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Show THE CITIZEN With the First Nighters ORPHEUM SHOW DELIGHTS WITH MANY FAVORITES PANT AGES PLAY HOUSE OFFERING SNAPPY BILL This week is really Old Favorites week at the popular Orpheum. It brings to Salt Lake many prominent vaudeville stage stars who have made reputations that extend from coast to coast. It presents a delightful combination of talent from the opening session, wherein Grace Doro shows how it is done on the piano, until the curtain rings down on the leaping dog act contribtued by the canine proteges of Vaudeville devotees are enjoying a real treat at the popular Pantages play house this week. The bill being presented by Manager Diamond ranges from the mystic to the best in the classics. It is well balanced and designed Mons. Meehan. GraceDororshe of Ten flngersandTi baby-granhas a wonderful way of d, demonstrating what a piano can do when its keys are manipulated by one who knows. She is adept at imitations of other musical instruments, and when it comes to real tunes and technique, is vastly more than all there. Her act constitutes the first headliner Next comes Alice and Mary McCar- thy. Two Little Girls in .Blue, who skit, which present a is steeped in much harmony and which makes a decided hit. It is not so much what they sing as the way they sing it, that gets the applause. Jack Morton and Co. Lucille Haley and Frank Dufrane, constituting the company are out with a new skit which comcalled Recuperation, prises farce comedy stepped up to wonderful heights. This is another headline act. semi-headlin- Sure-nu- f er are top-notche- rs Bailey, Cown and Estelle Davis. This trio presents a swift, illuminating and edifying comedy that combines exceptional banjo playing, fine singing and allround snappy stuff from start to finish. Perhaps the real headliner, if you had to choose, is the sketch, featuring southern melody, wit and winsomeis offered by John ness, which Hymans, Miss Leila Hymans and Leila McIntyre, who in private life is Mrs. Hymans. It is patently a family affair, with the exception of Teady Powell who functions as the elevator boy. This playlet in which humor, beauty and briliant stage effect are finely blender is called "Honeysuckle. It is rendered the more enchanting by the quaint southern vernacular and spritely mannerisms of Leila McIntyre, whose rare charm of voice, face and figure have been cleverly adapted to the part she plays Her daughter, Miss Liela, has grown into amazing, beautiful womanhood and is adept in her role as stenographer. Bringing laughs by the score Val and Ernie Stanton present an unusual stunt in which wierd conversation is the essence of things. As extemporaneous and vivid vocabularists the boys take the persimmons without There is much of fear or favor. spiced satire and a little of really to furnish a most delightful evening for those who take a regular diet of vaudeville stuff, as a requirement of existence. Tamo Kajiyama, Japanese chirog- rapher and mystic, dumbfounds hi s audience with his uncanny exhibitions of mind concentration and with his exceptional skill at the blackboard. Kajiyama gives a new slant at mental gymnastic stunts and performs both clever and wonderful and apparently impossible feats easily that combine skill and mental concentration. Two Little Girls From Boston and the Boy From New Orleans, Grace King and Maurice Brierre, give a clean, humorous, catchy skit ranging decidedly above the average. Miss King is both witty and pretty, while her partner is deucedly clever. Both are good singers. Dan Casler at the piano and the Beasley Twins are a rare combination, indeed. The Twins make violins talk right back at you and in a manner most fascinating. This trio does its stuff all the way from the popular up to the real classic and back to jazz, with great display of nonchalance and The Rosary . is perfect technique. a special feature of the act. A pair of extraordinary nuts are Sidney S. Style and Arthur Poteet in their skit, Why Squirrels Leave Home. It is a regular of mirth and nonsense, happily combined and effective in getting the laugh stuff going strong. Kutlings entertainers, dogs and cats, leap hurdles and perform many hodge-podg- e difficult tricks, including the waltz and modem dance steps. And a rabbit has actually been trained to perform; also a few pigeons take a prominent part in this minimal classic. The Five-DollBaby is the picture offering, featuring Viola Dana. It is an Irving S. Cobb creation and is a remarkable combination of humor and pathos, such only as Cobb is capable of. The story climaxes at Christmas, rendering it timely and effective in its seasonal message. ar 4DOYOURSTUFF" HILARIOUS COMEDY AT STATE THEATRE At last an interesting plot has been constructed around the subject of matrimony. The production is called Do Your Stuff and is a great satire, as well as a great laugh provoking seance, with his nibs, Cupid, as the eenter piece in a triangle affair, which, however, includes three couple and ndt the conventional three people. This fantastic bit of matrimonial nonsense featured Izzy and Blanche Gilmore at the State theatre all this week in one of the best musical comedy efforts produced at that popular play house the present season. Three couple decided Ito get married at the same hotel at the same hour. All parties to the three affairs of Hymen had agreed to keep the matter secret. Izzy went after the rich widow, Blanche Gilmore. Her father sets out on a still hunt after a fair flapper, and his son and heir plans to become a beedict when he encounters a winsome young thing of lissome grace and ravishing charms. The three lonepme secret weddings turn out to be a roaring surprise party with the six principals chiefly engaged in making profuse and copious explanations. From a general mix-uit finally emerges into a happy family affair in which all six get mar- p orig .jlOV In re pu ried and settle ie married life. OUl The skit is Interspersed with wit humor and many catchy songs an T musical turns. Vernon SangmaBter was especially strong in his orche Doufi tration, and the rendition of Matty snd monial Blues by the orchestra ea semble was a feature. :iOE ie PHOTO-DRAM- COMES TO THE AMERICA! t) ite Practically every stage success of the past decade which presents any pictorial value has been translated to tlie screen, but few have presented the wealth of material contained in Colliers big racing comedy. After witnessing the stage play Mr Ince immediately began negotiations to buy the film rights, which he finadid, paying $21,000. He recognized the tremendous possibilities of natural development in the play which he im mediately chose for the first big comedy drama special on his current production schedule. The correctness of the producer's lightning judgment is evident in the finished screen play which is more hil ariously funny than the play and carries, in addition, all the wallops of outdoor action not possible with limit ed stage facilities. It took two companies, wreeks of time, tremendous expenditures and a good many broken bones to screen The ; lly pro-ducto- n Hottentot, but the result proves that a picture version of a successful stage pliay can be even better than the gym- the hounds are It furnishes a flashy, nastic stunts and VIOLA DANA in An Exciting Scene From THE H i Meehans Canines are wonder dogs. classy leapers interesting close for a master bill. A The latest big legitimate stage sue! cess to be adopted by the films is The Hottentot, Willie Colliers bug cessful comedy that rocked the entire country for two years. It is to be the big feature of the special Christmas week program at the American theatre. good dancing. The Spitz family is strong on 0 THE HOTTENTOT FLASHY $5 BABY ; |