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Show THE CITIZEN 17 With The First Nighters the philosopher who said WHO wasthere is some jazz in the best of men? You may break, you may shatter the soul as you will, but the zizz of the jazz will hang round it still, as the poet says. Even U. S. heroes go in for the jazz music. Witness the U. S. Jazz Band which is one of the big features of the bill at the Orpheum this week. The way the men behind the horns and the strings deport themselves when in a jazz ecstacy one would think they were dodging Hun shells on a deck. Alfred J. Moore, red-ho- t their conductor, was once as classical as the innocent snow, but he fell. One can still see that he was a credit to dignified society, but one can also see that since his descent into the Avernus of jazz he would be inclined to jazz when serving a plate of soup to the lady at his left with the silk dress. It is a terrible disease unless you have it under perfect control. When directing the band his control is perfect and the result is the liveliest kind of jazz music. It would be useless to try to tell how droll is Lillian Shaw Americas PreIn mier Vocal Dialect Comedienne. spite of this solemn description of herself on the program she is about the funniest lady who has visited our vaudeville sphere in years. Most of us remember A1 Lydell who does the old soldier stunt. This year he has associated with himself Carle-toMacy who gives us an. admirable characterization of the old U. S. n sailor. What the Critic Said is a happy thought. Arthur West, of the loud voice and louder manner, feigns to read from a newspaper what the critic says about the comedian as the act proceeds. At this point the audience the was convulsed with laughter, comedian reads, or something equally pertinent, when his audience is pleased with one of his quips, jests and songs. And be it .remarked his songs are new and his jokes as fresh as he is himself. out of a villain or rather to give to will be something worth while withthe villain the appearance and the ap- out doubt. The big New Years bill is headed peal of a hero. James Durie is thoroughly bad a by Eva Shirley and big jazz band, with Ralph Dunbars Salon Singers seducer, a spy, a pirate, a fine gentleman so far as manners may take him, and Indoor Sports, a merry farce a duelist, warrior and soldier of forcomedy, as feature attractions. Miss Shirleys act is a regular jazzerie tune, and he has, withal, the romantic nature of the adventurer. In spite of one of the liveliest acts of the kind these qualities, which are of the ever staged and a humdinger of an attraction for such a jolly festal ocstage stagey, one cannot give wholehearted itnerest to so evil a creature. casion as New Years eve. She is That is the weakness of the plot, but assisted by Fid Gordons versatile musical boys and A1 Roth, the faWalker Whitesides is given an oppormous jazz dancer, in Songs of the tunity to display all his skill as an Moment, from ragtime to grand actor, and that is sufficient compensaopera. tion. To say that he achieves a triThe irresistibility of youth, comumph is to state it inadequately. The Master of Ballantrae Mr. bined with the ' glory of a perfect women IN Walker two roles for are There only has made Miss Shirley one of Whitesides, who once was in the show, which tells the story of voice, Shakemost our vaudevilles most popular prima donamong acceptable of two brothers the undying anitpathy mean admirable nas. The assistance of the jazzy spearean actors, has of James Duries efforts to be reand dium for the expression of his high musical' youths adds pep and ginger to the illness of the Owing venged. to the act and assures Orpheum pattalents. He enacts the role of James actress who was to appear in the role rons a Durie, that sinister and fascinating merry time on New Years of Alison, Henry Duries wife, and eve and all that week figure which Robert Louis Stevenson femal roles the substitutions hasty Tickets for the New Years eve gave to fiction more than a generation were blanketed. somewhat shows are now on sale at the Orago. And yet the character can never domiOn the whole, however, the be one of epduring stage value, for pheum ticket office, and it behooves Whitesides of Walker imqualities nating every one who remembers the big the playwright has attempted the men in the crush of last year on a similar occapossible. He has tried to make a hero and the excellence of the caste sufficed to give the performance sion to secure their reservations at a finish that was most alluring. the earliest possible moment. For the Orpheum- is certain to be the mecca of a multitude of ORPHEUM on the big night and first come will will be on tap at the be first served when it come3 to a:plenty JOY seats. during the holiday the festival spirit already ruling there in big holiday bills that will MITZI COMING SOON eve reach a climax on New Years A UNIQUE figure on the modern when two big shows, the regular one at 8:15 p. m. and a midnight matinee American stage is Mitzi, the one starting at 11 p. m., will be offered star famed both as prima donna and Miss Venita Gould gives imitations. That one of Julian Eltynge is so true to the life that all the rest of her imitations must be as veracious. Wherefore we mourn the downfall of our old friend, A1 Jolson. Evidently his decline has been rapid, for when he last sang in our midst a few years ago he did not at all suggest a gorilla of the Afric wilds trying to tear a coon song to tatters. But Miss Gould knows best. Perhaps she saw A1 in one of those moments just before New York went dry. The other acts of the high class bill, one an acrobatic stunt, and the other a blackface affair, are excellent. - joy-seeke- rs sea-os- n, EVA SHlgLCy by Manager Edward P. Levy. The midnight matinee will feature something very much out of the ordinary in added attractions, although the regular vaudeville bill is one of the strongest presented at the home of big time vaudeville this season. Just what the extra added attraction is to be is being reserved as a surprise for Orpheum patrons, but it comedienne of today and easily remembered as the flashing figure of "Sari and Pom Pom. Her unpro- nouncable last name has now been dropped in the interest of the throats of theatregoers and Mitzi is considered enough, as there is likely to be but one. She will come to the Salt Lake theatre as a Christmas attraction in & EVA SHIRLEY AND HER JAZZ BAND, TOPPING THE ORPHEUMS BIG NEW DEARS BILL IN A REGULAR "JAZZERIE" OF FUN AND FRQLIC |