Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 7 | Orpheum Patrons Delighted by New Bill

Orpheum Patrons Delighted by New Bill q ELDOM is there a unanimous opinion about a vaudeville bill. There is not i even a unanimous opinion about a counterfeit coun-terfeit bill until you are arrested. Of course, the bill is bad, but for a time you are the only one that knows it. And sometimes a vaudeville bill Is good, but the critic is the only one that knows it. He is so wise that he disagrees with everybody else. After thus hedging himself about with a barb wire entanglement the critic declares de-clares that the bill of last night was one of the best of the season in the "unanimous "unani-mous opinion of the audience." And the man, far back in the audience, who rises to register his objection, is simply a "nut" and should be arrested and taken bacK to Provo. And now that the arrest has taken pla-ee and all is quiet again we shall proceed to toss the critic's bouquets across the footlights. And speaking of bouquets of this kind, we wonder why the critics do not use them more plentifully. They are very' cheap. In fact, they cost nothing. The gentleman who sends an $S.0o bouquet bou-quet five cents for the ribbon to the hea-dlfner because he knew her back in Emporia when she was the waitress at his table, thinks that no one could make more of a hit than he. But the bouquet wilts with neglect while Lizzie scans the columns of the morning paper for the critical bouquet handed her by a gentleman gentle-man who paid nothing for it and would pay it again even if he knew she was from Emporia. Not that we are accusing anyone of the Orpheum ladies of coming from Emporia. That may or may not be true the truer the eadder we merely use Emporia as an illustration. And anyone any-one who has been to Emporia will know that it could not be put to a better use. The clock warns your critic that he must cut his bouquets short, but as we remarked before, the modest violets of a critic are always more appreciated than the bulky stalks of celery tbat are wafted over the heads of the orchestra. The bill opens charmingly with character char-acter dances by three pretty girls the Misses Stewart. Then comes Edwin George to commit "A Comedy of Errors." Me commits alt the errors himself and blames no one but himself. He is camouflaged camou-flaged as a juggler, but in reality he is a wit; his patter seldom loses its luster. lus-ter. Ralph Dunbar's "Tennessee Ten" are Ethiopian experts in singing, dancing and antics, especially antics. And it Is uproarious uproar-ious fun. "Hark, Hark, Hark." This is not the crltics's call to his mate. It is the name of one of the funniest pieces of gro-tesquery gro-tesquery ever introduced into vaudeville. Herbert Williams and Hilda Wolfus put it across. Harriet Rempel appears In a playlet which is reminiscent of Maeterlinck. It is by Tom Barry and is entitled "Just Around the Corner," which Is the author's way of describing the glorious dreams of a poor little girl of the tenements who lives amid the most sordid surroundings and is brutally treated by a drunken uncle. Her dreams are idealized by the use of flashlights and. attractive scenery. The company is admirable. Those who have seen "Willie Weston before in vaudeville woke up last night to the fact that he is none other than the author of .the prize, war. song, "Joan of Arc," and that increased interest In him immensely, because everybody is singing this noble and beautiful war ballad. bal-lad. He Is described as "America's foremost fore-most singer of character eongs," and we realize, as he announces his songs, that he is the composer or the most popular songs of the day. Pat and Julia Levolos are wonders of the wire. Probably you will recall the slack wire performer who enacts the part of a drunken man walking a slack wire Well, that's Pat, and he's all right.