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Show THE CITIZEN 10 i i The First 'VT'CUR exceedingly dancers grace the boards at the Pantages this week in a sensadown-to-the-mo-me- tional exhibition nt the shimmie dance, which is sweeping the country like wildfire. Not only is this exhibition a riotous carnival of gracefulness, but a contest as well, and many of Salt Lake's dancers are taking part and meeting with rounds of applause. Polly, Oz and Chick have a big bundle of joy which they dispense over the footlights in sprightly doses. They are billed as "Cute, Clever, and Classy, and live up to their label every second. A Telephone Tangle is the particular reason for a big slice of the laughter and bursts of applause, as it fairly hums with the of split-secon- d snappiest mirth, and its swift little plot keeps every one in a continual state of glee and suspense. The Victoria Four are by all odds four of the best vocalists heard on the Pan in many a moon. Their idea of harmony catches the house and their cycle of songs wins them instant approval. Helen Jackley has something different in the way of aerial feats to offer, which she puts over with an ease and skill that win her audiences. Eddie Fitzpatrick and his orchestra have a capital musical program, while a reel of late new views concludes the show. This bill plays through Tuesday night. A brand new show opens next Wednesday afternoon a bill that is said to boast of some of the most sensational and clever acts on the Pantages circuit. PA RAMO UNT-E- M PRESS you wish to know how any of the tricks mystifying sleightfOf-han- d are done, just ask Charles Hay, star of Thomas H. Inces latest photoplay, Hay Foot, Straw Foot, which comes theatre for to the Paramount-Empres- s three days, commencing Sunday. In this picture Mr. Ray appears as an entertainer at an army camp theater under the stage name of Abdul Ben Mazazza, who had to perform all kinds of illusions. To get into the part Mr. Ray had to take a course in legerdemain and now says he is next to all the tricks that make the wise heads in the usual audience scratch their ears. During the filming of the production Mr. Ray had great sport at the Thomas H. Ince studio mystifying every one on the lot with the stunts he had learned. When the scene was finally shot, however, he had to give them all away for the story requires him to bungle all his tricks. Doris Lee is his leading woman. IF FILMS IN COLOR exclusively a premier presentation of the new Prizma films in natural colors for Sunday, July 12, wil be of special interest to those who have followed the developments of color photography, and particularly of color motion pictures. Mr. Carpenter states that he hates to tell how much he is paying for them, but he feels that his clientele is entitled to see the latest and best in pictures. These wonderful films are not but phoown in natures colors. The tographed first subject to be shown will be the famous volcano at Hawaii in all its hideous splendor. These remarkable pictures will be followed each Sunday, Monday and Tuesday by different Prizma subjects, one of which shows scenes of under water life off Catalina island. hand-colore- t PLA YJNG WITH SAL VINI By Marie Wainwright. most thrilling experience? Well, Ive had a lot of thrilling experiences, but I think the thrillingest of all was the time the elder Salvini almost suffocated me. Yes, he really did. I played Desdemona with him, you know. And it was always quite thrilling enough just to play with Salvini, but on this particular occasion he quite forgot himself and went about his job My of smothering poor Desdemona me as if he actually meant it. He very nearly did it too. With glaring eyes the tragedian advanced towards me muttering fiercely. Then he seized me in his powerful grasp and almost choked the life out of me. At the end of the scene I was unconscious and Salvini, when he realized what he had done almost smothered me again trying to revive me. That was my unpleasantest thrill, certainly. The pleasantest thrills I have ever had come to me regularly now at every performance of "Dear Brutus, when my old husband in the play, Grant Stewart, makes love to me and proposes to me again while he is still under the influence of the magical Wood of Second Chance. That is the most beautiful scene I have ever played. I often wonder if it thrills the audience as it does me. FAMOUS FIRST NIGHTS The Little Minister was produced at the Empire theatre. In this piece Maude Adams was introduced as a star, and her hour of triumph had come. Robert Edeson was the leading, man, and James M. Barrie was the magician who was destined to transform Babbie into Peter Tan, and Peter Pan into Cinderella. In the audience was Annie Adams, the sweet litle mother of the sweet little star. She was shedding tears of joy. Sappho opened on February 16, On September 27, 1897, 1900, THE nt-Empress, announcement by George E. manager of the Paramouthat he has secured d, at Wallacks theatre, with Glga Nether sole featured as the disreputable heroine of Clyde Fitchs dramatization of Alphonse Daudets novel. The performance caused a riot, hissing continuing throughout the piece, many people rising and leaving after the first and second acts. The most objectionable feature was the episode of the spiral staircase, up which the lightly clad Miss Nethersole was carried by the handsome Hamilton The police authorities subsequently stopped the production and haled the star to court. First nights at Weber and Fields Music Hall were in a class by themselves. They were like family parties or reunions. Everybody knew everybody else. Chorus girls received ovations as well as stars. Persiflage passed across the footlights. It was Hello Lew, and Hello Joe. Hopper would greet a fire commissioner in one box, and Dave War-fiel- d would chat with a police commissioner in another box. Florence Zleg-feld- , Jr., would hail Anna Held, and Diamond Jim Brady greet Lillian Russell. Harold Seton in Theatre Magazine. One night just as I was ready to sing in Baltimore to one of the biggest audiences I ever had, a dispatch was handed to be; it was from Mr. Tumulty, the presidents che majority. secretary, and said, 'Everything is arranged.' I was happy beyond words, and I never sang better than I did that night, that I thought was to be After my last on the concert stage. the concert, I got a train, went to Re-vell- e. De-Wo- By Roy Atwell dont know whether it should come strik- under the heading of the most ing episode in my life, but it certainly was the most strenuous. And it didnt happen on the stage, either. The incident occurred while I was literally up a tree at Camp Alger, near Washington, during the war. I was a volunteer, and as part of my training I had been assigned to a post as lookout, high up in the branches of a big tree. Spanish-America- n I should explain that I am abnormalSo was my ly afraid of lightning. mother before me. When I was a youngster and living with my brothers and sisters at the Thousand Islands, mother always herded us children into the house during a thunder storm. To get under a tree, she explained, was to court disaster. Well, while I was up the tree there came a heavy electric storm. Not only was I in a tree, but I had a gun over my shoulder like a lightning rod. No, I didnt desert my post, and I wasnt courtmartialed. It wasn't the most striking 'episode in my life, perhaps, as the lightning missed me, but it certainly was the most strenuous. very near to being a said John McCormack, after his wonderfully successful concert on Wednesday night, to his friend, J. D. R. R. Farrell, president of the & N. Yes, said Mr. Farrell, I heard you refused it for a colonelcy. "How interesting news travels, reYou see, I torted the great tenor. didnt refuse it. It was like this: I had done a lot of soldiering ,and some of my friends said I should be a major. It was all arranged for me to get ma-jo- O-- , it was the colsaid Mr. 'Farrell Oh, onelcy you refused, No, I refused nothing. Why? I asked Joe. 'Just because you dont get it he said. 'Well, Joe I said, you have spoiled this war for me. 'Well, you might see the president he said, and in I went 'You dont want to be a major, Mr. Wilson said. 'The fighting He men cant win the war alone. saw I was a bit disappointed. 'Some of us have to stay here and help win the war with the talents and abilities we have. You would be a good enough fighter, but I know you can be of more service to the country by staying on this side and keeping the founts of patriotic sentiment flowing. Mr. McCormack started out that afternoon, and splendidly did the part the president assigned to him without uniform, title or pay other than the applause of the soldier boys he cheered on their way to the front. DR. ELIOTS PLAN Eliot presents a plan by which thinks the productive processes of the country can go on to their fullest development without a possibility of class warfare. It may be summarized as follows: On the Part of Employers. 1. Abandonment of every form of DR. autocratic government in industries. 2. Universal adoption of management throughout the works or plant, employer and workmen having equal representation in co-operat- managing committees. 3. Adoption by all corporations, partnerships, and individual owners of every means of promoting the health and vigor of employees and their families. 4. Careful provision in all large services of the means of dealing promptly and justly wtih complaints ALMOST A MAJOR cT CAME the majorship. lf UP A TREE I Washington, and burst in on Mr. Tumulty. 'Wheres my commission? I asked. 'John,' said Joe Tumulty, I have good news for you; you dont get r, of employees. Universal use in large services of employment managers for dealing with the engagement, distribution, shifting, promotion ,and dismissal of employees. 6. General adoption of a genuine partnership system between the capital and the labor engaged in any given plant whereby the returns to labor and capital alike, after the wages are paid, Bhall vary with the profits of the establishment, the percentage of profits going to pay roll being always 5. well-traine- d |