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Show The Waning Theatrical Season Electric Theaters-Two Taking Novelties at the Elite Last Week. Good Pictures In the present lull In the theatrical season the electric theaters are more popular than ever. Chauglng their bill as they do twice a week they never become tiresome and are alwavs an agreeable place to while away an hour In the early or latter part of the evening. even-ing. The program last week at the Elite was more than usually attractive and contained two distinct novelties. One of these was a series of pictures describing tho "Merry Widow" waltz craze. We have all of us fallen in lovo with this fascinating Vienna waltz, as that alluring and Inspiring as any waltz Strauss has written. Tho Thatcher orchestra, ever nn to date. Dialed, it uiuiicskia, uvui up iu uatc, ijiiijvu. iv to us earjy In the winter and ever since we have hummed and whistled It toourselvcs In our Joyous and bitter moments. So it was a pleasure to see the waltz as It is danced In the opera and Its effects on Its hearer, though exaggerated, were easy to understand. The other novelty was a series of pictures giving the story of the Cowboy Cow-boy and tho School Teacher. Some of them looked as though they might have been taken from Dustln Farn-ham's Farn-ham's performance of the Virginian. They were beautiful pictures of western west-ern scenes; woody canyons and sage- brush plains, an antiquated stage coach, magnificent cowboy riding, and a melodramatic storv In which a young and pretty school teacher Is rescued from four villains by a daring and Impetuous Im-petuous cowboy, before her ruin Is consummated, Both these series of pictures were from the Edison company com-pany and for clearness and good acting they wero fully the equal of those by the French firm, Pattle Brothers, that ive' usually see. It Is very gratifying to feel we are doing as artistic work as tho French in the line of moving pictures, but the'starch of our patriotism patri-otism was somewhat weakened at the tllQIICht of the Diihlln tnctn Mint. nn. bliuuguu ui iiiu uuuil. ItlSlU UlUb eR- dures the singing of such a tawdry banality as "The Man With the Overalls" Over-alls" and tl.at can look without a shudder at the crude surroundings of the noble character that had the good fortune to wear the overalls. Why must song writers locate their pathetic pa-thetic ditties among kerosene lamps, wall paper at one cent a roll, and rank tropical vegetation? Tho hour that the management gave us for our dlmo was further made enjoyable' by the singing of tho A. C. male quartette, composed of L. M. Wlnsor, A. E. Bow-man, Bow-man, Wesley Carter and Aleo Preston. |