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Show TRAMA H Mary Hall announces "The Climbers," Clyde H Fitch's popular satire on the society of the H. day, for Uhe Bungalow beginning tomorrow B ni,ght. It will be the first presentation of the B"YS lay a- PPular prices locally, and with the ca- H pable production that may be expected by the H stock company Miss Hall heads, it should prove Kt one of the best attractions of the week. The H story is pretty well known among play goers, and H embraces some unusally original situations and Hi clever dialogue. H Miss Hall will be seen in the leading femi-R femi-R n!ne' role, and will be supported by the company H: r that this week is presenting "Carmen." Begin-m Begin-m nlng May 9th, however, Ralph Stuart will appear K iv the plays to be presented by the company as B Miss Hall's leading man. Mr. Stuart is one of K the best known of the younger actors appearing V throughout the west, and he opens his engago-H engago-H ment with the company in his own play, "By H Right of Sword." B & & & H Those who have witnessed Mary Hall's per-H' per-H' formances the two or three weeks she has ap-W ap-W poared at the Colonial and Bungalow, and who Hj) have seen her as Carmen this week, have had H: an excellent opportunity to judge of her talent B and versatility as she has presented a character-H character-H ization superior to anything she has attempted. H Her work runs a wide range, and is characterises characteris-es tically vivacious In the lighter parts of the role, H xind excellent in the heavier scenes. She is well H supported and the play by this time should be H running smoothly and satisfactorily. T. N. Hef-H Hef-H fron is acceptable as Mendez, and George Bald-H Bald-H win as Don Jose, gives the star good support. The H' performances of this afternoon and tonight will H' close the engagement of "Carmen" at the Bun-H Bun-H galow. & g jt H For a bill that looked like a real one on paper m the Orpheum show this week doesn't get very H far back of the white lights. H Fanny Rice is a scream In a stunt that's new H and blessed with a little individuality and the J KItabansai troupe of Jap tumblers more than H make good. Herbert Mitchell Is pretty nearly a H fixture on the Orpheum circuit and justly as he H is a rare good storyj teller and very much up-to- M date with his act. When you get past these three M on the program, however, interest takes the M brakes. Miss Kaufmann is clever on ia wheel H and would undoubtedly receive more apprecia tion if several exceptional cycle thrillers hadn't preceded her at the Orpheum this season. , Edgar Allen Woolf's sketch "In the Subway" Is so tlresomely overdone by Violet Black and her company that it falls to hold much Interest. The skit is clever in itself and capably presented should headline the bill. With a few more years Theatre, London, assisted by James Clemens. Ray L. Royce, late star of "York State Folks" will appear in a series of eccentric characterizations, characteriza-tions, and Ralph Post and Eddie Russel are billed In the'r acrobatic dance "The Trip." "Turning the Tables" is a comedy playlet to be presented by Lizzie Evans and Jefferson Lloyd. Robert 'O Madame Blessing, at the Orpheum next week. practice Chinko ought to make a pretty fair juggler. jug-gler. Everett Scott, who makes a. lively young Teddy Bear and participates in a singing and dancing act with six little girls of anywhere from twenty-five to thirty years has the right Idea but it is rather poorly worked out. Beginning tomorrow night, the new bill is headed by the eight Palace girls, from the Palace Rosaire and Phil Doreta will be seen in "The Captain and the Sailor." The Blessings, European Euro-pean equilibrists and James McDonald and Valerie Vale-rie Huntington close the bill. 3 tJ Morris Meyerfeld of San Francisco, president of the Orpheum Theatre company is entitled to the heartiest thanks of the theatre-going public for tthe innovation, or rather return to the old. I standards, which he has inaugurated with the opening of the new Orpheum Theatre at tho Golden Gold-en Gate. The Orpheum there is a very beautiful house, and when the subject was broad'ied of advertising ad-vertising privileges for the new curtain, Mr. Meyerfeld put his foot down flat and Mr Meyer-feld Meyer-feld has some foot. As a result, those who go to see the show are not enlightened as to the best places to buy and borrow, from anything they may see on the curtain. The new curtain at the Orpheum is a very beautiful and artistic piece of work. It was painted by Cavallero, and is entitled, "Aurora, "Au-rora, or the Awakening of Dawn." Judging from Mr. Meyerfleld's remarks just preceding the opening of the theatre, this is only the beginning be-ginning of the change which will mark every Orpheum theatre in the country, and managers of other play (houses would do well to profit by the example set by this progressive theatrical theatri-cal manager. It would bo just as permissible for the management of a theatre to permit, unsightly un-sightly advertisements on tho globes surrounding surround-ing the electric lights, or hanging from the walls or balconies; and the beginning of the limiting, of the commercial spirit to the extent of removing remov-ing the offensive signs, is a splendid move in the right direction. e At popular prices, with new faces in the company com-pany and a little ginger in the presenting of the musical play, "The Burgomaster" has taken a new lease on the favor of local first nighters this week at the Colonial. Harry Hermsen is excellent excel-lent as Peter Stuyvesant, the Burgomaster, and Euphemia Lockhart in Ruth White's old role, Willie Van Astorbilt, scores a hit. The two principals prin-cipals supported by Marie Grandpre and an excellent ex-cellent company give "The Burgomaster" something some-thing like its old time flavor of music and fun. & J & Daniel Sully in one of the .best plays he has had in a dramatic and comedy line, "The Matchmaker," Match-maker," follows Harry Hermsen and "The Bur-master" Bur-master" at the Colonial. Mr. Sully's engagement opens tomorrow evening, and from his success this season in "The Matchmaker," something a little out o'f the ordinary may be expected In the engagement. The scenes of "The Matchmaker" are laid in the rough and ready country of western west-ern Idaho, a small mining town, young In ex's-tence ex's-tence and barren of good christian citizens. The story centers in the efforts of Tim Carter, guardian guar-dian of Margaret Manning, to break up a love affair between the girl and Arnold Leslie, an eastern mining engineer who has come to Idaho to make his fortune. The action is said to be unusually fast, and works put to an interesting conclusion. t w w One of the May attractions at the Colonial will be "A Message from Mars." The Theatre remains dark until the second week in May, and then opens for a week with moving pictures taken of the puglistic encounter held recently in Australia between Burns and Johnson. The fight pictures will be shown the week of May 10th, with a Wednesday and Sat-uiday Sat-uiday matinee. The following week the Knights of Columbus present an entertainment, and beginning be-ginning May 20th, John Drew will be seen for three nights and a matinee, May 20th, 21st, and 22nd, In his latest success, "Jack Straw." Mr. Drewi was seen here last year with Billle Burke In "My Wife." (Jt & jfi Mrs. A. S. Peters, Miss Edna Colin, M. J. Brines and Fred E. Smith will be heard at the First Congregational Church in "The Golden Threshold" a song cyclb, on tho evening of May 6th. f aHHHBHHIBMBH |