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Show I THE CITIZEN With the First Nighters of wonder and astonishment. Dante can easily be crowned the king of magicians. The Torrino Sisters open the vaudeThe biggest sensation of the year is at the Pantages theatre this week. ville bill with duets and solos on the and accordion of popular Dante, world's famous magician, has saxaphone and song music and they are tricks, mysteries and illusions which ballads given a big hand. are so mystifying that one cannot believe their own eyes. His most senEmily Darrell in Late for Resational act is sawing a young woman hearsal is a scream from beginning to end. She is very funny and is a iri halves at the waistline The apparent victim is placed in a box natural bom comedienne. She has a with her head and feet sticking out bulldog that watches her every move at the ends. A big log saw is used for fear that it will miss something, in cutting the box in halves, presum- and a leader in the orchestra pit is ably each half of the box containing used in part of the comedy. Emily half of the woman. The box is then uses bowery slang in her talk and pulled apart about three feet to show her clean cut jokes are pleasant to that the operation is complete. As hear. Rice and Werner On the Scaffold the saw cuts its way down and through, a slight scream eminates is a blackface act in which a house from the lips of the woman and the painter tries to make love to Mandy, The a negro maid. She tries to drop from audience shudders in horror. transposition of a lady from one chair a second story window to the scaffold to another by radio, is another unand the people nearly burst with solved mystery. The water spectacle laughter over the comical antics enby Ching Ling Foo is a wonder. acted by the two clowns. We all know the story of Moses when Hall, Erminie and Brice in A Night the great prophet tapped the rock on Broadway is a comedy act pulled and a spring gushed forth. He had on the streets of New York. The nothing on Dante, who makes water stage setting shows Times Square come forth from everything he with the elevated trains running and touches, even a burning electric light the tall lighted buildings. The strangglobe shoots forth a stream of water. ers get into conversation and begin Producing a beautiful girl from an kdding each other and stir up conempty trunk and a changing barrel siderable amusement. Renee Adoree and Conrad Nagel trick are just as mystifying as are all his tricks. He performs so fast take the leads in Heaven on Earth, and does so many wonderful things a feature picture of thrilling scenes that one is kept in a bewildering state in finance, love and war. DANTE WORLD'S GREATEST MAGICIAN AT PANTAGES Dorothy Gulliver appears in another Collegian picture, Around the Bases in which her sweetheart is the real highly successful play hero. so well known Arthur Prince, known as the world's greatest ventriloquist, is coming next repeating. However, it revolt the romances of Charley Jack Chesney and their Amy Settigue and Kitty Ver4 know him intimately. The story of week. Charley's that it JL does FAMOUS FARCE COMEDY PRESENTED AT WILKES boys get Lord Fancourt Baty pose as Charley's Aunt" in 9 have a chaperone for a littfc Charley's Aunt, the farce comedy, which has made more people in more different countries roar with laughter and chortle for days after they witnessed the play, than any other comedy of like nature, will be next weeks presentation of the Wilkes Players at the Wilkes theatre, starting with the matinee Sunday afternoon. With Ben Erway in the title role of this perennial favorite, an exceptional entertainment is promised playgoers. Charleys Aunt was written by Brandon Thomas, an English playwright, while in a serious mood and he had no idea that the actors would interpret it as farce, but it scored so heavily he was content with the outcome, even though it amazed him. Incidentally Noel Leslie and Cyril Delevanti, the two English members of the Wilkes Players, played with Brandon Thomas in England in his promptu party they prising complications world-famo- , and d us stage ensuing, Miss Gladys George will as Ella, who finds a romance ft self out of all the confusion,! who will be seen in charmi in addition to Miss George a Erway, are Miss Donna Joses, Daisy Del Wilcox, Miss Fi Everhart, Ferdinand Leslie, Cyril Delevanti, and Arthur Loft. Munier, RayQ Charleys Aunt will be pit every night next week with a Sunday Thursday and Saturdi; Visitor How does the land this way? Native It ain't the land it's the real estate agent. tint Brown I hear Jones is lettE rest of the world go by. Greene Retired, eh? Brown No, bought a used a DANTE EMPEROR OF DECEPTION PRINCE OF TRICKERY AND POTENTATE OF FUN WITH HIS INFERNO OF MYSTERIES IS HERE TO FOOL YOU AND MAKE YOU LAUGH O O RICE AND WERNER ON THE SCAFFOLD O O HALL, ERMINIE AND BRICE A NIGHT ON BROADWAY O O EMILY DARRELL LATE FOR REHEARSAL O O TORRINO SISTERS MUSICAL MAIDS O O ITS ALL IN FUN AND WE NEVER DOROTHY GULLIVER IN AROUND THE BASES O O HEAVEN ON EARTH WITH RENEE ADOREE RAISE OUR Dante measuring girls who wish to go through the ordeal, or rather the Surgical Operation, of being sawed In two while under a hypnotic spell. He does not guarantee to bring back life. PRICES E pantages |