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Show THE CITIZEN 8 With the First Nighters FILM AND VAUDEVILLE MAKE HIT AT PANTAGES THEATRE Mark Twains Pauper and Prince, Daredevil Mendoza and Song and Dance Popular. There are shows and shows but the one at the Pantages this week is the kind that makes a hit with the people and as a result, it is come early or you don't get a seat It is a mixture of vaudeville and pictures which thrills the audience. The feature picture is The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain and it tells a story of life in the slums and life in the kings castle, in which story the pauper takes the place of the Prince of Wales for a short time. About the time the Prince of Wales was born there also came into the world Tommy Cantry, the son of a begger and pilferer. The two boys when about eight years of age were so much alike that it was hard to distinguish one from the other. The pauper was beat up every day by a worthless father because he did not beg enough money. The poor boy had dreams of a better life and one day decided to visit the kings palace. He was ejected and scuffed in the presence of the Prince of Wales who came to his rescue. The prince invited the poor boy into the castle where he conceived the idea to exchange clothes with the pauper and .visit the latters folks. Cantry array-le- d in the clothes of the prince, of 'course, was so strange to his surroundings that the king who thought him his own son, and all the attendants, believed the boy. had lost his mind through hard. study and would not believe his stories told of the actual happenings. While he was having his troubles in court, the real Prince of Wales, dressed in rags, mixed with the poor boys, and. when he told them he was king they scoffed at him and threw him into the river. Cantry finally runs across the boy and takes him home where he gives him a beating. The boy tells him he is king and the mother believes that her son has lost his mind on account of the many beatings. After going through many harsh experiences the prince meets Miles Hendon, a return soldier, and the two return to Lon- don, the Prince of Wales to the castle and Hendon to right a wrong. Hendon admires the boy because of his manliness and the fact that he claims to be the Prince of Wales. The two arrive in London on the day of the proposed coronation of the king, for King Edward, father of the young prince, had died during his absence from the castle. It was hard to make the court officials believe that the young prince was the real prince but he produced the kings seal. Tom Cantry was taken out of poverty and Miles Hendon promoted in royalty. An extra reel of locals is also running all week. It shows the univer- . - - : sity girls in a hike up City Creek canyon; toboggan and skiing on the snowy hillsides; the crumbling of the large building west on First South a short time ago; making ice cream, showing all the machinery and methods used by the Crescent Ice Cream company, and also showing extensive improvements by the Butter Krust Bread company. Every act of the vaudeville program is a feature. Daredevil Mendoza rides a motorcycle in a large rides wire globe. He circles and upside down and he has more the appearance of some mechanical device that a human. It need not be said that he takes his life in his hands every time he mounts his motorcycle in that globe. As it is half the audience closes their eyes for fear that the rider will be dashed to pieces in his mad and daredevil ride. Virginia bells and beauz in Ye Olden Days Modernized, play a bit of everything, offering a violin and accordion selection, accordion solo, xylophone selection, cornet duet and orchestral productions, passing from the tender old melody through the stirring patriotic air to the latest loops-the-loo- p, cabaret favorite. Bert Walton presents some of the fortunes of romance humorously in two episodes. Personality and wit are factors which make him and his two assistants, who sing beautifully, possibly the most potential act of the weeks offering. La Dora and Beckman do a little bit of everything. A colonial dance and song introduction lead them into some clever rope stunts. Rogers, Roy and Rogers are three two of whom are charming maidens who blend melody of good Old southern song, as well as of modern jazz. The third is a contortionist of versatility and cleverness. . ORPHEUM. at the Orpheum thea- tre by Roy Hiram Clairs new musi- Full of Pep cal comedy revue was a scream from beginning to end and played to capacity houses throughout the week. It was chop suey night and even punk was burned to carry out the Chinese atmosphere. The actors appeared in the latest Chinese costumes and the stage scenery was of Oriental design. Music, including a Chinese band, songs and rare vaudeville stunts all went to make up one of the best shows of the season. IIENltY MILLER TAKES ISSUE WITH FAMOUS SHAKESPEARE His Company of Stars to Play In The Changelings at the Salt Lake Theatre. Of all the classic phrases given eternal life by the immortal Bard of Avon, there is none so oftly quoted and so readily accepted as inspired gospel truth in the theatres, as that phrase of Shakespeares which occurs in Hamlet The plays the thing with which to catch the conscience of the king. By common usage in the theatre, the phrase has been shortened to just the first line, The plays the thing, and theatre folk forever use it in discussing the probability of success, particularly in decrying the merits of a star.It is a tradition in the theatre - that nothing can stop a good play, that it will struggle to success through sheer A successful play always merit. arouses speculation on the reasons for its success. To theatrical people this is a never ending source of contro- versy. Henry Miller, now playing with his seven star cast in The Changelings, at the Salt Lake theatre on May 11 and 12, has very decided opinions of his own on this moot subject. And Mr. Miller, it goes without saying, knows whereof he speaks, he having to his credit as director, actor and manager some of the most sensational successes in the past two decades. Up to Manager. Team work, organization, the toute ensemble as the French say, is Mr. Millers recipe for a theatrical success. The plays not the thing at all, he is quoted as saying recently. Its just the beginning of the thing. A plays merely a batch of typewritten paper till a manager with a first class organization takes hold. Then, but not till then, does it begin to take on some semblance of what the author hoped his brain child would look like, when he first conceived it. Theres the rewriting to do. In- evitable. The phrase, Plays are not written, they're rewritten, is one of the classic truises of the theatre. Theyre always rewritten. The more skilled the playwright, the more polished his technique, the more his stuff needs revision. Plays are elastic things and must be stretched to meet all sorts of conditions, and were they not able to do so, they would die Theres the casting to do. Getting the right people for the right parts, no matter what season of the year it is, thats a gift, and it none the less requires the aid of an extensive organization. Theres the star, or maybe a couple of them. More testing of that elasticity which a play simply must have. Its cut here, add there, chop - |