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Show AMUSEMENTS When Ilarrv Lauder beamed upon his Salt Lake audiences at Pantages yesterday they knew thoy liked hini immensely. When ho chuckled they were convinced that ho was an old friend and wondered whero ho had been all these years. And after he had sung his first song they hugged themselves and waited with keen relish for what was to come. A clevor song and theu a story or two and some neat dialogue, then some quocbowleggod ambling about stago and droll dancing that was tho skeleton. skele-ton. Tho sonl was all tho rest. It. is Lauder's gonial, good-hearted, whole-soulod whole-soulod individuality that makes him a magnetic comedian. Perhaps his most likeable song yesterday yes-terday aud last night was " She's Mv Daisy," a burlosquo on tho Scotch troopor in a British regiment. In this Bong tho comedian has an opportunity to show that tho Scotch brogue is not his only dialoctic asset, for in his imitation imi-tation of tho ceuoral ho manages a high-toned English intonation to perfection, per-fection, A little, later he sings a rol-licking rol-licking Irish song with as fair an accent as any wielded by our beat Irish comedians, In fact, Harry Lauder Lau-der is the king of Great Britain and Ireland when it comes to comic singing, sing-ing, nnd that la quite a compliment to Georgo "V, if he only knew it. As for tho romninder of tho vaudeville vaude-ville it is but a trifle, but 'twill servo. The best of it is a funny "houn' dawg" enacted by lfred Latcll, "the world's greatest animal actor." A biiskotball eamo on wheels was very exciting and as the English contestant who was pitted aeainst tho American won by a score of 3 to 0, the game must fiavo been a fake. The people of Salt Lake almost had a chanco to see Lauder in two performances per-formances on Monday. Ho wan informed in-formed by tho railroad company that the washouts in California had so tied up traffic that all trains had been canceled, can-celed, but late Inst, night tho company reconsidered and Lauder left for the co oat |