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Show ORPHEUM. Something got in the carbureter of the Or-pheum Or-pheum machine this week, and it hasn't had motive mo-tive power enough to anywhere near approach the speed limit. It was easy to be spoiled with the bill of tho week preceding, but eliminating that idea, there is not a great deal to attract tho discriminating. "Scrooge," the headliner, an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," gives Wallace Clark an opportunity oppor-tunity to display his very unusual talents, but while his acting is a remarkable piece of work, the sketch is rather depressing though extremely extreme-ly interesting to lovers of Dickens. The original Londons are a great card, their darjng casting act being one of the finest ever sen here. They finish a bill started by Marcus and Gartelle, who amuse the audience with their maneuvers on roller skates, and are followed by Handers and Milliss, whoso eccentricities in dancing with tho help of their piano are worth seeing. Lou Anger, the German soldier, puts over a line of low comedy and Pauline Moran does the same thing in rather a musical way. "The Loop Hole," a sketch with Leandor De Cordova and company-trying to act it is painful enough without their help. It is a repeater which shouldn't repeat. . Tho new moving pictures of the world'3 cur- rent events have proven very popular, and they will be continued indefinitely. A A . i- |