OCR Text |
Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters dom, which is quite a mouthful when you are speaking of cute Shetland ponies and equally cute dogs. ; There are other acts of class; in fact, there is not a ham on the bill of fare. SPECIAL director of the orches has tra, armed with a baton that ntrd"C an electric, bulb on Its ot John y tbe very special act Orpheum and Leila McIntyre at tbe this week. Nowadays no rank pretenderor s e to accustom the Puritan It he TRYING claim to be a headliner. to harem standards of trom the demands to be blazoned taste is a task which our bedroom newspapers electric signs' or in the with a playwrights have set before them. The manager, the headliner a as American standards of morality and asks, simply sneer, killing The one taste are somewhat mixed, but few director? orchesua your honors is will deny that the Puritan conscience sure way to obtain headline oris dominant. Has it not given us a dry the ot director a special to have And ot country while, in its confusion, it has chestra along with you.such a lu permitted indecent dances and orienafford course, you cannot made good and tal plays that would shock the sensihave you unless ury salbilities of Cairo? . can exact as your right a weekly The American conscience is cerNo dub can com ary ot tour figures. ot arlstocrati tainly in a state of bewilderment. It along in these days to the has the rigid Puritan caste, but it is vaudeville and blutt his way to bring confronted by so many other standards head ot the parade. He has that it doesnt know whither it is his drum major wtih him. tell tnai drifting. The worlds fairs introducOf course anyone can ed to the Puritans the dances du venJohn Hyams and Leila McIntyre vau tre and other lubricities of the orient purveyors of refined the and morality lost its fine edge in There is no argument with Leila are great an , this land of ours. public. John and satisfied to Back in the drunken but proper no doubt, they would be rchestra o eighties, it is true, we had the Black dispense with the special clamorthe for Crook, with all its undraped vulgaridirector, if it were not publicous hams who claim headline ties, but that was a horrible excepmatter to settle the tion. Since then sensuous playwrights ity. Therefore, John hams have tried to seduce the Puritan conand put a quietus on the orchestra science and taste to artistic lewdness. and Leila carry their own an him and give director with them At the present time there are many find the can he so that electric light bedroom comedies like Parlor, Bedstage in the dark. room and Bath, which appeared at the a headis ham a that is moral The Salt Lake this week. It is, in its lines shop. butcher the in liner today only at least, witty and sometimes it is a charming Leila present John and uproarious with the fun which a good Their Maybloom. playlet entitled company can get out of even vulgar and and catchy, exclusive are songs situations. But in one respect it is cute baby that is catchy especially embarrassing. Everyone with a fracrendered by so piquantly stuff song tion of the Puritan conscience and Leila. we all have our share of it in this in associates, Ernest Evans and his three talented ladies, are a delightful Estelle company. Ora Deane dances, McNeal sings, Gertrude Zoble plays the the violin, Mildred Rife fondles accompanies keys and Ernest Evans and Ora Deane in her artistic trotting the altigalloping. Ernest, forgetting out of tude, stomped the breath himself on the opening night and a then tried to sing, but not being convince ventriloquist, he could not the audience that a gasp and a gulp were a Dixie melody. Ernest will know better hereafter than to rush into Salt Lake in high gear. If the altitude doesnt get him, the smoke A ' s are-peerles- le. will. But speaking of ventriloquists, Marshal Montgomery is the only one of his kind who can stuff his mouth with a handkerchief and whistle a tune. Aided by Edna Courtney and the inevitable dummy, Marshal presents a conversational act at a dinner table. It is much more refined and artistic than the average ventriloqual act. because Marshal is a gentleman in every tone of voice. Howards Spectacle is a high-clas- s demonstration of cultured animal- embarexorably moral America is rassed when oriental or Gallic ideas of fun are incorporated in an American comedy. A play of that kind is like a New England spinster trying to if give an imitation of a wild woman, one may dare to imagine such a thing. How would you like to see a Yankee see spinster doing that? You might domisomething funny in it, but your nant feeling would be one of astonishment and dismay. It is as easy for an American old style to view these bedroom plays with an oriental eye as it is for a Colonial Dame to imitate Gertrude Hoffman. The playwright himself is much to blame. He tries to fit an oriental conception to American respectability and the result is worse than farcical. He makes a fool out of himself and American respectability and a botch out of the play. The play, in fact, is like the chief character in it. This character is a husband who is compelled to live up to his wifes mistaken idea that he was a devil of rake in his bachelor days. The Puritan conscience is in much the same fix when it tries to make merry over such a play. It is just as much embarrassed as the mildly domestic husband was when he tried to create the illusion that he was leading a riotous life. ines, but it has a powerful moral. which is pointed with much good humor and without preaching.. It tells the story of crooks who decided to and go straight and who succeed bring sunshine and happiness into. their own and other lives. , SALT LAKE SPICY, brilliant, funny, swift, and are a few of the adjectives that have been bestowed on Up in Mabels Room, the celebrated New York success which A. H. Woods wili present at the Salt Lake Theater next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with Saturday matinee, direct from a years run in New York and Boston. Up in Mabels Room furnished the laughing matter for New York playgoers for the greater part of last season, and promises to sweep the country wtih the same hurricane of fun that nearly blew metropolitan playgoers out of their seats. If you want to see how a woman can annoy see likes Up she man a and sympathize in Mabels Room with poor Garry while he suffers torUp in ments under Mabels bed. Mabels Room will bring tickles to your throat .tingles to your blood and the most exquisite assortment of lovely gowns to your eyes that URN To The Right, the com--1 woman could wish to be jealedy by Winchell Smith and member of the John E. Hazzard, which has won a ous of. Every of cast if a Broadway favorite. It inpopularity surpassed by no play Carvel, the last decade, is being presented at cludes Jules Ring, Carewe Black-buthe Salt Lake Theater by a company Dorothy Fox Slaytor, Dorothy Jeanette Bageard, Sager Midg-leof proficient artists. The bubbling James Norval, Nicholas Judels, and often uproarious humor of the A. Bingham, and Frederick piece is brought out most effectively. Joseph o atnrv of heroes and hero- tiClayton. . m, y, - |