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Show 1 OSEa 1 TONIGHT'S AMUSEMENTS. SALT t.attp. "Suaan In Search of a Husband." " ' OEFHEUM Vaudeville. k ORANl A Jolly American Tramp." LYBIO-'Tbe Octoroon." - CIIAMBEB OP COMMERCE Tree. AUDITORIUM Roller Skating. . WASATCH RINK Roller Skating. A rattllngood play and a rattlin ood company, picture a story by Jerome K. Jerome, played by Isabel Irving-. Surround Sur-round Uss Irvliij with three clever actresses act-resses and four clever acton, and you have "Susan In Search of a Husband." Susan was at the Salt Lake Theater last night and for two hours she seemed to forget that she was acting and the audience did, too. Susan was left "waiting- at the church" Immediately following her marriage. Tears after, when she takes a place at a country inn in Wales she meets a girl friend, an heiress, who has had a flirtation with a lord on a steamboat. The girls change places the heiress assuming the chambermaid's duties. The lord appears and proves to be the missing husband. Everybody gets into what seems a hopeless tangle and the straightening out requires three acts of solid fun. Miss Irving Is good looking, vivacious and full of fun, just like Susan, whose hair "looked as if a sunbeam had fallen to sleep there." Ernest Walnmaring as Horace Greenleaf, the solicitor, who finally final-ly weds Susan's friend, furnishes no end of fun. Hassard Short, who disappears as a suitor and returns as a lord, is capable, capa-ble, as is Herbert Standing, the old Welshman, who sees trouble ahad when he discovers a hooded crow with a white feather in bis' tail standing on one foot. Jessie Isettls a captivating Roblna Pen-nicuique, Pen-nicuique, and all the others are fully satisfactory. sat-isfactory. They are the former star, Merle walnwright. A. O. Andrews and Edith Lemmert. There will be afternoon and evening performances today and tomorrow. "To perfect my apparatus," said Bert Levy, the illustrator and cartoonist, who is one of the features at the Orpheum "this week, last night, "cost me in experiments, ex-periments, -materials and patents in different dif-ferent countries more than $4500. but if I had to do it over again, I could do it for an eighth of that cost. It may be interesting in-teresting to. know that to get the proper reflection in the attempt to throw the drawing upon the screens without having . my hand and fingers obscure the-vision as I work, requires the use of eleven mirrors mir-rors and seven lenses. It took a long time and much experimenting to get the right angles of reflection, the proper conr densatlon in- certain lenses and the expansion ex-pansion of the lines from others. - But I think those who saw the act will agree that the problem has been solved."' A large and well pleased audience witnessed wit-nessed the opening performance of "A Jolly American Tramp" at the Grand last nlghtt. The play is of the melodrama comedy order, with enough of the sensational sensa-tional to keep the feelings of the audience at a high pitch and enough of humor to furnish plenty of laughter. The company as a whole is a good one. Special, mention men-tion Is due James Smith, who plays the character of the tramp, and Miss Dunbar as the Irish servant. The brogue of Miss Dunbar Is the equal of any heard at the Grand for a long time. During the action of the play a number num-ber of pleasing specialties are Introduced. The play goes the rest of the week with a matinee Saturday and a special matinee today. Kvery theater in the city Is crowded this afternoon. A special Washington's birthday matinee is being given in each of them. |