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Show THE CITIZEN 8 With the First Nighters MASTER PHOTOPLAY AND SNAPPY VAUDEVILLE ARE PANTAGES HEADLINERS. whose wonderful George Arliss, screen success has marked him as a combination of Mephistopheles and a Machiavellian devote, deviates strangely from these widely heralded accomplishments in his latest stellar achievement The Man Who Played God, now on the screen at the popular Pantages playhouse. The Arliss characteriza- tion furnishes tense mental gymnastics for the minds of those who see the picture; it furnishes a delightful thread of entertainment while it gives Arliss an opportunity to display his rare attainments at playing parts that personify cruelty. Marie Tollmans Revue is a particularly well arranged and executed number, composed of five artful dancers and musicians. The setting is most appropriate, with a colorful selection of dance numbers. Two dances in particular are well out of the ordinary. One, deserving of the highest praise, is a snake dance, deriving its title from the weaving, undulating muscular movements of arms and legs. The other is a typical Russian dance, remarkable for its completeness of detail. Bensee and Baird in Songiflage abuse matrimony in an exceedingly humorous fashion. Clever songs and music are accentuated by droll facial expressions and body contortions. The parody has not so much to do directly with marriage itself, but with the hopelessness of bride and groom as they appear in each others eyes. Good entertainers, both, they received an ovation from the audience. Denis Chabot from Belgium and Tortini from France bring with them breezy manners that suggest sprightly and capricious winds on the French and Belgian coast. The girl, saucily naughty, and the boy, a musical acrobat, are a winning combination. Woods comedy mules are examples of to what extent the human mind can train dumb beasts. Intelligent and subservient to every whim and teaching of their master, the mules perform in a fashion far superior to the ordinary creatures of their kind. Little Pipifax, a sailor clown, assisted by Elsie and Eddie Panlo, furnishes great merriment with ridiculous antics. No-net- more and wish he or she were young again. The flirtatious skit has a very tenuous plot, indeed, just about what the actors of the drama care to make it, and this plot, what little there is of it, has been interspersed with catchy songs and much fine wit. Withall it appears quite the natural thing and goes over very strong. Quite the revelation of the stellar weeks program is the work of Eric Zardo at the piano. Zardo billed as the eminent concert pianist, makes good his every claim to high honors and leads the Orpheum orchestra through a brilliant musical maze which varies from the soft whisperings of a limped stream, to the thunderous roar of a volcano. Almost it seems like Zardo would- - succeed in tearing the keyboard from the piano at times so vociferous and strident was his man , ipulation. Had he struck the fatal chord the house must have tumbled. Much infectious humor and a touch of pathos develops from a peculiar situation raised in the staging of The Letter Writer bv Ed Burke and S. Jay Kaufman in which Ann Walters and Harold Elliott appear to advantage. Elliott is the stammering, bashful lovelorn youth, afraid to stand up to his inamorita and tell her that he loves her; Ann is the impressive flapper, the anxious and loving mother and finally the demure maiden of Elliotts dreams. It is a bit of fantastic stuff in which the moral that the best letter is the one that is never writen, is forcibly proclaimed. Jacob Kingsbury as the professional letter writer, adds fine support. New to Salt Lake audiences, but winning from their first appearance, ed Jack-in-the-bo- x, THE GOLD DIGGERS FOR THREE NIGHTS RUN AT SALT LAKE THEATRE. Hopwoods most successful The Gold Diggers, which had a run of two years at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, followed by a seasons run at Powers theatre, Chicago, will be presented, under the direction of David Belasco, at the Salt Lake theatre for three days starting Monday, January 22. The importance and worth of this s joyous dramatic offering of Mr. and Mr. Belascos are well known to all playgoers who keep abreast of the news of the theatre, and the occasion of the first performance of the play in this city will undoubtedly be one of the high points in the local dramatic season. The plot of The Gold Diggers concerns the exploits of a group of typical New York chorus girls during the hours when they are not in the view of the public, but are, instead, engaged in advancing their own interests in the matters of money and sentiment. Mr. Hopwood reveals this intricate and sprightly sort of existence in a most skillful and humorous fashion and though the picture presented is laughable it is nevertheless true to life. The leading role of Jerry Lamar is played by Gertrude Vanderbilt who is well known to playgoers of this city, and who made a distinguished success in the part during the long run of the play in Chicago. The unusually large company is made up of players of the first rank and the entire production is in accordance with the high standards Avery comedy, Hop-wood- FLIRTATIOUS SEANCE AT ORPHEUM PLAYHOUSE WINS FIRST NIGHTERS' APPROVAL. side-splittin- olive-complexion- ance. te Things flirty and flirtatious are being demonstrated at the Orpheum this week by a sextet composed of three and three which is really a revelation to even the most case hardened flapper or the fastest swain of em all. It is gleaming fantasie of what a genuine flirtation means to the boy and girl, and the comedy interposed by Jack Debcll and Jean Waters is of that character wholesome, which makes the recipient long for James Burke and Eleanor Durkin in their song offerings are immeasurably helpful as routers of the little devils of gloom. Syncopation has its innings in the act of Fred Bernard and Sid Garry, and this form of melody could have no better interpreters than these two gentlemen. Their impersonations of noted comedy actors and a bit of eccentric stepping received unqualified approval. Perhaps the unique turn of the bill is found in Frank De Witts fantastic Awakening of the Toys, presented by De Witt, Burns and Torrence. Animated into life on the stroke of twelve, the Wooden Soldier and the Pierrot Doll show some clever acrobatic stunts, in which they are interrupted by the dreadful ogre who devours all the remaining toys. Beauty, grace and rare skill is shown in the act of the Florenis, Virgil and Blanche. Perched on a high revolving pedestal, the two demonstrate perfect control of muscle in daring feats of balancing. Rounding out a show that can lay claim to rank with the best is the usual modernized, animated fable, the ever pungent Topics of the Day and the weekly Pathe reel. The show runs for the remainder of the week and the Sunday matinee and evening perform- g Sir Harry Lauder Coming to the Salt Lake Theatre, January 26 and 27 |