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Show Beginning tomorrow night 'The Girl Question" will be taken up at the Colonial, and the jingling tunes, pretty dances, and clever lines that have made the musical show popular here in the past given a chance to enhance the play's reputation. reputa-tion. Adams, Hough & Howard, who are responsible respon-sible for "The Time, The Place, and The Girl" furnished the book, lyrics and music for "The Girl Question" and the songs include "Goodbye Pal", "I Hate To Work on Monday", "Oh, Gee, Be Sweet To Me -Kid", "Waltz Me Around Till I'm Dreamy". "When Eyes Like Yours Look in Eyes Like Mine,,' "The Old Buck and Wing" and "Do Something". It is said the company of principals 13 suported by a very large chorus. 4c He The Lulgl Plcaro troup of hand-balancers head the new Pantages program which opened at the Bungalow Thursday evening. The bill Is excellent excel-lent In many respects. Garnarls, a comedy magician, magi-cian, has several good tricks and is followed by the "Still City Quartet" in comedy numbers. Yu-ler Yu-ler Simpson, Wm. B. Ramsdell and the Ramsdell Sisters in a singing and dancing sketch, complete the bill. Our only regret in reviewing the production of "The Spoilers" at the Colonial, at this late date in the week, is that the warning to stay away will probably come too late for the majority of those who attend Colonial attractions regularly. It is very difficult to judge the worth and strength of the dramatized version of MY. Beach's splendid story of Alaska from the presentation it is receiving receiv-ing at the hands of the troupe now at the Colonial. Enough incidents ana climaxes are apparent here and there through the five acts, however, and. one catches lines and snatches of dialogue now and then which evidence that with real artists In the leading roles the play would have some semblance of the dramatic and compelling interest of the novel. The company at the Colonial this week with one exception, Mr. Farwln, would put to sham the worst crowd of barn-stormers that ever eked out an existence on a kerosene circuit. For three nights beginning Monday Nov. 22, with a popular price matinee Wednesday, at the Salt Lake Theatre will be seen "Lo," a musical comedy under the management of the Harry As-kin As-kin company, and which is establishing a distinctly distinct-ly new era in musical plays. With Its book and lyrics by O. Henry and Franklin P. Adams, two literatteurs who stand highest in their respective fields today, music by A. Baldwin Sloane, and rehearsed under the management man-agement of Harry A skin, the man who handled the production of the Askin-SInger company, "The Time, the Place and the Girl," "The Girl Question," Ques-tion," etc., en tour,, and made them establish new records in receipts tor smartness and delightful entertainment. "Lo" has a plot and originality of development which is said to be excellent. |