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Show SPLENDID BILL AT -ORPHEUM. AUDIENCES LIKE PANTAGE5 Capacity First-night House Voices Appreciation of Each Offering. MUSIC and dancing held sway on a bright bill which, opened at the Orpheum Or-pheum last night. "Jdvk Wyatt and His Scoteh Lads and Lassies" represented an entire vaudeville show in itself. With lilt-ins lilt-ins Seoteli. melodies, special dances, the sound of bagpipes and the roll of diums. the company gave an inspiring entertainment, enter-tainment, which led to repeated curtain call?. The stag:e settine. a replica of a highland scene. Is particularly effective, tiie voices of the company are excellent and the dancins clever. The hiRhland lliiiR- and tiie famous sword dance arc given v.-it h especial skill. Laura Nelson Hall, in a clever sketch, "The Cat and the Kitten," holds next place on the bill. The old story of man's perfidy and woman's devotion is brought out in a novel way, with many striking lines, introducing the philosophy of a seamy side of existence. The piaylet is well acted by Miss Hall and her company. com-pany. The Dainty comedienne, Mary Dorr, in song impersonations, is pleasing and amusing. Her presentation of the character char-acter of an old farmer shows what possibilities pos-sibilities there are in makeup and a change of voice and mannerisms. Ed-warVi Ed-warVi Miller and Helene Vincent have voices that are worth while and are excellent ex-cellent dancers. Ward brothers as "Bertie and Archie," assinine Englishmen, have an excellent comedy sketch. Paul Morton and Naomi Glass In a musical satire entitled "1'j16-15)50," "1'j16-15)50," are fetching. Miss Glass lias an unusually good contralto voice and the two do good team work in songs and dances, with an amusing line of talk on the side. Herbert 'Williams and Hilda Wolfus have been seen in Salt Lake before in their sketch. "Hark, Hark, Hark." Both are good musicians and would have a better act if some of the alleged comedy was replaced by straight musical work. The act, however, got many laughs. The bill was presented to a capacity first night house and a number of box parties were given. "Hobson's Choice" Is Coming to Salt Lake Theater Next Monday for Engagement of Four Days. UTJOBSON'S- Choice," hailed in New York, Boston and Chicago as the most delightful departure from stage conventions con-ventions seen in more than a decade, will be presented by the Messrs. Shubert at the Salt Lake theater for a limited engagement en-gagement of four performances commencing com-mencing December 11, with the original English company. The play, by Harold Brighouse. tells the story of English provincial pro-vincial life, with its locale in Lancashire. One of the principal figures is Maggie Hobson, daughter of a cobbler, who insists in-sists upon selecting a man of her choice, regardless of her father's objection. Being Be-ing a true believer in leap-year methods, she proposes to the object of her affection affec-tion and will not take no for an answer. The man is already engaged to marry another an-other girl, but Maggie tells him she has set her heart on him and intends to marrv him, and Instructs him to impart this information to his fiancees He follows her advice and he and Maggie are married. mar-ried. Maggie's leap-year methods will be of great help to bashful men and women of this city. Jugg'lers Are Heacliners, but Other Acts Also Are High Class. Q O versatile are Cha rles and Henry Rigoletto, headliners on this week's bili at the Pantages theater, tr.at tiie show would have much variety if there were nu other acts on the bill. They catch live pigeons out of the air with a butterfly net, thread needles by the dozen somewhere back of their teeth, ami. alter various other performances of legerdemain leger-demain and jurfghufi skill, finish their" act .;i classic poses atter discovering tiiem-s.dves tiiem-s.dves to the audience as trained athcltes oi phenomenal physical development. Indeed, the Hiyolctto brot hers are so .su' oessful as to be just cause of jealousv on the part of the more deadly" half uf the actor world, since they succeed vithuut the assistance of a woman at all. One o: their cleverest bits of magic is .hat of wrapping- a talking machine up in a pocket handkerchief of extravagant dimensions di-mensions and squeezing it into nothingness nothing-ness before the watchful eyes of the audience. It must be expensive, at that, to provide a new talking machine for each act, but then they probably get a high salary. An acrobatic act presented by the three Bartos is snappy. They wear garbs that make their nickmrme "yellow -jackets" and in their agile performances there is much of the swift energy that charac- , terizes the little brothers of the wasp. i Crawford and Broderiek do an act that ', is 90 per cent nonsense, 5 per cent music and the rest wit. One of them is a man who cannot sing and is quite sure of i himself as a comedian. The young worn- j an makes him appear to advantage bv I comparison. It would perhaps be a little severe to call the act stupid, but there ! are probably those who were ready to do just that until the couple seemed to get into better form toward the finish of their performance and made a much bet- j ter exit than entrance. Ned Nestor and Charles Moore, "with ' their sweethearts," six of them, offer a lively nt;le presentation. It is full of ; music, good comedy and girlish charm. : Nestor sings his own songs with a voice . and manner that win him long and loud applause. There is a chap billed as "The Great! Lester" who carries on the usual sort of conversation maintained by a ventriloquist ventrilo-quist and his dummy the while he smokes a cigarette or takes a mouthful j of wine, or while he hums through his nose and swallows the wine after he quits humming. j DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. j ORPHEUM New vaudeville bill, with i I five headliners. Matinees todaA j Friday and Saturday. j SALT LAKE "Hobson's Choice," coming next Monday for four per- formances. ! WILKES "Potash and Perlmutter," j all week, with matinees today and Saturday afternoon. PANTAGES One of the joliiest mu-j mu-j sical shows on the road is now run-i run-i ning daily. MOVING PICTURES. PARAMOUNT - EMPRESS Daniel Frohman presents Irene Fen wick, supported by Owen Moore. j AMERICAN Today, Barney Bernard in "A Prince in a Pawnshop;" Key-! Key-! stone comedy. j BROADWAY Last time today, ITol- ! brook Blinn in the feature, "The ' Unpardonable Sin.'' MEHESY "The Vampires," exciting mytHery story complete in three parts; "Tigers of-the Plains," Jungle ! drama. I |