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Show RAGTIME QUEEN ORPHEUrt HIT 3 Li3 a g PANTAGE6 ACTS ATTRACTIVE i . Sophie Tucker Syncopates Her Way Into Graces of Audience. OllE day someone will write a rag I time opera. And -qjen It is staged none other than Sophie Tucker should I be the star. Of all the ragtime entertaln-I entertaln-I ers in the country, Sophie would seem j to be easily the queen. At the Orpheum , last night she presented her ragtime songs and dSYiees with much elaboration, even : to the furnishing of her own band. &he 1 brings with her five young gentlemen w-ho can evoke syncopated allurements from i tiie violin, cello and even the saxophone, as well as from the piano and the drum. Miss Tucker's interpretations of familiar ran time songs are distinctly her own, and that means that they are rife with the genuine spirit of syncopated music and drollery. Xeil Pratt, well known in Palt I.ake, appears in the pleasant little comedy. "Cranberries," with Frederick Karr and Marian Day. The idea of the play lends itself to much merriment and each of the roles is presented admirably. Bert Fitzsinbon, the original Daffy Dil. ' Is just as daffy and dil as ever. That doesn't mean anything:, but neither does Mr. Fitzihoon, and that is why lie is so funny that tiie audience wants him to keep up his foolishness into the unseemly unseem-ly hours. A pretty young woman wno sings and dances gracefully assists him in the act. Raymond and Caverley were a delight with their new pleasantries rendered In Yiddisher style. Frank Carman is a hop roller and baton juggler who performs novel and most remarkable re-markable fen ts. Bernard Riggs and Myrtle Ryan appear ap-pear in a skit, entitled "Disturbing the Peace." They, were not arrested last night, because the police could not pay much attention to misdemeanors when they had a oonib plot to probe. But that is merely hy way of Jest. While 1 he skit is not overly clever, MY. Riggs and Miss ny;n present it most acceptably. The vaudeville closes with an Knglish act. "Harry Tate's Fishing." It is a. sort of mixture of pantomime and foolery. fool-ery. It may have been a yell in London, Lon-don, but it is only a grin over here. itit i-iii i if n n mi. i ifu iniiumi aii'i news, pictures were up to their usual excellent j standard. j Announcement of Singijig of "The Messiah" Mes-siah" on New Year's Afternoon Attracting Much Attention. Timo sale of seals for the coming pro-duction pro-duction of "Tiie Messiah." which takes place at Iho tabernacle New Year's afternoon at 4 :3u o'clock, commences today to-day at tiie store of the Consolidated Music Mu-sic com; any. Members of t ho general committee formed in pairs and "visited the business firms for the purpose of disposing dis-posing it blocks of tickets for the employees em-ployees of the various institutions. The i osui t of the first day's w ork was very pncnurjiEins. i me member of the -o:n mitt po was heard !" rerpaik that "without doubt every ev-ery ticket wdl s.id. and we are assured of a capacity house." Only a certain number of tik'-is have l-.;en issued, sufficient suffi-cient to c",rr every f.iL Three renearsa's were held yesterday. I with soloists, orchestra and chorus. Prc fespnr ("o,i;i will hold a rehearsal todav I in Ogden for the pirtrers who vwl! come j down from C-e Junction city. Tiie conim' t ee is fort una ' e in securing j Marjorie Dodse Warner of Ch:cr;co to j take th- pc.nrc.o roic. The cbdaiu A?rer-i i.-ar. has the fo;:.'wii;g to say of Mrs. Wht- j Mis. Warner was heard in the Char- priij ,-- aria from "I.o-iise." "rep;ns le mc Sic hup f;:M. :.-s'"M:.ant -"ii-e. ve-y l-oo i i--u-.ee anrl ('vcellent n.-hnc. Iri 1 !;c S -ii'M;ir.i "'"r;: .lie her mez7,a - I e was exquisite. "Oh, The Women," and 'The Toll Bridge" Are .Both Well Presented. N i "N"E of the rarely good bits of char- ' aeter acting that has been presented to the vaudeville patronizing population of Salt Lake In a long time Is that of ; James Grady, at the Pantages theater this week In "The Toil Bridge." j The sketch might easily be very ordinary, or-dinary, but. not so with Grady in It. As Job Willia ms, keeper of the bridge, he , Is a crotchety old man, and as a crotchety . old man he is a snowstorm. Also, he is worth wading through a snowstorm to see. In the role. Madeline Clark as Cherrle, the girl who comes over the bridge, is equal In her way to Grady. The sketch has enough sentiment in it to make it popular with the average audience, but it is Hie way the present at ion is accomplished that puts the kick of life Into it. The pretentious number of the bill this week Is the musical farce, "Oh. tho Women." 11 is somewhat like the "Bride Shop" to those who have seen that concentration con-centration of a comic opera into a bit of musical comedy of half an hour's duration. dura-tion. "Oh, the Women" is cleverly pre sen ted. Two versatile chaps are Fd Warren and Did Temple ton. They dance a little, chat a lot. sing some and spring a sparkling spark-ling line of witticism of the impromptu sort. The Princess due Quong Tai, the charming Chinese vaudeville actress who has appeared twice before in Salt Lake, is a member of this week's coterie of entertainers en-tertainers at the Pantages. She does several songs in Chinese character, her costumes be in 5 rarely beautiful. Her act j finishes with an appearance as an American Amer-ican girl, again handsomely gowned, j singing songs popular with English -j speaking people. 1 George Stanford is a chap who whistles as if he had seen service as a drill master mas-ter In a school for wild song birds. His demonstration would surely make a canary ca-nary or a moektne bird choke with envy. Ollie and .lohnny Yams are two agile performers on a. tight wire. The young woman of tho duo is as sure as a humming hum-ming bird and as graceful. She performs with the utmost indifference as to difficulty diffi-culty such fea t s as make the average .performer of the sort assume an air of excessive realization of his skill. Last night's audience approved very frankly aii.-l lr.ii.lH- r,f ri flllie |