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Show THE CITIZEN 10 h With The First Nighters wonderful what a Lincoln burly of the inn near Rochene, watch can make a lady spy do "the battle in the clouds, stroll into the trench and the front line on the stage? If the master spies of back-lin- e the Wilhelmstrasse could only seethe trench when war is getting especially marvellous antics of the lady spy in hellish and finally join the glorious An American Ace at the Orpheum fight with our hero and heroine in of La Veille, they would realize what possibilities the belfry of the church Huns they overlooked. If there are any 'shooting, bayonetting, stabbing and tossing them to terra firma like lady spies of Hun persuasion still so many swatted flies, while, in the lurking about they should see how same splendid moments, our hero spying is done in vaudeville. It is as bombs with unerring aim the tanks easy as rolling off a cliff, but 'much of lethal gas which were to supplesafer. ment the work of the spies at a cerWe were fascinated by the sang tain hour and annihilate an entire froid of the lady secret service agent. American regiment. Aint it grand. Of course she didnt really possess Well say it is. And you must be parsang froid thats French. She posalyzed in every joint, your tongue sesses the German equivalent whatmust be cleaving to the roof of your ever it may be. At all events, she mouth, if you cannot applaud, stamp, cooly walked in on every secret concheer or hiss at the appropriate moversation at regimental headquarters ments. of Colonel Todd Beane, an American Having decimated our vocabulary officer, who evidently was so called to point out the merits of because he didnt have a thought in in trying we will not exhis "bean. She purloined papers, this pend many phrases on the remainder told impossible stories, destroyed teleof the bill. All of it is good except phones and did a number of other perone act which is alluringly entitled fectly spyish things, but the bright June Time. Time one day in .American officers did not suspect unJune. Which inspires us to say What til long after the audience had mentalis so rotten as a day in June? ly shot her at sunrise. Any spy who wants to be safe for a long, long time should Employ Lincoln J. Carter as a ISNT it . I super-melodram- a, The Three Jahns .are equilibrists. Two wine bottles dry are placed top to ' top. One ' stunt is as stirring as it is unique. The acrobat on the floor puts them der stands on his head on the bottom of the upper bottle. Then the ground athlete, carrying this remarkable burden, walks up one side of a pyramid ladder and down the other. And such a headache! Its the only way to get a headache out of a wine bottle nowadays. The Rounder of Old Broadway presents an elaborate view of the Great White Way at night. It is a singing act, introducing characters such as the cop, the dope fiend, the old actor, the woman pickpocket and the rounder. The songs are attractive and the lines most witty. Herschel Henlere, pianist extraordinary and Frenchman extraordinaire, used to play at the Ellen theatre in Provo, but no one held it against him the opening night. An actor has to begin somewhere. You see, we are playing safe, because no one can tell whether we are rapping the Ellen theatre, Provo or both. guide. Lincoln J. has had a penchant for doing impossible things these many years. It was he who exhausted all the thrills long ago to give life to American melodrama. In An Ameri" can .Ace, however, he has the airplane at his command and he does with it the marvellous things he used to do with railway trains, sawmills and ships. Lincoln J. could not die until he has produced an airplane battle in the clouds and such a realistic fight is it that one is left gasping. You would not believe that the illusion could be so genuinely convincing. The play has been condensed from minutes of the original into fifty-fiv- e super-thrillMost of the time the whizz-bang- s are whizzing, the aerial bombs are banging and whanging, the rockets are rushing, the flares are the machine guns are gnashing their teeth, the grenades are gyrating and the spies are spying, the lovers are loving, the aces are "doing noble, the soldiers are soldiering, and the Old Mill of fond melodramatic memory and the Old Church with its chimes of no less reverent memory are still providing jolts for the jaded nerve systems of these United States. Take it from us, it is a grand drama of its kind. War is a dull thing compared with a Lincoln J. Carter melodrama. The great advantage of the playwright over a mere Foch or is that the playwright can begin an offensive at any time and BEGINNING Monday night, August Salt Lake theatre, for four nights, Selwyn and Company will serve Roi Cooper Mergrues refreshing comedy, Tea for Three, heralded as one of the really genuine successes of the past New York season. Pro- duced at the Maxine Elliott theatre last fall, the comedy was received with enthusiasm by critics and public and this enthusiasm has never diminished the play has been the subject of more newspaper and magazine comment and discussion than, any comedy in years. A great factor in its success has been the inimitable acting of Arthur Byron. Stepping from the role of the doctor who cured jealousy in The Boomerang into that of Philip, a physician as well, but one who does not care to practice because the world is full of two kinds of people. Those who have something the matter with them and wont see a doctor and those who havent anything the matter, with them and are always Mr. Byron did not running to one. have so much as a days vacation. Rehearsals for Tea for Three were conducted during the run of the other play and the company followed Mr. Byron from one city to another as his bookings in The Boomerang directed. He was an instantaneous hit in Tea for Three. The brilliancy of dialogue and the quick, snappy tempo of the piece is particularly suited to Mr. Byrons personality and style of acting and he is ably supported by Frederick Perry and Elsa Ryan. Other roles are capably rendered. The play is in three acts and four scenes all of which are artistically staged by Selwyn and Company. PANTAGES KAJIYAMA the smiling Japanese who. baffles, confounds and evokes unstinted wonder with his power of concentration and multiple brain action easily looms at d bill now the top of the running at Pantages. Kajiyama does a hundred and one things and does them at the same time. His act is a hummer from first to last. Again the shimmie revolves over KAMEO s. high-falutin- g, well-balance- Pantages stage. There are also the newest onestep to dazzle ' the dance devotee, the latest gyrating waltz and a saucy little foxtrot. A personable pair who make an in stant hit with their audience are Clyde Hager and Walter Goodwin who sing their own composition That Wonderful Mother of Mine, and comedy songs that put them home with the crowd. Then theres Lawrence and Edwards who have a well gauged . Lu-dendor- ff minhe can concentrate into utes more real excitement than a field marshal can manufacture in days. If you dont believe it, go to see this play. Look in on the hurly- - SALT LAKE fifty-fiv- e The Pension Office, reminiscent of the Civil war and exceptionally well acted. Three lassies are Patton, Yantls and Rooney who sing and sing and then comedy, fifty-fiv- e non-languor-o- TRIXIE FRIGANZA, POPULAR COMEDIENNE WHO HEADLINES A GREAT VARIETY BILL AT THE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK us |
