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Show ORPHEUiyi. I, ' There is a radical departure at the Orpheum this week the headliner announced by the management, man-agement, is really the headliner, fdr William H. Thompson and his players have in "Pride o Uegl-ment" Uegl-ment" one of the cleanest, strongest and most interesting sketches on the vaudeville stage. Mr. Thompson is a splendid actor and Lauretta Allen and Fred J. Webber are. very happny cast. The sketch is one of compelling Interest from start to finish and of the kind that will do more than anything else to educate the general public as to what high class vaudeville really means. Possibly Pos-sibly the sketch may seem too short, but that is what goes to make a success of anything of the kind, and it is really not the brevity of the act but the wish to see Mr. Thompson in a big play - that gives the above impression. Bobbie Adams and Bob Allen, bob in and out in a musical sketch "Before the Party," and every ev-ery minute of it is full of cleverness. It is six or eight years since Bobble Adams was doing the heavies to standing room only at Fredle Train's in Chicago and as some of his old friends remember in the recollections of those misty evenings it was predicted that he would be entertaining en-tertaining them in years to come in cross country coun-try tours. It is nice to know that the years have only improved him and that he is still as funny as a goat. With Bobble Alden the team is splendid, and their act is one long giggle. Tokl opens the bill. Tokl is another of those acrobats and foot jugglers who almost convince one that it is almost as easy to perform the same stunts with your feet as your hands. Irene Romaln, who sings, recites and coquettes co-quettes with the piano, is a fresh and charming charm-ing artiste whose ways are not those of the aver age Orpheum performer. Miss Romain is a very dainty and charming young woman who does iB everything well that she attempts with the ex- H ception of a brief interval when she tries "a jH little imitation of a drunk, which is unlike her jH and proves positively that she has not flirted with jH the bubbles. jH Dan Qulnlan and Kellar Mack in "The Travel- jH ing Dentist" could keep traveling fast without any H distinct loss to the audience. The one in the H black face manages to get a little real humor in A jH (he act, but for the most part it is devoid of H mirth and the dentist reverses the English a little IH and makes the audience look down In the mouth; H but he thinks he's funny, so possibly that's all H that Is necessary. H Elsie Faye, Joe Miller and Sam Weston are iH back with their songs and dances, giving a dainty H little performance that is somewhat captivating. H The Four Floods, in a distinctly English aero- B batic act, keep things in a good natural whirl at B the finish, completing a program that, tiiough H containing nothing out of the ordinary with the H exception of the Thompson sketch, is very fair" IH throughout. V The Sunday matinees are becoming popular, IH and beginning tomorrow afternoon the new bill H will be Benjamin Chapin and company in "Lincoln IH in the White House," Florence Bindley in "An 9H Afternoon at Home," Eva Taylor, in a comedy nov- H elty called "Dreamona," Stella H. Morrisini and HH her leaping Siberian wolf hounds, Carl Nobel, the H ventriloquist, Veronica (not Anne) and Hurl-Falls, H comedy tumblers, and Gil Brown, dancing come- H dian. H ' lM |