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Show ORPHEUM HAS 3 TOP ACTS' 3 & & ! HORSES IN PLAY AT PANTAGES "Who Is She?" "Dancing Girl of Delhi," "On Broadway," Broad-way," Divide Honors. TN the opinion of the first nihters at tiic Orplifum the bill has three headline head-line acts this week Joseph Bernard and Hazel Harrington in Willard Mack's playlet, play-let, "Who Is She?" the Dancing Girl of eihi and Ccorsc McKay and Otlie Ardirie in their skit, "On Rroad way.1 And ri'ht near Llie lop, according to that same opinion, aie the original college boys, Kenny and J loll is, in "Fresliy's Initiation." Initia-tion." The playlets nf Willard Mack arc always al-ways of especial interest in Sail Lake, where he was lone a conspicuous and w'inirt inirt; een a sensational figure. His playlet "Kii-k In." sifii here in vaude-f vaude-f and about to b produced at the Orphnm hr a inovif, is one of the really sucresfni one-art dramas of the 'apt few years. "Who Is She'."' is a comedy will) an ancient theme the itMrrc1 and reconciliations recon-ciliations of tnan and wtfp. The average reader in apt to say, "Stop, thai is eunuch." al th's point, or to sieh "old siutr." Oespite the hackneyed theme Wills Wil-ls rd M.-i'-k has produced a tme-ro-ltfp comedy that thrills with laughier. Mu-h of lh,. t mi inj ill last ni::'nt undoubtedly was due to Miss llarringion and Mr. K-er-nai-d, wiio are highly accomplished players. play-ers. "The Iinncins; Oirl of Pelhi" is one of those oriental fantasies in dancing and pantomime which have cmie into popular popu-lar fa vor in I lie last few years. It is j placed and piorluced by R SI. Oenis and is presented by (he brilliant dam-er A'anda Hot'f. supported by another talented talent-ed dancer, I-ietalo Rubino and her com-pjiriy. com-pjiriy. The story Is that of one dancing pni who displaces another dancing girl in the favor of the .Nizam, evidently that HiilTnne rul"r, th" Nizam of llyderhad. The c'stuines anil settings are gorgeous Riui, so far ;is ihe uninitiated may judge, tiuc in the spirit if not hi the letter to the eo-d nines that prevail In the paJace Dl' a Nizam. iJeorge McKav is not new, but be is. fMrrmoiv fresh.' Indeed Ids freshness is an iiniort:iiii element in his success. It J Is iiiinei'oss:i rv to dilate upon the method; bv which lie lariats the elusive laush. j Siiffb-e ( sa y. he nchievps thai feat as I riunipha nt lv as almost any vaudevillian of the day." Me is assisted by Ottie Ar-; Hlne, who Ik's personality and agility, lleri at MM ic si mil s in dancing are amazing j and arirnctive. H i. in the aft of Kenney and TblMs , that a feature somewhat new to the stage is 'mil nvr:" most effectively. Whether it he Kennev .t Mollis who docs it we do n-u know, hut one of tlese funny men indulges In confidential whispers with the audienre about the supposed jealousies of 1 li" nt her nluy"-s w ho. he pretends, are in ihe wines hntirg liiin for his sucess. It is n clever idea and the comedian 1 elahn rales uo"n it most entertainingly, using t he names of the various artists I and travestying them. The bill opens rather placidly with the V1g'nn r.iris. musicians, who are said j to ho w ;n- refugees from Belgium. Nell 0'('onndl follows in a number of senti- J mental song.-. The bill closes with the excellent ex-cellent dog show of Mile. Itoria. Filial St?ho:Tsal of "The Rainbow" by University Students Shows Cast to Be in Good Shape. T!II-: final rehearsal for the university production, "The Rainbow." was hc-lrl vrstrrinv afternoon at ihe Salt l,ake theater, at whic.h the newly painted bcenery was set up and all the recently acquired properties for this performance were used for the first time. Professor Babcock has just returned from the east and has been spending all the time since her arrival putting on the . final touches to what the southern press called an already "finished production." Coventor Simon Bamberger and his ptaff and both houses of the state legislature legis-lature will be the honored guests of the university at the. Friday evening performance. perform-ance. A great number of Incal societies an! clubs have reserved sections, besides the university organizations, for Friday, which is college night. The music will be furnished by the university orchestra, under the direction of Pro feasor Thomas Giles. Alter the ait lake performance tne club will travel north to play in Ogden, Iogan, Brigham City and Preston, Idaho. I Equine Has Large and Important Im-portant Part in Excellent Vaudeville Bill. T1IF.RF is real horse play in this week's bill at the Pantages. The expression is not slang. It's a fact. They lead tne j horse out from the wings just before the ( curtain falls on the final act. The online is not exactly a T'cg.isus. but ins legs are not so ungainly and lacking lack-ing in uniformity as to need covering, i'e plavs the largest role in the sketch. "The Two Pikers." presented by Jimniie O'Neill and Frank Wa.hns.ley. A bevy of young women dan-'e their way in and out through t he act "In a cruel absence of stockings and befriending skirts. I'sually it is only the town where she was raised thnt knows the secret of the low-legged j Marrv Mines Is back in town again. Also he is three times a day at the Pan-tages. Pan-tages. Me taken himsel f with a vast measure of self -non fid once, doe.M Mr. Mines, and the audience encourages him. j as do the fond parents of a precocious child. Me Is a "kinder" mostly, crude or clever as suits his whim. There is an act in which a man and a dog perform after the manner of persons per-sons who cannot quite determine whether they belong in the statuary or the acrobatic acro-batic class. The dog is a little t lie better bet-ter of the two, which is no reflection upon the performance of hts master. The education of any other canine that ever appeared upon a vaudeville stage in Salt .ake is made to appear like a case of retarded mentality in i-omparison. And the little rascnl delights in curtain calls. Tile Y'alerie Sisters are erratic performers, perform-ers, t he grea ter part of the quality of erratics being in the personality of the less slender of the two. The young woman wom-an looks like a George Ade caricature with the breath of life breathed into it. The Art. ds Brothers, who are the curtain-raisers, are a clownish pair who perform per-form upon horizontal bars. DRAMA AND YAUDli V1L.L.E. ; U'lLKFS Stock company in "Within the Law,'' all week, with matinees ; today and Saturday afternoon. ORPH l-;i"M- -New- vaudeville show ; now in progress. Matinees today, Friday and Saturday. PANTAGKS New vaudeville show j now running, with three perform- j ances dally. ; PAI,T IjAKK .Julia Ciilp, Dutch lieder singer, today. "The Garden of ; A llali." four performances, begin- i ning January 13. MOTION PICTURES. j PARAMOUNT - EMPRESS "Louise Muff and .lack Pickford in an am- ' hltious revival of Charles Dickens's j "Great Expectations." BROADWAY Today, Friday and Saturday, Sat-urday, the popular star. Alice Brady, in her latest big feature story, "A Woman Alone." AMERICAN Today, Yaleska Suratt in "The Vfctim." I M EHESY ''The Vampires," French ; detective thriller; "Beatrice Fair- fax" newspaper story; cartoon j comedy. j |