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Show THE CITIZEN S With the First Nighters SYD CHAPLIN IN FEATURE moment may mean death to one of his attendants. McDonald and Cakes present a song and dance skit in which two lovers play a prominent part. The Dancing Pirates show the latest steps in solo and chorus and they are real good. In this act are also two quarreling lovers, some caveman stuff and some good singing. It is well presented by a chorus of pretty - PICTURE AT PANTAGE8. Pantages offers a thrilling bill this week, featuring Syd Chaplin in picture, in connection with five vaudeville acts in which the best talent appears. Chaplin takes the part of a nurse, and one can imagine what this comical genius gets into, the antics and pranks he plays. To see the picture is to laugh until your sides ache, and then some more laughter. Patsy Ruth Miller is to be married off for the money there is in it, sort of sale, with-her consent, and Syd just happens to get mixed up in every deal and spoils, unintentionally, many plotted plans and finally gets the girl himself by being a hero at the right time. It is a comedy act and every act and line written is to create laughter and does create laughter. Among others in the cast are David Torrence, Ed Kennedy, Henry Barrows . and Gayne Whitman. Lieutenant Thetion, a French Ace of the World War, displays crack M marksmanship with the pistol and rifle, principally with the pistol. It is easy for him to shoot cigars and small targets held in the mouths of his attendants. He also exposes fake shooting which is so often seen on the stage. He has a very hazardous act in which a mistake in an unguarded girls. Smith and Sawyer are a pair of chatterers and fun makers, in which act a refreshment stand lad tries to kid a flapper customer. She retaliates, and whats more they both get by and get a big hand. The Ishawaka Japs are a troupe of wonderful athletic performers. They show remarkab!e strength and perform many difficult feats, especially in hand balancing. It is a show that pleases all. - THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS BIG COMEDY PLAY AT WILKES Intimate family affairs provide both laughter and tears in The Family Upstairs,' Harry Delfs comedy hit which will .he next weeks presentation of Ralph Cloninger and his players at the Wilkes theatre starting tomorrow night John Anderson of the New York Evening Post, pronounces it the best play of the season, poignantly moving in its comedy. For more than a solid year The Family Upstairs kept blase New Yorkers laughing during its run at the Gaiety theatre. In the various cities in which it has played it has never failed to draw packed houses As Walter Winchell of the New York Evening Graphic said, It will tug at your heartstrings and make you laugh when you least expect it. The story concerns the family of Joe Heller who is a street car inspector earning $42.50 a week. Louise, his oldest daughter, aged 21, has not managed to land a liushand yet. Mrs. Hellers one anxiety is to ' get her daughter properly married while Joes chief ambition is to get his son, Willie, to work. Annabelle, the kid sister of Willie and Louise, has one passion and that is getting out of doing her piano lessons. The curtain rises on a typical average American home. Annabelle is reluctantly practicing on a tin panny piano, Willie is making a telephone date with a girl friend when father comes home fro work in his uniform, fagged out and wanting only a little repose while mother is serving the Louise (Miss Mary Newton) announces at dinner that a young man is calling on her, creating a sensation. The caller comes in the person of Charles Grant (Ralph Cloninger). While undergoing the embarrassment of the presence of the kid brother and sister of the lady he is calling on, Grant also has to listen to Mrs. Heller rave about what a wonderful girl Louise is and to her bluff about their circumstances which she makes much better than they are. Miss Heller so musses up things that she nearly ruins the match she so hopes her daughter will make. Complications ensue rapidly providing continuous merriment. The Family Upstairs will be presented every night next week with matinees Thursday and Saturday. ap-pe- ar .CLONINGER SUCCESSFULLY STAGES GREAT MELODRAMA Miss Mary Newton scores big in Madame X in the leading role, with admirable support from Ralph Cloninger and Victor Gillard. Madame X is a melodramatic play, being one of the great and powerful plays of the day, and it is much to the credit of the Ralph Cloninger company to NOW! SYD CHAPLIN IN OH! WHAT A NURSE o O o DANCING lMIlATES SMITH AND SAWVEll o C) o ISIIAWAKA JA1S o O o McDonald and OAKES 3 o O o MKUT TIIETION o O o its all in fun and we never raise our 99 prices 3 K PANTAGES The Family Upstairs, the cele-- , brated comedy hit direct from Broadway, which will be Ralph Cloningers presentation at the Wilkes Theatre all next week, starting tomorrow night. Miss Fana Whitney, who has a comedy role in |