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Show I I I With The First Nighters & I I 1 "V 0M P0M" could I 1 "l I mighty good I I J k I show without I I J Mltzi Hajos; I ISiMil with her in tho titlo rolo it is H an exceptional production. And by the H same token, Mitzi doesn't need "Pom . Pom" or any other vehicle to get her H stuff across; she can bo a whole show in herself in any place and before any H people. At that, one carcot call her a H ir great actress she doesn't "act"; she H just acts natural. Therein lies her H charm. Also she can do more things H and do them better than any member H w, of the profession that has played to I ' us In a long, long time. She can sing, dance, chatter and do a thousand H ( tricks impossible of cataloguing; and H J she does everything she essays so eas-H eas-H ily and spontaneously that she just I can't help captivating the hearts of B all who have the good fortune to see H her in action. H J "Pom Pom" affords Mitzi a splendid I f opportunity to display her exceptional I collection of talents and she makes I the best of it every minute she is on H U the boards. She sings several pretty H p songs, does some really wonderful II i dancing in the Apacha Parody dance, H I and plays the star part in a plot that H ' is almost as gripping as that of the H i old dime novel. That is going some H for a modern comic opera, but It's the H . truth, nevertheless. The play owes much of its strength to the stirring Splot and to the fact that the scenes are laid in unusual places. The action H takes place in the dressing rooms of H a theatre, a jail and a robbers' roost H all places with which the average first H (i, nighter is not very well acquainted. H 4 There are dramatic incidents galore H i and the climaxes come so fast you can H hardly count them. H Then there is some splendid sing- H " ing; the chorus is well dressed and H trained, and seems to have plenty of H steam for all purposes; and scattered H ,i through the play are any number of H ' specialties, big and little, that furnisu H sufficient art and action to satisfy H even the most critical. The company H ! is splendid and admirably cast. It H f would not do to particularize; the Hi I members all carry their roles excep- B tionally well. But you must see this H show to appreciate it. If you haven't already seen it, don't miss tonight's H performance. 1 K PANT AGES B ' flRETTY GIRLS, handsome cos- Hf JL tumes, beautiful stage settings, HM ' a charming chorus filled with pep and Hi ginger and a comedian that causes H' J hearty laughs and many of them, are H If to be seen at iPantages this week in Bf j'f "Bon Voyage," a musical comedy 111 H ' 1 jj SSE5Ss5S5aM33HBi3MlBMlBMHBBBSB panorama In seven scenes. It is the best feature of the kind shown at this playhouse this season. The music is catchy and the dancing pretty. The juggling act of the Cromwells, a whirlwind conglomeration, is exceptionally excep-tionally -well presented, the juggling being out of the ordinary. "Saint and Sinner" is an artistic dramatic offering offer-ing in which Edna Earl Andrews and Garla Mravalajk are the principals and respectively portray the characters of Saint and of Sinner in an admirable manner. Jessie and Dollle Millar in their musical mu-sical and dancing act, featuring Maori "Poi," native New Zealand dance, captivate cap-tivate the audience. Joe Brady and Will Mahony do a turn that produces many laughs. The sixteenth episode of "The Fatal Ring," featuring Pearl White, completes the bill. LIBERTY ypISS Dorothy Van, manager of the Lc Liberty theatre, in selecting the bill which is playing this week at the Liberty theatre, selected a very unique bill, the headliner of which is Little All Right, Japanese Wonder Worker. This is the original Little All Right and the only one who is entitled to that name, as he came by it when a very small boy while traveling with a Japanese troupe of acrobats and jugglers jug-glers in far-off Japan. All of the different dif-ferent feats he took part in, which were many, as he was a very clever youngster, and when the trick was finished fin-ished he would say in his boyish way "All Right," and that is how he got his name. ORPHEUM JHERE is music a-plenty at the Vjy Orpheum this' week,, the kind that appeals to all. The bill can be classed as a popular one; for there is variety enough to please all playgoers. Also, it sparkles In places. Eddie Fox and his youngsters are billed as the headliners and they are just as funny as ever. The Leach sisters sis-ters have splendid voices. They are real songbirds. Their songs and duets are exceptionally pleasing, in that they sing several of the' old-fashioned pieces. Betty Bond, in "Five Flights of Musical Comedy" is delightful. MISS DOLLIE MILLAR, WHO IS FEATURING THE UNIQUE NATIVE NEW ZEALAND DANCE AT PANTAGES THIS WEEK Her "Innocent Kid" is particularly appealing. ap-pealing. Harry Helmnan and company in their comedy playlet have a laugh producer pro-ducer that is hard to beat. It is a scream from beginning to end. In . the manipulation of the Xyzolophone, Libonati is an expert and his selections selec-tions are pleasing. Percy Bronson and Winnie Baldwin in "A 1917 Song-ology" Song-ology" have a medium which gives , opportunity for some exceptional acting act-ing and some good music. "The Act Beautiful" is just that. The posing of William Egdirettu and ! his dogs and horses is beautiful to behold. The bill is up to the standard that the management has established this season. "POTASH AND PURLMUTTER IN SOCIETY." YtOTASH and Perlmutter 'in So-SL So-SL ciety," a new comedy continuing continu-ing the story of the famous cloak and suit tradesmen, Abe and Mawruss, opens an engagement at the Salt Lake theatre Monday night for a three-night three-night run. The ingredients of the new piece, so far as plot and situation are concerned, have been constructed on entirely original lines, though containing con-taining many of the characters incorporated incor-porated in its predecessor. Roi Cooper Megrue, the eminent playwright who is responsible for "Unuer Cover," and "It Pays to Advertise," has fashioned a stage version from Montague Glass' Saturday Evening Post tales, that has accentuated the popularity of Abe and Mawruss, the quarrelsome but loyal partners, who have long held a high place in the regard of magazine readers read-ers as well as theatre-goers. Since Mawruss was last seen on a local stage he has married Ruth, the cloak designer and model, and the play opens in his Harlem home, where the first wedding anniversary is being ' celebrated. After an amusing pinochle game between Mawruss, Marks Pasin-sky Pasin-sky and Rosie Potash, it is revealed that Mawruss wants to branch out into high finance and that Abe is content con-tent to do business in the old way. Without being definitely settled the argument is carried over for further discussion to the home of Potash, which Is the scene of the second-act. In the third act the old firm has dissolved dis-solved partnership, Potash selling his interest to Mawruss for $75,000, since he is unablo to view his partner's ambitious am-bitious sohemes of expansion with approval, ap-proval, and the latter becomes allied with B. Gans, a shrewd Wall street promoter, in the Cloak and Suit com- I pany of North America, a milllon-dol- 1 lar corporation. But Mawruss soon 1 flounders in a sea of watered stock. I The company soon goes to tho wall, the sharper decamps with the firm's capital and prison stares Mawruss in the face. Here it is that the lbyaliy of the old partner avails Itself. Abe turns over his private fortune. The money is refunded to the stockholders and the old firm is re-established in its original quarters on EaGt Broadway. |