Show 1 I AMUSEMENTS J ORPHEUM THEATRE Everything at the Orpheum this work weik I Is ia light and breezy The bill is probably the best at the theater r this season Each I act is 18 unusually good and the entire bill billis billIs is 18 one long laugh The theater was packed to the doors last night and even those wro wo were forced to stand up at the rear were im immensely immensely pleased with the bill Though it I lacked variation in the style of ot acts act this fact tact did not detract from the tM entertain entertainment entertainment ment Harry H Richards In his hi decidedly comic opera burletta Love a Ia Is 1 Mode Yode is the funniest thing of the t e season It was the jolliest act on a jolly bill Mr r Richards was cleverly supported by Miss Dorothy Daley and Miss 11 Adele Ferguson The singing in the burletta was waa especially good The fanciest in the tile indus industry Industry Industry try is Miss Beth Ston Stone who opens the bill with top toe dancing Her i feet twinkle a thousand times a second I and appear to enjoy the pace The Musi Musical Musical cal Johnsons John ons get the most out of the hackneyed xylophone turn They play pia classical and ragtime music with equal grace Griff Is Ia a ventriloquist with apparently y superhuman powers POWer He 1 I thE baby of the Newlyweds Newl and Hamlet without an effort George a Londoner who Jests while be juggles juggle adds to the success of ot act Herbert and Willing in black face are areas areas areas as funny as ever e Their jokes are ace new i and their dancing decidedly clever Sam Watsons Farmyard circus is a as good as asit asit asIt it ever was and a little better Donke Donkeys s dogs cats and roosters roo ter contribute to the tIme i fun The Little Pink Pig gowned in baby clothes and riding a baby cab is I the star of ot the circus Clever dancing by b Walter alter and Miss Xu Mulvey uhe in A Theatrical Agency closes an excellent ex bill BUNGALOW THEATRE In Raffles the play made famous by Kyrle Bellew Bellow the Arington players opened opeo d at the Bungalow theatre last night It is s so 80 distinctively a play that aside from front Mr fr Ince In in the title role few of the company had important import nt work though on the whole it may be oe said that the support Is 18 better than thai in inThe inThe InThe The Love Loc Route The players work together and Raffles is 18 a complete pro production without toe tIre amateurish loose ends I that are art often the hopeless features of stock offerings Raffles Rattles has halt long been popular Ii ular ts s a detective story but bat the tile play does doe not fol follow follow follow low the lines Imes of the book except in the fie l principal part Ac ua played by Mr Jill one recognizes recognises the educated gentlemanly rogue of the story whose adventures In housebreaking bou are the chief Interest of or the plot Ilot The recovery of n a diamond neck meek la lace e stolen by the tIme famous at ata a house party his confession and tuIse s quent escape afford many dramatic ram tlc situ situations but the play drags drap badly In the first act which is mainly explanatory dialogue The third act gives gle some son good opportunities opportunities opportunities and aDd here Mr Kr Ince lace is Iii at his bis best especially in his scene With the real burglar This ThI part played by W W Craig is particularly well done and it Is III to be hoped boP that he will ill Vill be bes e s 6 aen en n often in more Important parts part Miss Mise li is ill dc as Gwendolyn Con Conron Conron ron roil and Miss KI Brandt who played for tor the first fint time last lt night in this company was strong in her part The costumes w were re very good but the play was not well staged though little scenery Is ia needed What was used u ed should have been good Recent improvements made at the Bungalow admirably fit it to be the borne bome of a stock company and the success of ot the players in the plays already presented pre Indicate a very satisfactory season eaon tot foi them and much good for tor Salt Lau Lake thea then theatregoers Raffles runs rung for the week with Thursday and Saturday matinees ma TEXAS Hes a bold bad man Is this desperado o Struck the town like Ilk a wild tornado And ADd be he struts around like the main So the catchy cowboy song runs rons through Texas which opened at the Colonial last night Its the same me old Texas Texa although there are some new faces in the east cast and with those who enjoy a good melodrama with a good measure of ot corn com edv Texas made the usual hit lilt The story of the southwest t In earlier days with Its It II strong characters is well welt set me et and most moat of the characters are In Incapable Incapable Incapable capable hands with Hawaii Harlan Fox as all Freshwater Jack and Emily Clifton as Texas West the two youngest mem members hers bers of the cast doing especially well wellHope wellHope wellHope Hope Gage as a the widow Peppercorn Ethel Etbel Clifton as Lady Cecelia eelIa and John Haselton as Oklahoma were wore also worthy Orthy of special mention The story Is 18 one of or ranch life lite In which an lord through a halfbreed Mexican discovers that on Colonel West s ranch there is a rich gold old deposit He almost succeeds in buying the ranch for fora fora a song when Freshwater Jack comes to the rescue rc with ready cash The melo melodramatic melodramatic melodramatic dramatic scenes are furnished by several encounters between Jack and the halt half halfbreed breed and the Greater Greaser GrEa r Is lu not really m Hl from tho th t wh n Jack Ja k succeed succeeds in ill killing him ni after alter their second en encounter enCounter counter Texas played to a large audience last night and it was well received rec ved This Tide play was billed for tor the Colonial last Ja t year but a delay deJa in opening the th theatre led JIM to a change whereby it filled the en eR engagement eRga e ga at the Salt Lake theatre The play remains at the Colonial all the week with ith matinees 8 Wednesday day and Saturday SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE I Soldiers of Fortune by b Richard Hard Harding HardIng ing lug Davis a play replete with sensational Incidents connected with tho the making and the undoing of at a South American republic lic lie was wan the offering of oi the Willard Mack Stock company at the Grand theatre last night The production was given a most moat capable callable presentation both In the reading of or lines and In the tha stags stage setting In this popular play have be ben been n saen seen many strong actors in the role of ot Robert flay soldier of fortun fortune but their recep reception reception cep tion In the part could hardly hanDy have been more Inure royal than that accorded Mr lr Mack last night There IK is enough of the th melodramatic running through the play to furnish thrills in plenty The stirring Incidents of the time Soldiers of Fortune take place In Inthe Inthe Intine the tine Imaginary ima republic Of in South America Robert Clay an Ameri Ameni American can after atter having served under many man Hags flags becomes become identified with an ar Amen AlDerS American can company a as its chief engineer e Deer in and around him center many of ot the plots plo l and the counterplots of ot the play I Intrigue love successful and love un unrequited unrequited requited are some roam of the elements that enter Into the story of play With Mth the drop of the curtain on the la last t act actis actIs actis is seen Clay as all winner of or the hand of Capitalist t daughter and pro proclaimed proclaimed proclaimed claimed dictator of ot the Republic of The cast has lias been strengthened and the various arious parts pam were in capable hands Blanche Douglas proved a charming and clever Hope Langham Others of the thu players gave creditable Interpretations of the various roles |