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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters who watch the juggler SOME people the Orpheum this week dont like him. He is too good. He is so original, skillful, clever and nifty that he is forced to talk about it to his audience. He wants them to know that he thinks very well of himself at odd moments and that, at other moments, he is perfectly satisfied with himself. He is very temperamental about most things, but on that one point he is unchangeable and inflexible. He is determined to think well of himself and to patter about it luxuriously. However, you can like him or not, as you please; it is nothing to us. And while we are on the subject of and egotism let us not forget Lydia Barry, the large and portentious headliner who has been told by several press agents that she is good and who evidently believes them, being a credulous creature. Our own opinion is that she is good when she leasts suspects it and bad when she seems to be best pleased with herself. At one. point in her act she lets us into the golden secret that she is the daughter of the celebrated Barry of Barry and Fay, Irish comedians who were the laugh of the peaking world so long ago that Lydia was a mere child when Hector's great-grea- t grandfather was a pup. We could not tell whether she was claiming the credit for Barry or blaming him for herself. Lydia loves vaudeville badinage and uses a lot of it, for badinage is about the only thing that has not been affected by the high cost of living. We desire to suggest, however, that a headliner could afford to hire some humble sketch writer to write her lines for her and thus she could replace mere badinage with wit. At that Lydia shows a professional skill that is amazing and speaks in two or three languages other than English. Boyce Combe is a delightful English light comedian. His gaiety is as his blonde hair and mustache. but In fact he is a bit only in funl. And he sings such dainty little comic songs just as one would expect Percy to sing them to a parlor audience if Percy were really an actor and a good one. One song was about seasickness and as enacted and gulped by the comedian was enough to make the playhouse seem like a rolling boat on Lake Erie. Then there was a sneezing song that was new. It was like a light comedian case of the Flu and almost made ones eyes water. If Boyce were an onion he could do no better. Levitation is an excellent hoax performed by Prof. J. Edmund Magee. It is a satire on stage magicians. . the sense to get a real playwright to carve out an idea for them the lines. Visions of 1969 is the title of the skit, Jack Lait, the author, Harry Williams, the writer of the lyrics and Neal Moret, the music purveyor. The sketch tells the story of a mannish woman and a womanish man in the days of 1969. He gets hold of a bottle of 1919 booze in his grandmothers trunk and turns into a real man again. Fine moral, eh? His grandmother must have been some lady to be able to make the good old rye in her home with a bootlegging plant of her owni Jean Bell and Ollie Wood are neat little dancers. self-satisfacti- English-s- PANTAGES FEATURING a melange of mirth, song, with some nifty dancing thrown in for good measure, the Jarvis Footlight Revue is win- ning first place honors on the excellent bill now playing at Pantages. Sara Marie is as piquant a leading lady as her name implies, while Charles Jordan and George Offerman are merry cut-up- s of major magnitude. The cos-- - tumes and staging are most brilliant, while the dainty choristers are charming. Swinging, swaying jazz music is a feature of the Ziegler Sisters act. -- They have brought their jazz band right along with them. The girls swing through some intricate dance steps while the personable chaps who form the band, put over the most music imaginable. Rose Valyda wins her audience at every performance with her wonderful voice, which ranges from bass to soprano. Cramer, Barton and Sparling run the gamut of snappy repartee and late song hits in their merry act, which at evpunches the ery turn. Swinging dance steps and lilting songs form the number of Stewart and Olive, while Bell and Eva have a speedy act in their tumbling' turn. The third episode of Smashing Barriers continues the thrilling tale of the lumber camps, while Eddie Fitzpatricks orchestra provides a capital musical arrangement. This bill will continue through Tuesday night. A varied and entertaining olio of new acts comes Wednesday, bringing the famous Gilraine dancers as the -- toe-ticklin- g down-at-mouth- er . with former Tellegan, leading man for Sarah Bernhardt, Geraldine Farrar, whose meteoric rise in is the motion picture profession equaled only by her grand opera tamely headlines one of the strongest bills of the season, opening' next Wedes-da- y at the Casino, formerly the Wilkes theatre. The World and Its Woman, the title of the new photoplay, has won unstinted praise in the big cities of the east where motion picture critics have witnessed previews. "The World and Its Woman is an ordinary photoplay. Goldwyn presents it as a de luxe production and the months of hard work spent in completing the infinite artistry of the picture, combined with the powerful plot and the theme which is destined to set Salt Lake agog, stamps it as an epic in motion picture history. Critics concede it as Miss Farrars best piece of work while the acting of Mr. Tellegan is opening the eyes of Ackerman-Harri- s vaude- AMERICAN FEATURING Olive Thomas in the The Glorious Lady, is announced as the main attraction on the American theatre bill for Sunday and Monday. The picture combines the quaint charm and appeaof love old England with a story that has both novelty and thrills. Edmund Goulding, the author, has furnished Miss Thomas with a vehicle of the sort which has made her popular. Chief among the supporting players is Matt Moore, brother of Owen Moore and Tom Moore. Some of the others in the cast are Huntley Gordon, Richard Taber, May Burke, Evelyn Brent and Mrs, Henry Clive. One of the big members of the picture comes during the running ff. a point by point race, which was the early English counterpart of our present-day steeplechase. In these race scenes, which are said to contain much actionful suspense, there are several thrills registered. Chief of swift-movin- g melo- that tells the whole story. Percy Bronson and Winnie Baldwin are two vaudevillians who have had co-starri- ville acts. The pace set by the Casino is already telling in Salt Lake and the increasing crowds are a fair barometer of the excellent quality of shows being presented. An elaborate act is that of Will J. Ward and his five symphony girls. Five pianos playing jazz in concert dies first picture IN herfamous Lou high-clas- s light-heade- d jazz-tim- e CASINO motion picture directors. This is one of the few big pictures which these two famous stars will appear in before the former returns to grand opera this winter. On the same program will be six as-lig- and girls dancing, to prize number. Other features on the new bill include Joe Jackson, the original; the Rialto Quartette; Gay lor and Herron in Two Corking Girls; Dorothy Lewis, mezze contralto, and the Shattucks in novelty juggling. BESSfE CLAYTON AND THE CANS INOS, FAMED DANCERS WHO HEAD ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL DANCE ACTS AT THE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK |