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Show THE NEW BILLS. COLONIAL George Sidney and Carrie Webber, Web-ber, the latter a Broadway actress who has been seen here in several musical shows, head the company that will present "Busy Izzy," a musical comedy, at the Colonial Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, of the coming week. Sidney Sid-ney is a well known comedian. For the last half of the week Charles Klein's play "The Gamblers" will be seen at the Colonial. The story deals with a young financier who follows in the footsteps foot-steps of others who want to get rich quick, and throughout the play Klein uses the gambling instinct in-stinct for his hypothesis. SALT LAKE THEATRE Lulu Glaser will be the next attraction at the Theatre, opening for a half week's engagement on February 19th, in her latest play, "Miss Dudelsack." The operetta oper-etta is of European origin and it is claimed is the best play Miss Glaser has had since her "Dollie Varden." ORPHEUM The Orpheum road show opens for the week at the State street vaudeville house Sunday afternoon. This is the bill which each year is personaly selected by Martin Beck and sent on tour over the Orpheum circuit as representative repre-sentative of the best vaudeville talent of the year playing the Beck circuit of houses. This year it is headline by the original Eight Palace Girls, direct from a five-year engagement at tho Palace theatre, London. With them will be seen Siraone De Beryl, a Parisian sensation, who is known on the other side as "The Star of Midnight" Mid-night" and "The Queen of Light"; Joseph Hart's sketch, "Honor Among Thieves," Keller Mack and Frank Orth, , popular song writers, presenting "The Wrong Hero"; Felix and Caire, Ad. New-berger's New-berger's youthful prodigies; Oscar Loraine, the protean violinist; and Arnaut Brothers, European tumbling clowns. GARRICK Broadhurst's indictment of municipal muni-cipal politics as the game has been played in most of our big towns "The Man or the Hour" goes on at the Garrick Sunday evening for a week's engagement. It will be the first production produc-tion of this play in stock here and the story is as pertinent today as it ever was. Locally it will afford a contrast to present conditions as re-tards re-tards the municipal administration of the city and altogether the production ought to prove interesting. in-teresting. EMPRESS Another girl act heads the Empress Em-press bill that begins Wednesday of the coming week. The feature is Maxwell's production "A Night in a Police Station," with Ruth Francis featured at the head of the presenting company of singers, dancers and come'dians. The second feature of the bill is announced as an Irish Idyll entitled "Erin's Isle" to be given in four scenes. The bill includes in addition the two Gruets, minstrels; Dean and Price; Maglin, Eddie and Nichol, Europnan acrobats; W. J. Coleman, an Irish story teller, and the photoplay. |