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Show THE CITIZEN With the First Nighters ARGE CROWDS ATTEND PANTAGES TO SEE FUN Joseph E. Barnard and company pull a comedy on married life, Who is She? written by Willard Mack. The For fun and comedy the theatre patron will wait a long time to see such another bill as is presented at the tire M tre tire Pantages theatre this week. The peo- -' pie must have sensed the true worth )f the bill because of the large crowd which went to see the opening show last Wednesday afternoon when the theatre was packed to the doors The screen pictures were a deviation from the general run and screened outdoor' sports including early life' in Alaska Utah scenbarrooms and ery and fishing pictures and the taming of the King of Wild Horses on n border. the United Every act is class and the many encores shows that the audience appreciates a real humorous bill. The Millionaire Jazz Band, presented by Charles Ahearn, is a scream. Its cast is made up of bankers, brokers and financiers, principally brokr ers who travel via the sleepers. The first scene is a musical tableau under the direction of Mr. Ahearn, the moosic leader. In the next, scene is shown the bands hundred thousand dollar Pullman palace car and the band de lux. The third scene makes a hit with the guests in the front row and pretty Miss Bessie Bromeley, the Egyptian ballet and solo dancer, appears a la nude in an artistic East dance. The Hawaiian frolic led by Miss Bessie Bromeley and ably supported by the other members of the cast is pleasing. This act alone is an ordinary show. The Rios in a combination of grace and skill on trapeze display some new stuff which requires great strength and skill. A little girl comes out during a the act and sings and dances in very , gold-digger- States-Mexica- side-doo- m for igli t-- ! s, pleasing maner. Rudolph Martinez, a Mexican youth, and receives an sings several ballads enthusiastic encore. He has a good voice. young wife is very jealous and every shy glance of her husband brings about a quarrel and threatened divorce proceedings. Jack Strouse, blackface, In Over Phone. keeps the audience in laughing humor and is forced to return several times. He has some good new. ' . stuff in song and chatter and knows , how to entertain. ' If you' have' been oiit fishing lately and have not caught any, go to the Pantages theatre any day up to next Tuesday night and see the fishing pictures which tell every one how to catch the wily trout. . Tol-abl- e . ENCHANTED COTTAGE TO BE PLAYED AT AMERICAN A young man peered into a mirror. He looked at his crippled form, his sunken cheeks, his sunken eyes. Damn you! he cried. Go away and hide yourself. Seven times he repeated this bit of action, and seven times a movie camera worked away. Go away and hide yourself. A visitor at the Inspiration Studio, making his first trip to Fort Lee, N. J., in several years, with this command repeated seven times, could not help coupling it with the communitys fall as a movie producing center. Go away and hide yourself. Gosh, thats what all the photplay stars who used to work at Fort Lee have been doing. At least as far as Fort Lee is concerned. Of course, they havent really hidden themselves. Theyve hied off to Los Angeles and sunlight. The mists of the Hudson have been too much for them. The man who was exhorting himself to do the Nicky Arnstein trick, was Richard Barthelmess, the Inspiration star. The picture was ' Sir Arthur Wing Pineros The Enchanted Cot- - produced on the stage in New California, with its sunshine,, is more last year and going into the suitable than New Jersey. American Theatre next week as a First We . asked Barthelmess to name the ' National film attraction. Unusual as a photoplay actress who in. his, opinion dominates the' silent drama. Mary photoplay? Perhaps, but Barthelmess has found that his unusual pictures' Pickford, he replied, does far better e were the best liked. There was work than her critics generally credit David, for Instance. That was her with. Her work on the screen is the picture which really brought this masterful, principally because she d young man to film fame. . succeeds so well in offering the illuThere . was sion of extreme youth, but Lilliant Gish The Sony, Fury, Bright Shawl and The Fighting undoubtedly proved her right to a Blade. And now The Enchanted-Cottage- .premier, .ranking by her. work in rThe in which he plays the part White Sister. Perhaps I am a. little of a battle scarred veteran of the Great, prejudiced, as next year I expect to War, and proves that as a character play Romeo opposite Miss Gishs Juactor he need concede nothing to any liet, but you may take my choice or other film star. leave it. Before we saw Barthelmess telling And the greatest male star? we his mirrored self to beat it, we wanasked. Just then Director Robertson dered outside the studio and saw the joined us. He said nothing, but the 'ex finger of his right hand pointe.-squarel- y great street set depicting the city of at Dick. Oxford, England, which was used as a background for an exterior scene in Later, when we watched Dick work The Enchanted Cottage. Director before the camera, looking for all the John S. Robertson, who had been guidworld like the mishapen veteran of d as a reing Barthelmess in his acting, showed the World-Waus through the winding, narrow, cobblesult of an aeroplane fall the part -stone streets, past old English which he plays in The Enchanted houses and shops. Cottage we were certain that Mr. Barthelmess is reviving Fort Lee. Robertson was right. Barthelmess lives In the east, he said, there are' fine the part and that is the greatest boustudio facilities, and any pictures dequet one can bestow on any actor. manding only interiors, can be made as Incidentally, Barthelmess is a regular well in Fort Lee as in Hollywood. Of fellow, and that is the best recommencourse, when it comes to outdoor shots, dation one man can give another. tagev York . dark-haire- . . . , , , . . spine-cripple- r, . THIS WEEK 1JIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1' 5 m I CHARLES AHEARN I And His I MILLIONAIRE I I I JAZZ BAND ' llllllllllllllllllllllllllll 5 f JACK STROUSE In Over The Phene iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmii I JOSEPH E. BENNARD & 1 co. 1 i Comedy by Willard Mack 5 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiii THE RIOS j A Novelty Surprise iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 m THE KING OF WILD HORSES Ranch and Range Life 5 llllllllllllllllllllllllllll TROUT FISHING IN UTAH We 1 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Never K: BALLOON TIRES The Easy Riding Raise 1 Our Prices ijiiiiii:iiiiliiiiiliiliiiiiaHliiliJiiliiliiliiliililliiliiiiiliiliiltiiiiE ALL I AT - PANTAGES AT THE AMERICAN. T |