Show Star Tops Clos Closing ng Bill a at Orpheum Next Nett week eek will be t the e closing week of or tho aud vaudeville season at the Orpheum the entertainers Topping aggregation of of comes Henry Woodruff with t what Is said 4 r T Ta r a V f ii d WOODRUFF HER O E U C 4 T to be an unusually strong company supporting supporting supporting sup sup- porting him In the tho laughable comedy A A Business Man an Mr Woodruff began to act ad when he was 7 7 but tho the earliest achievement of w which he Inclines l lInes to speak war wa the tho creation two years rears later of a chorus boys boy's part In a Juvenile Pinafore company This contrIbutIon contribution con con- he made May 14 1897 at Haverly's Ha verlys verly's Fourteenth Street theatre New NewYork NewYork York amid a company that Includes numerous numerous numerous nu nu- nu- nu bo boys s 's and girls yet et to be widely known knO Julia TuUa Marlowe Marlon e. e whose a age e is the same as Mr Woodruffs Woodruff's adorned the tho or organization organization or- or as did Willie Wlllie Collier Grace Filkins now married to Admiral Marix l U U. S S. S N N. Arthur and nd Jennie Dunn now Mrs Ezra Kendall Daisy Murdock Anale Annie An An- ale nie Russell Minnie Maddern now Mrs Fiske The chorus men earned 2 per week but some of ot the principals such as year old Willie received os as much muchas as Annie Russell an I English girl b by birth like Julia Marlowe was one of oC the seniors being fully Cully 15 iii called herself Fanny Brough because she didn't t like her truly name Sarah Frances Frost Harry Woodruff was as pretty prett then then than with blue eyes and golden curls curls curls-as as he ho Is handsome now From a 0 chorus part pait he advanced to the role of ot the ln and then to tho the romantic responsibilities of ot Ralph Tho The company compan managed managed man man- aged by bJ T J. J TL lL Haver Haverly came to St. St Paul PaulIn Paulin Paulin in 1880 and first Introduced local playgoers playgoers play play- goers to Harry at the old St St. Paul opera house louse on Wabash street where later was erected the first Grand opera house |