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Show K. THE CITIZEN 1 With the First Nighters PANTAGES PRESENTS GREAT MYSTERY ACT. The offering at the Pantages theatre this week might be labeled thrills of comedy. It is Just one continual round of pleasure in which the large audiences delight. The feature picture showing the business life, and resultant thrills, of Potash and Furlmutter as partners, needs no explanation. It is a scream, and the way these two fools carry on is enough to make a donkey laugh. Probably Joyce Lando and company would carry off the honors as the vaudeville act. Here is shown some excellent dancing including a toe dance on piano keys, some good piano playing and several vocal selections by a pleasing male voice. Pretty costumes and stage settings added much to the act. Clark and Villiani present the 1926 Income Tax a burlesque comedy with which chatter they keep the audience One of the in continual laughter. boys is a good singer, and his tenor voice makes a big hit. The Fabiano, who is billed as King of Mandolins, is a skilled musician, and is recalled several times to repeat. His feat of playing a combination of guitar and mandolin on a mandolin is well received and a feat seldom performed. Nereida, the creation of a woman fea-v.tu- re out of nothing, is a mystery, act. and while it is shown and explained to the audience twice, yet no one appears to be. able ot solve the secret. A glass box, filled with water, is placed on an ordinary table. The tank is covered with a cloth, which, when removed, shows a pretty girl sleeping in the tank of water. At a command she arises, drenched to the skin, and steps out upon the stage. The tank is covered a second time and another mermaid steps forth. But where do the girls come from? No one knows. It is a great mystery act. Fulton and Mack are a pair, of strong athletes and they perform several gymnastic feats that require -- great strength!. This show continces Tuesday night. until next . CAN YOU GUESS WHO THE BAT IS AT WILKES THEATRE. The worlds greatest mystery play, The Bat, is drawing packed houses at the Wilkes theatre. This is the last day it will be shown and there will be a matinee this afternoon and the final evening performance. Just who the bat is keeps the audiIt is a ence continually guessing. the life of a master criminal, stolen money, secret rooms, and many strange things happen in the darkened rooms. It is a play that holds the attention of the audience to the last minute. . . Miss May Roberts as Cornelia Van Gorder, who could find new thoughts in her knitting, through her ingenuity, was the real discoverer of The Bat. She played a strong role in an admirable manner. Josephine Challen as Miss Van Gorders maid, Lizzie, was the fun element of the play. In the most spooky and creepy situation she would pipe up with some uncalled-fo- r remark, and send the house into shrieks of laughter. Mary Newton as Dale Ogden, who endeavored to protect her sweetheart from a crime she knew him to be innocent of, was splendid. As Brooks, the missing cashier, Ralph Cloninger was good. As the suave, crafty Doctor Wells, Victor Jory did an exceptionally fine piece of acting. Anderson, the detective of the house, played by Victor Gillard, car ried a heavy part which he handled in noteworthy style. George Cleveland, as Billy, Chinese servant; Clifford Van Dyke, as Richard Fleming, and Ray Clifford, as Reggie Beresford, were all good. Curg Peterson and his orchestra gave splendid musical selections. THE NERVOU8 WRECK HAD TWO YEARS RUN IN GOTHAM. A man cant always be judged by how many pills he takes. of The Henry Williams, hero Nervous Wreck, which Ralph Cloninger will present at the Wilkes theatre all next week, starting tomorrow night, is introduced in the first act with so many different ills that he has to carry a private medicine case. Henry, the role to be played by Mr. three Cloninger, expects to live months and asks only quiet and peace for that period, the slightest sound giving him a nervous attack. But before the play is over he has has licked the staged a hold-up- , toughest man on the Bar M ranch into cowed terror, has stampeded a posse of hardened plainsmen and has play of the spooky kind in which there are plenty of gasps and creeps, tinged with genuine laughs and shudders and shrieks. The story relates 74 The Nervous Wreck, termed a farcical adventure in the far west, will be next weeks unusual presentation of Ralph Cloninger and his players at the Wilkes Theatre, starting Sunday night. It is a big Brodway hit procured at a high royalty, never having been played in Salt Lake. Mr. Cloninger will be seen in the title role. Victor Joy and other players also will be seen in vital parts. |