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Show THE CITIZEN 8 With the First Nighters CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG MAKES HIT AT PANTAGES THEATRE. Actress Star Screen And Feature Vaudeville Acts Draw Large Crowds to Playhouse. Do you want to see a good show? Then go to the Pantages this week where a bill is presented full of fun and mirth. There is song, dance, interpolated with true love in a fascinating moving picture, real life at the hotels, athletic phenoms and the original Joe Jackson, one of the worlds greatest comedians. With such an array of talent, the most critical cannot help but be pleased. There is not a listless act on the bill, each being a feature. Enter Clara Kimball Young in beautiMadam shows the noted and ful screen star at her best and it would be impossible to suggest any improvement in carrying out the plot of renewing old love which had grown cold. Mrs. Gerald Fitzgerald (Clara Kimball Young) is a prima donna and her services sought all over the world. She leaves her hard working husband in Boston and goes to the European stage where she makes a big hit. She consequently becomes the hostess at many dinners. Married life is not what it ought to be to Gerald, her husband, and he thinks he falls in love with Flora Preston (Louise Dresser) . and finally writes his. actress wife that he intends securing a divorce. Mrs. Fitzgerald, who in the meantime has also tired of the stage and wishes to be back with her husband whom she adores and loves, hurriedly packs her belongings at Milan, bringing along her retinue of servants. There are Archimede (Lionel Belmore), the chef; doctor (Wedge-woo- d Nowell), always close by; Bice (Rosita Marstini), the maid; Miss Smith (Ora Deveraux), secretary. At the Boston home there is John Fitzgerald (Arthur Rankin), stepson who has grown into young manhood since his mother has been away; Aline Chalmers (Mary Jane Saunderson) the boys sweetheart, and Tomamoto (George Kuwa), valet. Mrs. Fitzgerald arrives in due time and is heartbroken but her charms and winning ways so captivates the husband that he again falls in love with his wife. True love never dies is carried out to perfection in the act. Vaudeville. tourAndy Lewis and Norton-Pansing From Coast to Coast, makes a hit in the hotel business. Lewis starts as a hotel clerk and finally retires as an independent and loafing capitalist. His experiences as clerk, manager and owner of the Ketchum, Cheatum, Trimmen and Skinnem hotels is a laughable farce from start to finish and the actors are encored time and time again. Joe Jackson, the most copied comedian in the world, creates y, pa-tomi- a furore ' of merriment through the audience as usual. Joe appears in his rags as the contemp-abtl- e tramp. Ills actions, suspicions and fear are acted to perfection. Bob La Salle assisted by Charles Borelli in songs, stories and steps, had difficulty in retiring from the stage. His new numbers and the unique styles of display brought down the house with enthusiastic encores many times until finally Bob had to quit because of exhaustion. The Renee sisters in Chic Supreme in which a mother takes the leading part in song and the girls in dancing proves a very popular act. There are four scenes showing the Tokio girls, dance varsatile, happy Holland, and military chic. Their costumes and stage settings are magnificent. Jim and Jack, two negro syncopated steppers, amuse with new step dances of the speed order and they are artists in their line. The Equilli brothers perform acrobatic stunts which shows them to be masters of equilibrium. The unique balancing feats of the two men not only require superhuman strength, but tact and long training as well. Their style has never been duplicated on the stage heretofore. The present show will continue until next Tuesday night. It opened last Wednesday with every seat in the house sold out. VALUE OF TELEPHONE. Six thousand miles is the yearly output of telephone cable by the Western Electric company, the manufacturing branch of the Bell system. Thse cables contain 2,436,000 miles of copper wire. There will be no chance for reduction in the number of new laws and new taxes until we reduce the minuteness with which we undertake to regulate every phase of human DOUBLE FEATURE BILL SCHEDULED AT AMERICAN The Sunshine Trail and Wandering Daughters Are Attractions at Local Theatre. Two stellar features are provided for patrons of the American theatre beginning Sunday. One is The Sunshine Trail, acclaimed to be one of the greattest photoplays ever screened, in which Douglas MacLean is the star, and the other is Wandering double This bill, it is Daughters. believed, will meet the most fastidious taste since it includes life as it is and it is thought that the sincerity of the portrayal will appeal to all. The Sunshine Trail has a laugh every mile and the miles come fast. Besides MacLean, opportunity is afforded for little Muriel Frances Dana, Jackie Coogans feminine rival, who will undoubtedly attract new admirers to her fast expanding circle. is unique. The Sunshine Trail combines This novelty comedy-dram- a snappy force, rapid moving action, hair raising thrills, great gobs of fun for the kiddies, mother appeal sensations for the men folk, burlesque melodrama, and a sunshine theme which will please all. Its the story of a cowboy who comes back to civilization from his ranch, scattering sunshine and helping everyone he can along his way, despite the afct that those whom hd aids return evil for good. Its the sort of a picture which keeps the audience itching to help out the hero and bursting with laughter at the same time at his troublous adventures. Wandering Daughters will, be portrayed with Alan Forest, Marguerite de la Motte, Marjorie Daw, Noah Berry and others in appropriate roles. Its title might suggest that it is another play dealing with the condemnation of the flapper. As a matter of fact, James Young, director of the photoplay, has faith in the flapper. Further, Wandering Daughters is ; free from sex problems or preachy episodes. Its powerful, good, moral lesson is delivered directly but in an original, impressive manner that is highly fascinating and completely satisfying. CHAMINADE CHORUS. The Chaminade chorus and five gifted soloists created a stir of wonder in the large audience which attended the tabernacle musical program Thursday night. The choir and chorus was under the direction of A. C. Lund. J. J. McClellan was one of the feature numbers. The choir gave the Easter Music the from Cavalleria Rusticana, Wagner choral, Awake; Elgars My Love Dwells in a Northern Land and the March of the Toredors, from Carmen. In the Elgar number Miss Louisa Watson scored high as soloist. The Chaminade chorus was heard in from the Spinning Song Flying To a Wild Dutchman, MacDowells Rose and Cowans The Swallows, the latter selection being a gem of Miss Gwendolyn Brain, beauty. pianist, played the chorus accompaniments with fine sensitiveness and correctness, likewise winning much praise for her solos, two Schumann fantasias. Miss Jessie Williams, Brilliant young soprano, was heard to advantand age in Mozarts With Three Arditis Kiss Waltz. DeLos Jewkes, basso, won a warm welcome for his powerful an dresonant voice, with good to interpretation of On the Way and The Billowy Mandalay Deep. J. J. McClellan, organ soloist and accompanist for the choir and soloists, proved his artistry and marvelous technic in both phases of his work, creatthe Boellman Suite Gothique ing such an impression that he played Saint-Saen- s in exquiThe Swan site manner for an encore. Director Lund had his singers well in hand through the widely varied program. AUTO SCARCE. Automobiling in Alaska has not yet reached the popularity that it has attained in the states. Figures compiled at the Department of the Interior reveal the fact that the total enumeration of automoibles in Alaska amounts to 855, of this number 403 are passenger cars, 428 are trucks, 2 are ambulances, and 22 are tractors. There are, however, many motor and gas boats in Alaska, the figures showing 3,364 plying the rivers and harbors of this territory. Fourteen automobile agencies have been establish- ed by manufacturers of the United States in the principal cities of Alaska. ne rippling A quack doctor has geeso for )' |