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Show THE CITIZEN 10 With The First Nighters A vaudeville bill built seemingly for laughing purposes pure and simple and one that is therefore an excellent antidote for all spring ailments, is scheduled to open at the local theatre Wednesday night. bill, It is also a with Harriet Rempel, vaudeville's delightful character star, and the Herbert Williams and Hilda Wolfus, king and queen of buffoonery, Miss sharing the stellar honors. Rempel will be seen in Tom Barrys romantic fantasy, The Story o' a Picture, reported as the most delicate and beautiful playlet seen on the circuit this season. It has n memorable setting and Miss Rempel receives excellent support, making the act a real triumph of acting. Williams and Wolfus pfesent Prom Soup to Or-pheu- m double-headlin- er ever-popul- ar . Or-pheu- m a comedy. It is just about the funniest act in vaudeville Nuts, ruf-fine- d a melange of mirth and tomfoolery that registers more hearty laughs than anything the stage has seen in many a day. Dont miss this act if you s care for a .real honest-to-goodnes- laugh. The famous comedian, James C. Morton, is on the bill, assisted by Mamie, Edna and Alfred Morton. These famous Mortons will appear in a comedy travesty. Mr. Morton has the reputation of going after a laugh like a hound after a fox, and best of all he usually gets them in goodly numbers. Brilliant Edith Clifford, the comedienne who is highly pleasing to both eye and: ear, offers a series of songs, with Roy Ingraham at the piano. Miss Clifford is 100 per cent comedienne and her act a most delightful lew minutes diversion. Tom Smith in All Fun is another de lux funmaker on the. .riotous bill. He is a well known musical comedy star who has scored a lasting hit in the Bert the famed international Melrose, clown? iiis still another laugh-gette- r programmed. He has a lot ofA new things in clownery to offer, but, of course, retains the or'ginal Melrose fall as a climax. Delmer and Kolb will present Cne Summer Day. Their act is something new and unconventional, mingling skill and attractiveness in equal measure. Pathe New3 two-a-da- for a number of years. She is spending the week with friends here. Her act is a treat. Miss Stecks captivating mannerisms and her winsomeness, coupled wtih her charming voice, put the act in the honor position. Miss Steck is assisted by Miss Bohnet at the piano. Paul. Petching presents the most pleasing novelty attraction seen this season with his strange flower garden Paul believes in saying it wtih flowers and he does this to good advantage. The act is a feature different from tlie usual attraction. Charles and Addie Wilkins offer a riot of laughter in The Tango Lesson. Addie dances wtih considerable adeptness and Charlie convinced the audience that he could execute some excellent steps himself. Roy Stever and Mildred Love joy have the classic art of terpsichore down to a science. Their offerings are pleasing and interesting. A clever line of patter adds to the value of the presentation. Jack Wells and Joe Boggs,' presenthave a little common-interes- t skit that is pleasing. Wells scores a success in his interpretation of the veteran of the civil war. Orville Stamm, billed as The Boy Hercules, fulfills his part of the bill to good advantage. Several novel and ing The G. A. R. Man, difficult feats are performed with ap- parent ease. Skirts, boasting the picturization of 3,000 girls, is the feature photoplay. The number of the fairer sex appearing is not exaggerated and the picture is a feature from this as well as the Clyde Cook plays the lead with Singers Midgets in the supporting cast. . Selections by Joseph R. Wayne at the organ and the Pantages orchestra complete the program. ' comedy-viewpoint- . FASHIONS IN IRENE run of nineteen months, Irene, now at the Salt Lake theatre, the biggest musical comedy success the American stage has known, has given five complete changes of costuming for its femininity something of a theatrical record in itself. But the most recent innovation offered by the Vanderbilt Producing company, who direct the destiny of the delightful Irene is to establish its own direct and speedy communication with the sources of authoritative Parisian gown fashions in a way that allows it to present the coming styl3 several months before they can be shown by Americans by former methDuring its record-breakin- g ods. The result has been a constant flock- - ing of modistes, American gown signers and the great multitude women who plan all .their own g0' and get them just the way they them to see Irene and study newest tiling from more angles tha possible from fasliion plates uf a print, ed page. By this new plan, Miss Nena Blake, the former actress of note and neir special fashion designer, went to Paj in December and obtained original drawings in their first form far in jj. vance of their publication ,and hurry, Ife ing home, had new models made a this country without the loss of time necessary by foreign construction aaj the custom delays at an entrance port t There are distinct styles h the new costume edition for Irene, two for each woman member of the cast, and it is typical of the Vanderbilt Producing companys methods that all the Irene companies now here and there across the faced the world are each to be fitted with exact replicas of these newest govci forty-eigh- play-in- COLLIER COMING William Collier has in The Hottein which he comes to the Salt Lake theatre commencing Thursday, May 12, with Saturday matinee, one the greatest successes of his entire career and under the management Sam H. Harris he is establishing net records in ever city where he plays. In New aork The Hottentot was one of the really big hits of last season, and ran until hot weather. In Boa ton, Philadelphia and Chicago this season Mr. Collier has duplicated hi; New York triumph. The Hottentot is by Victor Mapes, ntot of of of The Boomerang am Mr. Collier. It has been built for laughing purposes only and more than meets every requirement. As Sam suposed by his friends to be a steeplechase rider of reputation, be in reality being a man very mucli afraid of horses, because of a terrible experience early in life, Mr. Collier co-auth- y. or Har-ingto- has a role with great opportunities. As a farceur he is without an equal on the American stage today and his work is so artistic, and shows suet cleverness that there is never a dull and Topics of the Day as usual. moment. PANTAGES The Hotentot, let it be sa d, is horse and a dangerous one to as the horse is owned by Peg?! Fairfax, and Peggy has captured Sams heart completely, the pie' grv very complicated and the situation more and more humorous. T!ie ii logue is said to be exceptionally clevei and the entire play is so freely punf tuated with laughs that there is never a let-uuntil the final curtain. Mr. Harris has surrounded Mr. Cl lied with a most capable comply. rid1-bu- The new bill which opened at the Pantages theatre Wednesday afternoon goes a long way. toward proving the assertion-thait does not lake quantity to produce quality. Ten performers are presented. The bill and the picture attain the same standard as all the other former excellent vaudeville and screen attractions which have been offered by Manager Diamond in recent weeks'. To choose a headliner is .difficult. The acts aife well presented .and staged. However, Miss Olga . Steck demands considerable attention.. Miss Steck is a former musical comedy star and, incidentally, lived in Salt Lake t ' PC p i i :, t eluding Donald Meek, Calvin Karr, Arthur Howard, Elte Taylor, Howard Hull Gibson, i; corgi Lo Hall, Paula Marr, Mildred II :U aD Miriam Kursman. Taonias-Frederi- i William Collier, who comes to the Salt Lake Theatre for three days, commencing Thursday, May 12, In The Hottentot, his greatest success In years. |