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Show o Anna Eva Fay heads the Orphcum bill this week. There are but few people in the generation of amusement amuse-ment lovers who do' not know of Anna Eva Fay. For years she has traveled over the civilized world giving giv-ing her wonderfully astonishing exhibition ex-hibition of her occult powers. Her act is divided into two parts. The first part of her performance is devoted de-voted to cabinet seances and other . strange manifestations. Later in the" evening she gives a still more remarkable re-markable exhibition entitled "Somnolency." "Somn-olency." In this latter respect Miss Fay gives a marvelous demonstration demonstra-tion of her skill as a scientific manipulator. mani-pulator. Her art adriotness and dexterity dex-terity in this performance is said to be second to none in the world. The public after seeing Miss Fay are left to draw their own conclusions as to how she accomplishes her wonderful performance; but this fact is vouched vouch-ed for that there are people in her troupe, (she carries a good sizcl company of assistants) who have witnessed her act from the stage for years and are just as mystified as any one in the audience. One critic says, "Her performance is a gorgeous gorge-ous mysterious and marvclously enchanting en-chanting scenic production of East Indian and Egyptian lore." Howard and North, a team of clever clev-er artists, pit on a little sketch called "Happy Days." Their act, it is claimed is an original one, full of good lines and entertaining situations, and runs the gamut from mirth to pathos. Next comes Dumond's Minstrels; they arc high-class instrumentalists and singers, and have made an international in-ternational reputation for entertaining entertain-ing work. Willie Zimmerman is heralded as the ablest imitator in "the business." His specialty is imitating the world's greatest composers and musical directors, di-rectors, which he docs with a vividness vivid-ness which is not only entertaining but highly instructive. Something .away from the hackneyed hack-neyed juggling show is what the work of Valazzi promises to be. A writer in a London newspaper says, "He has elaborated the traditional. cannon-ball cannon-ball act until he has made of it something some-thing entirely new and infinitely more striking than anyth'ng ever witnessed before; while his extraordinary" feat of "Sloping the Slope" on a slippery metal ball is an exposition of strength and agility such as has never been attempted at-tempted before, and is not likely to be equalled in the future; within the confines of his act, indeed, Valazzi's endeavor is to cover the whole field of juggling, athletics, acrobatics and equilibrism. This bill of attractive novelty is completed by excellent music from Weihc's Orchestra, and new Kino-drome Kino-drome views. |