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Show AMUSEMENTS Blossom Seeley Dazzles With Jazz Act - FTER a fortnight of melancholy days at the Orpheum, the management has succeeded in mobilizing a bill strong enough .almost to win the war. It has all those engaging qualities which belong to the best of vaudeville programmes good music and dancing, excellent comedy, com-edy, mirth and that new element of the variety stage boasting the scientific name of jazz'. Blossom Seeley's dazzling act is almost completely "jazz," if you know what that means. It is designed to crowd as much syncopated speed into a few minutes as is possible, without numbing the audience into unconsciousness It is unnecessary to dilate upon the merits of this popular artiste. She is accompanied by four young men who have sweet voices and know quite a bit about ragtime efficiency. They share with Miss Seeley in a number of the cleverest songs and dances. To the staging of the stunts, as much as to the skill of the artists, is to be ascribed the success of the act. One of the young men is especially effective in his song about a darkey who has had the mischance mis-chance to be incarcerated in the jail-house jail-house and is telephoning his friends to take him away from there. The Lachmann Sisters, one a mere elf, the other in her teens, are presented and assisted by a lady with a Bolshevik name which it is needless to mention here. The littlest girl is a marvelous dancer and has acquired quite grown-up professional profes-sional ways. A risque story put upon her innocent lips is repellant, and should be eliminated. Her sister has an excellent excel-lent voice and a most artistic fashion of singing and dancing. Whether .Count Perrone is a real count or not, he has most distinguished manners man-ners and a voice that a crowned king might brag about. He is assisted by pretty Miss Trix Oliver, whose birdlike notes blend well with the enchanting tones of the count's barytone. The count's French laughing song was a histrionic achievement. "In the Dark" is "a mystery melodramatic melodra-matic novelty," of the detective story variety. va-riety. It tells all about a supposed murder mur-der in a country town hotel and the fastening fas-tening of suspicion upon every person in the hostelry In turn. The denouement is quite surprising. Loney Haskell has all the vigor and vim of old and many a new jest. The balky Ford auto, which does everything every-thing but draw a knife on Thomas Du-gan Du-gan and Babette Raymond, and finally dances a spectral jig in its obstinacy, is one of the funniest acts of the season. The Tasma trio presents an aerial act i which is thrilling and spectacular. |