j ciwtion. Nippon Magician! Mystifies at Liberty LITTLE All Right, the Japanese wonder won-der worker, which headlines the new Liberty bill which opened yesterday afternoon, succeeded in throwing an atmosphere of mystification over the minds of the audience which came to see him. He certainly lived up to his advance ad-vance notices, and presented an act that for novel tv and surprise has not been surpassed this season at the State street playhouse. Betty Ward scored big with her rich baritone voice and pleasing personality. Morrison and Clifton worked together well and provoked laugh after laugh by means of their comic antics. Graceful dancing and good singing were the features of the delightful act presented pre-sented by the Shorts. Roth had entertaining enter-taining voices and introduced many new terpsichorean innovations. "Staircase Gymnastics" was the title of a thrilling and hazardous tumbling act introduced by T.es Legers, who demonstrated demon-strated acrobatic ability far above the average of the usual line of vaudeville offerings. The performance closed with a Luke comedy and the Pathe Weekly. The show will run the entire week, with matinees daily. ' ' Nearly Married, ' ' Starring Madge Kennedy, Will Open at the American Today. ' A NOVEL, profession figures in the story of "Nearly Married," the new Goldwyn starring vehicle for Madge Kennedy, Ken-nedy, to be seen at the American theater for two days, beginning today. It is personified per-sonified in the character of Hatlie King, a professional co-respondent. The "Nearly Married' situation Is that of a young couple who have quarreled because the husband objects to having his wife's -brother accompany them on their honeymoon. The wife. Betty, stimulated by her brother, Dick, who is a rising young lawyer anxious to begin Ids first case, proposes that they get a divorce. So the husband, Harry, consults his lawyer law-yer friend, Tom Pobinson, and together i they engage Hattie King. ,' |