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Show With the First Nighters B ORPHEUM. Over at the Orpheum this week there's aikike with a stage name like Willie Howard, but if he didn't grow up near Eldredge street with Mrs. Brodsky's little Mosche and Abie Einstein, may my hands be tied so I can't talk. Oh, but he's a card! And if you should hap- f " pen to go to the Orpheum today and you don't j find what you want quick enough, wait a minute for he's there and so is brother Gene. Because of Willie, some people dropped in a couple of times this week only to find that Willie wears well and the more you hear of him the more you want to hear. They're a clever pair of boys, and oh, yo, yo that Yiddisher stuff that rolls through Willie's kish-kish. He won his audiences so quick i it looked almost like cheating. Ernie and Mildred Potts start things going, , and Ernie starts them swiftly with a punching bag act that's a whirlwind and Mildred she is there made up as a warbling soubrette. She's more like a soubrette than a warbler, and twenty years ago she may have made a -tremendous hit in her baby girlie imitation. However, singing and dancing performers cannot be blamed much for anything they do on the opening night of the week with the orchestra to teach from the stage. The cutest little thing at the variety house is Ida May Chadwick and she is surely one whole show in herself. Her dancing is simply a scream and her costume is not such as to hinder any of her movements. She doesn't wear much more than a running suit, and leaves very little to the imagination. However thoro is nothing offensive in her dancing, even if Pa Chadwick does put over i ifome raw ones in the course of. his conversation. Ida May would throw a sphinx into a convulsion of laughter if said sphinx could watch" that brand new line of buck dancing, and she certainly makes a monkey of the average dignified human being who imagines there is nothing new under the sun. There's a French quartette also, including a woman with a real soprano, and as usual with most foreign singers on the circuit, their work justly received a good deal of praise. The sketch "The Night of the Wedding" is not a pleasant thing, but Frank McCormack did the greater part of the heavy work in it especially I well, ably assisted by Viola Fengath, who Is a clever child actress. , McPhee and Hill did the usual horizontal baf act with a few unusual stunts interspersed, adding their fair quota to the bill. Miss Netta Vesta, a versatile and dainty singer who was an ingenue of note in a company or two before agreeing with the Orpheum management made things pleasant for everyone while she was on the stage. As a whole the bill is another good one, and the prospects for next week are very alluring. The program as announced includes Miss Julia Heme and company in "A Mountain 1 Cinderella;" Gennaro, the eccentric leader, and 1 his Venetian Gondolier Band presenting "A Night in Venice," with Miss Cutter, the soprano soloist; , A-Ba-Be's miniature tableaux, the danseuse Mile. Pe,r(tlna, Jupiter brothers, cowboy illusionists; Bertie Fowler in monologue and White and Sim- I mons, in a black face act entitled "On the Band Wagon." 8 & & John Cort's faith in Salt Lake'shaving plenty of room for a modern tlleator maintaining popu-j popu-j lar prices, has been pretty thoroughly vindicated i this week at the Colonial. Murray and Mack are presenting a musical melange of slap stick corned:', corn-ed:', tights, Directoires, pretty girls and popular songs, excusing the whole under the title of "The Sunny Side of Broadway," as the opening attraction for the Colonial's regular season. The show is excellent and there are plenty of clever lines. The music is catchy and Murray and Mack are doing better work than they have for years. Carolyn Ryan, in the leading lead-ing feminine role, is petite and pretty and the chorus fair. Mr. Backous pleases with his sing- H ing and gives that end of the show considerable ' backbone. The Colonial has had big houses ll throughout the week. Murray and Mack close H tonight. -IH "The Isle of Spice" is another of the popular jH Julie Heme, Coming to the Orpheum H H musical shows of the past Ave or six seasons that M has about run its course. The raft of new musl- M cal plays constantly coming out of New York B and Chicago are pushing the less pretentious of H the Older productions to the wall. "The Isle of M Spice", spent Monday and Tuesday evenings at H the Theater with two rather small houses. Wat- H son and Williartis as Slubsy Mackinaw and Micky H O'Grady are pretty nearly the whole show. Miss H Martz and Miss Convey are satisfactory and the 1 rest of the company mediocre. H O t H Conside olo interest attaches to the first H , of tho season's Symphony Orchestra concert to M bo given tomorrow afternoon at the Colonial, in- 1 asmuch as it seems probable that the concerts this M season under the new order of things will prove H much more entertaining than ever before. H v Spencer Clawson, Jr., will be the soloist of H tomorrow's concert. The orchestra this season H will number more than sixty members, a sub- H stantial increase over last year's .enrollment. H From the advance seat sale it is evident thatttie H attendance will be very large. The Grand has had good business this week with "Parted on Her Bridal Tour" and 'A Gam- h bier's Sweetheart," the latter closing Svith to- H night's performance. Deginning tomorrow night, H the Grand offers one of the best rural plays of its H season, "Pike County Folks," for the first half of H the week. For the last half, beginning Thursday H evening, Hi Henry's Minstrels will be the attrac- H , tion. The minstrels have a big band, and should H make the week end at the Grand lively. H The week at the Theater opens with the Jef- H ferson brothers, in "The Rivals." The comedy M i scarcely needs an introduction Salt Lakeis, H ( and the same may be said of (he two Jeffersons. H -'( The play is one of the older comedies, and is rich H In humor. The Jeffersons are said to be supported H by an unusually good company this season. They H will be seen at the Theater Monday, Tuesday and H -Wednesday evenings, with a matinee Wednesday. H V lyV u H "The Honeymooners," one of the Irrepressible H George M. Cohan shows, will be seen at the The- m ater soon. H Not that anyone wishes to repress, Cohan's M shows, either, for they generally contain fa. lot of H catchy music, clever lines and enough action for H eight average musical shows. "The Hoiwymoon- B ers" is said to be an unusually entertaining piece, H and it comes to the Theater with Willie Dunlay, H Walter Chester, Daniel Sullivan, LoulsT-London, 1 Anna Wheaton, Gertrude LeBrant and Rose Gildea M at the head of the presenting company. B iJ ii (3? HH The Colonial offers "Fantana" for its second M week, beginning tomorrow evening. Teddy Webb, H the popular and clever coast comedian seen here M , last season in "The Alaskan," heads the v cast, and with him conies Mable Day, Evelyn m Francis Kellog, George Kunkie and Amy Lelches- M ter. With this coterie of artists heading the com- H pany, "Fantana" should prove an excellent attrac- B tion at the Colonial for the week, as the opera is H . tuneful and numbers several striking stage pic- M : tures. A big chorus supports the principals. B i t fcx W B The "Ben Hur" engagement at the Salt Lake H r theatre begins December 10th, lasting three nights M i; and a matinee. B : Si & & H THE ALASKAN. i Among the repeaters from another season that r' is welcome to our shores is "The Alaskan," which opened at the Salt Lake theatre on Wednesday - night, and which will finish its engagement with BHh, thir evening's performance. fiflij When "The Alaskan" was put on in the hot 9j weather in New York about eighteen months ago, the critics of that city had a lot of unkind things to say about it, but Mr. Cort brought the tuneful ' story west where people got the atmosphere a " little better than the easterners, and in the year that has passed it has been proven that all that was needed was a fair trial. At the time it was tried on New York, one critic in referring to the sluice boxes seen on the stage asked "how could anyone hope to be successful with a musical melange that opened with a sewer scene in the first act?" That is but one sample of the intelligence displayed in giving the New York version of the delightfully novel offering In the present company there is just one weak place that which George E. Mack tries to fill, and fails utterly for those who saw Teddy Webb in the part a year ago. P . . . , Evelyn Frances Kellog, in "Fantana" at the Colonial Edward Martindell as "Totem Pole Pete" seems to be better than ever. His acting and even his singing has improved and his is the work that predominates. Forest Huff as Dick Atwater is splendid, and Lora Leib is so far superior su-perior to Agnes Brown Who appeared as Arlee before, that it would be unjust to attempt a comparison. com-parison. Every other member of the cast is good, the chorus is fine, and the music has lost none of its charm. It is the one distinctive creation among light musical productions that has been given us in years and well worth seeing often. it t&& && "All married actresses take notice, please," writes Acton Davies. "Somebody asked Julie Opp Faversham, after marveling at the symmetry and slenderness of her flguro as she appears in the Dlrectolre frocks of Donna Mercedes in "The World and His Wife,' how on earth she had man aged to" bring lid'r flguro down to such beautiful proportions. "By the greatest prescription in Lhe world," was her reply. "Three sons in Ave years." H kJ Tim Murphy is almost as good a cartoonist as he Is a tctor, and he tells this 6tory on himself him-self why no did not become a writer as well. When a young man In Washington he wrote some short stories which ho tried to get printed In lhe newspaper of a friend of his father's. One or two did appear, but the third had been In the editor's desk some weeks when young Murphy met him on the street and asked him: "Have you read my last story?" The editor patted him on the shoulder should-er and replied: "I don't know, Tim, but I hope so." fc fc W In a western court a negro was convicted of stealing a mule. Before the sentence was pronounced pro-nounced the judge gave him an opportunity to speak for himself, and he said: "I wouldn't tuck dor mule nohow ef I hadn't read in do Testermint whar Jesus tuck a mule." The judge remarked: j "Yes, but he didn't ride him to Kingston and try I to sell him," and thereupon he gave the negro three years in the penitentiary. W W "Really," said the stylish lady, enthusiastically; enthusiastic-ally; to her friend, "It is quite worth while going to tlie zoo, if only to see the wonderful supply of rhododendrons." "Is it?" replied her friend, languidly; "I 'like to look at tho great, big, clumsy boasts, too, but it always smells so unpleasantly around the cages.''--:London News. w w w Mrs. Benham Why does a man hate his mother-in-law? Benham He doesn't hate her; ho simply hates to think of the way she got Into his family. fam-ily. Harper's Weekly. mii iiMi mm 7m Mini m lr"lll'MllJ'?y-"p", TTmm' ,w?!fflii-'!l"l ' "wwafggpMggwaagaaflaaMftf |