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Show I - .... ; I. ORPHeUm. ; Back trx first -principles lias been the order oft the day and night-at the Orpheum ttyis week, and .' tlie averagfo bf the show was b'oftnV pan.' It was! j sjort of a Vaudeville clearing fio'use certificate,! that poople didn't like to take but. were forced to in lieu of something better. This state of affairs was quite a surprise,' oo, for after reading of the wonders to be seen j in every one of the daily papers it was hard to w.ait till night to break through the portals, ; wrestle with Willie at the door for a program, and take "the customary seat. " Probably, too, it is not ethical to disagree with the old timers who edit the daily columns of dramatic rviiw,but sowottmfls the immainr,e, top piece, "(helsd'ucation of "wliiclf has been hegTqjSr od, has the temerity to go against superiors, b'-fore b'-fore the wearer is thoroughly tahiod. i" But it is hard to rave about the show, though of course it is brilliantly spotted, and fair enough to be rather entertaining. ' Carlin 'and Otto" are German comedians -of the usual order, and really have some new stuff to ' start the opening smiles. ' They exit just in time to get away from "A Leap Year Leap" and they're In pretty good luck to do it Mary Dupont and Williard Hutchinson would have boon responsible for the comedy in this sketch had there been anything of that kind jn it. j The impersonations of Adolph Zinz, were fair- ly good, the quick changes and the Illustrations of his dressing room work holding most of the i ' interest j j The head liner which followed was more or it less of . a disappointment .While Bert Leslie, puts pver a large collection of new ones In his own priginal way, he is about twice removed from the king of slang, though he is to be claaaoc among the relatives present. Maud Emery is the best card in the rest of his ileck. She seems to be a little beauty in her own right she is ohio, attractive and dances beautifully. beau-tifully. Wflliam Tompkins, who appears with topical talks has a claim to certain distinction. He is the only plain clothes man on the vaudeville stage who is utterly lacking In personal magnetism. This makes him a curiosity worth seeing, even if a litfclfl of the martyrdom usually arlbed to ; the patient canine Is suffered by tin. ..udlence when ho tries his wit on it ". The Okito family in their "Chinese House of Mystery" give much the best performance on the 1 ' bill. In its oriental settiug the scene itself is 1 very beautiful, and the magical performance is a weird one. The act Is full of life and color, end- I lng in a floral effect kaleidoscopic in its beauty I Jt , F-HANK DANIELS, . I To "the audience comfortably seated in orches- S' I tra chairs, Indeed it seems Teaspnable .-enough to i suppose that given the right lines anda confo-' confo-' dian who is recognized as having been born so, jf the latter finds no more difficulty in getting laughs than a duck finds In natatorial locomotion. J . But if Mr. Daniels is to be believed, not only must I ' , ' the comedian have the right lines to say, but must 1 learn by constant practice and experiment Jupt I how they are going to affect an audience. In fact being funny is a difficult art even for a comedian. I The audience must be studied, and Mr. Daniels says it is a remarkable thing that often a line whjcn wakes the company laugh during re- hearsal will not be noticed by an audience, while to dtfse'e tlfl, a "olomeaian will" sometimes 'be as- tpnished, at a burst, of daughter where he had not expected it. '., , Mr. . Daniels once sajd, "If the people out 'front' think a comedian is romping through life on the first night of a play or even for several weeks, they are on the wrong tack. Of course after a play is running smoothly and the actor iS4jtolerably sure of his audience, he begins to 'out loose' as the saying is.' 'He begins to enjoy his own work and that is where the fun of being a comedian comes in." Mr. Daniels is continually thinking 'out new lines . and improvements In old ones. A visitor to his dressing room will probably find chalked across the mirror before which the chubby comedian come-dian 'makes up' some line or phrase with words underscored' or accentuated which he is working that like May Irwin, up to a' certain point inj liat lady's career, Miss Cahill, improves ,with the: gOiiFons, for she is a. lot funnier than she was; Idj'u- or five years ago, -and if she goes on impiov-s.' iig there won't be a great deal of safety In see-? (rig her, for where people happen to be hysterical tnoy may laugh themselves to death. In "Marrying Mary" Miss Cahill has a vehicle itiat hangs together throughout the swift action, and that is more than be said of most musical plays. But to say that ' Marrying Mary" is the host thing of the kind seen here this season is absurd. It is blight, and clever, full of good music, and. presented by a company which as k whole is good, but it is not all good by any means. Originally "Marrying Mary" was Ned Royle's toe "My Wife's Husbands" but in its , present Frank Daniels and Julia Brewer, Prima Donna with "The Tattooed Man" on, trying out and testing, until it is either lauQad' to his satisfaction or thrown into the discard.. dis-card.. IfcWpuld seem then that even for a comedian so naturally funny that were he merely to come on thetage and 'announce "The wind has dropped" drop-ped" the audience would probably roar with laughter, laugh-ter, there must be hard work, plenty of experiment, experi-ment, continual study, and a careful dissection of human nature. Mr. Daniels comes to the Salt Lake thpatre Monday and Tuesday nights next in "The Tat-toood Tat-toood Man." & & ' & MARY CAHILL. Marie Cahill is funny. In speech, taclal ex-prossion, ex-prossion, mannerisms, In every way, she IS a real comddienne, .mUrthQ lovely part about- ft:is dress, it would scarcely be recogniotl for that 'brilliant young nrnn has added greatly to his first ideas', and enibellished with its present setting, and the 'music of Silvio Hdln, "My Wife's Husbands" Hus-bands" is a. veiy different production. Eut the book is 1 very much Edwin Milton Royle, and adds but another feather to that young . man's already ofowded headgear. Eugene Cowler is an invaluable addition to the company, and received a flattering welcome, upon his first appearance after a long absence from the o'd theatre. His voice is just as wonderful as in the old days with the then famous Bostonians, and his acting Is perfect -As Colonel Kulpepper, lie fulfilled every requirement-Sam requirement-Sam B. Hardy as young Kulpepper was splendid, splen-did, leaving nothing undone not oven the proprietor pro-prietor of the Hptal Alamo in his splendid interpretation., inter-pretation., of. tU.o-.busx.. rule Aside tfom ftiJlss Cahill,, Miss Nellie Lynch as tho maid was notably principally lor the 'nimble-ness 'nimble-ness and grace, in' the lower portions of' her , make-up, and among the men Charles Judels as Arcbambeau more than did justice to the small pai. Mr. Judels Is a young man of great possibilities possi-bilities histrionically, and as his chief beverage is tea, he has plbnty of time to improve his mind, while Waiting for the part that will some day make him. Of the ex-husbands, W. T. Clark as Senator i ihmchgrass is the l;os;t, Mark Smith as Bishop Dunn is only, fait and William Clifton in the parti of Willie Drlnkwater, a role; full of fat opportunities oppor-tunities is'an awful moss. Seldom has a nicer looking chorus been ' seen with a musical play, and that is half the battle bat-tle when a' new star drpps in to win a. way. There wps something about this chorus tliat made It di.tiiictive among those of road companies. It is fresh (in the real sense) there was a well bred air about the whole aggregation, and everything about its work was charming. ' ;. ' "... THELA'Nt) OF NOD. Knox .Wilson , has .created many stellar roles r including "Doodle VonKeill," the secretary in the original' production of "The Burgomaster," ana the "Insane Russian" in Anna Held's production produc-tion of "The. LittJo plichess," but it is said he never appeared to better advantage in any 01 them than as "April Jfool" in "The Land of Nod." Mr. Wilson was for several years a headllner on the vaudeville stage, a feature of his act being a saxaphone fantasy, which he has introduced in. 'The. Land of Nod." He is said to have a number num-ber . of good songs with the chorus also. "The Land , of Nod" .will be the offering at the Salt Lake theatre next Friday and Saturday. It has been a successful musical extravaganza of the past two seasons in the east. "The Man of the Hour," will be seen at the Salt Lake theatre soon. W; E. Nankevilje's melodramatic success, "Human Hearts," is the attraction at the Grand L. the first part ;of next week commencing Sunday evening, January 12th. For three nights and a Saturday matinee, commencing Thursday evening, January 16th, Uncle Un-cle Josh Perkins will hold the boards at the Grand. . |