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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters. Without plot,- and without purpose beyond ehtertainment, Frivolities of Lake theatre, 1920, at the Salt searches the earth, so to speak, for smiles. True, the melange is divided into two acts, but that is merely to give the singers and dancers breathing space and the audience time to wipe the glare and glitter out of their eyes and be prepared for new marvels of gurgeousness in costume and scenery. Another division of the performance is into Frivols, and there are sixteen Frivols in all. The first of the which is by way Frivols is Hell-o- , of friendly greeting. In this scene we are informed by Mephistopheles in evening dress with impish headdress of red that the disappearance of liquor has not taken much of the delight out of the world, but that on the contrary the world is still filled with a number of alluring things. Richard Bold, a club man, who has eked the last drop out of a decanter begins to cheer up at this and sings joyously in an enchanting voice1 which Is heard often as the company skips lightly from frivol , to frivol. After this sprightly introduction the company wanders pleasantly about the globe, to Araby, to Spain, to smart hotels and elsewhere and always the galaxy of girls has a chance to appear in bewildering costumes. The climax is a military wedding of the nations done in jazz. The allies who joined to prepare the Frivolities agreed that there was only one way to put over such a show and that was to be funny and tuneful all of the time. There are a number of funny men in the caste, but freshest of all and merriest is that fresh guy, Frank Davis, peddler of bird seed, 'who works fast with quip room. She makes her quaintness more picturesque by an extraordinary stage setting. She seems to be in a gloomy, but gorgeous room looking out toward a dying sunset through wide portals. At either side of the portals is placed a titanic cathedral candle. The only other conspicuous furnishing is a grand piano set toward the front of the stage at the right hand. Petrova fascinates not only by her quaintness and rich art, but by her She. .writes, poems sentigenius. mental and romantic also songs of the same character. She recites the poems wtih an art that gives them more character than they really possess and her songs she sings in a voice that draws out into fairy fineness the weird, high notes. Her latest song, The Road to Romany, has a finale of finespun, silvery notes. The full effect of all she does is artistic and poetic. There is no grossness, no vulgarity. But, above all, there is an almost eerie effort to escape the commonplace. Thus she gives to a simple song or an elaborate dramatic reading a character that seems to come out of the aesthetic depths ot - 'a cultured character. Milt Collins, who .visits us about as often as an eidemic, is the gentleman who makes a burlesque stump speech in fiats and sharps of wit mostly fiats. Rinaldo Brothers are two mighty athletes who have covered their bodies with aluminum paint and who, as they perform their feats of posing and agility, look liek animated metal statues. Wallis Clark & Co., all good, present a play that is all bad. Billy Duval and Merle Symonds in "Their First Quarrel, have obtained many lines that buble with real hu mor. e If mystery is the chief merit of a spy drama Three Faces East, seen at the Salt Lake theatre the first of the week, is the most meritorious play of its kind that has resulted from the war. Up to the last minute the spectator indulges In the luxury of conjecture and when the enigma finally is fully unfolded he discovers that he has been fifty or sixty per cent wrong. One hopes that the beautiful wo-- . man will turn out to be as good as she looks. She is a German spy who goes to London as a Miss Haw-trewhom the Berlin authorities have shot. At length she is suspect y, ' songstress; Harvard, Holt and drick in a playlet, The oe-a- top-notc- . Ken- ct Bis The current show now playing at Pantages is featured by' the screamingly funny film comedy, Scratch My Back by Rupert Hughes. This picture is keeping the audience roaring for the full hour and fifteen minutes that it is shown. The smashing vaudeville bill now playing at Pantages is headlined by a delightful musical comedy, Girls Will Be Girls, with Florence Loraine, Johnny Sullivan and a bevy of lively girls exuberant with melody and mirth. On the same bill are: Assahi, with his company of novelty entertainers? !Fren Allen, a brilliant comedian; Ted McGrath and Jack Deeds, singing comedians; Lucie Burch, violin virtuoso; the Haas brothers in One Good Turn Deserves Another. The musical program furnished by the Pantages orchestra is exceptionally good this week. This bill, with the film feature, will run through Tuesday night. f STRAND practice of former days when railroading was young is preserved in The Juggernaut, which will be shown at the Strand theatre Saturday and Sunday. This practice consisted of ' bleeding a road until it was nearly bankrupt. The rolling stock and equipment were neglected until public A safety was menaced. In former days it was a practice on some roads to let the original equipment go without improvements and repairs as long as the public would risk life and limb on the system. The author of The Juggernaut vividly portrays such a road in a very dramatic manner. The various branches of railroading and the responsibility of each employee is illus. trated. It illustrates how a weak president of a company may become a tool in the hands of the man higher up. Thus PANTAGES ' The gripping story of a beautiful girls sordid past, of her life in a notorious Barbary Coast dive, of her wondrous career and the love that lifted her to noble heights is told in real-- , istic fashion in the big film production, Out of the Storm, which comes to Pantages Wednesday with six acts of h vaudeville. Out of the Storm has attracted wide comment and criticism, but the concensus of opinion seems to be that it is a play that should be shown as the great lesson which it teaches warrants the daring action. The vaudeville entertainment, coming Wednesday is. to be headlined by A Musical Comedy Vaudevillized, featuring Jimmie Casson and Hazel Kirke. On the same bill will be: Joe f Game. . . hit ox-eye- comedy Jenny and his world-famou- s Versatile Four the Bonesettis, trio; Valand Gamble, humorous acrobats; calculator; Hope Vernon, a clever . pleasantly and wittily about herself. Like all good women, she says, I like to hear myself talk. Gene Greene is a character delineator of popular ditties, who grows in the appreciation of his audience by reason of his versatility. If he would turn his act around, beginning at the end and running about fifty per cent of the way toward the beginning and stopping, he would make more of a It is the personality of Petrova that gives the Orpheum bill a distinctive character this week. She is a kind of ' . Of course, she succumbs to the , ity of the curtain speech, and talks and jest. Slavic Trilby in her manner and apeparance. She has a wealth of red haii-wor otherwise big, exres ig sive eyes of the type that Homer acd claimed when he spoke of the godess. She is almost spectrally tall and for the flaming hair, the lamp-likand for the aming hair, the lamp-lik- e often laughing eyes and the full, pleasure-contour of countenance. loving She emphasizes her thinness by binding her hips with hoops of steel and this gives her a rather stiff, inflexible aspect of body. Apparently, however she is not denied freedom of motion, as was evidenced in one of her dramatic readings .which culminates in a scene, in which she is choked to death liy a jealous husband. The husband is imaginary, but his wild and murderous presence seems to haunt the air as Petrova goes through the ghastly contortions of one being throttled and finally, with a death shriek, collapses on the stage. Petrova is a quaint giantess with the cultivated manners of the drawing ed by the British authorities and elab- orate measures are made to trap her and the Master Spy, Boelke, who, as the British authorities well know, is in England, but who has defied every effort at detection. The question, Who is Boelke? fascinates the in- terest. And after one has. become fairly certain as to the identity of Boelke one still wonders who the wo- man spy will turn out to be. Still later on the whole situation is again clouded in doubt and ones guessing faculties are in complete confusion. Is Boelke really an English intelligence officer? Is the woman in the English intelligence service? And among the other secret service characters a number turn out to be quite different from that which they appear in their , camouflages. The play has seventeen characters and some of them are on the stage not more than five or ten minutes in all. The chief characters are Helene, of the German Intelligence Bureau, and Valdar, a butler. Violet Heming enacts with grace and verve the character of Fraulein Helene. Maurice Freeman, as Valdar, is quiet, tense, always alluring. To some he is simply Valdar, the Belgian refugee who speaks English with a pathetic French-lik- e accent, to others he is one of the most successful spies in the English secret service, to Helene he is Schiller of the German secret service, and in reality he is a mystery. Joseph Holicky, with big, dark headlight eyes, is the chief of the English secret service and his acting is as glowing and as sparkling as his eyes. One of the intense features of the play is an air raid on London. The spectator feels the thrills through the blood, marrow, hearts and souls, as it were, of those friends and eneare suposed to be mies who gathered togepther in a London household. Merely from the viewpoint of information it is absorbing to know just what an air Yaid over the English metropolis was like, for we assume that the simulation is much like the reality. . the film becomes a document valuable as an historical record of the growth and improvement of railroads. The story is filled with human interest and love. Anita Stewart is given an exceptionally strong role and is supported by an all star cast. The production was directed by- Ralph - Ince. AMERICAN Good gracious, Wanda, en you a wonderful cast! theyve giv-- studio friend exclaimed this when he looked over the list of people who support Wanda Hawley in her first Miss starring vehicle for Realart. Hobbs, from the Jerome K. 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