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Show THE CITIZEN With the First Nighters iU : Q ALEXANDER, KNOWS THE AT-TH- E MAN. WHO PANTAGES What do you wish to know? What do you wish I to, do?. Do. you know for what particular work you are best fitted? And a hundred and one more vital questions regarding your welfare and happiness are daily being answered by The Great Alexat ander, The Man Who Knows the Pantages theatre. His popularity in this city upon his fifteenth appearance here is greater at pros-- 0 ent than ever before, ana the theatre is daily taxed to the very doors by the anxious crowds and people who are going to see this mysteriAlexander does not ous wonder. claim any supernatural powers, yet he appears to be able to read your mind like a book, and his advice generally is for your best good. He denies control over powers not possessed by any of his auditors and he says, I do nothing that could not be accomplished by the ordinary person if they applied a lifetime of study to it as I have done. Here it is. Now tell me, how do I do it? You have eyes for yourself. Well, then, draw your own conclusions. The person may write his question and seal it in a bottle or metal container. The question may be written in any language, and Alexander will answer it for you. Some attribute clairvoyant powers to the mystic in spite of his denials, and some credit him with the ability to read the minds of others. This latter he most emphatically denies is .not so and very logically explains why he does not believe there is such a thing as f'mind reading, that a just God would not endow any one individual with such power. If this were true, he says, one thus gifted could play havoc with the money marts of the world, for with the knowledge that could be gained and by shrewd manipulation he could eventually control the finances of the entire universe. The Alexander program is thus doubly interesting, for it is bafmysterious fling, yet instructive almost and jocular at yet casual 0times. Indeed, one feature potent in the success attained is the great good humor and philosophy with which Alexander freights his an swers to the myriad perplexed inquiries. The vaudevile is above the average and the different acts keeps the audience in good humor. The Poster Girl perfectly imitates noted stage stars, ably assisted by the bill poster who does the heavies. by Stanley Thirty Pink Toes two and other associates, Chapman a comin a scream, appearing Qare edy skit of song, tumbling and fun Hall and Shapiro mix a making. little song with laugh making stunts and trick slides. The Remittance Woman is the feature picture, showing a Chinese ly staid and respectable young man, teacher in the seat. The show starts inspired by the dangerous deeds of Sunday and runs for the entire his ancestors, rises nobly to the week. occasion and saves all. UNCLE TOMS CABIN MAKES BIG Commencing tomorrow, this popHIT AT SALT LAKE. ular stock company will present which is a The Charm School, Uncle Toms Cabin, one of our delightful comedy by Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton. The story oldest and most popular plays, still CLONINGER AND COMPANY PLEASE8 LARGE AUDIENCES goes that Austin Bevens did inherit has a drawing power which proves a girls school just as he and hs that this play will probably continue many years after its founders passRalph Cloninger and his band of bachelor companions were wonderpirates in Captain Aplejack h't a ing where the next meal was com- ed to the great beyond. The people popular chord in presenting this ing from. Austin agreed that he like to see Uncle Toms Cabin, eswould make his pals teachers and pecially the children, and hundreds of play. The good old days when pi' rates bold robbed, fought and loved all agreed that they would not make people have seen this show at the are portrayed with a verve and' love nor allow the girls to make Balt Lake theatre. There will be a color that seem to. penerate to the love. What happens makes one of matinee this afternoon and the show farthest corner of the theatre. The the most exquisite plays ever writ- will wind up its three days play toten. However, Elsie loved her night. swaggering captain and the mutinOne striking example of this can be ous crew prove that the human love teacher. She liked him so well that for desperate romance is far from she tried to make love to him on witnessed this season in the case of Mr. Leon W. Washburn, the veteran dead. The settings and costumes all occasions. It was very discomover 75 years of age and of the pirate scene were splendid. forting to Austin Bevans, who had showman, still going strong, who for nearly sixpromised that none of the girls , The story deals with the craving of a very respectable young Englishshould fall in love with him. But ty years has been catering to succesman for the swashbuckling romance it is the complications that make sive generations, and who during all this period has kept his different enof gone days. Discovering quite by plays interesting, and The Charm terprises abreast and a little ahead g chance an ancient parchment School has plenty of complications. of the ledaers in every line in which a record of a pirate ancestor There is one scene that is a clashe has applied his activities and he is and a buried treasure, Ambrose sic; at night in an old buggy, as still going strong. This season he lives in imagination the wild Austin is taking the runaway Elcomes to us with his famous and gilife of a pirate chief. Two bands of sie back to the school after his auto crooks have also discovered the has been wrecked. The buggy comes gantic production of Stetsons Uncle Toms Cabin, the attraction which he out of the distance and is seen to whereabouts of the parchment in the secret chest and a battle of wits for come up almost to the footlights organized and first presented for public approval in the year 1870. From the gaining of it follows. The usual with the lovestick girl and her that date until ' the present moment there has never been a day when one or more of his five different companies have not been appearing in some section of the English speaking world. His No. 1 company, the pride of his life, as it were, which has just returned from a three-yea- r tour of the British empire, is here now. uprising with romance. Alexander will remain here until next Tuesday night and all those who have not seen him should not He miss the present opportunity. is a wonder in his line and is worth five times the price charged, con-tain- Ap-plejo- FRENCH PIANIST HERE. E. Robert Schmitz, French pianist, was presented at the Ladies Literary club Wednesday night where he was greeted by an enthusiastic audience. Mr. Schmitz, who played under the auspices of the music section of the club, gave a program that depicted the whole range of piano music, from Bach to Withorne. The genius of the artist was evident in the adequacy of his work, regardless of the character of the music. He opened with the Toccata and Fugue, its dignity, sharp contrasts, massive crescendos and beautiful phrasing being clearly presented. A Scarlatti and Couperin group further proved Mr. Schmitzs brilliancy of technic; then came a Chopin group, in which the pianist showed his fine concept of the mystic Foies tone poems, a Berthe Nocturne, ceuse and the Nocturne, Major, being the specific gems, if one must particularize. A Debussy group found Mr. Schmitz equally at home in the modern school, then came the represented by Withorne and Moskovsky, the "Tarantelle of the last named composer being a perfect whirlwind. or (Bach-Tausig- ), F-Sha-rp ultra-moder- n, . |