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Show m JF Tfe iis Nighters g H, . ORPHEUM ! T NEVER say nothln' about nobody much," is the way Cy Splivens, " manager of the "opry" house travesty H , at the Orpheum indicates his unfav- H1 orable critical opinion of the tank H: drama he has been aiding and abet- Hr I should like to take the same mild H stand against one of the features of H an otherwise admirable Orpheum bill, H but cannot. I am not alluding to Cy H or his play. As a matter of fact Cy Hl wins in three falls. Three times does V: Cy slip and fall on the ladder which H leads to the "opry" house loft. Each H succeeding fall is more involved than H the one preceding it and all are tri- H umphs. Of course, a critic ought not H" to become ecstatic about mere slap- H stick, but anyone who has missed see- i ing Cy Splivens do his ladder falls H during the years that he has been per- H fecting these masterpieces, has lost H some of the riotous joy of our popular H, vaudeville. Hf. There is no such thing as a stand- Hf ard of judgment regarding vaudeville. Hr Every act must survive or perish on Hl. its own merits or demerits. I will ven- H ture to say, therefore, that someone Hi might make a success of the part H' which, handled by Joseph L. Brown- Hf ing, is a failure. Hj Browning appears in conventional Bjj black as a "dominie," but instead of HS making up his features so as to re- H. semble those of a pulpiteer he presents a clown's face. In this makeup he de- H livers what he calls "a timely sermon," ! striving to make fun out of mock cler ical solemnities mixed with vaudeville Hl jests and somewhat ancient "wheezes," H The result is grotesque, but little 9 amusing. In fact, it seem funereal H to me. J The Kiralfy kiddies, boy of about H j ten and girl of about seven, are won- H j ders of the stage for their precosity. ! They are the children of that Bolossy Kiralfy who, a generation ago, was a sensation of our variety stage. In travesty, trav-esty, dancing, singing and all the other familiar vaudeville stunts they I are as highly professional and attrac tive as any of the "teams" that visit us. '''Somewhere in France" is an epi-J epi-J sode of the trenches In reality it serves to present a quartette of soldier sol-dier boys who entertain with war gongs and the railleries of the trench. : , It has had In It a spirit which is at ' timeSi thrilling, for it speaks to us of L the emotions of the greatest of wars. Wtiat the press agents might call "an added feature," was a talk by ! t Chief Bywater on fire prevention and ! the responsibility of the average citi- i !zen for the annual loss of $300,000,000 : ' by fire. A striking film followed, driv- I ing home many of the points made by I the fire chief. Unconsciously the l chief emitted a pun when he declared that much harm resulted from the' "neglected flue." THE fact that so many road corn-ties corn-ties are out with Daddy-Long-Legs testifies that wholesome, even though somewhat shallow, plays of the "sweetness and light" variety are as popular as over. It may very well be that they are even more popular, for human beings are ever seeking escape from the sterner and gloomier phases of life, and certainly these phases have enshrouded us like fogs from the Plutonian regions for two years. The play with the happy ending has been popular since the day when that master of story-tellers invented "Cinderella." "Cin-derella." The ending of "Daddy-Long-Legs" is of the "Cinderella" type. The little slavey weds the millionaire and in America the millionaire takes the place of Prince Charming or of the noble genuinely noble lord of the English drama. The company presenting "Daddy-Long-Legs" at the Salt Lake is winning much commendation. PANTAGES dS WL" is the title, Phil E. Adams s the star and author of the lyrics, ly-rics, and Marty Brooks is the producer of one of the snappiest head-line acts ever presented on the Pantages circuit, cir-cuit, now running at the popular vaudeville vau-deville house this week. It made a big impression on the opening night last Wednesday and was played to big attendance at-tendance ever since. It is a musical satire presented by Adams and a bevy of beautiful maidens maid-ens handsomely costumed. The songs are among the most tuneful heard in Salt Lake for many a day, including "We're the Girls You Meet on Broadway," Broad-way," "A Bachelor I must Be," "Let's Get Married," "Oh! How She Did -Dance," and "Meet Me After the Show." An added attraction of the bill are of Tom Edwards and Alice Melville in a spectacle entitled "The Huntsman, Hunts-man, "Ventriloquist and Comedian." This is one of the most entertaining and enlivening acts of the entire program. pro-gram. Roe Reeves and the Gaynor Girls HOBART BOSWORTH, OREAT AMERICAN ACTOR, WHOSE APPEARANCE AT THE ORPHEUM BEGINNING FEBRUARYS IN JACK LONDON'S "THE SEA WOLF" IS A NOTEWORTHY EVENT IN LOCAL THEATREDOM have a sketch entitled "Horning In" , -iw and The Youngers offer "Artistic Pos-, . " .j ing and Balancing." Another feature to of the new program is the appearance . J of Swartz and Clifford in a new and j&lj entertaining sketch. The current epi- ' $ sode of "The Fight for Millions" is "im the next to the last of this famous -$ movie seriol. m The bill plays three times' daily, :&$& 2:45, 7:30 and 9:15 and will run until , Km next Wednesday when a new bill will ,tfffl be presented. '-P |