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Show AT ORPHEUM. i Comedy forms the major ortion of the bill this week at the Orphcnni. It 1 comedy with music and punctuated punctuat-ed with duiicing. la a way, the program pro-gram lacks action of tho more sober fond, but this fact did not sem to bo felt by the first-nighters who responded re-sponded to every act with uproarious applause. The ever-present athlete, lor tome unknown reason. Is nilssln? this week and the lone soubrette has ro place on the bill. The program i-ecms tj have been .-elected this week lor the man who attends the theater io teeuprrate hi; spirits after a losing day at the races The blL'o.vt hit. on the bill is the Harvey-Do Vora Trio in which is introduced in-troduced .Mm Doiicih, tho champion leatherwelsht comedian In vaudeville. Master Dmifch Is a wee chip of anthracite anthra-cite humanity who does a buck-and-wii:g dance in true minstrel style and v.h ) assists his more life-sized companions com-panions in songs and witticisms The tii caused a real furore of fun and the audience ha 1 almost to be hand- cuffed into quietude at tho end. Mr. .1. C. Nugent in his origlnil oJ 1-i'V. 1-i'V. "The Squarer," scored a tremendous tremen-dous crjLmii.uion. with the assistance of Mi. s lule York. The playlet which they proroni is one of the biggest two character -nets possible to produce and while ihe originality of some of the jokes are doubtful, it is a credit to Mr. Nugent anyway. It is purely funny fun-ny n, gives one the sldeache to hoar it ih.dugh . Mr. Fred Duprez does a single turn and liberates some new jokes and a few old ones, all the whil smoking a cigar. His singing Is good and all together he uues a hit. His work shows considerable personality. l-uce and Luce open the program iHi a musical number. The act is well drr-iscd and b-.th the participants are clever musicians. The act Is on a par with other musical acts seen at the O.plicum this season. This is the one act of the hill devoid of comedy. com-edy. Mr. Ed war. 1 Flanagan nnd Mr. Ne.ly Edwards do an unexpected turn and give one a peep behind the curtains, as theii act supposedly concludes with the actors in their dressing ,-ooni. The entertaining trio. Stepp, m(.v linger and King, are last rn the bill The act is put on without stage setting set-ting and is perhaps weakened hy this The character songs hit roJuced by King are well executed, and he is ahv assisted by Stepp an.) Mehlinger Who accompany him with banjo and piano. As usual, the hill closed with moving mov-ing pictuies |