| Show I THE ROUND OF THE THEATERS I I I I I I old favorite The Tho Alaskan was growing frayed at the tho edges and the management last year car called It Into the tho repair shop for a general overhauling It was present presented ed In Its new and rev revised od shape lest night before a fair sized which voted that the tho on only noticeable evidence or of improvement was In the tha snowball episode In which the tho audience audi audience ence and the players enjoyed thom them themselves selves hilariously for ten minutes s pelting bacle and forth with fluffy cot cotton cotton ton balls Asido Aldo from that tho changes are aro not particularly evident except that the standard or of the tho sing singers ers era has been noticeably lowered the tho company compan sadly needs nee o some good vo vocalists among both principals and ac actors actors tors The Tho one Instance or of a good was the basso work or of Mr Poppen who has hILS the song or of The Tho Totem Pole which first brought The Tho Alas Alaskan kan Imn Into tame fame It won the usual encores en encores cores last night M Many n of the tho jokes were or of a depressing character and the tho abilities of Mr Carroll as the ac actor actor tor and Mr weinburg IlS as the pro protessor professor fessor which might be strong under other circumstances were smothered b by the tho age of the tho jokes and the gags with which their parts abounded 1 Miss 11 11 Stoner as the tho leading lady lad acted well voll welland volland and looked pretty prett but her voice has hasa a tendency to deviate from the key ko especially when she Bhe sings some dis tanco away from the orchestra The Alaskan will run up till Thursday night with a matinee to toda today day da Following The Tho Alaskan Man Manager Manager ager next attraction Is a l visit from the old SnIt Salt Lake favorite Robert Rob Robert ert Edeson In a new play pla ot of modern American lifo lito entitled A Mans n a aMan i iMan Man many matey or of the tho acts on the Orpheum program this week are homers more or less les of them playing their third return engagement yet t some somo are arc good others are excel excellent lent while none or of them Is bad For Instance the presentation of oC Dobbs Dilemma b by Franklyn Underwood Miss Frances and Mr Davies has undergone a number of changes since Its early car presentations many or of orIts Its and unnecessary feat features ures having been eliminated but the skit Is really enjoyable able and Is clover cloverly ly I done In the tho same category Is the singing and comedy dancing divertissement ment provided b by Belle Delle Davis and her hor southern The picks do not grow less I s entertaining as R they grow older and Miss lIss Davis face and have havo not become less charming channing so the act goes through with vim Abel and Irwin black bluck face entertain em hand out a 11 few Cew ns as asa a fringe to some Fomo r really all good vocal work although the act bore no Inward evidence or of being belnA a 11 farewell tour The four In their hand acrobatic feats showed soma seine marvellous muscular motions In start startling ling somersaults and flying leaps Fox and circus is III possessed s or of recuperative power and the real acts of the little do dogs s and cats and the tho takings of the tho than man were just ns as pleasing as aR ever It were unjust not notto notto to include In the tho review of r remnant or of former fOlmer glory the tho two antiquated productions One or of these Is the pictured progress S or of time tho Incubation incubation tion of a chicken and In Is In interesting and educational But Dut ac according according cording to the best information ablo this Is theo time the plc pic picture turo ture has been beon presented present cd on the tho screens or of local picture houses To complete completo the chapter chapler or of ancient or untoward events several occurred In inthe the tho seating or of the audience and nt at ono one onetime time just be foro the tho performance commenced com commenced It looked as It If half the house houe were engaged In jumping up and down downto to correct mistakes or of ushers In seat seating I Ing them In the tho wrong places One gentleman who moved for tho third time Irately declared that ho he would seo them before ho he would move any morn mort It seems to have become blomA n confirmed habit In the tho Orpheum now nowadays nowadays to sent scat late lato comers regardless of the discomfort to which the early Cl comers are put and all through th the first part of the tho program the view of those thORO behind was wa obscured as the UIO late lato arrivals wore conducted past t the rows of standing people Turning from rom the less agreeable por portions or of last nights performance the mind dwells with pleasing recollections on the vocal worl woric of the tho Basque grand opera quartet The repertoire of at from popular opera produced by these four singers comprises ele In Preach Italian and English Tho auar A tet I is composed of three men and ono one woman namely Mme fame Maybelle Fisch er cr soprano who takes high D is 11 tho Italian with easo Humbert tenor whoso whose Garden of Roses Roseo In English mot met with much fa favor a afar far vor M L DArtas DArras and M 1 Ferrard basso arll artists ts all The rendi rendition tion or of the tho English Glow worn worm wag wal enthusiastically encored and the tho sins sing ing of the tho Last Roso ot of In French was wa J a Another enjoyable number the program was the tho for the tho first time on the Orpheum stage or of Miss lIss Julia Frary late lato prima donna ot of the tho Frank Daniels company compan Miss Fairy has a charming voice well controlled sweet emotional and power ful and was nt at her best In serious numbers A bit of f was In Interspersed interspersed however with now and then a L reference to her own c bly disposed excess or of n avoirdupois Miss liar liTa was encored timi s sand and responded gracefully each timo opening lines In tho dialogue between Willard Mack and Maud Leone Leono In the play pia given gion nl at thO llo Bungalow last night were too per por to pass h by unnoticed What have I been beon doing now asks Mr Mack as Mt Mr West Vest And You know what you have been do Ins ing Is the tho reply have havo marrIed n a than man ot of n a tow few bad hab its Ita and so which the audience struggled led vain vainly I for a moment against the tho Infectious humor of the sit situation situation and then burst Into good natured laughter Which with the tho h hearty arty recalls following the curtain gave SIle witness ot of the tho good fellowship which has many times greeted Mr Macks of et torts forts to get back to his hili old position Because She Sho Loved Him So was played with al the nerve nervo and nd good reading that usually enters Into Macks roles Maud Leone Leono IlS as Mrs West VeRt was an able second as the tho jealous wife and Elmer Ebner Booth Pearl Ethier and James Rennie as the tho Weatherby tam family II did the excellent work which mako them always prime lieutenants In the tho plays put on by b the company compan Frederick Moore Reed Clarke Joseph Josoph Irene Ireno and Grace filled fille the minor parts well welland welland and the clever little comedy event with witha a dash which kept the tho In a roar of laughter throughout The Theu piece e goes for the remainder ot of the tho u I week Time Tho pUblic In general likes Mr Macks acting It Is forceful clever cleor and finished and backed by a personality which at its best belt breathes nothing or of tho weakness that temporarily robs him or of sanity usually wins a warm wann recognition Mr Macks roles role however Wo venture are aro neither so 80 tactful not POPular People as a whole do not like heroics ot of a personal sort any better than the tho melodrama ot of the stage The Tho public takes Mr 1 Mack as a whole leniently and does not care caro either for fol any allY other othor than the practical apolo apology which may show In the mans effort to regain his feet teet It does not relish h a verbal aroma which recalls memories It Is trying to ob literate It Is to dwell upon these o memories publicly and person personally ally all and especially tactless to fling down clown gauntlets of defiance at adverse I criticism called forth by his own un fortunate lapses Mr Ir Macks managers would please their thelt patrons better hetter b by having him hi his efforts moro to acting und and less to speech making na nf from the crowds that throng the Grand this week to witness The Lieutenant and the Cow bo boy one would say that amusement hall ls III being rapidly restored to Its popularity A hood good play pia a good company the tho restoration of the reserved seats custom and the tho return to tho city of a popular actor attar after a two years earlS absence nil all combine to ac count for the tho Grand on co more talc Ing Its Ill place amon among the favorite places of amusement The Lieutenant and the Cowboy Is a 0 stirring drama drains laid around n a military post In Colorado some years ago 1110 It bristles with action and snap with not a tame stretch In the tho whole play pia Of course everything li is centered about the cowboy Dud Bud Larrabee and lIntl or of course Theodore Lorch Is that cowboy And nd a very vcr realistic cowboy ho Is with just enough frills added to capture the heart of time tho matinee Idol worshiper Recalls were numerous We 0 have be behold behold hold a good many cowboys on the tho stage and In real life but Mr Lorch beats beat them nil 1111 Fritz Borate Boone as 18 Gen General eral Faulkner wits quite good bliss Lillian Brockwell impersonated Edith BlUth Faulkner la In a manner ver very satisfactory tor tory Mrs Ir Higby was In time tho hands or of Miss Camille Lewis and a very verj pleas pleasant ant character she sho rondo made or of her George Graves Gravel es s the tho lieutenant and a austere scoundrel he was Miss Cecil Fay Fa as Ouray Oma furnished 1 a deal or of amusement William Davies Davie all as time the old stage driver proved a ra fa favorite Miss lIsl Gladys wells little Indian squaw squa was leas good and the other support helped l maim e mu UI n a lively en entertainment Between nell acts picture pic picture ture songs and movIng pictures rr audiences this other noon and evening bid fait fair to h be packed Id Tomorrow night seC sees th the tion of this weeks bill to be by Il a complete completo change Thursday |
