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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters rp HE Orpheum bill opens in sprightly fashion with Samaroff and Sonia, Russian peasants on a sunny afternoon in their native land. One might afternoon the imagine that on a sunny the Russian peasants would be hiding Bolshevikl bacon and eggs from the or playfully dodging soviet bayonets. that This act informs us, however, when Itussian peasants, on afternoons Aliikan the sun shines, play with dogs which spits and Mexican hairless c Join them In to trained have they stunts. In Petrograd and a delicate a Mexican hairless Is rural dismorsel ot food, but In the At any tricts it Is an animated toy. Samaroff canese. To Greenwich vilage resort all the ham artists of a large nation and try to delude one- another with the idea that they are geuiuses, but no one else holds the thought, as the saying goes. An office cat could write a good satire about such a subject and Wood and Wyde, therefore, have a piquaint offering of music dancing and wit "The play concludes wtih a splendid acrobatic act. - aero-hati- Mos-co- w rate It Is a clever act that win muc and Sonia present and they . applause. to he Enrico Aresoni does not set up a Caruso, hut he is a union dramatic tenor and no doubt gets Little Gray wages. He sang The some pleasant Home in the West" in he called Enforeign language which model of A. glish probably a used be cap846 However, we must not tenors hav tious, because Italian donTtheir full duty when they sing and Enrico does just that. hard-workin- g cute and piquant, is MITZI, quaint, with a musical show again In Head Over Heels, in which she is appearing at the Salt Lake, she has an opportunity to display those, attractive musa of the first class. and stage qualities which have won her a place in the hearts of American theatergoers. The production - is staged with a charm and elaborateness and a beauty of detail for which Henry W.J Savage deserves great credit. The story is so woven that a troupe of acrobats has a chance to. do some engaging and wonderful stunts. The love story ' is more consisteni . well, Princess Radja is a dancing lady the who presents her own creations, the Arabian Cleopatra dance and a kitchen Chair " When she seizes it as if chair in her teeth and swings tousles and it were an Indian club a bone we with it like a dog wtih cannot but suspect that the princess in a tent started her histrionic career woman, alternating as as an than is usually found in .musical com- Sterling, a young American lawyer, while traveling abroad, meets Mitzi, an acrobat with a wandering troupe, and makes love to her as he does to many others. Taking the affair seriously, the little acrobat induces her manager to bring her to America. She seeks Sterling in his office, making a rather startling entrance over the transom, since sne does not receive an answer to her repeated' knocks at the door. Finding that Sterling has been playing wltn her affections she falls in love with his partner, known as String Bean. The attachment is mutual, although some ups and downs interrupt the course of true love. edy. ebrate the festal night with at least one good show. Plans as announced by Manager Edward P. Levy call for two shows on New Years eve, the regular perform- - -- ance starting at 8:15 and a special midnight matinee at 10:30 oclock in the evening. Two complete vaude-- : vVille shows will be given and the bill as outlined in advance notices prom-- . ises to.be one of the best of the sea- son. Three headline acts are included on the program, Eva Shirley and her jazz band, otherwise Fid Gordons., versatile musical boys topping the. list. Miss Shirley is one of the prettiest and most vivacious of vaudeville head' liners. She possesses, too, a wonder. ful voice and her Songs of the Moment, from ragtime to grand, opera,: ORPHEUM are certain to add class and distinction to the big bill. A1 Roth, popular jazz O those who remember the big is another stellar attraction in joyfest.at the Orpheum last New dancer, Years eve the announcement that the Miss Shirleys act. Two fine feature local home of big time vaudeville is attractions are Ralph Dunbars Salon Singers in a musical offering of the to repeat the gala occasion Wedneshighest calibre, and Indoor Sports, day evening, December 31, will doubtless be well received, if not joyously a farce comedy, produced by William acclaimed by everyone anxious to cel- - B. Friedlander, and guaranteed the laughing hit of the season. Other acts on the New Years bill include some of the best things the Orpheum circuit has to offer, and, from all appearances the olio will-bthoroughly in keeping with the holiday spirit and general merrymaking of the new year. i . , . T : e e PANTAGES iron-jawe- d afternoons. a snake charmer on sunny The snake appears in the Cleopatra snake and dance. It is a real, live wtih. a joy that is joins in the dance more or less confined. FemiClaudia Coleman presents nine Types in a droll, burlesque The fashion that is highly amusing. eswoman in the hotel lobby," is will be recogpecially laughable and nized by every traveling mans wife the as a perfect reproduction of met. catty creatures they have do Sam Green and Helen Myra much' that is trivial, but all of it is over graceful and merry. The talk the telephone wtih violins is a bit to .be cryptic. The idea is supposed conveyed by the playing of popular songs, but you must know all the songs to know what merry Myra is saying to Sam and what Sam is saying back at merry Myra. No doubt it would be merry if you knew what they meant, and, of course, if you dont yon dont know much about " music. ; another George Harry Green has ' is a which Washington Cohen play travesty on St. Peter at the gate. There is keen repartee and some humor, but. the act Is in rather bad taste. Frank Wood and Bunee Wyde present a satire on Greenwich village, which is New Yorks Latin Quarter, with the Latin translated into Ameri- 4 on the THERES sparkling atdiversity the Pantages playing A .v .r, which lends even more joviality to the mood of the holiday crowds enjoying the current show. Temptation brings to midstage a galaxy of beauties who sing and dance attractively. Then theres plenty of fun in the act as well as a plot that has a breath of. suspense most interesting... Dance poems of exquisite grace and beauty are given by Cecele dAndrea and Henry Walters in Dance Fantasies, while George Quigley and Eddie Fitzgerald entertain the crowd with their barrage of laughable nonsense. The Four Leons have a dazzling tight' wire act, and Dunbar and Turner slip through some first class patter and comedy songs. V. "X t X One of the r ; 1 V I Unique finger dancing by Frank Ward, which goes over big, and another chapter of Smashing Barriers are the concluding features of this excellent bill, together with the cheery array of holiday music by Eddie Fitzpatricks orchestra. This bill will play through Tuesday night. i r ?. I EVA SHIRLEY,WHO, ASSISTED BY FID GORDON'S VERSATILEM USICAL BOYS AND AL ROTH, HEADUNES THE ORPHEUM'S BIG NEW YEAR'S BILL NEXT WEEK . greatest mysteries of the age Tarzan, known as King of the Apes will come to amaze Pantages patrons Wednesday. Tarzan appears under the sole custody of his trainer, Fqlix Patty, in a series of performances that are positively astounding. Eastern critics shave declared Tarzan 1 |