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Show THE CITIZEN 8 r the First Nighters EDITH TALIAFERRO AND MARMEIN SISTERS WIN FAVOR AT ORPHEUM Taltented Edith Taliaferro and her supporting company are winning a great success at the Orpheum this week, as also the Marmein Sisters exemplars of the snappiest and the most fantastic and tense in the great art of trepsichore. The Marmein Sisters constitute a duo of charming dancers that have won fame in many lands. They have arranged a most enticing skit for the vaudeville stage and give animated pictures of both the lighter side andthe tense in their profession. Their scene depicting the Goddess who comes to life to wreck vengeance on the person who desecrates her bejeweled robe, is fraught with great emotion and affords spritely Sister Irene an opportunity to display great ability in the wild Oriental dance which amounts almost to a gymnastic turn, and to her exceptional physical display charms. The Queen of Hearts scene that of the Blue Bird are both and stellar productions of character portrayal and the dancing art. The Marmein Sisters are assisted by Ruth Marr, a versatile singer and also by V. Curg Peterson as musical director. Miss Taliaferro, who long ago won the hearts of the Salt Lake Orpheum fans, is presenting the' old, old story of love this season, under new nomenclature and under varying conditions. The skit has been aptly styled, Under It is divided the Same Old Moon. into three scenes, each depicting a different phase of the subject most dear and common to all mankind. The first scene shows the Dutch Minna, a . flirtish, parsimonious miss who finally intensified training of the feathered discovers her way back to true love; tribe. The educated chickens consist the second set depicts the abiding love mainly of parrots, partakeets, cockaand devotion of a Chinese Sing Song toos and kindred specimens. They girl and her great sacrifice, while the (sing, dance, talk and do other really third and last scene has to do with wonderful things considering the fact the love of a brave, dauntless west- they are just birds. ern woman. The skit is charmingly It is a wonderful program this acted throughout. The character of week. the Man in the Moon" is most efBEN TURPIN IN fectively portrayed by one of the male members of the company. PERSON AT THE PANTAGES THEATRE The Barber of Seville is something else again. It is spiced with Ben Turpin and Miss Katheryne Mcswift and pleasing Jewish comedy and two Jewish characters carry the fun Guire are beguiling Pantages fans, in and frolick to a fantastic finish in person, this week. It is being made much of a galay week at this popular which Imitations are the big things. Eddie Janis and Rene Chaplow won playhouse and the crowds are even favor with their fanciful skit called larger than usual, which is saying a Turpin, the celebrated SKarput. Eddie is a fine musician great deal. comedian of the screen, on the violin and plays like a master, cross-eyewhile Miss Rene sings and furnishes is creating a big sensation. Ben is incidentally proving that he has a fine considerable lively chatter. personality as well as a peculiar abilHeras and Willis, backyard enterwhen before the cameraman. Bens tainers, camouflage a fine gymnastic ity to Me and it is turn with an attempt to play stringed skit is called Look tempered with fun of the first calibre. instruments. They furnish a revelasome of the vextion in feats of strength and tumbling The playlet depicts ing things of the- life of a director. after an exhibition of clumsy, clownMiss McGuire is appearing as Bens ish acrobatic work. leading lady. Don Barclay and Del Chain are not In the Name of the Law, the feaas handsome as they are effective. ture picture, is one of the few films They are billed as Two Loose Pages the life of a policemen that From the Book of Fun and they live showing is above the average. It is dramatic strictly up to the title. Del is more and emotional. It indicates that a or less of a foil for the excentricities policeman is really a human being, of Barclay, who is a fool personified gifted with the aspirations of all hufor the occasion, while Dell can sing mans and not essentially a bloodhound. and cast broad very broad captivatThe picture is really an appreciation ing smiles at the women in the audiof the bluecoat fraternity who deal ence. exclusively with the law and who proThere is something different and tect the average citizens home and immensely entertaining in the Bird fireside from the mentality unfit, the Cabaret. It is a fine demonstration of vicious and the depraved. d, - d on: U es Brown's Saxaphone Six is com, of six knights of melody whose 4 bid for fame is some good popujj sic and a blackface comedian usual ability. Between the nm and the applause which greets this vaudeville enough clever remarks and panto to create a musical comedy on dimensions. If one is partial to acrobatic das Parish and Peru are the headli for this pair certainly have ma science of their art. The couple reported to have recently toured rope, and, with their exceeding satility, it seems little wonder they scored repeated successes. Clifford Lyle and Lillian Erne have a twentieth century skit is Happens Every Day. As one may agine from the title, it is a real to the minute story. The act is ii spersed with a number of catchy which add to the merit of the pm )pll r o on ele B. ebony-skinne- d B1 oti i . at IDE flit a. m s Dl ar e co so K it tation. Just to prove that there can lie dancing acts on the same bill ande a different, Charles McGood and Leo and company present one. And a different from the act offered by I ish and Peru, but equally pleasing Victoria and Dupree open the 11 with something new in the way gymnastics. The offerings of Joseph R. Way who is at the console during the I sentation of the picture, are worthy mention. MONTE CARTER COMPANY WINS FRESH LAURE Daffy Dills as presented by Mo Carter and his stellar company of ists at the State Theatre has entii John Drinkwaters Abraham Lincoln. The surrender at Appomattox. William W. Crlmans as General Grant, James Durkin as Lee. Salt Lake Theatre, three days beginning Thursday, September 28; matinee Saturday. t DC i General ii |