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Show "COlALOilAfir SCORES AT ORPHEUM Pretty Girls, Whistly Tunes and Eccentric Dancers ; Plays Again Tonight Featured by eccentric dances by Jlmmlo Plunkett and Kenneth Chris-tic, Chris-tic, "Come Alone Mary" appoarod before be-fore a fair sized audience last evo-nlng evo-nlng at the Orpheum theater. Tho Comedy was bright nnd sparkling and throughout the production, a plot involving in-volving a peculiar will formod a base for many humorous situations. It secmod that a mutual friend had left a million or so to Mary Brown and Harry Smith, providing that the couplo married. Both wore romantic souls and though they had become acquainted In the far east, neither Were known to the other by their real names. In a number of humorous incidents tho couplo became aware of each ! other's identity and filled the required re-quired conditions of the will. "Ichabor Simmons, zoological expert," ex-pert," a part played by Erlo Block, vied with Uufus M. Washington, his blackface assistant, for honors as comedian. Clever songs were presented throughout the play and tho most applauded ap-plauded song hit of the evening waa a quartet rendition of "The Old Family Toothbrush," by the Broadway Broad-way Four. Another well received hit of melody melo-dy was "Washington's "blue" Interpretation Inter-pretation on a banjo "uke." Mary Brown, a part played by Marie James, was the leading character char-acter among the ladles of the cast Mary had a pleasant volco and was easy to look upon. Regarding the chorus, they danced nicely and appeared in attractive costumes. cos-tumes. They costume3 wore decorous decor-ous enough until the dancers whirled and immediately the modest costumes cos-tumes took on a now aspect somewhat some-what daring. Throughout the performance per-formance the Orphoum orchestra, ngumented by sevoral musicians traveling with tho show, played in their characteristic stylo. The same show will bo presented tonight. |