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Show "DRAMA The Jol'y-Wild sketch, "Mr. P. T. Barnum, Jr.," Is the best card in the Orpheum deck this week, though that does not mean that the Barnum act Is any headllner. It is a bundle of laughs with a little music, for the most of which Jolly is 'responsible, though Winnifred Wild and Lex Neal assist in the joy jHgi PVHt '"L. jHUHkI. -mlx. JHHBH. Marguerite Haney, in "The Leading Lady" at the Orpheum Next Week making noticeably. Jolly's own composition, "I'm On My Way to Reno," is the e'everest thing ho does. The widely-heralded Apache dance, La Petite Gosse, is a joke. The rough and tumble end of the "dance" has been seen in sections at the Orpheum Or-pheum forty times, as most of the strong-arm vau- deville troupes .devote two or three "minutes of T their acts to throwing the feminine member of the company around the stage, and as for the rest of the Apache thing, it resembles and isn't half as bad as the turkey two-step, a dance that forms the piece de resistance of every tough hop that's held down town. The act is faked from start to finish, and is too poorly put on and too dull and tiresome to do any harm. It must have been a gift to Martin Beck. The Bob and Tip company open the bill in a tumbling turn that is poor. Emily Green and Company try for honors in "A Minnesota Romance" Ro-mance" that is too far fetched to be effective. The horizontal bar act of Stelling and Revell 'is splendidly handled and both men go the limit to deliver the fun. In some specially arranged songs, Witt's Girls From Melody Lane while away their share of the evening to good advantage. All four have excellent voices. Nonette's success last year with her violin was evidently more than the young lady could stand, and the result is that she overdoes both her singing sing-ing and playing this season. If it is true that New York stood for Bonita and "Wine, Women and Song" for four hundred nights at the Circle theatre, Salt Lake can probably prob-ably stand the show and the self-styled beauty for another night at the Colonial. With the exception of Lew Hern and David Jones, there isn't a man or woman in the company com-pany with talent enough to play the kerosene circuit, and this doesn't except the lady who is reproduced in decollete on the bill boards. A little of the beauty dope will go a long way in her case. The show as a whole, is inane, foolish and deadly tiresome. At the prices, there is some good vaudeville at the Mission. The Alexanderoff troupe of dancers are entitled to headline honors, and with Noodles Fagan furnish the best there is in the bill. Fagan is followed by the Tossing Lavelles, Person! and Halliday in a comedy, "Won By Wireless," and L. A. Street, who manipulates a rubber ball cleverly clev-erly and interestingly. |