Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-22 | Page 17 | Farber Sisters Prove 'Hit'

FARBER SISTERS PROVE 'HIT' Orpheum Audience Enjoys ! Turns by Accomplished Entertainers. T" ECIDBDIY, the Farber girla were the favorites at the Orpheum last night. Like the poet, the genuine- vaudevillian, masculine or feminine, is born, not made. The gay sisters Farber have the true genius of vaudeville. They are singers of comic songs, purveyors of picturesque pa tter, mimers with merry mannerisms. And if that does not tell the whole story, it is due to the fact that the sisters are something above and beyond all this in the realm of drolleries. Dance divertisements of the most classical and most startlingly acrobatic kind are offered by Ralph Riggs and Katherine Witchle. The young lady is such a marvelous dancer that she would do well not to sing, because to do that establishes a painful contrast. The act is rife with dash and vivacity. A clever bit of vaudeville is the little comedy, "The. Final Decree." enacted by Henry Keane and Miss Dorothy Mortimer. On the eve of the final decree of divorce Emily West, very beautiful and charming, drops in on her husband to bid him a polite farewell, which, as we all know, is quite customary in divorce cases. Formerly For-merly it was the vogue to wait at the corner and hurl a brick, but nowadays one is expected to drop in and announce that tomorrow "we must part forever." Perhaps if one did that in real life there would be just such a happy ending as this play affords. Miss Mortimer is dainty and artistic. Mr. Keane is most impressive im-pressive by reason of his measureless composure com-posure and sangfroid. The dog and pony show is of a gorgeous gor-geous kind and ail the animals are a delight. Witt and Winter are wonderfully strong men and athletes. There is much to Winter, just like our own winter, and somewhat less to Witt, but both are good. Benny and Woods present "Ten Minutes Min-utes of Syncopation" on violin and piano and manage to be very entertaining and a bit funny. Maurice Burkhart Is "The Thief," but he didn't get much from the audience. His act contains a bright idea and could he improved. Mr. Burkhart has an excellent ex-cellent voice and considerable histrionic skill, but there Is a certain lack of "pep" which might be supplied. The Hearst-Pathe pictures show some interesting pictures of submarine chasers. The fast motor boats, armed with one-pound one-pound guns, are of a type employed early in the war. The latest device is the "sea sled," which is shown at practice off our , Pacific coast. It is too clever to be hit I hy a torpedo, they tell us. ,