Show ORIGINAL ACT AT ORPHEUM Two Salt lakers Write Writ Piece Which Will Be Given First Pres Presentation Presentation Today A new and novel act will Ill be presented for Cor the tho first time on any stage at the Or Orpheum Orpheum this afternoon and evening Its title is A Modern Pocahontas and Is be being beIng ing presented by two young oung Salt Lakers Joseph Goss stage manager and Will Howard treasurer of the Orpheum The act is all Indian in r there being eight Shoshone Indians In the piece from the reservation two women and six men In addition there will be two white men making a total of or ten In the com company compan pany pan The act has for a plot Incidents con connected n with the history ot John and Pocahontas the only difference being the scene and action are of modern life The stage sta e setting which Is described as beautiful and effective shows the te tepees tepees pees of the Indians grouped around the borders of a mountain lake In the Imme Immediate diate foreground are a number of or tepees showing amid the trees tr es while in the back background background ground they the are seen clustered on the shores of or the lake on which the moon moonlight moonlight light Is dancing The of or the natives are seen and huddled about the fires are arc the Indians Faint cries and tom toms are heard The scene is one of tran tranquil tra quil beauty and repose It Is broken by the advent of the white whiteman whiteman man He Is quickly taken prisoner and summary punishment about to be meted out when the daughter of or the chief inter intervenes Intervenes venes and saves his life The rhe character of th tho Indian girl is ta taken taken ken by Miss lI s Emma a bright ht young Indian girl a graduate of oC Carlisle She has a natural n tural ability for Cor stage work and does clever acting The character of the white man and the Indian chief are portrayed by white men and the acting by the entire company a number of com competent competent actors even including the thc Indians who have hac caught the spirit of the piece Is very ver good During the th action of the piece there will be a number of characteristic Indian dances and ceremonials It will be glen given for Cor the two performances only as it Is the expectation of or the managers to take the act over oer the vaudeville circuit The stage and all accessories are fully Cully In keeping with the act as new ne scenery has been specially painted while the In Indians Indians use their own ow costumes |