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Show THE CITIZEN 8 With the First Nighters ORPHEUM PLAYHOUSE STAGES BRILLIANT OPENING. Twinkling toes vied with humor and the dramatic at the opening performance of the Orpheum Wednesday night which was staged amid a scintillating glare of vaudevillian light effect and heightened by the glamour of bewitching stage scenes and settings. Judging by the opening night the coming season for Orpheum presages big business and crowded houses. Wednesday night the acts were all vivacious, some were very tuneful, and all were enchanting and won many vociferous rounds of applause. It is a well balanced bill for the week and one which indicates the wide range and brilliant variety of stage acts that are to follow as the season continues. Tom Wise, veteran of the dramatic stage, made his horns folks happy with his interpretation of the stellar part in the comedy playlet, Memories, in one act, which is a story depicting the vicissitudes of the young and unsophisticated votaries of the footlights. The act centers around a young couple stranded at a high class hotel, which belongs to a retired actor of renown, who happens to be Tom Wise in the character part of the retired actor. The young man in the duo tries to sneak away with his baggage but is caught and given a bit of fatherly advice and returns to become a kitchen scullion at the princely salary of $3 per week. The girl also meets the owner of the hotel and raves over the actor, who she declares has been' her hero and guiding star through life, because of his masterly stage achievements and because he fought and conquered dire poverty, rising from obscurity to become a shining star, through sheer force of personality and supreme grit. There is a bit of brilliant dramatization when Wise, and the girl rehearse a scene from The Lady of the Lions and inadvertently he discovers she is the daughter of his old sweetheart of the stage. There is a happy donument, the' boy comes out of the kitchen with a big white potato, which he has been pealing in his hand, to be taken again into the arms of his mate, while Cupid Wise enquires facetiously of his man servant when his son, a few hours old, will be around to eat lunch with super-Orpheu- old-tim- m brought here last year, Visions of 1971.. As a futurist seance this act is supreme and from the pen of Jack Lait, it is teeming with much wit and some little common sense. The sketch appears to have undergone abbreviation and has been sharpened up quite preceptibly. Miss Baldwin does more singing and dancing now than she did last year and does it that chick, graceful, fascinating way for which she is so much renowned. Bronsons rendition of a Poor Down Trodden Man coupled with his prediliction for .the beverages of 1921, shows him quite in line with prevailing manly attributes and most versatile in his part. Clinto Sisters offer a dancing bill which, is the opening feature, that scintillates with novel and charming variety. Their animated cartoons of their dancing school made a hit. The dance skits offered embrace three specialties: varieties, fishing lads and Egyptian gyrations. The Sisters work seriously, vivaciously and wifth, an eclat born of long practice and much perseverance. The act closes with a which won a prolonglively jazz-clo- g, ed round of applause. Vera Berliner offers the only musi cal sketch on the program. She is a violinist of rare attainments, essaying the classic and also giving interpretations of the modern and popular. In her latter efforts she easily excelled and captivated the audience. Arthur Wanzer and Maybelle Palmer give a new version of a sketch seen here before. The dialogue of the social worker and the coal wagon driver has been snapped up to high tension and furnishes a thrill that is appreciated. This is perhaps the best comedy stunt of the program. offered by Dementus America, Zuhn and Dreis, is an agreeable and most appropriate title for the sketch, which teems with foolishness and then more foolishness. No one doubted but that the skit was correctly billed. Harry and Nancy Cavana, stage a free exhibition, under the guise of circus performers. There is some mirthful stuff that has a very wholesome . but business is goo i . . twang, some good dancing by Miss Nancy and slack wire work that amounts to a revelation by Mr. Harry. Animated Cartoons from the fables of Aesop and a Pathe news film, both exceptionally good and well screened, make up the picture part of the pro- - SEE IT TODAY The Greenwich Villagers R. OWEN SWEETEN TO GIVE FAREWELL CONCERTS Gallerini Sisters Gay Crouch Leo Greenwood & Co. in Prediction . e Henry & Adelaide Snowblind A wonderful story of life in the frozen north. Its him. It is a clever and. fitting vehicle for Tom Wise, former Salt Lake and Ogden newsboy, who has grown gracefully mature and delightfully stout during the many years he has been gyrating around on the eastern circuits. It was tantamount to a home coming to Tom Wise, who was given a very strong hand at the close of his . act and forced to respond to several curtain calls. Percy Bronson and Winnie Baldwin return with the same sketch they Gee, The talented and popular leader of the Saltair Band which has one of the biggest attractions at the resort this season, will give proved two farewell concerts Sunday afternoon and evening, for which especially attractive programs have been prepared. a Wonderful Bill |