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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First V r some of the Taking' her idea-froplays of recent; years, Frances Nordstrom has written a little drama in rhyme called' The Magic Glasses, which is a feature of an excellent bill at the Grpheum this week. The lovely lady looks through the magic glasses into the future and sees what would happen if she married the young man she loves and what would befall.- if she should wed the millionaire whose money attracts her. The' play begins its course in the shop of an. old spectacle maker.. The girl, the poor man and the rich man drop in. Something the matter with the girls eyes, eh? The old doctor shrewdly suspects that the matter is with her heart and persuades her to dismiss her ardent suitors, who are instructed by fcer to return in half an hour. Then, in 'delightful rhyme, the girl and the old doctor discourse about the 'heart ailment : The doctor convinces ; himself that the only glasses she needs are his magic glasses, which open up the future to the one who wears them. The picture of her life with the poor man is enchanting in its idealism; the picture 'of her. life with the rich man is terrifyin g in its sordidness and its revelations of love betrayed. When the rich man and the poor man return both are much astonished at the sudden choice the maiden makes.- - The rich man remarks sarcastically that she will have to walk home if she departs with the poor man, but the lad proudly proclaims that he has a Fordi and off stage the happy pair goes'1 gallantly and gaily. The Spirit of Mardi Gras is a successful attempt tov put the Mardi Gras spirit into a brief musical revue, which features' the Mardi Gras sextette' pf ' superior jazz artists. Songs and dances by girls who understand the, spirit of carnival and raggy melodies complete the performance. Bob Murphy and Elmore White appear in a peppy arrangement of tunes and laughs. One of the tunes is Broadway. Rose, an appealing ballad most sweetly devised. One is led to infer that it is the composition of Elmore White and, if so, he deserves much commendation. Bob Murphy ladles out the comedy with a big spoon, but sometimes the spoon comes up from the tureen of jests with only a few drops of fun. Hubert Dyer is a blundering clown meaning no harm who has a wonderful art of falling in funny ways. Charlie Wilson,. the Loose Nut, is one of die best of his peculiar kind. It would be impossible to describe his act .He doesnt know what it is himself and if he did it wouldnt be half .. mirthful Lucas hnd artists par excellence give. '. a .performance in which quiet grace is a distinctive r characteristic. difficult The feats of balancing are achieved by - i Lucas and Miss Lee with an ease and gracility that are' marvelous. James McCormack and Ileanor ving are lively and laughable in a variety of. ways with their songs, dances and carefully cooked-ujests. p PANTAGES The pictures at the New Pantages have all been attractive, but none has had more thrills than are supSilver The Hoard," plied by as might be expected from any story of Rex Beach's. It tells of the struggles of two rival interests in Alaska, and the triumph of the hero and heroine over the predatory monopoly backed by Wall Street magnates. Most of the scenes are laid in the Land of the Midnight Sun, but we have entertaining glimpses of Wall Street, inside and out, and of Seattles d business district and docks. A scene is the riot started on the docks to prevent the ship of the struggling cannery company from leaving for Alaska. After that comes treachery, dynamite, murder and, at last, the victory for the right. Virginia Lee Corbin, the little star who was with the Fox Films, played well-planne- fun-makin- SALT LAKE THEATRE of-thos- bow-wow- at the Salt Lake the: Monday, night atre. Manager e Henry B. Walthall in person, and the Medium for that popular screen star's appearance before local theatre-goer- s is Would You, a rollicking new comedy drama from the pen of Her? V bert Bashford. Though still a young man, Mr.; Walthall stands out among the many actors who of late years have turned their talents from the legitimate to the movies, and now returns to the speaking stage, his first accomplishment. He was attracted to the pictures in the very beginning of the art, long before they had attained their present "popularity. He saw a future for himself on the screen. More, he saw a big future for the silent drama. He has realized his ambition at least in large measure, hence the reason for' his return to the stage. Before taking his art to the screen he was seven years on the legitimate stage, where he- distinguished himself with Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin. In. stock, he was featured in Winchester and Under Southern Skies, the latter his favorite play, as he is a southerner, a native of Alabama. In his acceptance of Would. You as a vehicle to return to the stage, he shows plainly his determination for the better class of comedy drama, for in this captivating play of modem life Mr. Walthall appears gs a temperamental poet a role that should give ample opportunity for comprehensive reading and fill the eye and senses of his audience with a powerful portrayal. Mr. Walthall- will receive admirable aid from his superior supporting cast of screen and stage stars; among them are: Mary Charleson (Mrs. Walthall in private life) and recent leading Jady in Essanay productions; William Clifford of Metro fame, Elizabeth De Witt, Sherman Bainbridge, Marion Cross, Arthur Rutledge and Cleora Orden. - - KINEMA Ethel Clayton plays a sort of feminine Jekyll and Hyde in her latest photoplay, Sins of Rosanne, which will be presented at the Kinema theatre commencing Sunday. The pictuie is a mystery-romancwith the bulk of the action laid in South Africa, and was adapted from Cynthia Stock-ley- s popular novel. The heroine is an English girl who was mothered for two years by a Malay woman and was imbued by her with a passionate desire for bright stones and the strange power to cause injury to those she might e, - -- eze Miss Kitty Gordon, eminent star o the stage and screen, who headlines the Orpheum bill next week beginning Wednesday evening. -- Pyper will present - . g. . Lee-trap- -- - . o - mother at the Hotel Utah made it impossible for her to appear on several succeeding evenings. Fulton & Mack, the society athletes, astound with their difficult feats of agility and strength. Saint & Sinner is a little drama telling the- story of the wife and the woman. The husband is injured and the woman is attracted to the house to learn whether he is dying. The wife has had a dictagraph installed for just such a visit and obtains a confession, but the womans story convinces her that she must ascribe most of the blame to herself. Therefore she grants ' her husband a divorce. Wives are a bad lot in vaudeville. Playwrights daub them with ink, and they are at a great disadvantage, for they must sit in the audience unable to fight back. Wilson and McEvoy have a song, dance and patter act which is always lively. Joe Whitehead is a comedian of the nut school of His best is a serio-comi-c recitation, like one murky Serviss poems, telling s on root how he went to the Sweet Sixteen is a miniature mu- - - Sweet Sixten is a miniature musical comedy, in- which. Jack Collins and Bert Morrissy are aided by six' pretty singing and dancing girls. .. the opening night in the New Pantages, but the serious illness of her |