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Show Wilson s Double Is Here i m i i a sr Salt Lakers Rub Optics m mm m m Surprise for Pedestrians plCTL'Kl; shows 1'. II. Wt'stplul, ai'tur now appearing at the i Orpht'um, whose rcsciiiblaiu'c to I'rt'idL'nt Wilson is start-' start-' Ii ix. 'isl Al Ik'iiii.tii, ( )i plicum l'oiiis'Ji.im. 1 hey mil oil Mam " stioi't alter W'estphal had siucccd.-J in posing as the real Wilson. - -,..vr- - fO Hundreds Stare as Actor Saunters Along Main Street in Downtown District, Believing for the Moment They Were Seeing Wilson. comedian. He, too, was In character j ! in blackface and It needed hot one j look at the funnv man hobnobbing I with the make-believe Wilson to aetl I folks ptraiht. resemblance strong. I Wcstphnl and Herman bad agreed j t U my Th TiHi am a visit U-l i prove that the former looked as much J I like Wilson off th" stage as be does un j ) and that It doesn't require the spot- . lifcht to make folks see the remarkable . , facial resemblance. VYestphal has 'been taken for the president on many ! occasions and he has a fund of stories! to relate regarding Incidents brought ; I about by his-truly wonderful likeness' I to the chief executive I j Weslphal docn t si A a word when i he's playing the president at the Or- j i pheum. He receives a nice fat salary for Just looking like him. I Df you see President Wood row Wilson on Main atrect yesterday?' yester-day?' N! Well, a hd of Salt I.akers thought ! Hiey did. but as a matter of fact it wasn't the president at all He's com-I com-I foilably ensconsed Tu Klnj GeoTgtw-l GeoTgtw-l palace across the big itond The man j some several hundred folks thought ! was Wood row WINoii was h:a double, P. 11. Weslph tl. an actor now playing at the Orpheum theatre Westphal stepped rigljt off the Orpheum Or-pheum ataae Thursday after he bad finished playing role of the president presi-dent in the allegorical sketch. "All Hemocracy." and walked along Main street to The Telegram office. He was ! in chaiacter and as he sauntered along our 'main stem' hundreds stopped 1 They rubbed their eyes; took a second look, and still wondered ONLY HIS DOUBLE. "t thought the president as over In F.urope helping to make peace. aaid several, b- fore it dawned upon them that It wasn't Mr. WiJaoii, but only hts don hie. The Illusion was readily dispelled when the big crowd which had K!h-J' K!h-J' f e d in front of The Te I e u ram of f i c e saw the president's double Miake bands with Al Merman the t rphenm |