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Show THEATERS ORPHEUM ROAD SHOW One uf the largest Thursday night audiences of the season greeted the Road Show at the Orpheum last even- ling and appeared to enjoy It from 'start to finish, and there seems to be no very good reason for questioning the judgment of those who were , there for it is an entertaining bill all the way although there Is nothing one might call pretentious -of the big fea j'ure order with which is recalled the Road Shows of other ears Mabel Clark and Bert Hamilton. Engllsheis. merit a little more than the usual at tentlon. however In thrir skit, A Wayward Conceit,-' Mr Clark impersonates an Eugllsh man of spare purse and Miss Hamilton Hamil-ton is a young and apparently happy Kirl. (lad in a costume of a nature that makes the men stretch their .necks and the women look too And that's about all Miss Hamilton does Just look And Clark well, he talks Not mil-h to It you see And at that nome of the talk Clark puts over von have heard before, but not his way of saying things It Is his way that makes the act nn outstanding one and which makes you laugh and admire and feel like beating your palms, for if you are discerning you will see the clever artistry back of all the fun Their snowfall-snowball finale scene is unique Slcnor Trovato struck a popular rhord with his eccentric violin play-iiik play-iiik His nonchalaDt. hut. more often acrobatic execution and his manner of bowing are new to Ogdtnites and hla selection of music appeals to the popular aste A cadenza of class-Iques class-Iques and ragtime is blended in strlk IngT and harmonious way and his an met with unanimous approval. A num (ber or two more on his program would bo appreciated. "In the Good Old Summertime." with a rolling chair and an Atlanta Citj background for Ravmond am! 'flenih tends to make their turn go Mr Heath is more than an ordinar. comedian and his songs, ' Railroad Sam, especially, are cleverly sung If Lillian Gonne isn't the original bassy Little In 'Schooldays" she must be her twin siator, for she is just as sassy and pretty as Sassy was. In street parlance, she would he call ed a "cute kid" and her time on the stage with Lew Brice, an elongated youth of some eccentricity is much enjoyed An acrobatic dancing noveliv is the opening number and the rehicle for Rose Kinle and Frank Gordon and put the audience In good humor at I once Mr Gordon is a tumbler of some pretensions and there is a third person In the act not on iho program but much in evident at. the wlndupl in Virginia Rose Gordon, a pretty little lit-tle tot of .1 1 2 years, who isn't afraid to face an audience and has a charm all her own Lovers of the poetry of motion will find much to admire in the graceful terpslchore of Oscar & Suzettr- They are marvels of grace anil Introduce the back to back dance and a "hands off" waltz which is prettier than one would Imagine and has found favor in the east. Hugh McCormaek and Grace Wallace Wal-lace in a combination . entriloquial act. a little too prolonged. In which I the latter Is the more clever of the two, and the animated weekly of current cur-rent events round out the excellent; bill |