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Show THE CITIZEN 18 MITZI" AS SAUCY STAR AND WITH THE ACROBATIC TROUPE IN fHE MUSICAL COMEDY HEAD OVER HEELS Henry W. Savages gay musical play, Head Over Heels, that was so much praised during its long runs in Bos' ton, New York and Chicago last sea SALT LAKE THEA TRE CHRISTMAS DA Y, FRIDA Y, . AND SA TURDA Y WITH SA TURD A Y MA TINES son. Mitzi is an original. Reviewers do not liken lier to any other player of past or present. She has been willing to sacrifice good looks but never charm for at least part of her perform-anc- e to give striking characterization of whimsical stage figures. In Head Over Heels she cannot be conventional, even if she would, for she must be singer, dancer, acrobat and comedienne, with an equal ability te start ones eyes a swimming or their lips to laughing, all in one small body. Head Over Heels is praised as a musical comedy as unusual in tone as she herself. It has no spies nor cannon, but is credited with providing laughter almost as incessant as a machine guns ratttle. Cf the story as told it is easily believable- that the natural developments of anlusing situations and dialogue in the piece ran away with its original sober drama and made chuckles where at first tears were called for and critics have even set it apart as a melodrama of musical joyfulness. In it a quaint little Italian acrobat follows a gallivanting lover to America, but even his fickleness cannot for long make her at a t ime. Modem society does not affright her; she waves away its snubs wrtih the huge ostrich fan borrowed from the haughtiest leader of smart sets, and provides humor instead of sorrows. Mitzi in "Head Over. Heels brings the notable melodies by Jerome Kern and the gay story by Edgar Allan Woolf. The cast is recognized as one i of unusual importance, both for the quality of its singers and comedy players, among them being Boyd Marshall, Joe Keno, Ruth Oswald, Sallie Stembler, Dorothy LaMar, Neil Moore, and many more besides the girlish group of singing dancers for which much praise has been given, and a troupe of noted acrobats. 5) - down-hearte- d MY HONOLULU GIRL 'T'HERE is just one beautiful thing after another in Norman Frieden-wald- s musical oddity which is coming to the Salt Lake theatre three days, commencing Monday, December 22. Its alluring apeal finds response alike from music lover, laughter lover, and beauty lover. It combines about everything to arouse public enthusiasm, a pretty Hawaiian love story, bewitching melodies from dreamy Honolulu that will be long remembered, fantastically gowned beauties, a troupe of n&tive Hawaiians, and a cast of musical comtruly edy favorites Aside from the magnificent stage pictures is the wide variety of musical ensembles and song numbers . tanDreamy waltzes, lively talizing tangoes, whirling eccentric tunes and modem ballads, all blend into a carefuly arranged melange that pleases from start to finish. . one-step- s, My Honolulu Girl corns upon creatures of a realm with has a. distinct embellished Hawaiian atmosphere with native Hawaiians, in native dances, songs and customs of beautiful Honolulu. An exact reproduction of the famous bathing beach at Wa-kiand a vivid production of the volcano Kilauea in eruption are big scenic surprises. Among the big cast of musical comedy favorites will be found Eddie-LeKraner, an eccentric comedian ki w of the twenty-tw- o carat variety; Madeleine LaFere, a dainty, dashing comedienne; Sam Burton, Kathryn Purtell, and Miss Billie Emerson, a popular comic opera prima donna. A big chorus of Fifth Avenue beauties charmingly gowned adds to the magnificent production of My Honolulu Girl. CAROLINA LAZZARI her lips with no apparent effort on her part Her chief number was the familiar stalking horse of contraltos, Nobil Signor, from Meyerbeers Huguenots, w'hich, with its ornamentations, requires a higher degree of flexibility than the average contralto voice possesses, but which Lazzari sang with delightful ease. To Lazzari and De Luca fell the great triumph of the evening in the lovely duet from Donizettis La It is one of the finest of concerted composition for the voice ever penned, and the rendering was so perfect in vocal intonation and expression that it led to innumerable recalls. Fa-vorit- a. ex-ampl- es real test of a great artist is: he or she repeat? Judged by this standard, Carolina Lazzari, the gifted contralto of the Chicago Opera Company, who will be heard THE Monday evening, December 29th, at she is entirely unfamiliar-gi- rls whose only excuse and for living is that they are ornamental, and whose chief occupation seems to be trying to make this excuse a legitimate one. Pinto finds Pop Audrys wife a human iceberg. The girl discovers that, regardless of her real virtues, she is outlawed by the social climber because she wears comfortable Western clothes and says the things she really believes. Before Pinto has fairly recovered from this shock, she receives another one in the revelation that Mrs. Audrys highbrow standards do not prevent her making love outside her own family circle. Disgusted with the East and the stiff rules and regulations of its fair sex, Pinto returns to the simpler but more comfortable life of the masculine West, taking Pop Audry with her as a convert. In spite of her and pretenses, however, pranks a Pinto is just delightful girl at heart with a girls natural desire for romance and affection. Proof of this is found in the fact that one of her companions on her return, trip hom is Bob De Witt, a young fellow whom Pinto became acquainted with in New York and who accompanies her West wTith the intention of making t her his wife after he has been passed on by the girls five guardians. which m the Salt Like theatre, under the ausCASINO is pices of the Musical Arts society, indeed a great artist. She has won INTO, the new-- Mabel Norman new admirers and retained the good picture which will opinions of the old ones wherever begin a ten days run at the Casino she has been heard a second or third theatre, beginning Wednesday, is time. A notable instance is that of unique in that it is almost entirely Toronto, where she has already a "man picture. Even the petite made two appearances and will very little star, seen as Pinto, a ranch shortly have a third. girl, considers herself qualified by for an Commenting on her second per- her courage and formance, Hector Charlesworth, the honorable position among the mein well known critic of the Toronto bers of the stronger .sex. Born and raised on a ranch and never having Saturday Night, said: been out of the state of Arizona, Much as Carolina Lazzari delight ed listeners on her previous appear- - Pinto looks down upon femininity, as ances, she surpassed herself on this a word which defines Mexican hags occasion. Her contralto voice is one "and squaws. She is firm in this belief until she of glorious and mellow beauty, and her utterance was so spontaneous is sent to New York to visit Pop Au that large, lovely tones gushed from dry, a former cattleman. Hero she self-relian-ce GEM Kentucky, the screen ver of the famous stage play, will be presented at the Gem theatre for one week, beginning today. Back in the day when . the moo&f shiners constantly fought the revenue gents and carried on feudist battles among themselves In the hills of old Kentucky, lived Madge Brierly. She is bound by the ties of blood vengeance to Joe ' Lorey, a moon- Old JN sion |
