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Show r THE CITIZEN 8 With the First Nighters WAR SONGBIRDS ENTERTAIN AT THE PANTAGES quartet of charming young women who saw duty on Flanders Field, when the battle raged the hotest, and who gave freely of their rare accomplishments as songbirds to cheer and fortify the Canadian and American soldier boys, who were sent down into s battle, are singing, this week, for fans. In stage parlance they are known as The Kuba Quartet. They are all stars of the first magnitude, adepts on the piano, on the violincello, the flute and the piccolo. This stellar aggregation is merely the headline act for a- most thrilling and entrancing bill, which tapers off with a master screen production callIt all ed Where Lights Are Low. serves to thrill, to please and to hold the undivided attention of the big audiences that fill the Pantages at each performance, until the curtain falls for the last time on the last act. Then there is the human frog, so true to the real thing, that were it not for the gigantic size of the imitator of tailless, leaping tribe of amphibians of the genus Rana, it would pass for the real thing. This frog person is a real contortionist and twists himself into a bowknot just as easily as the average person can bend forward. lie presentsr a problem, and many speculate how-fahe can carry on his bodily writh-ing- s and twTists without snapping a bone or two. Anyhow it is some startling revelation along lines classed as sinuous, snakelike, or just plain limberness. skit Yes, My Dear, is a slam-banthat takes weli. It is staged swiftly and cleverly and wins much applause. Other vaudeville stunts that are above the standard and help immensely to make the week's bill a gingery affair, include Bardwell, Mayo and , Renstrom, Daly and Berlow-- and A1 St. John, the happy pest, who constitutes a show-- all by himself. The bill is above the average that has been seen in Salt Lake this season, and this take it from us says a A Pan-tage- - and to care for her brothers neglected child. Madge Bellamy gives a strongly emotional interpretation of Nan, the pitiful and abused girl wife, wrhose loyalty to her husbands command not to disclose their secret marriage, ruins her life.. Theodore Roberts, master interpreter of character parts, and one of the pioneers on the stage and screen, makes a splendid Oliver Beresford, the grim old bigot. son of As David Beresford, Oliver Lloyd Hughes, fills a difficult role in a most vivid and convincing manner. He gives a dramatic interpretation of the transition Davids character undergoes as he develops from college boy into a growTn man and a minister of the gospel. Tully Marshall is an unqualified success in his interpretation of the vicious s whose cupidity is man, tempted by Oliver Beresford. Marshalls splendid interpretation of the part of Chang, the Chinese merchant prince, in The Cup of Life, the re- odd-job- So cent Thomas H. Ince success, is still fresh in the public mind. Gertrude Claire achieves a triumph in her sympathetic interpretation of the part of Mrs. Beresford, the wife and mother. Vernon Dent gives a clever study of Joe Hurd, the crude and bucolic suitor self-effacin- for g Judiths hand. Edward Martindel makes an excellent, nonchalant man of the world in the role of Wyndham Gray, Judiths SEE IT TODAY PAN playwTright friend. Charles Meredith, as Richard Stuart, is an excellent type of the New-- York aristocrat, in love with Judith. Mathilde Brundage makes a splendid great lady as Mrs. Stuart, the society leader. Muriel Dana, star, is a four-year-o- ld sturdy little boy Junior. in-th- e role of David YES, MY DEA LORETTA aes - ORPHEUM PRESENTS STELLAR HEADLINER BILL it KUBA QUARTET The offerings at the popular consti- playhouse for the Or-pheu- m w-ee- k of this DALY and BERUth 11 stell ther BARDWELL, e gi MAY le dl RENSTROM 1 rei acts the HARRY ANTRL g ghtl char boy AL The Br ST. JOHS4 hlt Happy Per In con h g Miss re o nd WHERE LIGHTS e LOW good deal. 1 at easl bill itse er fi STELLAR CAST IN HAIL THE WOMAN" AT THE AMERICAN eps, nd o a jMoa One of the most complete and brilliant casts which any producer ever assembled, is that which inteiprets Hail the Woman, Thomas II. Inces great human epic at the American theatre all this week. Florence Vidor, Carl Sandburgs unforgettable woman," takes the role of Judith Beresford, the beautiful flowrer sprung from harsh New England soil, whose spiritual courage and noble character redeem the faults of those she loves, as she goes out into the world to escape from her tyrannical and unjust Old Testament father, Al 1: in, Gfreat d 0 nd i ulge ; Me :ing Fanny Stedman of Al & Fanny Stedman, a feature of the Orpheums smashing bill next week. , e.tv |