| Show Watson Leads e F ers I On N New w Bill Billat at Orpheum Orpheum vaudeville bills of the current r season ha have e been so uniformly high class that to say any coming attractions are equal or superior to those that have gone I before is mighty risky but to all appearances appearances appearances appear appear- ances the program opening Wednesday evening has em em all beat when it comes to comedy Leading the band of merry is no less a personage than Harry Watson Vatan Jr late of Jack Revue and andone andone andone one of the stage stages stage's s foremost comedians He is he one real b bg g laugh and in his nib present vaudeville offering exceeds all hi his former efforts at cajoling laughs from blase He lie offers The Young Kind Battling Dugan and The Telephone Scene the first a on the prize ring and the latter an upI uproariously up- up I funny episode in which the telephone figures prominently lie He is assisted assisted assisted as as- I by a capa capable ble supporting company of five A noteworthy musical feature is the Chinese Jazz band direct from San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco cisco's s Chinatown an aggregation of twenty oriental musicians who play modem modern mod mod- em ern jazz and well They are under the leadership of Thomas ThomasB B B. Kennedy bandmaster of the United States navy r P. R R. Bailey and Cowan The Ban joker and Singer late of Sophie Tuckers Tucker 9 jazz band offer an entirely new act in which assisted by Estelle Davis they the create a profound impression as singers musicians and comedians Clarence Oliver and Georgie beloved by all vaudeville patrons n offer Discontent I 0 Hugh Herbert Herberts Herbert's Her Her- I bert berts bert's r s masterpiece a I of modern comedy y Hae and d symbolic drama Nelson and Chain are a pair to draw to I In fact they are a sure enough full house houge when it comes to singing dancing and all allaround allaround around unmaking The They were a riot on the Pacific coast and will doubtless go as lis big here Smiling Billy DIlly Mason of motion mo tion picture fame and Alice Forrest The TNT of Vaudeville have something brand new to offer local Orpheum patrons I an an act that will surely appeal by it its comedy and The fresh from continental triumphs spread a lot of joyousness in their funny act and Topics of the Day willbe will willbe be he on hand to furnish the motion picture end erd of the entertainment I |
