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Show THE CITIZEN 8 With the First Nighters VAUDEVILLE ARTISTS AND PICTURES MAKE HIT AT PAN. Mirth and melody, dancing and tumbling and a program of unusual merit in which the best artists of the country appear are responsible for the large crowds headed towards the Pant-ageFrank Burt and his prety partner, Myrtle Rosedale, headline the bill in a dancing, singing, and fun making stunt wrhich is pleasing. He tells her to play what she can he will sing what he likes. Burts ztooing gum song and Jiddish step dance makes a hit. Myitle is graceful and she. knows how to get a rise out of the audience. Robinsons band has a difficult time retiring from the stage. Their popular plantation airs are highly appreciated and the curtain drops much too soon upon the act. The cast is composed of some of the best musicians of the country, wrho can play classic to low down, mingling a little comedy all the time they are playing. Louis Winsel, master virtuose on the bass viol, coming from Vienna where he played in all the grand opera orchestras, proves a wonder on the viol. He is said to be the only man in the world that has mastered the bas3 voil, making it produce artistic and melodious airs which thrill. De Mont and Gracia in Dis and Dat dance, sing and entertain in unique skits. John Erretto presents his company in a skillful balancing act which includes some extremely novel stunts performed with ease and grace. Chappelle and Carlton promise Just a Few Things You Havent Seen and keep their promise fully. They perform difficult balancing feats, and swinging on ropes and rings. The Mysterious Witness is a frontier story full of thrilling adventures s. in which a poor boy who has left mother and home to find a start in life, wins out under the most trying and extenuating conditions surrounding him as a green cowboy on a ranch among rough necks. However he finds a new home for mother and a beautiful wife combined with wealth. EXPERIENCE" GREATEST DRAMATIC STAGE EVENT Experience is to be presented at the Wilkes theatre all next week beginning Sunday night by Ralph Clon-inge- r company. The scenery and stage settings are elaborate. There are forty-tw- o different roles to interpret with ten big episodes, and the players appear in new and beautiful costumes. Cloninger who plays Youth goes forth with Ambition and meets Experience. On the way he becomes acquainted with Pleasure, Beauty, Fashion, Style, Excitement, Intoxication, Passion, Wealth, Snob, Work, Sneak, Dissolute, Illiterate, Grouch, Chance, Makeshift and others. His advantures carry him through what we call seeYouth sees it in all its ing life. forms from high to low, becoming acquainted with Delusion, Deceit, Habit, Poverty and even Crime. It is a marvelous play bigger than The Bird of Paradise and the Masquerader and more engrossing. Already the demand for tickets to see this show is so great that Manager Cloninger advises the patrons to get them early in order to avoid inconvenience, and probably not be able to get a seat to see the greatest dramatic event of the year. THE MAD HONEYMOON FnntnffCM of comedy which keeps the audience in laughter. Norma Deane appears in the cast as the maid and wife of Duke. Of course Seldy Roach is an exasperated father of a trying daughter. Harry Jordan and Howard Russell are a pair of crooks who live by their wits. Fannie Stanley Burgett, the housekeeper of the Colgate home, is pleasing. Ray Brandon is a police officer who tries to keep things straight. There is a lawyer in the cast Kirke Decker having a minor part. There will be a matinee and evening performance today of The Mad Honeymoon." CHARMING FILM TELLS ROMANCE AT AMERICAN the famous classic by Francis Hodgson Burnett A Lady of Quality, which has been read by millions and has its niche in the permanent list of good literature, comes to the American theatre next week. Its cinema version is the result of several months of effort by Hobart Henley, featured director of the Universal Pictures corporation, and a remarkable assemblage of players and staff assistants. Virginia Valli has the starring honors, aided by Milton Sills, Earle Foxe, Bert Roacn, Willard Louis, Aileen Manning and many other notable personages of the film world in support. It is said that the modern playwrights and cinema writers w'ere developing a new form of drama much more intense and thrilling than the older. This is only partially true, in MAKES BIG HIT AT WILKES THEATRE The Mad Honeymoon which has been playing all week at the Wilkes theatre is making a big hit with the patrons, who have crowded the theatre every day. This play to as audience guessing keeps the what is going to happen next, being full of thrills and comedy. Peggy Colgate (Ann Berryman) elopes with Wally Spencer, (Ralph Cloninger) and are married in a small town. A crook appears and poses as her husband whom she had married while at boarding school, but in reality is only the brother of her dead husband, whom she still believes to be alive. A blackmail scheme is started and Peggy, the daughter of a rich man, is all broken up over the affair. The chauffeur of the Colgate family, was a former crook and knew the past history of Peggy and her marriage, and he comes to the rescue just at a time when everything looked blue for the young married couple. There is happiness ever afterward. Harold Hutchinson, who has a very pleasing personality, made his debut this week, took the role of the chauffeur, and his success is assured with the company. George Cleveland and Jean Rae as Mr. and Mrs. Obediah Eads, hotel fun-maki- Grnrln De Mont nt keeper and constable, bring out a lot the opinion of Henley, who found the Burnett story had in It aU elements of excellent screen He gives proper credit to master brains of the film-literar-y fession who arranged the ;equi of the classical story in confo: with photoplay requirements, ill novel, for that matter, undergoes tain changes either in stage or s transcription. The three who adai and scenarized A Lady of were Marion Fairfax,' Marion and Arthur Ripley. Research for the production o( Lady of Quality, in which Colot Gordon McGee handled the costui occupied ninety days before filming gan. In the opinion of some cri however, this is the surest guarant-othe quality of a motion pietd that its authenticity in detail and mosphere has been protected by ct f t V f t ful research. tl WHISPERING WIRES COMING TO THE SALT LAKE T HEATS! at the On March 13th tl f n Salt Li theatre, Whispering Wires, Kate! McLaurins dramatization of a story of the same name, will bed sented. This three-ac- t mystery pJ kept New' York interest all last rJ son. Metropolitan critics declared: was one of the best detective pli; of recent years.. The story is wroven around Mor gomery Stockbridge, who garnered, fortune at the expense of his friend-At the heighth of his financial poitl he finds himself writh much money ar: with many enemies. One of these, cl known to the financier, orders fcJ grave dug and later notifies him ovtl the telephone that he will live onlyf few hours. On the receipt of the threat Stockbridge summons they! lice, and although his house and pel son are well guarded, he dies as unknowrn enemy threatened he In finding the man wrho planned ai: l tt- - w w ng 'V'V VVfVVTTfMn All next weelu Starting Sunday, WILKES RALPH CLONINGER preaenta hla own company Biggest play of the sc ison Experience A beautiful symbolial production Harold Hutchinson, once a popular juvenile man with Ralph Cloninger during a previous engagement, has returned to Salt Lake City with a wide experience behind him, to direct Cloninger productions. His entire attention is being devoted this week to the production of Experience next week. i Kvery night nt 830. 35c, 50c, 75c. Frli-- " Blatlneeni dny and Saturday at 2:30. Tim1 lrkei 25c and 50c. BAB, Coming A Flapper Co medy tl B 1 |