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Show ss - ? ) i ; ' j. i.;i i 8 THE CITIZEN J ' f. ; i . I WIth the First Nighters ' ; . . I .i PANTAGES FEATURING BIG NOVELTY ACTS. The bill at the popular. Pantages includes, this week, many pleasing novelties of extraordinary high class. The The Four big show opens with Roses, four girls who have assembled a new and artistic act including dancing and flashy dressing and drilling. They are also adepts at acrobatic work. A comedy stunt fostered by Ross and Edwards follows and creates a sensation. It includes dance imitations and catchy songs and impersonations of Broadway favorites. Stewart and Lawrence offer what is termed An Artistic Cyclone of Songs. It is worked in small but fascinating setting and makes a decided hit and the big feature is the female impersonations by Edwards. His costumes and mannerisms are perfect to a high degree. Dorothy Lewis, who has a fine voice, sings several songs which give her well deserved applause. Her selections were well She chosen and excellently given. of the sang her way into the hearts first night audience and was called back . several times before she could The combination, as worked out, is a mirthful hit of the steenth power. Polly Walker and Doc Baker are also headliners and bring a fine, able cast with them. They present a clever dance review including fads, fancies and fascinating song numbers. Doc Baker makes character changes with the rapidity of a radio set and gives the turn rather a mystifying slant. The company works hard and brings clever personality to bear, at all times, in putting over their catchy songs and dances. The offering is spontaneous, clever and inspiring, It is one of the best of the season. Out of the ordinary may be applied to the turn presented by Corinne and Dick Himber, which contains much in the way of delightful music and flashy dancing. Corinne is a mystifying, spritely dancer who tells a strong story in ever character she portrays. She is also a fine violin player waltzing in perfect time to her own dulcet strains. The turn takes the audience away from the purely comic for the moment and leaves it stranded in the t! ' S ; I K : ? ! J i " t f ' : fl t f ; ; r L 111 iil : . 3 II IJf 'J : if D Ul i i : k I Good-b- y was se arte h ;e enthn siastically received and the pKir were encored again and again. bis A Vaudeville Surprise ushers ii The Franklin and Douglass, who come om rera of an old fashioned piece quilt. They offer a Bowery dance skit in will and woolly fashion. It goes ove m strong. A suggestive skit is offered by Frank Fisher and Eldrie Gilmore in Its the bashful country beau and tbi p small-towgirl. It is much of a fni eek, provoker and depicts the trying time ith swains who dwell in out of the way edv places encounter in getting across tbi jvelt Ear greatest story ever told. ,:ion and Dare Herbert perform some live ly and difficult acrobatic feats tha ST ii thrill, with apparently little effort Their work also includes some hair stunts. raising and Fine orchestra selections, Aesopi ium: Fables and the usual Topics, witl rite Pathe News pictures, rounds out thii w mtat clever and wholesome bill. It unde winner! peat led tor vai ence There will be a great two featun program at the American theatre dui ing the coming week, beginning witl the matinee on next Sunday. At tm top of the list is Elaine Hammersteii and Conway Tearle in One Week o Love and as a supplementary featun there will be Stan Laurel in the fun niest picture of the year, Mud ant Sand, a travesty on a feature produe tion of recent date with a somewha similar name. The producers of One Week Love have done a splendid, workman like piece of picturization. The chi requisite of a photoplay, that it sh be interesting through its entiri length, is conspicuous in this instance and photographically the film is partio ularly gratifying for its beautiful ou ai lost is tc I be h mem int e :na akin re i win the ollei ill R andii on re h e One should like to pe sonally congratulate Lewis J. SelznicAr for making the film and George of-do- most human manner. The picture, Love is an Awful Thing," starring Owen Moore, Marjorie Daw and Kathryn Perry, gets plenty of good, legitimate laughs from the audience. It is a story of the troubles encountered by a man through his love affairs. Some of the situations are most amusing to everyone except the poor victim of love. The picture is a Victor Heerman production with cast. or scenes. chinbaud for directing it. They hav done more than wrell. The story concerns Beth Wynn wt( had run a pretty race with the con ventions for many years. One day sb challenged Franklin Fraser to a racifo in the sky. It was her biggest race, if he won she had promised to man? him. Beth had been racing victorious ly when she lost control of her plan6 When she recovered consc;ousnes she found herself looking into the eye of three outlaws. Her plane ha crashed through the shack ia wbjci they lived while they were tamblto! for the spoils of the day. The f8 it bling continued, but this jeautiPJ for a much bigger stake a girl. The only white man amon? the outlaws carried her off to his don house atop the highest Tuountau peak. Then followed a conflict betwejj this Beast and the girl. He Preceded to invade her effete manDJ isms, but she fought back all the weapons of her ind. girl was unafraid, unpleadinj'. mask began to be slowly removed I the face of the Beast. 1!'1C0T?!J he wTas Just a man, contrit- anJ ad . pentant for the wrong he ck B He tried to wipe out that bl. for he had come to love he; but .... only asked for her freedom. The Beast thereupon returned ii tta Selz-nic- k ORPHEUM BILL OFFERS RARE AMUSEMENT STUNTS. yaliajj-wit- : - old-tim- f Tootis TWO FEATURE PROGRAM ON AT THE AMERICAN Chinatown, called Twenty Minutes in Chinatown, is well done both as to setting and the cast which plays it. The scene, which is laid on one of the streets of Chinatown, just off the famous Barbary coast, is full of the atmosphere of the place, from the little Chinese balcony to the tipsy sailor who tries to clean up one of the joints. It is a story of the attempted theft of a Chinese girl and the beginning of one of the tong wars which has made that Chinatown famous. The scene ends with a good old fashioned, street riot, in which the sailor takes a joyous part. Davis and McCoy have a comedy skit which went over for a number of laughs. The male member of the team plays the part without a makeup and when he first comes .out to announce that he is just filling in the time for the regular acts it looks as though he were telling the truth. He opens up with his comedy early and from then on the act is a riot. His partner plays the accordeon for a finish to the act. Malettes manikins, the act which closes the show, is a clever one and pleases both the children and the grownups. The marionettes, which are manipulated skillfully, behave in a The headliner act of the program this week at the Orpheum Is a melange of fun put over by Rose King and Frank Yorke in their Old Family Tin Type and in which about all of the big company takes a hand. This old album shows some fantastic types and also some rather flashy animated pictures. The principals in the cast e are favorites here and received a warm welcome. They appear In costumes of fifty years back and dance and sing the good old songs. songs. hey otel :e A melodrama of the San Francisco f higher realms of the fanciful and th legitimate. Golden Voices from the Golden West brings back many old favorfo melodies. There is exceptional har mony in the rendition of the tunefii breath-stoppin- g leave. f ov f n tralto f jtin n mezzo-con- j tb Karyl Norman, "The Creole Fashion Plate, at the Orpheum next week c |