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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First of the theater FROM the viewpoint bill is a well-balance- d one that will leave an ample balance on the side of profits. The bill at the Orpheum this week may not be of that variety, but from the viewpoint of the vaudeville devotee it is It is a veritable well balanced. treasury of all those merits that make a vaudeville show entertaining. Price is the Perhaps Georgie highest-pric- e feature, but that may be in name only. He is one of those youthful prodigies with so much that even the most generous critic would delight to honor him with a kick, but justice requires the statement that Georgie" is a wonder. He is a product of the Gus Edwards school of fun and frolic and used to shine with stellar brilliancy in the musical comedies that Gus flung to a ravenous Especially in mimicry is public. Georgie" an amazing success, but whatever he does except on thing is marked by a sense of what will really please his audience. We exHe presented cept his his own song with a modest suggestion that it might not be as good as some songs written in the last fifty years, but you could guess Dy his manner that he was thoroughly satisfied that he had Irving Berlin backed away from the keyboard. And, no doubt, Irving vrould flee any. keyboard that stood for that song. It is not necessary to devote much space to Ernest R. Ball, a real songwriter, and Maud Lambert; who shows him how much better a good song can be made by good singing. When you look over the list of songs Ernest R. Ball has written you wonder if he has not scored oftner than any other composer of popular songs in the last twenty years. Love Me and the "Mother Macree, Till the Sands of World is Mine, Deserts Grow Cold, A Little Bit of Dear Little Boy of Heaven. and Mine" are his songs, and each one of them would be sufficient to make the d reputation of a composer. The song is his newest and is dedicated, as he informs his audience, to his kid brother who went to the war. Charles and Henry Rigoletto, assisted by the Swanson Sisters and company, present what amounts to six or seven vaudeville stunts rolled into one. It is a vaudeville bill in itself and all of the principles have special offerings of merit. There are India yodeling, juggling, magic, self-assuran- ce well-place- d song-writin- g. the male species and enacts the part of a swell who is all lit up. Lucas and Inez in bright lemon-colore- d costumes are artistic trapeze artists. Inez, who is pretty and graceful, is also a wonderful contortionist. Other acts there are and all of them gripping. best way for him to get through the valley is to go round it! And now Death Valley is immortalized on the screen! Some of the best work in the career of clever Gladys Brockwell is done on the edge of it! ture is Death Valley a place which its name well fits on the border line of Nevada and California. This is the place, Gladys Brockwell is the girl, and the recent Nevada gold rush is. the time, that figure in the photoplay Chasing Rainbows,' to be shown at the Casino starting Sunday. Death Valley lies below the sea level and the atmosphere is such that even the mules are tired there before they start to work. It is the home of borax, perhaps the only useful thing that comes from the baked alkali soil. In Death Valley the only way to become known to the outer world is to get lost and die there, and have oneself searched for by rescuing parties, and finally found beneath the sands. The mileposts in this surface inferno are tombstones. wind-shifte- d Physicians say that the traveller in the valley must be sound of heart, lungs, liver and temper and then the , EVERYWOMAN AT PARAMOUNT of BEAUTY is the keynote which will be the big screen attraction all next week at the PARAMOUNT-EMPRESThe beauty of investiture, of gowns, of women, of theme and of action. The settings were designed with an eye to the fanciful, the gorgeous, the striking. While there are moments required by the exigencies of the plot, when the sordid must be presented by way of contrast, in the main the picture is a kaleidoscope of wondorus charm and color. The great banquet scene wherein Wealth entertains Every woman and her companions as wrell as his own satelites, contains a table in the form of a dollar mark. In one of the circles of the S is a swimming pool; in the other a dance floor, while the company in gorgeous raiment are seated about the curves of the S. figure. During the sumptuous feast diving girls plunge into the water while lovely dancers trip the light fantastic on the tiny stage. The Court of King Love introduces - GEM MORE than twenty thousand pictures have thus far been - produced. The novel or original picture is a scarcity. How often do you exclaim as you leave the theatre, Why, that picture was just like the one I saw last week. 12:10 is a new picture. It has absolutely no similarity with any last-name- statue posing, gladatorial acrobatics, song and dance and a travesty of the Italian street musician that is funnier than a bagful of monkeys. Golfing With Cupid is the singing and dancing skit of Cartwell and Harris and they hit the ball every time. Laura 'Harris is especially effective when she dons full dress of i i CASINO latest spot to become famous THE the romance of the motion pic- the fashions of Louis XV. Herein the characters appear as courtiers and lav dies of the court and lovely Every-woma- n in a magnificent gown meets him whom she takes for Love, before a throne that is in itself a creation of unusual beauty. The gowns worn in the picture were creations of Clare West, of the Lasky costuming department, while the bathing and chorus suits were designed by George Hopkins. All are advance models, exquisitely designed' and composed of the richest fabrics obtainable. They form a veritable fashion show and many changes are afforded both the principals and the extra people the latter reaching into the many hundreds. The production, as directed by George H. Melford, marks an epoch in the artistry and the beauty of screen entertainment, for not alone is the picture physically beautiful, but the story itself possesses a charm and compelling powder that is inescapable. SCENE FRO W THE "OVERSEAS REVUE , ' BIG MUSICAL COMEDY STARRING ELIZABETH BRICE AND TOM MORRISSEY WITH A BROAD WA Y CAST OF TWENTY A T THE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK |
