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Show AMUSEMENTS PANTAGES The Stylish Steppers at the Pantages theatre this week are a lively bunch and do some stepping step-ping behind the footlights with which not even the most particular efficiency expert could find fault: If you enjoy a fine specialty in dancing, go right along and see them. They have a number of clever and original novelties and all of them are artistically executed. Right behind them for speed in a different line, the comedy branch, is the Empire Comedy Four, booked, you see, for the run with which they entertain. They could have taken away honors ' just as easily billed as first rate singers, for the harmonious end of their act is by no means the least desirable section. Chester's posing dogs are presented in an act which is good but not out of the ordinary. The dogs are beautiful specimens of the canine world. To complete the bill there are two skits, "A Boy from Home," in which Sharon Stephens does some fair character interpretating; and "The New Leader," featuring Jack Delman. They too, are enlisted in the ranks of fun makers. The bill throughout is light and breezy and taken as a whole makes a pleasant evening's entertainment although it is scarcely as good as last week's offering. There is another chapter chap-ter of the continued moving picture to round out the program. AMERICAN Jane Adams' well known book, "A New Conscience Con-science and An Ancient Evil," tells the story of a sweet young girl who "sold out for a pair of shoes." This episode was taken up by Stella Wynne Herron and developed into a wonderful short story for Collier's Weekly. Lois Weber produced from the story, the Blubird Photoplay "Shoes" which is the attraction at the American Ameri-can Sunday and Monday. There are items of more than common interest connected with the production of this picture. It is strictly a woman's wo-man's play; the story being originated by a woman, developed by another woman and produced pro-duced in pictures by still another woman. The star of the play, Mary MacLaren, never appeared in a moving picture play before. She was chosen especially as just the type to portray the girl who worked in a five and ten cent btore for $5 a week and finally "Sold out for a pair of shoes." Eastern critics have placed "Shoes" high in the ranks of recent picture production. Other pictures pic-tures on the program are the Keystone comedy, "His Wild Oats," and the Pathe News. The American Concert orchestra of soloists are giving special attention to their part in the programs and the orchestra is a real feature of each entertainment. |
