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Show THE CITIZEN 14 d&u &Miil PLAYHOUSE The special attraction scheduled Laemmels stupendous Universal Uncle Toms Cabin a triumph masterpiece produced by Harry Pollard, the genius who evolved such a dynamic success in The Show Boat. Truly the patrons of the Granada may well look forward to the great pleasure of seeing and hearing the old time classic in a new dress and with all of the allure- ment of film magic of the present day. 1 is about a missing garter which belongs to Gertie. For many reasons this feminine accessory must be found as soon as possible. Locating PANTAGES The current bill at Pantages is an interesting one and contains many items of particular interest to the show shopper. The vaudeville program contains six acts and the motion picture feature is Reginald Denny in his first talking picture entitled Red Hot Speed. The vaudeville acts are headed by Dixon and Hoyer in their skit The Wall Street Girl with Pelham Lynton, Jane and Lillian Crane and Laveme Williams. Russell and Armstrong are two crazy nuts with a line of comedy all their the missing article and the hunt therefore evolves almost numberless laugh producing situations which fairly tumble over one another througout the action of the piece. . . Finally of course everything 'turns out all right but not until every character in the long cast has faced a seemingly unsolvable situation. With two such past masters of playwrighting, one a wizard of mystery and the other a producer of comedy situations without equal, it is small wonder that Getting Gerties Garter has created such a furore in stageland and resulted in such enormous demands at the box office where the play is presented. The Metropolitan Players will be particularly happy in this production. Miss Warfield and Mr. Erway will have the leading roles and all of the other Playhouse favorites will show up in their usual competent and delightful manner. Matinees will be presented Sunday, Thursday and Saturday. ! own. Raymond Wilbert is a comedy golf genius who besides being an expert trick golfer is a comedian of international fame. The Robbins Trio, Elbrown and the Laing Brothers complete the stage program. -- chosen with the hand of a master. The talking feature is just about the best that has so far been presented in this city and the entire production is .perhaps evidence that talking pictures can be made in a Alibi well nigh perfect manner. QtoMffedl . wrights of the present day, Avery Hopwood who, among many other fine plays, produced The Bat, and Wilson Collison whose comedy Up In Mables Room is long to be remembered as one of the greatest laugh producers of a . few seasons back. The story, as the name jmplies, GRANADA Alibi, just as the Citizen predicted, has caught on in Salt Lake and the Granada Management are gratified with the result of their enterprise in securing such a magnificent talking picture as is the current attraction at Salt Lakes theatre built for talkers. The story presented in Alibi is an engaging one. It contains romance, thrills, night life and the gang war of a great city. The players are TTlfliiHIce looks like it will be in for an extended run. Manager Schayer announces that the feature following Alibi is none other than C&rl to open at the Playhouse Sunday matinee is Getting Gerties Garter one of the most successful comedies that ever came west from New York. This play is the handiwork of two of the most prominent play- ' S ILAEUS Portrait by Ida Wilcox m Sunday the twelfth day of this month is Mothers Day, the day when ' all the country is paying homage in the court of beloved Motherhood. Surely we must not forget the grandmothers, those calm, comforting little women who have always seemed to us the personification of all wisdom, graceousness and dignity. The smiling little lady in the portrait has thrice welcomed a new generation of fine boys and girls into the family during her life. Mrs. Margaret Leatham is a great-gregrandmother and is only 92 years young. Mrs. Leatham is the mother of Mrs. R. C. Pitt of 148 West North Temple. She came to Salt Lake City in 1856. at Farming in the City Continued from page 8 Get in dahlia plants any time ' this month. Growing plants now on sale are even better than the tubers. is the term applied by Mrs. Louise Beebe Wilder, well known as a garden writer, to the wonderful spread of colors made by the liberal planting of poppies USE OF GAS GROWS According to a survey made re- cently by the American Gas Association, more than 14 million American homes are now served by gas utilities. In these, homes approximately 13 million gas cooking ranges in the garden. Annuals, biennials and perennials, the poppies give wonderful array of silken coloring from late April until frost. Among the annuals the two great classes, the Shirley and the opium poppies are the main standbys. Poppy seed may be planted any time before August with the certainty of blooming before freezing. During 1928 four hundred ninety billion cubic feet of manufactured gas was sold, a new high record. Household uses absorbed 338 billion cubic feet of the total, with industry employing almost all the rest. One of the outstanding causes of the increase is the favor into which gas heating units have come. 0 Poppy Magic . are in use. |