Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-10 | Page 10 | "Plantation Days" Big Unit Show

I Plantation Days Big Unit Show Those who anticipated enjoying enjoying- one of or the best unit shows with which the Pantages management has regaled its patrons patron this season yesterday were fully rewarded in the tho presentation of or Plantation Days Das an exploitation of or orthe the sunny South that has rarely been equaled on the American stage Giving excuse for the introduction of ot a a. dozen or mOr more moie e acts of or comedy I dance and son song fittingly woven t to together gether Plantation Days is woven a Ye ve for a period of ot amusement that p to entertain capacity houses at every performance There is somes something some some- that thing s seems about t i to the h appeal attributes to the of r d Caucasian Caucasian the c ne negro f ro that never loses in interest and everything that is Innate to the negro is well brought out on the Pantages stage this week The Tho stage settings are elaborate The The unit opens showing a scene scene on onI the levee e on the lower Mississippi hl h sf 11 with I the steamer Diamond on Joe lma tied up at the dock The deck hands and the passengers all take part in a melange of or patter son song and dance replete with comic situations typical of ot the water front in the South Possessed of or an exceptionally sweet and appealing voice Miss 1 sings Old Kentucky Home in the manner In which it is sung in the South bouth and the tho chorus is made perfect by the Plantation Four What is termed Character Classic of or the Southern Negro Is featured by Archie J J. and Walter Jones appearing in the rails railroad ad yards of a big I South Southern Southern ern city The stage rg setting t n is elaborate elaborate orate showing the tall buildings s Inthe in inthe inthe the background and the myriad of or tracks in the y yards The repartee is fast and typical of ot the negro and presented presented presented pre pre- in a way that keeps leeps the house housein in a roar of ot laughter Other especially amusing features are the Cotten Pickers' Pickers Revue the Fashionable Carnival Lilly from Louisville and Jeane Jeanette Jeanette and her dusk dusky Cause for Divorce is the screen showing which holds holds- the audience in thrills The bill will be repeated all the week the change taking place next V Wednesday S