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Show Opheum Presents Pleasing Variety in New Bill VflttTH and music are pleasingly mfn-gled mfn-gled in a better than average bill of attractions which opened at the Orpheum yesterday. There is a good, wholesome strain of laughter flowing through the entire en-tire show and the musical turns are especially es-pecially good. The bill is a combination of comedy and other things designed to ma I?e the audience forget Its troubles and enjoy itself. It succeeds most successfully. success-fully. There Is a hearty laugh in almost every turn and some of ihem keep the audience in a con tinuous ruar. Anvbody who wants to laugh and enjoy himself and who enjoys something a little above the ordinary in musical stunts, will do well to see this week's bill ai the Or-P Or-P heum. Of course Eddie Foy and the younger Foys are billed as the heudllner attraction, attrac-tion, but there are several other turns which might equally well be classed as headliners. Libonati, the remarkable ragtime xylophonist; Harry Hoiman and his company in the screaming skit. "Adam Killjoy,'' and . Egdtrettu with his posing horse and dogs all are really headline! acts and they go to make up an exceptionally excep-tionally well-rounded bill. Eddie Foy is the same old "Eddie"' that the theatergoing public has been laughing at for years and then wondering wonder-ing what there was to laugh about; but he still makes them laugh. The "seven" little Foys were only six last night on account of the absence of one, but the absence of one at mil call in the Foy family didn't make any difference in the presentation of "The Old Woman in the Shoe" stunt, which is the new vehicle through which Eddie and the younger Foys entertain the audience with a melange me-lange of music and mirth. Eddie, as the old wo ma n of the shoe, hasn't much to do except bustle around and. exhibit an enormous "bustle" which he wears, while the younger Foys do the stunts. Ijfbonati. who is -billed as the ragtime xylophonist, is an artist in his line. He can make the xylophone fairly talk ragtime. rag-time. And this is not all, he also can make its timber tongues speak in classic language as was well demonstrated by his artistic rendition and interpretation of some of this class of compositions, ! Harry Hoiman. who is no stranger to local patrons of the Orpheum, Is just bub-t bub-t bling over with good humor. It is con-' con-' tagious and li is appearance upon the stage ! In his clever comedy skit entitled "Adam ' Killjoy," automobile, dealer, is sufficient i to start an epidemic of laughter through : the audience. Mr. Hoiman is well sup-! sup-! ported and assisted by Eleanor Travail, as ; Killjoy's steno. and Wilfred H. Nixon ; as Papa Killjoy's son. Jack. Ha met and Florence Eeach. billed as vaudeville's songbirds, both possess exceptionally ex-ceptionally good voices and know how to use them best effect, as was demonstrated dem-onstrated In their rendition of "Mightv T.ike a Rose," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginy,' "Oh. Hear the Gentle Iark" and other sentimental classics. Their good work forced them to respond to several curtain calls. Percy Eronson and Winnie Paid win have a musical potpourri entitled "A 1917 Songologv" that is clever and entertaining. entertain-ing. It is something a little away from liie usual and they make a deckled "hit" ! with the audience. i William Egdirettu has an exceptional tableau act In which he, with his trained ! white horse and four trained white dogs, , give a most artistic presentation of scenes I incident to a morning's hunt. The ex-j ex-j cellent posing done by the horse and dogs Is little short of marvelous. Petty Pond in "Five Flights of Musical Mu-sical Comedy,'" is petite, winsome and pretty. Some interesting Pathe news piotures of scenes characteristic of war times conclude the bill. |