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Show THC CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters WHY is it that breaking things is laughter-widelightful? The most act on the Orpheum stage nning crockthis week is one in which much Every is smashed to smithereens. who erybody laughed at the juggler suctried to mimic his master and of ceeded only in destroying dozens on dishes and bowls. The act is put in spite of the high cost of crockery notes. and it looks like tearing up bank deThe women especially were brought lighted. Every new breakage ran One a burst of feminine laughter. understand that. It was the keen jcy of vengeance that made them laugh. their Often they had wished to break would own dishes, but realized that it At be a costly pastime and refrained. tired the Orpheum this week the with housewife can satiate her soul an the vision of crockery shattered by utartist blackface who surrenders of destruction. terly to the mad joy the Ford One might imagine that flivvers. sisters would prove to the suddenly an True, they start and stop whither they are you never can tell are coming, but going or whence they are frolthey are not flivvers. They their icsome dancers and they prove by carrying right to headline honorsdressed up in a band of theiT own, all satin colonial costumes silken hose, powdered wigs jackets and knickers, to think that a and everything. And fashion hand attired in this stately of an should commit the crime Jazzing! One of the by climax most successful numbers of the sisters is a dance in which black costhey appear in gorgeous tumes as Vamps. E. Ben-se- e Florence Baird and Charles was are back again. Florence stout born a Scotch lassie, but grew and turned out to be an Eddie Foy. exShe is par excellence a stage like pression meaning anything you foolish the foremost fabricator of or out of faces and weird grimaces in vaudeville. LitMaster Gabriel & Co. appear in tle Kick, a playlet The title is fairly little descriptive, for the piece has humor. kick, but considerable quiet Master Gabriel, who is a precocious members urchin, is the star and the of the company are Fred Tidmarsh and Bessie Gabriel, who does a few contralto things that are quite songful. Willie Solar is a star by right of and by belonging to the Solar system his right of comic genius. He does bit all by himself and while he is on the stage he needs neither aids nor in THE Room, which appeared at the Salt Lake early in the week, made the mistake of alluding to that little pink thing. It was only a pink chemise, but his critical hearers thought he meant a baby. Naturally this affords the necessary tangle for a farce nd Wilson Collison and Otto Harbach have written one that held the metropolitan stage for many months. It starts with the vim of a major offensive and there is no letup of laughter except during the intermissions. A press agent bard, celebrating the merits of the play, had this to say about the friendless husband: . ter-pischore- an abettors. Other acts there are and one of them is stupid. She shall be nameless here, but with this map you ought to find her. A thrilling picture this week shows a big steamer marooned in the ice floes of Chicago harbor and tugs and aviators trying to effect a rescue. It is almost as good as Doc. Cooks story of how he reached the north pole. harassed husband in Up His honeymoon was simply Hades, His weeping bride a kiss denied. Lured from his side by scheming Tarkington a unique fame. Done into a comedy the story of puppy love recalls to everyone just how youth and love and summertime made an It is ass out of the other fellow. amazing how keenly Tarkington has observed the ways of boys and the or wiles of girls only seventeen thereabouts. You have missed the fun in these things because you have not observed closely, but once you see master youth and love visualized by a interpreter you are dazzled by the truth and are amused also, sometimes embarrassed by the oddities ladies and folishness of baby-tal- k and puppy love boys. la- dies. His days were gloom; in Mabels room Reposed his doom Oh! why conceal it? He begged and cried, renounced his pride, And then, at last, he tried to steal it ' to the Salt Lake theatre stage. Seventeen is one of those droll conceits of youth that have won for Booth Thus the pathetic story of the involved husband whose woes are skillfully woven for mirth. Succeeding the farce came a comedy SALT LAKE without doubt the ukyfAYTIME, JV1 musical play most successful comes to produced in recent years, the Salt Lake theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday with a matinee Saturday, with the company that played in New York for two years, ilnw Messrs. Shubert are the producers operette of play of this justly-fame- d with music which so charemd Salt s last year, and it is a Lake question whether or not this firm has ever staged a production that has atpopularity. tained such country-wid- e Indeed the same statement might be made of any producing firm for Maytime holds the record for long runs in New York and in every city where it has been seen, it has made the same play-goer- ' extraordinary appeal The story in itself would be enough, to carry the play to success, but there is a musical score which includes such widely known song hits as The Road to ParaSweetheart, and the Jump, Jim Crow, dise, hauntingly tender ramanza, Will The first act takes You Remember? York. place in 1840 in old New There the lovers pledge their faith by planting a jewel casket beneath an apple tree. Fate separates them and 15 years later the boy returns to find his Ottillie married to her cousin, a worthless drunkard. In desperation he marries Ottillies best friend and so the couple grow to old age. This episode occurs in the third act. In the fourth and last scene, the two principal players appear as the grandchildren of the original lovers which gives a happy ending to the play, for this time Fate does not interpose. There and side are numerous plots, one of which has to do with the by-charact- love affairs of Matthew Van Zandt, who grows wrom youth to old extreme age age for this character continues to the end of the play, when Matthew is some 90 years of age and in fine fettle to marry the fourth time. William Norris, who scored so strongly in the original Broadway presentation comes here for the first time in his niimitable creation of Matthew Van Zandt. PANTAGES dont die over there, die here! Thats a familiar excla- ul11TEY mation around Pantages these days, for Tom Ward, one of movielands directors, is filming a motion picture aU the vaudeville house and is trying impress on Salt Lakes future Mary Pickfords and Douglas Fairbankses just where to die and how to die how to make love and how to poison the hated rivals candy. Making Movies, as the headline attraction on this week's bill at Pantages is styled, not only affords the audiences heaps of amusement, but is a liberal education in the art of taking pictures. A complete, scene is photographed at every performance, with local talent in the various roles, aiSr when completed the picture will be shown at Pantages. Supporting this feature on the bill is Verna Mersereau and company in Reincarnation, a dance drama of the paBt and present, which is pre-- |