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Show THE CITIZEN ft With the First Nighters PLAYERS MAKE HIT AT PANTAGES THEATRE. , . The Pantages theatre presents this week, a bill made, up of thrilling ana humorous vaudeville acts and specialty stunts, featuring song, dancing, humor and accorbatic feats. It could easily be called an all feature week, furnishing amusement for the young as well as the old. The Uninvited Guest' is a screen production which teaches a moral. The picture shows how a selfish man made a woman his pawn arid, how true love brings real happiness. The scenes in the picture shifts to all pans of the world where are staged tnrmmg adventures on land and water. The burning of a steamship which is blown to atoms and all on board are killed with the exception of two women ana a man who become stranded on a ueserted South Sea island. Later the escape during which many thrills are furnished and the return home, with broken hearts healed and new love round. The three Londons in an "Aerial Novelty- stunt performing thrilling aerial spins above a suspended net on the stage. Their work is classy and hard to perform and can only be perfected by years of experience and practice. A song by the girl member of the troupe makes a hit with the - Louise Massart and sister in "A Vaudeville Frappe appear In a dancing act with grace and pretry costumes, the change of costumes being made on the stage in the presence of the audience. The two girls have some new steps and are pelaslng. Shirli Rives and Billy Arnold in "Chickens keep the audience in laughter throughout the entire act and the two are real humorists and for fun making by their chatter and joke cracking are as good as the best. Edward Blondell and company, the cast of which is made up of Edward, Katheryne, Rosebud and Eddie, Jr., in The Lost Boy, produce wit and humor. Sherman Van and Hyman in "Melodious Nonsense are well named "The Their Big League Entertainers." timely jokes and humor interpolated with song, Chinese act of singing and dancing, impersonation of the female in song with splendid voice, and ably assisted by Ole at the piano In a Swedish lingo makes a hit with the audience and the trio receive more than a generous encore. The act is a whole show in itself. Frank Hughes and Dorothy Meiritt in "Romantic Moments In Danceland with Harry Gray at the piano, step a graceful dance which could approThe Courtship priately be called Dance. Their Spanish dance in na tive costume is pleasing and beautifully executed. CLONINGER COMPANY WILL PLAY THE VIRGINIAN. For twenty years the supreme masterpiece of Western literature, "The - . Owen Wisters famous Virginian, story, will be presented in play form at the Wilke3 theatre next week starting Sunday night, by Ralph Cloninger and his company of players. Ralph Cloninger is especially fine in western roles as all who saw him in Pierre of the Plains can testify. "The Virginian provides him with the peer of all such roles. Others of the company have excellent roles as Steve, Molly Shorty, Nebraska, Trampas, Wood, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Ogden and others of the nearly thirty characters who pass in review during the action. The regular Cloninger company has been greatly augmented to make "The Virginian" one of those stage triumphs for which Ralph Cloninger has become noted this season. Thrills and suspense and comedy tumble over each other as the play unfolds. The story is too familiar to delve into as millions have read the book which Owren Wister dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt who was his close friend. When "The Virginian came out it was heralded as the great Amer- - 0L a: ng lean romance and it Is still bt lng & ed, being now in its thirty-eight- h iod tion. ian Many Utah residents have been) fin over that section of Wyoming where Bo: the scenes are laid Medicine Bow a nirl the Jackson Hole country. Wister to3 lire as it was in Wyoming during ti cattlemens war on rustlers. His re I blooded characters are all drawn fra res real life. The notorious Trampas, u lac tia king rustler, Steve, the weak friend i hoi The Virginian, who is hanged ost the latters orders, the irrepressiU ill.. Shorty, the laconic Nebraska, tl sweet and lovable Molly Wood, ti Tl Vermont school teacher, who fijj irit: western life so terrifying with its p battles and its rough "bad men. , o 1 - -- The Virginian will be played night next week with matinees Thun day and Saturday. eve? MU Orphem ' hre MONTE he nd lud lis ie, acl Musical Revue ivi T ooi red Now playing at, rhi Travesty on Uncle Toms Cabin lea: ilai and 7 Billie Dove in leci rati YANKEE MADNESS rhi Revue at 3:007:15 0:30 MATINEE DAILY EXCEPT FRIDAY w T W V W W V W V V V V ten l'c All next week Starting Suadaii itri ira rhi ea RALPH CLONINGER presents his own company h THE VIRGINIAN Great American romince Every night at 35c, 50c, 75c. 8:30. Irit mi fi Thr BlatlnecMi ilny and Saturday at 2t3(. 25c and 50c.. i Ralph Cloninger will appear at the Wilkes Theatre next week in the peer of all western roles, 'The Virginian, from Owen Wisters best seller, which has been read by millions and is still being printed, being in its 38th edition. 'The Virginian opens Sunday night. Coming ICE BOUND A if aki eri ile; |