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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters ONE of the dancers in the all-sta- r act at the Orpheum marks blithely that re- Critics must have a kick or two In everything they do. Rhymed verse as a medium of vaudeville expression is coming more and more into vogue. The poets are addicted to free verse, which is a form of verse which obeys no law except that of poetic license, and folk still never rhymes. like rhyme; in fact, everybody likes rhyme and the vaudeville writers now give their acts a sprightly air by rhyming their introductions and anything else that suits their fancy. It lends a tang of distinction that vaudeville has lacked. And so it befalls that a graceful young gentleman who constitutes himself a Chorus reels off graceful couplets while Bessie Clayton performs her astounding antics, while Eduardo and Elisa Cansino do their high explosive Spanish dancing and James Clemons indulges in terpsichor-ea- n eccentricities of a comic bent. long-haire- d Old-fashion- Inasmuch as we are allowed two kicks we shall not waste either of them on such an. agile as Bessie Clayton. We will use one kick on Mr. C. H. ODonell and he can tell his partner, Miss Julia Nash, how he likes it. Evidently their original comedy is a home-breIt shows few signs of the wit at which it aims, but both players are extremely clever and would shine to more advantage in something that was really original with an originality other than their own. The story, tells about the man who comes home tipsy from the club. Is that an original idea? Is it not rather a study in ancient history? Today the man arrives at the club tipsy from home. That is an idea which we hand out freely to the ODonnell-Nasteam; they can use it or misure it or fling it back to us, but we still maintain that it would make a funnier play than the antede-luvia- n stuff about the husband who comes home at Three G M. with a clubhouse bun. out the use of fins, although they in- same bill comes in the form of dainty .little Vivian Martin, supported by a troduce a few scales. His Official The Rosa Ring Trio dance and jazz splendid company, in In this new production Fiancee. on a tight wire in a most astonishing Miss Martin plays the role of a typist fashion. Their act is unusual and efwho becomes officially engaged to her fective. Jazz is getting into everything. heretofore unapproachable employer for business reasons only. Jolly comHarry and Harriet Seeback present Jazz in the Gym, which consists of plications ensue that are said to keep amused an audience thoroughly punching one, two and three bags at a time and making them jazz in throughout. For the latter part of the week comtune. mencing Thursday that popular star Bryant Washburn will be featured in a hilarious, screen version of Why PARRMOUNT-EMPRES-S Smith Left Home. The new bill at the Hour. Other features of the new bill include an installment of the Pathe Review and a big, smashing comedy. The musical program by the thirty-piecPhilharmonic orchestra ' includes Anviile Hejre aKti, by Hubray; e Chorus Paramount-Empres- s which opens Sunday, gives promise of being one of the really entertaining ones of the season, including as it does the much heralded Salome vs. Mack Sennett comedy, Shenandoah, said to be the best yet put out by that aggregation of fun-smit- hs and calling for the appearance of every star on the Sennett salary list. Better than Uncle Tom Without the Cabin, this new burlesque on well known stage plays strikes a new mark ii the laugh promoting series. The comedy drama offering on the AMERICAN The Trembling Hour, feature IN attraction of the bill to open at the American theater Sunday, the public will be given opportunity to see a picture of unusual intensity. Kenneth Harlan and Helen Eddy are featured in the stellar roles, and without question it is said to be the best vehicle in which either star has ever appeared. The story is absorbing, mystifying, and will grip any audience from the w. from II Trovatore, overture, Joan of Arc. an an CASINO NNOUN CEMENT is made by Managre Lester Fountain of the Casino theatre that The World and Its Woman, Geraldine Farrar and Lou Tellegens latest feature photoplay, which has been such a decided success in Salt Lake, will be held over until Tuesday night, owing to popular demand. A new six-avaudeville bill opens and will be shown in conjuncSunday tion with the picture. Director Frank Lloyd; who staged Geraldine Farrars latest Goldwyn in the production, demonstrated course of the Petrograd street scene that he may have missed his calling when he did not enter the army. The feat he performed then shows that he possesses generalship of high order. Twenty-eigh- t hundred extras recruited from a Russian colony in Los Angeles, were engaged for the scene. Two hundred of them were refugees and 300 returned soldiers. Interpreters called out the directors orders in ct Russian. Outfitting the crowd in the first place, was no small problem. Five hundred of them had to be provided with shoes and 800 with uniforms. The entire crew was nevertheless fed in thirty minutes and all in all there was no more confusion around the studio than if a half a dozen Visitors had dropped in. The World and Its Woman signalizes not only the first run of this remarkable story in Salt Lake, but serves to introduce Geraldine Farrar and Lou Tellegen as joint stars in a pictured drama. h' After looking over the field we have decided to exhaust our other kick on Ted Doner, who .might be a demon dancer if he did not affect a feminine manner. He almost lisps and, therefore, we feel like kicking him and he can, therefore, consider himself kicked. IFifteen Minutes with William Dunham and Grace OMalley was insufficient to appease the audiences appetite for merriment and they demanded more. The two indulged in comical, musical capers, nothing more, but they Just how especially Williamh-kno- w to put the laugh in a caper. Ray W. Snow presents a sketchy little piece with the aid of Narine Narine is evidently a Velmar. twisted contraction of Sardine, a beautiful .name for a ladyfish. However, weil say the two get by with first reel to the last. It portrays the passionate strvings of youth to revenge injustice, the penalty for overstepping law, and the sudden tragedy when there is fixed upon the returned soldier hero an inexplcable crime. Then the girl comes to his rescue. There are not many plays with the terrific intensity of The Trembling . ORPHEUM T I WHOSE " SPEAKING THE PUBLIC MIND" IS THE LAST WORD AMONG MCNOLOGISTS. HE'S A T THE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK. JULIUS TANNEN, " CHATTERBOX , TS to be a great week for the males at the Orpheum next week, for while the fe of the species are not entirely nonentities one or two in particular being very much in evidence, . figuratively speaking the of the masculine players persuasion stand out out brilliantly in contrast. ' Scanning the list, one finds Julius Tannen, that chattering comedian, who chats vivaciously about everyone |