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Show TONIGHT'S AMUSEMENTS. SALT LAKE Primrose Minstrels. ORPHETJM Vaudeville. GRAND 'The Belle of Japan." LYRIC "The Counterfeiters." CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Free. AUDITORIUM Roller Skating. WASATCH RINK Roller Skating. It's a regular old-fashioned minstrel show which Georjre Primrose has with him this year. There are several end men and hardly a Joke that isn't new. There's a bunch of top-notch dancers and a double quartette of real singers. Everybody Every-body Is In black face Just as minstrels were In the old days when Primrose. Lew rockstader. Billy West and Billy Rice all were flourishing. . And from start to fln-Jeh fln-Jeh the show Is lively. It moves with a swing and a vim. T1 onpany comes very closf to being fv ,1-star aggregation, as the advertisers advertise-rs claim, and It Is doubtful if a better mi rel show ever went out upon the And at the head of the collection of talent Is good old George Primrose himself, as agile, as graceful and as full of fun aa ever, though his hair Is gray now. Prmrose sings "Walt Me. Bill."' and appears In a melange of dances which he , has made famous, concluding his part with a solo dance to the accompaniment-of accompaniment-of old airs. He Is as nimble as a youngster and his every movement Is full of grace. Emlle Pubers. Xeal Abel and Eddie Horan are a gTeat trio of comedians. Pu-1 Pu-1 bers Is simply immense. The audience couldn't get enough of him as the "Original "Origi-nal Georgia Sunflower." He also made a great hit with "I've Said My Last Farewell." Fare-well." Eddie Horan's laughing song and eccentrlque dance make lots of fun. Abel raised a laugh whenever he appeared and his solo, "I'd Rather Be Outside .Looking In Than Inside Looking Out" won repeated encores. The drill of-the Southern 'cadets, ar-1 ar-1 ranged by Primrose, presents an almost I perfect series of military evolutlona. I 8ome decidedly clever novelties are Intro-1 Intro-1 duced In the Silver Shower clog dance In I which ten men, -headed by Horan In a great walking clog, take part. The Troca- dero quartette of Individual vocalists and I collective harmonists pleases Immensely. Thpre Is no limit to the fun furnished ly "Mme. Rascally's Band" and "The Magnolia Hotel," a burlesque on rural 1 hotel life. A refreshlpg novelty was presented last night in the appearance of Mrs. George Primrose as a soloist In the first part. She wss the single exception to the rule of black faces. She has an excellent voice which shows the result of careful, training, train-ing, and is assisted by the men's double qusrtette. . The idea of a woman of recognized rec-ognized vocal ability appearing In a minstrel min-strel show Is a product of Mrs. Primrose's Prim-rose's own brain. After her marriage three years ago she argued the question with her husband time and time again, hut for a while he laughed away her eiijrarestions. However, lie finally came thst might have belonged -to Venus of Milo. They are the personal property of Lavinla De Witt, vocalist and cometist. a woman with a pair of beautiful eyes and a remarkably limber tongue. Between the triple tonguelng on the cornet, her sweet voice, and those captivating cap-tivating arms. Miss De Witt easily shone as a headllner. There was but one Jar to her performance. That was her costume, which, evidently foreign as herself, did not fit well into the minds of the American Ameri-can audience before her. Acts billed as hsdliners this week are not headlinera. Hallen and Fuller, the same old Hallen and the same fat. cute Mollie Fuller, in a sketch "Her Sunday-School Sunday-School Boy." race around the stage like two, old-time knockabout comedians, and by dint of horse-play manage to raise a laugh or two. There Is little really funny in the sketch, which needlessly arouses the ever-ready prejudice against the Chinese. Chi-nese. Perhaps the best number on the Mil Is the "Messenger Boy and the Actress," by Maddox and Melvln. A pretty woman, with prettier eyes and an attractive personality. per-sonality. Miss Melvln served as a good foil to the funny tomfoolery of Maddox. who gave a sort of refined rendition of the same sketch he played in the "slapstick" "slap-stick" circuit ten years ago. ' Maddox's make-up is a seven-days' wonder and his playing of a sleepy messenger-boy, suddenly transformed into an actor of the ten. twent', thlrt' variety made the audience audi-ence roar. Kelly and Calvert In "Tom and Jerry," a skit of college days and college pranks, were pleasing, although many Jokes of the antediluvian age were sprung on the unwitting ones in front. Local hits made by the two were apt, including the one in which reference was made to "that lin.000 the Scotchmen Iosr" Caldera. clever and original juggler, and the Rlegler-Hille acrobatic trio, who showed remarkable strength and agility, complete a falrlysatlsfying bill. '"The Belle of Japan," now playing at the Grand, is G. Harris Eldon's latest and greatest comedy production. The story deals with life in Japan at the present time and its happy blending of really amusing heart interest is bound to entertain as well as amuse all classes of theater-goers. Presented, as it is, with special scenery and by a company of exceptional ex-ceptional merit, including the clever comedienne. com-edienne. Miss Bessie Clifton, the play is well worth seeing. Yesterday and today the advance sale of seats for the music festival has been going on at the Clayton Music company's store. Fred Graham haa personal charge of the ticket sale and reports a heavy demand for tickets. Subscribers will get their tickets this week. After that the general public will have access. One of the biggest attractions to be seen in this city this season will appear at Salt Lake Theater Friday of next week, when Richard Carle and H. L. Hearts's great Western operatic comedy success, "The Tenderfoot," with Oscar L. Flgman and Ruth White will be heard. The music of this opera is so characteristic character-istic of the Southwest, with its dash and swing and picturesqueness, that it haa made the piece a great favorite generally. gener-ally. The wit is clear cut and Incisive, and Flgman is hailed as one of the greatest great-est of light opera comedians on account of his fine work In it. Miss Ruth White's splendid soprano voice Is heard to great Advantage In the character of Marion. The case Is a strong one, and the chorus somewhat noted for Its beauty. The company com-pany numbers nearly seventy persons. to Mrs. Primrose's way of thinking and , the result is of big benefit to the show. The engagement here closes with to-nlrht's to-nlrht's performance. A special matinee l.r be given this afternoon. v .... . .Trftrese Why Is a hose that can't h l. its neck up, like next Monday? Its nel tc's weak. Irwin Why Is a woman like a gold miner 'We never know her true value. Primrose Yes. I've, known -a lot of fellows fel-lows who've gone broke, prospecting. Primrose I lent a hunchback man $5 the other day. I'll never get it. back. He aid he'd pay me when he got stralght-fenM stralght-fenM out. I Horan I'm glad to see so many ladles here. I like everything 4 hat's beautiful particularly paintings. Kissing is like Jthe Three Graces, Faith. Hope and Char-. Ity. The wife kisses .the husband that's faith; when a fellow kisses his sweethearc that's hope; when you kiss an old maid that's charity. Hvihers I collected a lot of old bottles to sell to the Jiink dealer: "This ain't no Junkehop." the man said: "this Is the Kin Grande depot." I says to me wife, "wish you could make bread like inoth- sr": "I will," she says, "when you make dough like father." ... i Arms and the cornet won. an "S. R. O." i audience last night at the Orpheum. They were round, full, luscious arms, arms that looked warm nnd noft and loving, arms |