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Show DRAMA TIC ORPHEUM. Charlotte Greenwood, the big, long scream of the Greenwood-Burnham combination the funniest woman on the vaudeville stage, 'is the Orpheum attraction par excellence this week, and as usual hundreds of Orpheum patrons who went early in the proceedings bought return tickets for other nights during her engagement. Greenwood has that peculiar humorous faculty which makes her the whole show without apparent appar-ent effort, just as Prank Tinney can cause a riot in a house with an entertainment that no one else could get away with. Wo believe we have make the remark before, but it will bear repetition, re-petition, what a ten thousand dollar exhibit Greenwood and Tinney would make on the stage at tho same time! The awkwardness of Greenwood is really an acquired art, for by nature, as she readily proves during her performance, she is wonderfully graceful, grace-ful, and it would be a pleasure to see her in a legitimate dance if one could forget how funny she is. With her partner she finishes the first part of a bill over Orpheum way that is one replete with good things, tho Richard Harding Davis sketch "Blackmail" being the exception. Claude M. Roode opens the variety with some new slack wire stunts and is followed by Char-lotto Char-lotto Ravenscroft, a singing violinist of fine talent tal-ent and charming personality. Ed Flanagan and Neel Edwards have a comedy sketch of vaudeville vaude-ville life, "On and Off", interspersed with some music and dancing, which is not bad; Thurber and Madison return with their "On a Shopping Tour," including some new stuff but not forgetful forget-ful of the old; and Millet's models are again welcome, the representations of the famous paintings and the colorful effects being excellently excel-lently produced. In regard to Walter Hampden and company in "Blackmail," it is hard to tell which is the worst, the sketch or the people exploiting it. Supposedly very serious and tragic, in the hands of Hampden, Mabel Moore, Ned Finley and Bernard Ber-nard Mullen it is one of the funniest farces on record. That only one bullet took effect, and that late in the sketch, was regretful to every audience. Tho best actor of the cluster is Ned Finley, cast in a "We-do-the-dirty-work" role, but by saying that, it is not the intention to convey the idea that Neddio has any medals coming. The news pictures this week are confined to those showing the devastation wrought by typhoons, typ-hoons, simoons, tidal waves and floods, the realization of the havoc elsewhere making people peo-ple more satisfied with "homo products" week considering the brand of climate we enjoy. |