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Show Mystery-Act Goes' Over the Top At Casino ' Tha new bltl which opened a four-day an a cement at Loew s Casino theatre yesterday afternoon to a packed house Is replete with variety and novelty with a high class Illusion act topping the bill. - Tha Great Nagrls. assisted by a corps ff able conjurers, put over mystifying act that truly filled Its purpose. Many Seemingly Impossible things were done With a touch of comedy thrown in that ekHtawl MiiatK trv kak aminvlMnt a? I haa mft - (Jayneil and Mack, In an acrobatic ancing skit, called forth loud and insistent in-sistent applause with their clever work, while Mr. snd Mrs. Wslter Hill scored beavlly in their one-set comedy, "Poor Jim." This last named act Is equal to any of the so-called big time sketches In amusement value. man McKarl and the Thomson slaters were well received In an Instrumental bum her, while Alvln and Kinney, In sn Aj p-In -t he-sir ring act, mads a real hit. - One thing that impresses particularly about Elaine Hammerstetn, who ia appearing ap-pearing In "Pleasure Seekers," -Is her Jwiity to art natural under any given fet of circumstances. Her tranquility and repose are seldom ruffled, and although aha la not given to any cyclonic outbursts out-bursts of "emotion It cannot be denied that she gets her dramatic points over o that the full power of the scene is brought out. In her current picture, ''Pleasure Reek-rs," Reek-rs," Miss Hammersetin Is seen as Mary Murdock, the granddaughter of a country coun-try minister. Mary haa married a young man who has been pretty wild and It appears ap-pears thst ha ha given up his former eays. But clrnjsastances threw htm into contact with some of hla old companions, among; whom Is an old flame of his, a f ivorcee of questionable reputation. Miss lammersteln aa the young wife Is In-ormed, In-ormed, of the fact. Does she Imme-liatsly Imme-liatsly vow vengeance or become hysterical hys-terical ever the matter? Most emphatically emphati-cally she does not. She very calmly, but firmly seeks out her recreant husband snd In a decided manner Informs him of what she Is going to do and also what he Is going to do, i The scene Is not theatrlcaJ, but U Is human and In that fact lies Its power. A Tot News reel and a comedy complete the present bill, which runs until .Saturday tght. |