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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters you listen to some of tlie jokes in JF the Overseas Revue at the you will understand how terrible war is at times, but usually, as we herewith testify, the jokes are excellent and worthy of laughter. The Overseas Revue is another attempt to visualize for the the merry side of war, which is to say the merry side of what Sherman said war was. There are all the elements that go to make up a good musical comedy of today, including jazz. Elizabeth Brice and Will Morrissey have most of the good lines and stunts, but occasionalsay a ly they let one of the help debright thing or commit an antic signed for mirth. There are three wild personages from Wyoming, two gentlemen and a lady who swing lassoes. One of the amazing stunts is that of the gentleman who swings three looped ropes at once. It is very simple when you know' how. He manipulates one ot them by holding the end of the rope in his mouth and wringing his neck as one would wring the neck of a chicken. The other gentleman gets across the footlights with a neat joke. I named my cow United States, he Because she went Why? says. That is as good as the dry on me. joke in the Overseas Revue about the singing lady who was missing on one tonsil. Billy Frawely and Edna Louise appear in a skit written for their style of beauty by Jack Lait. It is called Seven A.M. on the program, but you are at liberty to call it what you like when ladies, are not present. Billy is Dan, a night clerk, and pretty Edna Louise is Mayme, a cigar girl. And they make quite a hit, which shows that we are wrong. Nellie and Josephine are "comely ,wire-istAlso they are buxom and when they disport themselves on the tight wire one fears that there is gobut the ing to be an awful mix-up- , wire preserves its equilibrium despite much rude jostling. The ladies cakewalk on the wire, two-stejazz and sprint. A1 and Fanny Stedman are roistering blades, especially Fanny. Their act is just music and dancing, but that means a whole lot when you are looking at them in their funniest moods. Stuart Barnes was designed by nature for a funeral director, but ran away from home and became a vaudeville comedian and a good one. Or-plieu- stay-at-hom- m es picious wife. In this piece with its interest exciting title, we have a husband who is desperately trying to live up to a reputation of amourous adventures because his young wifes admiration for him is mainly based on the erroneous belief that she has won her lord and master from a thousand zealous women. For this sentimental lady has alpast, ways wanted a man with a and announces to her astonished friends that she has an absolute confidence in her husbands infidelities. In fact, she has more confidence in them than he has for you have doubtless guessed that he is as chaste and retiring as the well known violet, and has never had or never will have any desires to emulate Don Juan, the late lamented Sultan of Turkey. Young Lochinvar, or any other of the classic He has assumed this mask of depravity on the well meaning advice of a friend, in order to win his bride. Now safely married to her, he finds to his horror that he must continue to make good as a dehe-vampir- vastating Romeo. His troubles progress from the frying pan into the fire of hilarious difficulties, when he consents to become a party to a psuedo elopement in order to bolster up his wavering reputation as a Don Juan. Complications, fast and furious, gather about his head mostly in the form of strange ladies in various stages of negligee. Eda Ann Luke is the professional elopee, Walter E. Perkins (of My Friend d From India fame) the love husband, and Will Archie, the famous bell-ho- p of the wayside inn of the title. Others in the cast are Fred I. Lewis, Etta Bryan, Gertrude Webster, Jane Aubrey, Gail Sheldon, William A. Williams, John Femlock. har-hasse- PANTAGES delightful as a spring day in is the frolicsome bill now winning rounds of applause at Pantages, and including in its range of entertainment something to please every taste. The Beatrice Morelle Sextette six dainty girls in a royal blue setting have a splendid musical offering, including selections on the harp and violin, and vocal numbers that reveal the exquisite harmony of voices perfectly blended. The Four Casting Campbells have a high speed aerial turn that carries not only many thrills but a plen AS mid-wint- er , A delectable vaudeville repast is promised for Wednesday; when Harry Girard and his company will, topline the new bill in The Luck of a Totem, an Alaskan incident set to music. Other features on the new show will include Joe Whitehead in Cardo and Noll, Nothing Serious; in a song cycle; Charles Mack and company in A Friendly Call; the Bernivici Brothers in A Night in Venice; Raymond Wilbert in The Unusual Fellow; and Fatty Arbuckle in A Desert Hero. . CASINO FTER he has been thrown out of a cafe for stopping the show, Larry Van Cortlandt and his three chums board Larrys yacht and set sail for parts unknown and not to be bothered about. They say that a drunken man can have more accidents without getting hurt than can a perfectly sober person. Anyway, Larrys boat, guided by him, just went around in circles that night, and next morning he was back at the dock. Thats how he happened to be on hand when the girl of his dreams and her guests came down to hire a yacht for the afternoon Did Larry rent his, and did he run it himself? Ill say he did. With a beautiful girl at his side, this young navigator didnt pay much attention to tlie wheel. But when three of the guests, pretended Russian purchasing agents, revealed themselves as crooks, Larry got busy. The thieves plan was working nicely, for when the home of his sweetheart was reached Larry found two confederates raiding the apartments. Quick action and much merriment will follow at the Casino theatre, where Three Black Eyes, featuring Taylor Holmes, the jovial star, will be shown, starting Sunday. And the results are all that even the enterprising and agressive Larry could wish for. . s. p, ' ';,.v ' ' v - SALT LAKE A - (CpARLOR, Bedroom and Bath, the Woods farce success which comes to the Salt Lake Theatre for the three days commencing Monday; Jaruary 25, with a matinee Wednesday, has a novel idea as the basis of its laughter. Most comedies of matrimonial tangle involve a husband who is trying to conceal his love affairs (past and present) from a sus- - night A . A. teous portion of laughter. Jessie Maker and Billy Redford as The Girl and the Gob, have one of those sunshiny singing, talking and dancing turns that pleases everyone, while the Oklaho Four send over a breezy western turn that boasts of some extraordinary clog dancing. Alexander Brothers and Evelyn in All Balled Up offer an amusing rubber ball novelty, while. Mason and Cole dance and sing their way through ten or so breezy minutes. Fatty Arbuckle in Back Stage and Eddie Fitzpatricks musical entertainment form the concluding feathers of the bill, which runs through Tuesday H. GEM HP take a page from life and throw it on the screen is one of the most difficult feats, because the popular conception of our daily existence does not permit the least extravagance in portrayal and only the great- -- O L . JOHN HYAMS AND LEILA MCINTYRE , WHO WILL BEAT 7 HE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK IN THEIR MODEL PLAYLET, MAYBLOOM . |
