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Show Clever Dance Acts and Quartet Please Orpheilm First Niffhters Plenty of jazz, harmony, comedy and dainty dancing Is to be found on the present bill which opened an engage-innt engage-innt - at the Orphettm theatre- last night to a better than s.ytk nous-. Headline honors on the pruKram and In the adverttHing are ac-ord4 the (e Wolfe ilrls In thnr "lov Tour." , but first nightTS wt-r. reluctant to I award th palm to thrne graceful girls I witliotit first rontiiderina- Murrav Rls-sen Rls-sen and h.- "Hting-ar-lun Rhapsody. " As a result, honors wr ahout evenly I dividrd with Mildred Rogers a close I i follow-up. 1 I The Wolfe (.iris. Corgette and I "1 Helle Montrose, as a "ham" actress, raised a roar on" her firwt appearance, and after seleVting a partner from the audience got away to a lot of smiles. In musical divert isements. Ed ward Foley and Eea future prove them-, selves adept students of the art of terpalrhore and pleased f irstnighters immennely. Herbert ft rooks is a wizard when It comes to card manipulation and last night had a merry time mystifying the "customers." H rooks" on I v rival In the art of sleight of hand, if that's what you call it. is Nat I,eiplg. who was seen at the Orpheum recently, i W herever the two have shown their ability, comparison is made. with Itrooks losing nothing by the comparison. compari-son. Valentine and Bell were billed as the "Furniture Itemovers," and did a number num-ber of clever Juggling feats aa well as drawing forth applause with their work oa the old two-wheeled high boys. I alnty Mildred Rogers and her classy little act, 'Step Uvely." were way down In the cloning portion, but that didn't stop Mildred and her four clever steppers from making a place for themselves that would have meant headline honors earlier on the bill. Miss Rogers is a winsome little miss and her four male partners put up a good appearance as well as a favorable exhibition of the various dances. Topics of the lay and Kinograms this week are particularly timely, showing the ainaugurat ion of President Presi-dent Hard in r and other Interesting happenings of the week. The present hill runs until Sunday night with matlneea daily. ICapitolu, proved to be a dainty team of clever steppers who cannot only dance hut t h row In a "on g or two f 'r ko messnre Tne ftrts wnrTt "T ri-ft apt-cTaT' I stage set that for originality and beauty is i.utte aome ways ahead of the. average, while their costumes, and the girla wear them, are gorgeous. Their "Ixre Tour" consists of a series of dances which takes one through all of the various countries and b;.'k to the old 1. K- A. They are assisted at the piano by Andre Pnbein-. Murray Klssen's "Hungarian Rhapsody," Rhap-sody," wh Iltrrv Weston, Ren Reu- i hen and Krnnk f orbett. is a laugh from start to finish. Th act opens with a kitchen scene In a H ungarian restaurant. Kissen Is a chef and with the assintanre of his three, partners gets a lot of laughs out of the troubles trou-bles a chef fs liable to have, letter the boys prove up as one of the best quartets heard here lately and the only fault the audience found with them last night was their refusal to sing more numbers. |