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Show THE CITIZEN maintained in all of Mr. Belascos organizations. The cast includes Chas. Hammond, David Glassford, Thos. M. Reynolds, Day Manson, Harry Alexander, Richard W. Haines, Harry D. Shook, Walter Hagerty, Lorraine Daily, Winifred Barry, Cora Williams, Qraisy Rudd, Trsule Holland, Edna Bennett, Katherine Walsh, Marguerite Austin, Lucile Adams, Sally Bergman and others. TULLY MARSHALL, VILLAIN IN VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, COMING TO AMERICAN. William Shakespeare once said that one may smile, and smile and be a villain.' The author and the director of The Village Blacksmitn, which e of the big is to be the American theatre program beginning on Sunday, January 14, have evidently taken this axiom to heart. There is a character in the picture named Ezra Brigham who is Capable of unlimited petty meanness but whose sense of humor, although of a strong acid tinge, permits him to smile, even to indulge in outbursts of laughter, at frequent intervals in the story. Until the advent of the moving picture, the villains of stage fiction did nothing but scowl and glare. Like the lady of spotless reputation which was all black the despicable characters of the drama were all gloom. So thick was the atmosphere of hatred and contempt for the rest of mankind that surrounded them that only a blind man could fail to see the warning signs. The air of honest bluntness assumed by Shakespeares Iago was put on the better to deceive the victims of his baseness. Ezra Brigham is straightforward enough in his villainies, but he is still able to see the humorous side of a joke which he can turn on the other fellow. Also, when the joke is on himself. After his sons return from college and he realizes how the money spent on the boys education has been wasted, he bursts into a fit of laughter and makes a shrewdly humorous comment that is bound to convulse any audience. Later he informs the young man that he has found a fine position for hima job as clerk in the village grocery store at $6 a week. And he chuckles as he says it. When the flapper wife of the pride of the house of Brigham walks in and announces that she has a legal claim for support upon the young gentleman, does not sjpr newly made father-in-laresent her familiarity when she throws her arms about his neck and gives him a daughterly kiss. In fact, he shows plainly that he rather enjoys being kissed by a pretty girl. But he does not alter in the slightest degree, his attitude toward his son or open his purse strings to his sons wife. Ezra is a humorist, in spite of his want of kindly feeling, who relishes his own meanness. In casting this part Tully Marshall was decided upon as the man best wited to it. Mr. Marshall gives the character just the right combination of absolute selfishness, love of mischief and sardonic humor. His Ezra Brigham is original and uncommonly entertaining. super-featur- w INIMITABLE SIR LAUDER AT SALT LAKE THEATRE JANUARY 26 AND 27. Sir Harry Lauders elevation to knighthood has not brought forgetfulness of his early struggles or the dour days when, scarcely able to make a living as a singer of comic ditties, he was often threatened with the possibility of a return to the coal pits in order to make a living. Sir Harry began life as a pit boy, driving a Shetland pony and otherwise making himself useful to the miners. When he had advanced to the position of a full fledged coal miner he felt that he was on the highway to riches. It was, however, hard work. Often he was up to his hips in water, with the coal vein over his head, and compelled to swing a heavy pick in that awkward and wearisome position. While at work he often sang, and in time the other miners learned to enjoy his singing, and contributed to his reputation as an amateur entertainer. Sometimes, when he sang at local concerts, he was paid about 50 cents a night, and even this modest sum seemed to him to be extravagant. His first professional appearance after he left the mines was at Lanarkshire, Scotland, with a concert company. He got the equivalent of $7 a week, but he did not have to get up at 5 oclock in the morning and spend the day underground, so he considered himself well off. After a time he became well known in the provinces, but it was fourteen years before he made his first appearance in London, where he scored an instant hit. Since that time he has frequently appeared in London, and last spring he created a sensation in the British metropolis, where he drew crowded houses for many weeks. Sir Harry Lauder, who comes to the Salt Lake theatre next Friday and Saturday, is more than a mere entertainer. He is a unique character, and is g known and popular in all countries. His friends include scores of the worlds leading statesmen, stage players and litera-teurHe is an honorary member of clubs all over the world. During the year he receives hundreds of invitations to become the guest of honor at dinners given in his honor by noted r As an organizations. speaker he has rarely been equalled, and few men have had so remarkable a career without losing the simplicity that has always characterized him. English-speakin- 9 they have become mayor and city attorney, respectively, of a town which was somnolent under the rule of prim women politicians who were advocates of ultra-temperanc- e. Having taken the reins of government, the two camouflagers proceed to work a transformation in the town which is at once drastic and to say the least, amusing. Soft drinks and ice cream parlors lose their austere appearance and signs, bristling with solemn reminders of sobriety are replaced with the more frivolous inscriptions with which those of a former age Were on better terms than the younger generation of today. The transformation is picturesquely aided by the State theatre chorus of shapely young women of good voice and in a variety of costumes in which stiff-necke- d j wo- man, Mrs. Annie L. Swynnerton, a painter, has been elected an associate of the Royal Academy of England. Broadway f NEXT WEEK The Monte Carter Musical Review I Presents Ias The fantastic musical revue MO PAMiNG" Also the fascinating picture drama SHAME John Gilbert, the Utah film star. An entire new revue next week. s i PRICES zz New songs, new costumes, new settings. Nights, ell seats, 50e. Mats., all seats, 30e. Children, all times, 10c. Continuous Performance Daily 1 to 11. See the Picture of the Elks Christmas Tree- - and Those Who Helped Make BIG HIT AT STATE a Success j featuring MlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllililllililliiliiliiliiliiliiliiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuilllllllllllllllllSIIBMSIlK? It Another episode of the adventures of Izzy and Snooky attended by considerable hilarity, was unfolded this week at the State theatre. The unfolding began Saturday when the first performance of Settin Pretty was presented. Those familiar with the peppery Monte Carter musical revues will gather that there is ample opportunity for both Mr. Carter as Izzy, and his boon companion, Mr. White, as Snooky, to expand themselves as comedians, when they are tipped off to the fact that by the simple process of manipulating the voting machine, For the first time in history a STATE THEATRE IZZY AND SNOOKY REGISTER THEATRE During 1922, 7,469 miles of road projects were completed in the United States and 17,978 miles under construction were estimated as 50 per cent complete. Federal aid earned by the states on all road projects amounted to $194,560,135, of which $166,911,-55- 2 had actually been paid. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiii s. after-dinne- straight lines are not all together predominant. The chorus has a repertoire of lilting songs with haunting airs, in which love, harvest times, angel eyes, soft moonlight, bewitching smiles and a melange of emotions and landscapes are described. jj s m |