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Show ORPHEUM. The Orpheum box office reports a heavy advance sale of admissions for the opening bill. Trlxio Frlganza heads the list. She Is a humorist hu-morist of the highest order. Whether on the stage or at a dinner party, her wit is effervescent, efferves-cent, and breaks out at the most unsuspected moments. As a burlesquer, of everything, even herself, her art is supreme. She makes a firm friend of every member of her audience before Bhe is half through her act, Corradlnl's Menagery, consisting of a two-ton elephant, a horse, some dogs and a group of zebras, is an act that is distinguished from tho ordinary, in that the zebra is ono of the mest difficult animals to train. John and Mae Burke offer a comedy skit entitled en-titled "A Ragtime Soldier.". Clark and Verdi have an Italian oomedy act said to be decidedly funny. They are different from the rest, in that they do not rely upon a hand organ and a stuffed monkey to prove they are burlesque Italians. Sammy Burns and Alice Fulton are dainty dancers, and these with Ray Conlln, a ventriloquist ventrilo-quist and Bertie Ford, an expert tango dancer, not only on the floor, but also on a tight wire, complete the bill. Principal among the new decorations at the theatre are the three paintings by Hermann Russe. His work is suggestive of the playhouse;-the panel to the right of the stage, representing tragedy; the one to the left, comedy, and the painting over the stage, music and dance. The orchestra will this season be under tho direction of Levi N. Harmon, Jr., who will play the new pipe organ recently installed. Concerts before each program will be a feature of the bill. The personnel of the orchestra is as follows: fol-lows: Director and organist, L. J. Harmon, Jr.; first violins, R. Wohmuth. and O. 'Smith; flute, Willard Flashman; clarinet, E. Stone; cello, A. Press; cornet, C. Mollerup; (French horns, C. Jesperson and R. Roberts; piano, M. Stephenson; trombone, H. Baker; bass, V. Jorgenaen; drums, A. Beesley. |