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Show THE CITIZEN which would make an Indian statue laugh. When Dane recovered his . equilibrium he skipped out and left his wife, but in the course of a year was notified that he was the father of a bouncing baby. He rushes home only to find triplets, and his chest swells with pride. The babies were borrowed from the neighbors, but it had to be done so Arthur could win his bride, and so the fun continues throughout the entire picture. Charlotte Greenwood plays her role to perfection. A dazzling and elaborate dance review presented by Kathryn Lambert and featuring Milton Bronson, in which solo and ensemble numbers from the Blue Danube waltz days down through the Merry Widow and Pink Lady, light opera days to the present eccentric and jazz dancing craze, is one of the classy vaudeThe dancing ville acts this week. girls dress according to the time and dance and are very pleasing. The toe dancer is an artiste. The act is well presented and supported by artistic scenery. Lubin, Larry and Andre present a mixed act of singing, dancing and comedy which makes a big hit. One blackface is a comedian de luxe, while his partner is a good singer. The girl is an exceptional and graceful toe dancer. But that blackface boy, he sure can step some. Olympia & Jules have a pack of trained dogs which perform all sorts of tricks and high jumping. There are trained Russian and South Amer . . at pantages THE LARGE CROWDS laugh week I DRAWS is a comedy worth while and Pantages patrons are i laughing until their sides ache. There I is not a dull moment in this picture, j Karl Dane, so big and strong, so so innocent and a veritable rube famishes the fun after the schemes have been hatched by Geo. K. Arthur, and between the two they create more 'merriment than was thought ever 'could be recorded on the vancass. Dane proves a failure in a human ; Baby Mine ; awk-war- d, i establishment, ordi- narily known as a chiropractic college, j Among his first lessons was practice upon a champion wrestler whom he almost killed in trying to adjust an i injured shoulder. His pal had fallen j bone breaking 1 not marry until his sweethearts sister was married, and )Dane was not only the likely beau d Jbrummel, but was made the goat. Arthur set the trap and married his pal off after a series of situations ithrilling and hilarious jin love but could ni di- - unsus-jpecte- rce r I lit a ican greyhounds, and small comedy dogs. The Flores Girls present an athletic novelty on the rings and trapeze, performing some difficult feats. They are graceful and show great strength and agility in their work. Bobin Berta, European mimic and ventriloquist, keeps the audience in a happy mood by his comedy and acting and he makes a big hit and gets the applause. His alley cat and dog mimics are great. Carlisle and La Mai is a newspaper act in which a lady reporter interviews a college athlete who is inclined to be a little backward while she throws hard hit questions. They and of new jests have a series puns that are good. The lady sings well. John Gilbert will be seen next week in Cameo Kirby, the picture that founded the Utahs boys career on the screen. , SPARKLING COMEDY DRAMA FOR THE WILKES PATRONS Youth, romance and delicious humor have ever marked the works of Edward Childs Carpenter, the distinguished author of The Cinderella The Pipes of Pan, Bab, Man, and other successes, and his newest Goes Connie Broadway success, Home, which will be next weeks presentation of the Wilkes Players at the Wilkes theatre, starting with the matinee Sunday afternoon, reveals Mr. Carpenter at his best. Connie Goes Home is a sparkling comedy drama developed in a series situations revolving of ingenious about the brightest of love stories. Miss Gladys George in the role of Connie will be seen in a role entirely different from any she has heretofore played, that of a child woman. During part of the action she will be seen y as a fourteen year old girl. Ben will be seen as Jim Anderson who befriends Connie and becomes involved in a tilt with his fiancee and a romance with Connie. Briefly the story concerns an actress of child roles, Connie, who returns to her boarding house to find her two companions, Edna and Ethel, about to leave her. Edna has an engagement and Ethel has succumbed to privations and has chosen the easiest way. Norman Hunt, a vaudeville performer, has offered Connie a profligate engagement which she spurns. Penniless and alone, Connie decides to return to a home for destitute girls, where she formerly lived after the death of her parents. Jim Anderson comes to her aid and takes her home with him, depending on his uncles kind disposition to provide a stopping place for her. Jim finds his cousin Chester Bar- Er-wa- ion vei age nly mts ary rate wray satl ook Yhy iere Let' Lubin and Andre in Super Comedy Act now at Pantages. clay hostile to his plan of .sheltering Connie, Chester being anxious to have, his uncle cut Jim off in his will so he, Chester, will get all the fortune the old man possesses. Connie wins Miss Gladys George, who will have a role different from any of her career in Salt Lake next week at the Wilkes, starting with the matinee n Sunday, when she plays the role of Connie in Connie Goes Home, a modern Cinderella play by Edward Childs Carpenter from the child-woma- famous Saturday Evening Post story of the name. uncle but Chester, discovering she is older than she pretends, makes im- proper advances to her. Isobel Wayne, a heartless society gril who has designs on the family fortune, announces her engagement to Jim and the elder Barclay is furious. He induces Connie to act as a rival and win Jims affections from Isobel, promising her $1,000 if she succeeds. Jim succumbs but uncle tells him what he has done and he is hurt that Connie would do such a thing for. money. It appears that Isobel may yet win her victim. Richard Tracy will be seen in the role of the sly old uncle, Arthur Loft as Chester Barclay, Miss Mildred Paver as Isobel, while Miss Fanchon Everhart, Miss Daisy Del Wilcox, Franklin Parker, Noel Leslie and others of the cast will be seen in splendid roles. Connie Goes Home will be presented every night next week with matinees Sunday, Thursday and |