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Show j THE CITIZEN ( 10 With The First Nighters Willard Mack and Hilliard Booth conspired together to Americanize a Parisian farce by Georges Feydeau. In a riot of fun it was hurled at the headj of a Salt Lake audience by Floience Moore and a capable company. Florence is the most hilaiious lady of the day in the realm of farce and finds Breakfast in Bed suited to her teeming talents. The farce is conceived in the customary French style, which seems to be popular in this country this season. Willard Mack has taken advantage of the fashion just as he took advantage of the fashion when crime! plays were popular. He has been especially comic in his depiction of the breakfast in bed scene on the morning after the night before. Emily, who has been entrusted by her fiancee to his chum, Jack Marston, attends the Nebuchadnezzar ball and wakes up next morning in Jacks apartment with a terrible headache and an internal conflagration that cries for ice water. Emily is clad as Cleopatra and Jack, who is still wearing his togs of Marc Antony, is asleep in a chair. Of course, along comes the fiance and Jacks fiance and everybody who usually comes along in that kind of a farce. The first two acts of the play are good fun( but the third act, while still retaining some of the fun, is embarrassingly vulgar. And it could have been mended easily, but evidently our own Willard did not think that. the public would appreciate the mending. The bedroom scene is what is commonly known as a stew party. Emily, who had never imbibed intoxicants before, has a hangover and, at times, a crying jag. Florence Moore spares her audience nothing in portraying the hilarities of a dying jag. Well say that Willard has proved himself a past master in the art of visualizing the jag. The adaptation removes the Parisian atmosphere almost altogether. Mack and Booth have thoroughly Americanized the fun and Florence Moore has made the moving picture star boisterously New Yorkese. She is a glad girl, but not of the Pollyana type. She is rough, hoydenish and loud, but, like May IrwTin of a generation ago, she moves constantly in a hurricane of merriment. each bit of vaudeville, whether the classical song of the prima donna or the jazz steps of Warde sisters and with RichJack Waldon, who is man. Rhyme has a very nifty effect in vaudeville. A rhymed jingle just naty urally goes with ragtime and other concoctions of melody. The rhymes were fabricated by Ballard McDonald, who has the genuine verve of comic jingling. The music was composed by Harry Carroll and Harry Richman, who have grasped the idea of musical revue numbers. There is a piquancy about the numbers that seems to put fire into all of the dancing. Graceful songs of a higher character, some of them familiar, are sung captivatingly by Miss Hark. The bill as a whole is one of the most commendable of the season. It begins at a moderate pace with Guy McMad-ic- k and Flores La Due in Ropin and The ropin is good and the gab Gab. is the best that can be obtained from the joke columns of the newspapers. Nate Leipzig is one of those graceful co-st- ar pep-epr- card sharps who could entertain you with his smile and his stagey way, even if his tricks were dull, but, as a matter of fact, he puts over some 01 the cleverest tricks that ever have mystified an audience. George Brooks and Marie Sabbott are terpsichorean in temperament, but they intersperse their dancing with mirth. Marie is a sort of baby-tal- k lady and you will enjoy her comedy if wtih grownup artyou like baby-tal- k fulness. Claude and Marion which is which we forgot to find out have an odd and highly diverting act. The lady sometimes she is almost as noisy as a falling five flights of a ladder has a voice for beautiful songs anc a voice for boisterous farce. One of the best coon stunts seen hod-carri- er of late is that presented by Glenn Jenkins. They are employed to manicure a railroad station and appear in the service uniforms rorn by brave railway janitors; also they carry their brooms, which prove effective for danc- - forth the fun. Willie Hale and brother probably a brother Elk--a-re jugglers and balancers, which does not tell the half of it. In fact, they are jugglers and balancers who are able to redeem from monotony that very stale kind of an act. NEW PANTAGES THEATRE Another attractive bill at the New Pantages is drawing crowds to the beautiful playhouse. It is a bill that has the variety and pep essential in - good vaudeville. The Whirl of Mirth is a cyclonic feature in which Roy Reaves and Will Jarvis are featured. Their excellent comedy and taking songs win the en- thusiastic applause of the audiences. A superior trained dog act, introducing a farcical mule that lives up to the reputation of its kind, furnishes some excellent fun. A singing comedienne of unusual ability is Miss Juliette Dika, who charms also by her beauty. She appears in a number of stunning gowns. The ease and skill with wThich Mason and Scholl roll and spin about on roller skates, doing seemingly impossible stunts, stirs wonderment. Lillian Ruby is just the kind of a violin virtuoso that pleases a vaudeville audience. She is equally proficient in classic, popular and syncopated strains. The added attraction, The Broadway Bubble, shown on the screen, is gripping. KINEMA Harry Carey, the outstanding Western start of the cinema, is announced for the Kinema theatre tomorrow in his latest Universal feature under the of Reeves Eason, "Blue Streak McCoy, a story by M. Van Loan, the author of many of the most direction ORPHEUM -Harry Richman and the eniuses in rhyme and jazz who conspired with him have produced a vaudeville which is apt to be a model for many musical revues. It has all the ingredients of the usual musical revue and it is diffi-cto tell just why it is different, but Varieties of 1920, at the Orpheum notable screen succe:ses. Fightin Job McCoy is found, soon after the memorable June 30, mourning (he loss of his friend, Jnhn B. The Border Rangers offer excitement and adventure to keep his mind busy, so Job enlists. His activities put him in close touch with mining interests in that section, and especially one operator, Howard Marlowe, his wife in Job and young niece, who thoughts of a brighter future. An unscrupulous official of the nine connives to steal both Marlowes gold bullion and his wife. Job suspect - the scheming Otis and is able to frusuate the robbery of the strong box. The officials Spanish p learning of the duplicity Otis, wrarns Job of the intended and by appealing to the tter nature of Marlowe's wife, persiades her to return to her husband, who is none the wiser for her folly. Tin bitaw-ake- ut this week, is decidedly different in a taking sort of way. One point of difference may be noted. Richman, who is a remarkable pianist, plays all the numbers and interprets the action in rhyme; which is to say that, seated at the piano, he introduces & ing as well as for punctuation marks in the hot African debate which furnishes well-planne- d vect-hear- t, lope-men- t, 1 ONE OF THE FAMOUS BARR TWINS, DANCERS, WHO WILL BE ONE OF THE HEADLINE ATTRACTIONS ON THE ORPHEUMS CHRISTMAS BILL - OO |