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Show EMPRESS. If the Empress isn't popular with the youngsters young-sters this month, it won't be the fault of the S. & C. booking agents who have regularly sent an animal act or two with the local bills the past four or five weeks. This week it is Ad Carlisle's trained dogs and ponies, including Tom, a particularly intelligent Shetland that has been wonderfully well trained. The dogs do a little sketch without anyone in sight directing them, which, as a whole is one of the best of its kind the Empress has offered so far. Ollie Young and April open the bill with a bubble blowing and juggling act that is a distinct dis-tinct novelty, and Snowie Maybelle could have gone right on through town without a great deal of regret on the part of those who have seen her. The same is true of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dowling in their western sketch, "An Arizona Wooing.' Calne and Odom have a line of repartee and topical songs that go fairly well, and Harry Von Fossen's burnt cork fun is worth listening to. However, the dogs and ponies are the real feature of the bill. |