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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Niehters AMBLING .and gamboling Gertrude is at the Orpheum this week without her company. She left the company behind because she found it necessary to occupy most of the stage at one and the same time all by herself. When Gertrude dances one is company and more is a crowd. Her first dance is an imitation of a bird, what kind of a bird only the deviser of the dance can tell. He has provided her with a spread of wings that would make a condor envious. She lools like a gigantic white vampire as she prances and struts about the stage operating the wings with her hands at work on a concealed mechanical device. While this dance is impressive, many were better pleased with her mimicry of well known imitates dancers. Everyone who stage celebrities imitates Eddie Foy, not because Eddie ever was very good, but because he was queer, and so it befalls that Gertrude visualizes Foy the dancer. It is her best imitation, which shows that Foy was good for something. Miss Hoffmann has elaborated her drum specialty. Formerly she climbed down into the orchestra and demonstrated what she could do by way of punishing drums, cymbals and bells. Now she has an elaborate orchestra of discords which she plays upon horrendously and calls the net result A Trip to Coney Island. And while she, performs she very cautiously remains on the stage. Youd be surprised the way George Watts sings Youd Be Surprised. He gets a lot of burlesque fun out of that song by his queer mannerisms and intonations. Assisted by Belle Hawley he presents laughs coated with melodies, and the coating is sometimes so thin as hardly to be noticeable. Watts is a great big guy with a twinkle in his eye and fantastic ways of putting things over. The Van Cellos are not van salesmen, as their name might indicate. One of them is a well dressed gentleman and the other a lady who wears three pairs of tights in a single act without doing anything in particular. The gentleman balances barrels on his toes. It is wonderful how all his brains go to his toes as he performs his foot feats, which are quite marvellous. Meredith & Snoozer discloses an intellectual bulldog and his partner, a went man. Evidently something wrong behind the scenes Wednesday evening, because the man was angry, which seemed to emphasize the fact that there was but one intellect between the two partners and Snoozer had it. We were afraid, every minute of the act, that the man would bite the dog. Fox and Ward, for fifty-thre- e years partners in minstrelsy if not in crime, were interesting not so much because of their act asjfecause they had had the nerve to put the act over on two generations of the suffering masses. . When they come on the stage you cannot tell whether Frank Jerome and Big Herbert, fat man extraordinary, will turn out to be merely merrymakers or something more remarkable. When Big Herbert suddenly develops into a tumbler almost as efficient as his partner youd be surprised. The end of the bill is The Beginning of the World. We are glad that the program described the act, for we would not attempt as much and expect to escape mental fatigue. It is futuristic color play performed in living colors, with Mile Laluce as The Spirit Color. Youll never know any more about this ingenious act until you see it. WITH a French plot and an intonation, so to speak, Oh Boy! at the Salt Lake theatre makes a regular Argonne drive to victory. The name was. selected with no particular relation to the plot and one suspects that it was introduced as a catch phrase in the musical comedy so that it might be tacked on as a title. It adds a sort of jazzy air to a musical creation that at no time descends to the infernal regions of jazz. In fact the tunes, though light, are in the best style. The most alluring were An Old Fashioned Wife, Till the Clouds Roll By and Nesting Time in Flatbush, the a delightful travesty. It devolves upon Miss Charline May-fiel- d to put musical comedy life into the character of Jackie Simpson, who absent mindedly hits a consta-bul- e in the eye and is compelled to flee. She lands in the bachelor apartments of George ' Budd (Roy Giusti) who has just been married in the eloping style and is trying to keep it -- last-name- d can look forward to a real theatrical quiet for a time. His efforts to conceal Jackie, at the request of a chum, event Dally matinees for ladies only and at the same time prevent her will be given. The evening performidentity from becoming known to his ances are for everybody over sixteen bride, her parents and others who years of age. are apt to be critical and censorious of the forms the PANTAGES plot. Miss Mayfield is a dashing dancer and succeeds in her chief misLake en masse is extending SALT to and make mischief which is sion, royal welcome to Singers merriment. Midgets, that talented aggregation of Giusti charms with his voice and is wee entertainers who look as if they not half bad as an actor. Harry R.. had stepped from some fairy tale book Hoyt, who enacts the role of the for the sole purpose of entertaining cheerful idiot of a chum, is a graceful Pantages patrons this week. actor with a keen sense of the comic.' The tiny entertainers present a inmost one of the is it Altogether whole vaudeville, show in itself. Their seen at the musical plays acts run the gamut from cowboy gratiating a time. in Salt Lake theatre long thrillers to an Egyptian harem scene. The Midgets are supported by a well balanced bill that likewise meets SALT LAKE with instant approval. Ross Wyse t( A NEW mystery play, that is and company bring some clever patbound to meet with public fa- ter and songs and then spring a survor, opens its engagement of one week prise in the shape of Tony, Australias at the Salt Lake theatre, starting Mon- famous midget, who makes a dashing hit. Then theres Number Please, day night in which a titian-haire- d telephone opThe plot of the play is based on the a hotel clerk and a travelling theme of Marriage and Divorce, tru- erator, man contrive to toss out some clever1 ly a vital and very important subject. A1 Prince and Reta Bell' It is called a play of mystery, and fully chatter. flash some exceptional piano playing, carries out the authors idea, for one and patter in their act, is greatly puzzled until the final drop topical songs The Hold Up, while the . Cycling of the curtain. In order to have a play meet with public fancy, it must con- Brunettes keep the thrills agoing with gravity-defyin- g cycle feats'. The tain tears and comedy. This, The their concluding chapter of - Smashing Revelations of a Wife, has in abundand Eddie Fitzpatricks Barriers ance. Mystery plays like The Unconknown Purple, The Woman in Room merry musical arrangement are The cluding features of this excellent bill, Three Faces East, Thirteen, runs through Tuesday night. Invisible Foe, are now having a very which successful run at Broadway, New The Pantages management promises York houses, and this new play apa big variety bill opening Wednesday, pears like another one ready to follow with Slatkos Midnight Rollickers, the above successes. With a cast of featuring the worlds fastest whirlunusual excellence and a production wind dancers and their orchestra, as e stellar attraction. Other acts will far above the average theatre-goer- s . piece-de-resistan- ce : - , . MISS MAUD LAMBERT, THE CHARMING MUSICAL COMEDY FAVORITE, AND ERNEST R. BALL, THE POPULAR COMPOSER WHO HEAD NEXT WEEK'S ORPHEUM BILL IN A DELIGHTFUL PIANOLOGUE. |