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Show 1 With the First Nighters IORPHEUM. The performance this week at the Orpheum had a distinctly metropolitan aspect, which is a great deal more than can justly be said pf some of the previous syncopated specialties that have been heaved over 'the limelight at the new playhouse. play-house. It is actually possible" to state, without making a quick side step for fear of assault, that in the entire performance there was nothing conducive- to insomnia or "which created a robust de- sire to l make a Yale rush at the performers. bandit, with a blacksnake and a consignment of artillery, was peculiarly picturesque, and had it been done d'r,ng conference weeek would have given the rustics something to talk and dream about for a good many days to come. Nello was the star of some juggling stunts which were quite the best that have been seen during the local season, and a trio of Wards did some gymnastics whlQh were novel in the extreme. The performance is opened with a sketch call 2d "Early and Late." It should have been placed a little later, as it was the only really weak effort cf the show. for a public which, though magnanimously patriotic, patri-otic, has suffered long, was the sketch, "A Night Out," presented by Edwin Stevens, with MIs3 Marshall, Mar-shall, who in a very winsome way acted as a foil for the versatile comedian. Both in his singing and in the hurling of bon mots, most of which had the rareity of being new, Mr. Stevens performed most pleasingly and skillfully, and is worth journeying jour-neying the distance of a summer's day to see. There was also more than a usual amount of talent tal-ent in evidence in "The Bandit," a nerve shattering shatter-ing melodramatic effect in one act, presented by the E. Frederick Hawley trio. The stern bearded It It is quite agreeable to note that the Orpheum is recently showing signs of being something a li tie better than a Qircus side show. |