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Show i THE CITIZEN B With the First Nighters GREAT SHOW PRESENTED AT PANTAGES THIS WEEK One of the classiest feature bills of the entire year is now presented at the Pantages theatre for one week. No better show can be seen anywhere at any price, and it is a show where the audience Is continually applauding the meritorious performances of profess sional stars. The big picture this week is Slide, Here is a baseball picKelley, Slide ture where an enterprising youth who knows little about the game, pretends to know it all, and the best of the joke is that he gets- away with it. He makes good at the right time. Through his antics he has practically disorganized a champion team, is retired for a while and the team comes back without him and then he is allowed to pitch the final game of a worlds series. He loses the game for eight innings but becomes a real champ in the ninth and wins with flying colors. Several noted players are seen in the picture including our own Tony Lazzeri. Dorothy Gulliver appears in a continuation of The Collegian in Fightstudent life at college ing Spirit, where she falls in love with the real hero. Bobby McGood & Company present a pleasing acrobatic stunt in which two men and a girl do some very clever work. They display great strength and are graceful in all their work. Julia Curtiss, known as the inimitable mimic, is in a class all by herself. She has a well trained voice and sings well. Her vocal rendition of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny is great and very pleasing for which she receives much applause. She perfectly imitates some of the most noted actors and actresses. She has the only voice in the world that can imitate a whistle. The Busch Sisters with Harry Chal-api- n and Moliloffs orchestra, using Russian stringed instruments, is an act well presented. A pair of pretty girls sing and dance, doing some clogging as well as Charleston. They appear in pretty costumes and make a big hit. Russian music is also a fea- CLOGSTON HAS REAL TREAT FOR WILKES PATRONS Through the efforts of Manager C. W. Clogston of the Wilkes Flayers, local theatre patrons will have an opportunity next week, starting with the matinee Sunday, of seeing a presentation of Miss Billie Burkes notable comedy success entitled, Rose Briar, which was produced at the Empire theatre in New York last season by Florenz Ziegfeld. This comedy . is from the pen of Booth Tarkington, author of ClarThe Intimate Seventeen, ence, Strangers and many other noted successes. The plot of Rose Briar centers around a cabaret girl who, when her . family fodtune was wrecked, preferred earning her living to sponging off her wealthy friends. Because of this she and her friend, Paradee, have a violent quarrel, then Mr. Valentine hears her sing and for the first time in many months a glimpse of happiness comes to the man, who has been overshadowed by his wifes money, said wife, being of a changeable an dtemperamental make-u- p owing to having her own way too much, imagines herself in love with Paradise and sick of Valentine. To compromise her husband she contrives to bring about an apparent intrigue with the cabaret girl, inviting at her counRose Briar for a week-en- d try home. Rose accepts, appears in her best frocks and her best manners THE and quite balls over the Valentine house, at the teaching Mrs. Valentines need much to learn. It is all brought about of scenes that scintillate ai aj, w in , ington humor and are hanjj Tarkingtons skill. Just how work out is a mystery for atfa work out it does in a highly J ing and satisfactory manner, Rose Briar will be preset ery night next week with man day, Thursday and Saturday, ft With Babe Ruth getting three years play the average will be easy to convince that more in training for baseball a college professorship. ft ture. y Cliff Nazarro and his pal Bob at the piano make a popular Ger-raght- hit, Nazarro doing all the talking, singing and story telling, which keeps the audience in continual laughter. He just knows what the people want, and best of all knows how to put it on. Con Colleano, assisted by a pretty Spanish brunette, is well named the His balancing, dancwire marvel. ing and flipflops on the tight wire are of the most sensational. He needs no balancing devices and appears to have perfect control on the wire. He is the greatest wire performer ever seen on a local stage. He and his pretty partner dance the Tango. policeman committed suicide because he thought he was too handsome. We know some other fellows who feel the same way about themselves only they dont take it so seriously. A New York Miss Gladys George will be a picture no artist could paint when she appears in her Madame Pompadour Rose Briar, the famous Booth Tarkington play, which will be next weeks presentation of the Wilkes Wilkes Theatre, starting with the matinee Sunday. The play was Billie Burkes starring vehicle in New Yof renz Ziegfield of The Follies fame, produced it. In the first act Miss George sings and dances in a cabaret ing a gorgeous Madame Pompadour costume. t cojj 71 w i ii, r |