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Show THE CITIZEN gan wants to be a captain of a ship and accordingly he ships as a cabin WORLDS FAMOUS PIANO PLAYER APPEARING AT PANTAGES. HUSTON RAY is charming the Pantages theatre this week with his wonderful piano playing. This young man is known as the worlds wonder pianist. Many who have given a lifetime to devoted study on the piano have not equalled the performance of this youth who has a great future before him and who is already recognized as one of the greatest piano players in the world. Jackie Coogan, in Buttons, admirably supported by Lars Hanson and Gertrude Olmstead, is the big show in the feature picture this week. Coo messenger boy. His captain loves a beautiful girl, but another, a former lover, plots to separate them and Coogan takes a most interesting part in the plot. The ship finally hits a big iceberg and is sunk. There is a calm sea and all escape in life boats. The captain bids his former sweetheart goodby. He and Coogan leave the ship just as it is about to go down. It is a thrilling story. The Three Blanks present an European juggling novelty in which many clever feats are performed with much dexterity. Paddy Saunders cartoons latest events with colored crayons and shows his ability as an expert artist. Marion and Dade, two colored song and dance birds, make a hit with their new dances, songs and comedy. They are a pair of real The Revue Unique, in which Harry Krivit presents Jordy and Allen, Leonard and White, and Edna Hathaway,, in a super dancing act, is one of the big features of the bill. Edna is a pretty and graceful toe dancer and appears in some ne wspecial dances that are pleasing. The' costuming is par excellence and the entire act is presented in an attractive manner. Conference people will like this this weeks bill. It is the best combination of pictures and vaudeville in the city. for next Wednesday is Coming Norma Shearer in The Latest From Paris, one of the screen's biggest hits. NEW YORK WINNER TO BE PRESENTED AT THE WILKES THEATRE. superb, delightful play of life, love and laughter, Take My Advice which packed the Belmont theatre in New York week after week with thousands of playgoers during its seasons run, will be next weeks stellar attraction of the Wilkes Players, at the Wilkes Theatre, starting with the matinee Sunday. Take My Advice is something a little different in the way of theatrical treats. To quote from the New York Journal in its review of Take My It started with chuckles. Advice, They swelled into giggles. Then the first night audience burst into uproarious laughter as the clever young prep school professor with a flair for modem psychology rescued the whole Weaver family ma, pa, and their son and daughter from the machinations of three swindlers. Elliott Lester, a Philadelphia col- - THAT A lege professor, wrote Take My vice, and quite logically he made hero, a professor. His play caii on at once and of all the plays holdb the boards in New York it caj the record for aptronage during run. The story of Take My Advfc concerns Bud Weaver, a callow of seventeen, who quits school marry a siren old enough to be mother. The siren has been in a month and has been engaged every eligible man in the village Buds father has the fountain ptf itch and signs the dotted line forewj fake stock salesman who shows b a prospectus. He is abetted byfc wife, a faddist, whose latest craze fr numbers gets everybody into trodk and furnishes leads for many den and amusing lines. Kerry Van KU is a faker who is trying to ennl Buds sister, for a consideration $1,000, in a dramatic school. Thayer, a sauve oil stock salesman, the villain of the piece. Ben Erway will be seen. as then lege professor, Miss Gladys George Anne Weaver, Franklin Parker Bud, Frank Perry as Kerry Va Kind, Richard Tracy as Mr. Weava; Miss Fanchon as Mrs. Weaver, Hi Ethel Baker as the siren, and Kd Leslie as the oil stock salesman. Take My Advice will be pressed every night next week, with nut inees Sunday, Thursday and Sato1 day. Superb, Delightful Play of Youth, Life, Love and Laughter All Next Week lea Starting with Matinee Sunday le Take My Advice Hit The Phenomenal Broadway WILKES THEATRE 0 Every Night at 8:30. Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Matinees Sunday, Thursday, Saturday at 2:30. Prices, 25c, 50c. GET TICKETS NOW! Mstoa JSfV hrVST ArPMTteES 7& &N Fn&t comme -- Sweet Seventeen Miss Gladys George in Huston Ray, the worlds wonder pianist, now at Pantages. V a Role as Delightful as thd in Conpie Goes Home G 1 1 fc |