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Show ORPHEUM. The meager audience of Monday night at the Orpheum best attested the way its patrons felt about the performance of the week before, but the strollers who happened in were not entirely disappointed. Many of the performers were still suffering from the California disaster, through which they had passed, and liberal allowance could be made for any of their shortcomings. But the bill was badly placed, and if the acts had been differently arranged the program would have been much more enjoyable. Albini, the magician, is wonderfully clever in everything he does; Ferguson and Passmore are cracking good dancers; the Australian boomerang throwers, Rawson and June, have a novelty act that is very entertaining; and Raymond Teal, the minstrel man, can make you go some if you like the abysmal humor. But for the rest, it is to be forgetful. Nellie Maguire fought some songs that were billed as Coster, but why nobody knew, and then "Slick Dick" arrived. "Slick Dick" was alleged to be a farcical sketch by the "funny five," and the funny five weren't half so funny as the person who ever let them go on. If anything worse than this farce ever appeared ap-peared at the Orpheum, the editorial "we" are glad we were obliged to remain away that week. They act like a bunch of bums who might have jumped a refugee drain while walking ties, and couldn't stand prosperity. The Orpheum promises another good bill next week. ft The Orpheus Club with the greatest of cellists, Jean Gerardy, scored another success at the Salt Lake theatre on Thursday night, before an audience audi-ence composed of the real music lovers of the city. At this hasty writing, it is impossible to say all that should be said about this wonderful Gerardy and the poetry of his cello. Surely no one in that audience ever before heard such, a cellist, and for (this and all the rest the Orpheus Club has done for Salt Lake tills season those who have one bit of music in their souls cannot be too thankful. |