Show McConnell Sisters Come to Orpheum Life according to the sage is just I one cne paradox after another Paradoxical cal as it may seem it is nevertheless a fact that Harriet and Marie McConnell McConnell McCon McCon- nell at the Orpheum this week were famous before they were discovered These charming sisters are vaudevilles vaudeville's s I newest find and latest rage In the two-a-day two they are held as a discovery I and si yet t both tU were v celebrities leb with artistic a altitude d records or before n they came tame to the two day Miss alias Harriet McConnell was a decided decided de de- de- de success in concert She had shared success with Lazzaro of the Metropolitan Op Opera ra company at the Maine festival She was soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra I She was soloist with the Volpe band at the Ney York university She had i i I sung Delilah with Paul Althouse as I Samson in fact she had a record for continuous achievements which any I prima donna might be proud of and which would entitle any singer to rec- rec of fl t inn I I Miss Marie Marle arIe McConnell had made her bid for fame fam through musical comedy and although her career is only a few short seasons long its success is undisputed un un- un- un disputed Her first engagement of ot I any consequence was as an with the recent stellar revival of RobInhood Rob Rob- Robinhood Robinhood I Then she sang the title role in to the Pollock- Pollock Woolf Pollock Hirsh musical play The Grass Widow sang the She also s I sang the principal roles In She Took a I Chance and Oh Olt Lady Lady She Iwas was cast for a small but important part of of The Magic Melody and during the New York run of that play she as assumed assumed as- as at short notice three parts larger than her own without being the understudy of or any and without any previous rehearsals Hassard Short producer for vaudevIlle vaude vaude- ville par excellent has seen the girls and decided that together they could he be made of decided value to vaudeville He Ile placed them under contract put to together together to- to gether a new song song- production called Thrills and Frills for their use gave them a handsome stage setting and ar- ar arranged their debut His predictions were Immediately realized Harriet and McConnell scored one of the outstanding outstanding out out- standing hits of the season f a In the vernacular they stopped the show The opinion from all sources was that there indeed was a hit of pits hits hits |