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Show MME. BERNHARDT WILL OPEN SEASON Orpheum Theater to Close for Summer on June 2 and Eeopen on August 13. Announcement was made yesterday l)y Manager Edward P. Levy that the local Orpheum theater would close for the current vaudeville season on Sunday, Sun-day, June 2, and reopen for the 191S-1919 191S-1919 season on August 13. Mme, Sarah Bernhardt, the great French actress, will be the stellar attraction at the opening of the new season. According to Manager Levy, the season sea-son to close next month has been the most prosperous and successful from every point of view in the history of the local member of the Orpheum circuit. cir-cuit. Several house records in point of attendance have been broken, but the proudest achievement was in heading head-ing the list of the nation 's vaudeville theaters in point of total receipts turned in for the special national theater thea-ter Red Cross day performance. The plan of opening the Orpheum on Tuesday nights started two weeks ago will be adhered to next season, thereby giving Salt Lakers six days of big-time vaudeville throughout the year. The decision to maintain the extra performances perform-ances was reached after local theatergoers theater-goers had shown by their patronage that they approved of the plan. |