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Show r THE CITIZEN With The First Nighters shop combined. One can imagine that the metropolitan shops might make a hit by taking this first act of Flo-Fl- o as a selling feature, entertaining the patrons hugely, while extracting heavy coins from them for light wear. There is a palpable attempt to make the play as suggestive as law will allow. In addition, or subtraction, as one may view it, the lines and lyrics are excellent and there is much excellent dancing. The plot is of the stock variety that has served the libretto writer for a generation. The costumes, however, are of the latest vogue. Not that they could or would or should be the vogue on the street or even in the ball room, but, generally speaking, they are of the style of in both cut the day, and brilliancy. Rhoda Nickells interpreted Flo-Fl- o with the essential lightness and gaiety the part requires and sang engagingly. The comedy is distributed among four or five actors and all do well, but especially Jack Norton and Isidor Moser, who are partners in the linNorton has gerie establishment. k stage-wormuch of his own to make the lines sparkle. The cocktails for the wet variety. Rainbow Cocktail at the Orpheum is a musical fantasy presented by Bruce De Lette and Helen Coyne, assisted by a pretty and capable chorus. It tells the story of a wizard who gives youth back to the stage girls of other days. The Merry Widow, the Floradora girl, the three little maids of the Mikado and other popular favorites of other days have grown old, but they desire to return to the triumphs of the footlights. First we see them old and enacting their bygone roles. Then the transformation takes place and they blaze musical comedy. out into an Max Ford and Hetty Urma, with Charles Seville at the piano, were supposed to open the Orpheum bill this week, but on the first night Hetty was sick and Max was lonesome. With the aid of the pianist, however, Max danced his way into mild favor. Sam Hearn is The Rube With His He cracks, and Fiddle and Bow. cackles while he cracks, some rural jokes that pop out pungent laughs and he sings a merry song, Im a Big Town Slicker Now. One of his jokes has been good for ages and seems to please each generation of theatregoers. We are quite sure that Mr. Hearn does not know he is emitting an old joke. The jokes former popyears ularity waned about thirty-fiv- e ago and Hearn did not come into the world until the jest, had gone out. Between jests the Rube plays the violin, not like a Rube, but with a masters touch. Josephine Lois and Leo Henning admit that they are all class all charm, so why should not we? Some s and times vaude-varlet- s tell the truth about themselves, if never about their rivals. They have a dancing act of superior charm. Edith Clifford is a merry blonde with a classical face who sings in a very unclassical way. Seated at the piano, Roy Ingraham eggs her on to comicality and once during the act she permits him to burst into a sentimental song about home and mother. Mother would not thank him and probably would leave home if he sang to her that way. Hickey brothers present a medley of vaudeville oddities. One of them is so grotesque as to be a scream of ugliness. The bill closes with one of those graceful and marvelous equilibristic acts in which the Japanese excel. ERSTWHILE a cocktail meant a PANTAGES values by - the JUDGING aesthetic material, the San Carlo Grand Opera company was the best of its kind heard in Salt Lake in years. It presented four operas during its engagement at the Salt Lake theatre and thronged the house1 at every performance. It was interesting to see long lines of young people waiting for several hours to obtain good positions in the galleries. It was evidence of the growing appreciation in Salt Lake of the best there is in music. The operas presented were Lucia Di Lammermoor, Faust, Carmen and II Trovatore. All of these masterpieces were per- formed with a distinction and charm that completely won Salt Lake. The personnel of singers need not be discussed in detail. 'All of them were good. Not a single role was slighted. Perhaps those who received the greatest applause were Mario Valle, Queena Mario, Romeo Boscacci, Natale Cervi, Pietro Di Biasi and Marcella Craft. a musical play, fol-llowed the grand opera cycle at the Salt Lake theatre. The first act is a kind of cabaret and lingerie Miy LO-FL- O, 1 over-emphasiz- ed an aroma of spring flowers and dreams of spirits and fairies in forest ways. It was, however, a vice which, too oft embraced, lost its aroma and poetry and produced velvet lawns on the tongue and in the head. Today you cannot obtain a genuine cocktail for love or coin. It is not in the category of bootleg banditry. In consequence thoughtful geniuses are substituting literary and musical trip-hamme- rs 9 ed up-to-da- te . vaud-vamp- on SPARKLING variety is featured array of acts now running at Pantages acts which represent vaudeville at its best. The Gellis, a jolly French family of acrobats, do much to keep the amazement and amusement of the audience at high pitch. Their balancing and athletic feats are performed with sure precision, while the midget member of the company keeps the laughs com ing stageward with his bright sallies. The School Master, as presented Isle company, is by the Hendrix-Bell- e one of those delightful musical potpourris, brimming over with vim, clever lines, music and fun. Roach and McCurdy have one of the big laughing farces of the season in their turn, A Touch of Nature, which makes a big hit with the audience. Irene Travette, of stunning garb and wondrous charm, has a song single that stands out sharply, while Patton, Yantis and Rooney as the three girls from harmonyland, win the audience at the start with their budget of popular songs, their smiles and fetching frocks. Frank Shields has a lariat novelty that proves a good opener, while a photo comedy and clever musical program are other entertaining features on this bill, which plays through Tuesday night. Acts ranging from classic to classy will be in order with the opening of the new bill Wednesday. Included in s the numbers will be the Yip Yip who will present a jolly musical concoction, A Day in Camp. La France and Kennedy are two blackface comedians who will give After the Battle, while Neda Norraine will bring a delightful cycle of songs. Love and Wilbur are speed kings on the Roman rings, and the Peerless Trio have ah Italian singing act that n is said to be of worth. Yap-hanker- blue-ribbo- t STRAND Marguerite Clark, popular star, arrived in Los Angeles to begin work on a picturiza-tio- n of Clyde Fitchs comedy, Girls, which will be shown at the Strand theatre next Monday and Tuesday, she was accorded an enthusiatic reception by motion picture folks and soon felt much at home. Having spent the last four years in New York, it was at first feared that she would be a little homesick on her arrival, but whatever feelings of thi3 nature she might have experienced were soon dispelled and she was as happy as a lark, to use a time-wor- n WHEN phrase. An entire bungalow was remodeled and refurnished to serve as her dressing room and a beautiful mansion in the most exclusive district in Los Angeles was ready for her to move into immediately upon her arrival. The little star is well supported in Girls, her leading man being Harrison Ford. Today and tomorrow the Strand offers the beautiful spectacle A Daughter of the Gods featuring Annette Kellerman. GEM type of woman do you Mr. Everyman? The wholesome comrade sort of woman who loves you without sentimentality, WHICH who helps you build a career, who gives her brain as well as her heart? Or the lovely, helpless, faminine kind who adores you, who knows nothing of business, and who spends her life being beautiful for your sake? What would you do Mrs. Every-- ' wife, if your husband had been aided in his career by a clever and devoted woman, who had helped him build up hij life before you had met him? Would you be jealous of th. woman? Would you deny her the right to continue as his friend and assistant? Or would you see the danger and put. the other woman out of your husbands path, as Mary did? Would a woman like Eleanor in Just a Wife, be apt to give up her love and life work so easily as she did if she had not discovered that, after all, love is worth just so much and no more? Did she pay too high a price? Such questions as these occur to every thinking man and woman on seeing the great feature drama, Just a Wife, which will be seen at the Gem theatre for one week beginning today. It will appeal to everybody who is married or expects to be. It will throw new light on the perplexity of every one who was ever- in love or thought he was. . -- . - AMERICAN curious and interesting U ANY newspaper stories are dug up through letters that are sent to a newspaper office in the course of a year. This is especially true in pa-- 1 pers carrying a column of questions and answers or advice to the love- lorn. It was from one of these letters that Ruth Byers conceived the plot for Deadline at Eleven, which will be shown at the American theatre Sunday and Monday. Corinne Griffith plays the stellar role, that of a newspaper reporter. She is assigned to the advice to the lovelorn column during the vacation of the editor. Many strange letters and documents fall into her hands. Some are from school girls, who imagine they are in love and whose troubles can 'be set- tied by a few words of motherly advice. Others . require considerable thought and research before they can be answered. In one of these letters is the key to a murder mystery. Helen Stevens does not know it at the time, and if her sweetheart had not been accused of the crime she might never have known it But destiny plays a game. A girl was missing. Helen was sent on the story. She did not realize that the key to the mystery was in the letter she thrust into her bag as she started out to gather the facts. The events that follow make one of the most thrilling and interesting features ever presented. They are a composite of actual happenings that occur in the course of every reporters 4 ; ; 1 : |