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Show With the First Nighters mm . . - - - . j Iff ' . VANTAGES f fill ' l'Tho5VrQn Bird," Margaret 'Whitney's latest! m cbntributiSn f& musical comedy scored effectively , II as the headfinor at Pantages on Wednesday rind I1 together with the other acts on the bill, Is continuing con-tinuing to please Pantages patrons. , It is often more difficult to crowd a musical show into thirty minutes than to extend- it' through two or three acts, but the young lady accomplished the task admirably, and there is no reason why it should not bo very successful on the road. If there is anything needed to perfect H the production, it is a stage manager with a whip H hand to imbue the company, with one or two ox- B j beptions, with a spirit that will give, their work H t the professional dash. There is distinctive charm p in the music, which is better than the book. The H chorus in point of appearance, Xar outclasses H ' the usual professional merry-merry. The voices H1 are fresh and sweet, the color combinations ef- H fectivo and the general impression created is very H delightful. Morse Moon is the hit of the pieco H in his characterization of the German taxiderm- H 1st and Wanda Lyon's rendition of the song H "Poor Little Bird" added another fine feather to H I her coiffure. Miss Lyon, in face and figure and H J voice, is splendidly equipped for such a role. H Miss Mignon Heywood's work is not nearly so H ; good as it was in "Dearie Girl" for instance, but H j she was funny at that. H Harry Antrim and Betsy Vale headed the m other acts with dancing, singing, chatter and H whistling, making a tremendous hit. Miss Vale K is unusually winsome and attractive and Antrim H fairly bursts with a personality that would be Hj enough in itself for him to win out with aside from his exceptional talents. The two are M the vaudeville sensations of the week locally. , Leroy and Cahill open the bill with some clean H comedy and music; Willard Hutchinson and Paul- !ine Herice have a slap-stick sketch called "A Leap Year Leap;" the Soils brothers with a new Instrument the marimbaphone produce some perfectly good music and James Brokman billed Hft ,as "The King of Character Singers" is certainly mM .fierce. That king stuff is in the discard nowadays H 'anyway, so perhaps the billing was correct. The H -pictures are timely and Interesting, and the or- H .chestra as usual pulls some big league stuff. H ; On Monday and Tuesday of next week, the j , regular Pantages show will give way to Harry H Lauder and his company, the regular change of H bill taking place again on Wednesday. W Hi empress fl! Hj. "The Winning Widows" will bo the headliner m, at the Empress on the new bill of next Monday. H iPercy Chapman, direct from the Gaiety theatre H in London, England, where-he has appeared for B several seasons with such stars at Elsie Janis, H heads the presenting company. For the coming WM (iweok there is apt to be something doing for those H .'theatregoers who appreciate beauty, dash, orig- j' finality, andrpretty forms and faces assembled in M 'a medly of 'songs, dances, and comedy. H, With "The Winning Widows" at the top of HP i'the Ust of new attractions the bill will include, M j'in, addition, "The International Trio," with Bur- M ,'ton, Hahn, and Lewis singing classical and pop- H ular Selections; "Fun at the Baths," an acrobatic B specialty presented by four men; Arthur Wenzer Hj and Maybelle Palmer will be seen in "Not at H Home," a comedy playlet. Rex Neal, billed as H "The eauBrummel of Vaudeville," promises a Hj surprise or twb, and Dick DeLoris is known as H i "The Musical Bug," playing the piano, saxaphone, iB .-and, banjo. These acts, together with one reel of first run moving pictures, will constitute the bill. Thei bill that runs today and Sunday, closing Sunday night, is hea'ded by the Nine Krazy''Kids. The program also includes Axel Chriqtensen, a clever musician, calfed "The Czar of Ragtime;" Sigsby's Dogs; the Salt Lake Troubadbrs; Jeter and 'Rodgers on roller skates, and Billy Inman and company in "O'Haley at the Game." "THE BIRD OF PARADISE" "The Bird of Paradise," Richard Walton Tully's romantic drama of life in the Hawaiian islands, will again be seen at the Salt Lake theater thea-ter beginning Monday evening, October 19th. This play was seen here last season and createa a furore, with its wealth of tropical scenery, tragic story, electrical effects and the weird singing of the native band of Hawaiian singers and players. The story of the poor little Hawaiian Hawai-ian princess wiho falls in love with a white man and marries him only to find that marriages between be-tween the brown and white races are not meant to be, forms the background for a set of the most truthful dramatic pictures that have been seen on the stage in many a year. Oliver Morosco, the well known California producer pro-ducer and owner of "The Bird of Paradise," has spared no expense to make this one of the most pretentious productions on the road and the scenic artist has done wonders. There are three acts and five scenes, the first opening on the Island of Puna with the bay in the distance; next the interior of a native grass hut, and the- opening open-ing scene of the third act is laid on a lawn at Honolulu. From there to a mountain pass, and the final scene shows Mt. Kileau, the terrible volcano vol-cano of Hawaii in violent eruption. Mr. Morosco will again present Miss Lenore Ulrich, as Luana, the pretty Hawaiian princess, and others in the cast are William Desmond, Mary Grey, . Dave Landau, Laura Adams, Dave Hartford, Robert Morris and others. ORPHEUM. Charles McGoods and company, real live acrobats, acro-bats, start things off at the Orpneum this week with a remarkable athletic performance staged in a billiard parlor. Their work is very finished and pleasing even to those surfeited with vaudeville vaude-ville acrobatics. Those who were quite sure that there was nothing new in trick cycling before they saw Frank Wilson in his act found they were wrong, He is a wonder in his line and could make a better living than most people if he didn't have any arms. Byrd Crowell, a soprano soloist of charm with a lilt in her throat that quickly commands close attention became instantly popular. Byrd can certainly Crowell. Alf Grant and Ethel Hoag have a line of chatter chat-ter that is very funny at times, though most of it had no trouble in going over the heads of the audience and Harry Hines and George Fox have the goods in a musical way. Gus Edward's Matinee Mat-inee Girls in a musical production were more or less attractive, though the sketch becomes tiresome tire-some at times. Mr. Olcott, the bell hops, Irene Martin, Gene Ford and others contributed plea? ing specialties. Next week's bill is headed by the .Seven, Colonial Col-onial Belles in a musical offering. (Francis Mc-Gill Mc-Gill in "The Cop," Lola Merrill and Frank Otto in "Her Daddy's Friend," O'Brien, Hayel. and company with Will Cressy's "Monday," and also Binns and Burt, Finn and Finn and Kramer and Pattison. |