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Show o THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters The Orpheum bill quickly gets Into lulled by the peacefulness and attrav-tivenes- s of the place. One is especialhigh this week with the farce 5,000 It is not a story of the in- ly impressed, on a second visit, by the A; Year. artistry of the stage settings. The fact come tax; it really is funny. It tells new and bright has somethat they-ar- e of the young married couple who invite the husband's employer to their thing to do with the impression, but, on the whole, they are a distinct adsuburban, home so that they can induce him by the simple device of vance in vaudeville. salThe second weeks . bill has for its playing poverty to raise hubby's ary. Naturally the husband expects moving picture The Mollycoddle, in which the irrepressible Douglas Fairhis wife to play the part, but she appears in a beautiful evening dress and banks disports himself with his customary vim. It is a thrilling story of has a maid and butler for the occasion. Meantime hubby has been telling his two continents in which diamond sad story and striking the boss for a smuggling and secret service play a raise. Instead of getting the raise he part. The Mollycoddle is none other is fired. Of course, he blames Eve, than Douglas, but, of course, he proves but in the end her method wins. The to be a hero in the conclusion. And moral probably is that the wife is what a conclusion! : A mountain blown up with dynamite sends an avalanche sometimes almost as clever as the huscrashing down upon a village of band. The village is. destroyed beThe big act scenery, costumes, mufore our eyes with a spectacular effecg is comsic, dancing and tiveness which suggests the still unedy of buoyant youth. The chief is Frank Ellis and the chief probed possibilities of the moving picflirter, is Dorothy Van. She appears ture. The vaudeville begins with the is only one scandalous costume, and that is quite modest for musical comedy nowadays. ' Eddie Nelson is the prize sob artist of the stage, but his sobs are meant only in fun. It is not every comedian who can sob his way to fame. In fact most of them sob their way to the discard. But Eddie has a riotous sob which he introduces with many variations and all of them result in veritable T. N. T. explosions of laughter. George Bobbe is, of course, equally as important as Eddie and each has a large, rotund voice warranted to back any grand opera star off the stage. Frank Kellam, aided by Patricia ODare, presents a nut act. Kellam who is a kind of giggling giraffe, relies greatly on what might be called the comic stumble and gets much fun out of it because he is so tall and thin and because, therefore, the stumble is an architectural triumph. He has many antics of a novel kind as well, but he is fond of the old stuff. Which suggests the thought that the who stands man with the slap-sticback of the curtain and spanks the comedian ought to be abolished. He has served long enough. One can imagine that this antic was a old stuff, too when the ape-ma- n played tricks on the cave man while the peterodactyls and the plesiosauri sniffled with glee. A sort of league of nations assembly ought to be formed to rid the vaudeville stage of some of these primitive tricks. John Olms is a graceful master of the art of palming. One is as much interested in his grace as in the mystery of his method. cliff-dweller- s. . fun-makin- fun-mak- er stunts of Wire and Walker, who perA new form on the slack wire. achievement is that of kneeling on the wire and passing two steel rings completely over ones body. It provides the necessary tensity without resort to the old trick of surprising the audience with a sense of sudden peril. Phil La Toska, the talkative juggler, seems to be amusing himself while amusing his audience with his patter and tricks. A bewitching act is that of the Rig-do- n dancers, which is a delightful departure from the general run of novelty dance features. Four girls interpret quaint ideas. They wear costumes that are extremely bizarre, but at the same time most artistic. It is a triumph of the quaint and every moment of it charms. The Golden Bird is an astounding canary which has been trained by a beautiful young lady with a glorious voice. That sounds stagey enough, to be sure, but does not overstate the case. One can imagine a canary sing- - k laugh-produc- er . -- SALT LAKE Florence Moore, star of Breakfast In Bed, coming to the Salt Lake theatre Thursday, December 16, for three days and matinee Saturday, says she cannot do things in the ordinary way. I must do things in my own original way always, otherwise, I feel like a tin toy wound up to go through a performance. Ive got to be unusual in order to be happy. The actors on the stage and the people in the audience never know what I am going to do next. Its just my personality and the way I have of showing it. The public recognizes the comic personality; even the actors laugh at what I do. My husband and the managers say to me after I have done something unusual, There, Florence, you made the actors laugh again. Yes, I answer, and just notice this, too; I not only made the actors laugh; the audience laughed as well, please remember. This originality of mine first shoved itself when I was a mere girl. I was born in Philadelphia, sang in a church choir there and went into my brothers road company when I was fourteen years old. But even at that age this remarkable originality of mine asserted itself. When I had dramatic roles I made comedy parts out of them. When the audience should have been weeping and 'would have been weeping if anybody else, had been playing the role I had them roaring with laughter. I dont suppose thires any way of explaining it. But, 'hen. how can originality ever be explained? KIN EM A Many a shop girl might well en y the one played by May Allison in her Held i forthcoming production, Trust, an adaptation of George Kibbe Turners story which ran serial NEW PANTAGES THEATRE Audiences at the New Pantages are finding their first Impressions of the festfulness, comfort nad beauty of the restfulness, comfort and beauty of the It is pleasant just to sit in the great amphitheatre and allow oneself to be ing an accompaniment to a violin, bat who has ever before heard of a canary imitating a meadow lark, a Bob White or a mocking bird? The canary appears in the center of the stage in a splendid golden cage, which is passed among the audience that they may see that the feathered prima donna is real. Max Cooper and Irene Ricardo in Aw Gimme The Ring, present fooleries that are fired with fun. The Rising Generation does not refer to birdmen. It reveals to us the histrionic skill of the Kiddes of our day. Ten or more little boys and girls have a vaudeville show all' by themselves and they play with extraordinary assurance and skill. Besides, the audience is won by the cuteness of it all. ifl It opevs an engagement tomorrow at the Ki:ema theatre. Suddenly lifted by stram circumstances out of her sordid away from her cheap shoes and twent cent suits, lunches into an elegantly furn shed dl- home, with servants, limousine , the Red Book magazine. flat-heele- THE WARD SISTERS IN VARITIES OF 1920" MUSICAL REVUE DIFFERENT AT THE ORPEUM NEXT WEEK ' d -- |