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Show AMUSEMENTS "Fireside Reverie" Makes Mirth at Pantages WITH "A Fireside Reverie," heralded as "the most elaborate girl act in vaudeville," featuring the trill, the performance per-formance at the Pantages theater, which begun Its week's run yesterday, is one of the snappiest and most entertaining presented for months at this playhouse. Each of the acts introduces more or less of novelty and every individual performer and number won a warm welcome from the first day's audiences. One of the feature acts of the bill ia a comedy -drama, "The Crisis," by H. Guy Woodward and company, Charles Leslie Adams and Jane Havens. The simple little story of the hasty young couple applying for a divorce and how they are reunited by the eloquence of the irascible, grouchy and warm-hearted old lawyer they endeavor to employ, is excellently ex-cellently portmyed. The episode abounds in mirth and pathos. Elaborate scenery, attractive costumes and mechanical effects, pretty girls and lots of action hold the interest in "A Fireside Reverie." Jack Princeton and Del Sierra rd furnish the fun, while the old sweethearts who visit the bachelor's apartments during tli reverie supply heart interest in plenty. Lord and Fuller, man and woman, please in their "Bits of. This and That." The actors display much versatility. The performers please in all they do from difficult balancing and juggling through violin playing and songs and patter. Beulah Pearl, in "Sunny Songs and Savings," Sav-ings," renders in attractive manner some new popular music. Miss Pearl's number is made more refreshing from the fact that she sings an entirely new "Dixie" song. Joe Parsons and Dave Irwin in a surprise sur-prise number. "A Message From the Front," please the audience by singing in voices that are much above the ordinary ordi-nary on the usual vaudeville stage. Their j act is well received. The Wilson brothers, playing "Lieu- tenant and Traffic Cop," are really funny and were forced to respond to several encores at yesterday's performance. Their singing and jokes provoked gales of merriment. mer-riment. The last episode of Pearl White in "The Fatal Ring" is shown. Three Misfits to Headline New Liberty Theater Bill Opening Today. fT is quite fitting in this holiday season sea-son that Miss Dorothy Van, manager of the Liberty theater, should arrange a show for her patrons which is made up entirely of the joyous gloom-chasing variety. va-riety. Headlining the new show- are the Three Misfits, singers and dancers. One of the number weighs 46 pounds; another an-other is a midget and the third is between be-tween the two in size. All of their material ma-terial is said to ' be original and sparkling spark-ling with wit. Melumhy and "Mnsetta are to present a singing, dancing a nd acrobatic novelty. Allen and Allen have a whirlwind comedy boxing act in which a lady scores the knockout, hence the billing, "those different differ-ent gymnasts." Harry Davis, the master juggler, and The Thompsons, novelty entertainers, contribute their share to the show, as alo docs the Pa the Weekly Xc s review. re-view. Prominent Singers Support Principals and Stage ScUjug Is Elaborate. AX enthusiast ic recepl ion is forecast for l he product ion of "Komeo and Juliet by the Lucy Gates Grand Opera : company, opening at the Sct't l.ake thn-ntf-r tonight. Big houses and warm welcomes wel-comes already have been accorded at Provo, Lognti and Ogden. Pretentious stage settings and costumes cos-tumes ha ve been secured for this ear's production, and several of the most prominent vocal artists in the state have bepn supnlied in support of Miss Gates, who sings the title role of Juliet. With a chorus of sixty wril-s'ected DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. PANTAGES New bill now playing. Six features. Three shows daily and four shows Sunday. ORPHEUM Sophie Tucker and her five Kings of Syncopation. Matinees ! daily. SALT LAKE Lucy Gates in "Faust," three nights, opening tonight. LIBERTY Vaudeville; "The Misfits"; Joy Carnival, five other feature acts. WILKES "Bought and Paid For," by the Wilkes players. Matinees today and Saturday. MOTION PICTURES. AMERICAN Mildred Harris in "The Price of a Good Time." STRAND "John Ermine of Yellowstone." Yellow-stone." Comedy. Current events. BROADWAY Today, tomorrow and Saturday, Theda Bara in "Heart and Soul," produced by William Fox. EI ALTO Theda Eara in "Camille," today and tomorrow, adapted from the novel of Alexander Dumas. PARAMOUNT Pauline Frederick in "Mrs. Dane's Defense," a society drama. Burton Holmes in Yellowstone, Yellow-stone, Paramount Pictographs. voices, the names of Horace S. Ensign, Hugh W. Dougali and David Reese appear in the cast with other prominent singers. The music direction of the Lucy Gales Grand Opera company is under the leadership lead-ership of B. Cecil Gates, who has assembled assem-bled a picked orchestra, selected from the Salt Lake symphony, to accompany Gounod's Gou-nod's romantic masterpiece. There will be no matinee engagement. A heavy advance sale has been In progress prog-ress since Monday. Dark. Cloud Will Be Seen in Butterfly Picture, "John Ermine of Yellowstone, Yellow-stone, ' ' at Strand. - DARK CLOUD, the Indian chief who posed for nineteen years for Frederic Fred-eric Remington, the famous exponent of the Indian in art. will be son in an important im-portant role in the Butterfly picture, "John Ermine of the Yellowstone," a screen version of the famous play and novel of the same name by the American artist, when the him is run at te Strand theater today and tomorrow. |