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Show THE ORPHEUM. The bill at tho Orpheum this week Is by no means tho best ever otfered nt tho local vaudeville house. There are no "lemons" in the souse in which that term Is popularly applied to vaudeville vau-deville people who draw their salaries on suspicion, but thero Is not a hcud-llue hcud-llue act on tho entire bill. .TewoH'8 Manikins bear that distinction distinc-tion on the program, but not with tho audience. While the act is exceedingly exceeding-ly clever from a mechanical standpoint, stand-point, it would make a greater hit at a children's matinee than at an evening even-ing performance Like many other European acts, the comedy suffers fom Infantile paralyse. The stage setting consists of a miniature min-iature stage supplied with, all the accoutrements ac-coutrements of a regulation stage and on which miniature people are put through various stunts by the clever manipulation or strings. Take the children to the Orpheum this week. "Toyland Vaudeville" will surety please them Farnum and tho Clark sisters are singers, talkers and dancers They are original in their style, one or the unique reatures of the act being an Rlleged quarrel which results In "Billy" Farnum descending rrom the stage and leaving tho theater He returns, however, to explain to his co-workers that somebody has stolen his other shirt rrom the suitcase. There Is another vontrlloquist on tho bill this week in the person or Herr Richard Nadragc. Ills German needs so much English cultivation that much or the dialogue misses the audience entirely, but the nolso ir nothing else proclaims him to be an artist In his lino of work. El Cota, labeled "The Pnderewski of the Xylophone," should be more appropriately termed "Ragtime Pad-erowski Pad-erowski " As a ragtime artist on tho xylophono El Cota has all other manipulators man-ipulators of the wooden hammers lashed to the mast. It doesn't take "Paderewski" long to get Into ragtime nnd when he does he runs the gaunt lot of populnr ragtime selections from '"Grizzly Bear Rag" to "Tho Barber Shop Chord," aud back again. El Cota exhausted his repertoire or ragtime last night boiore the audience would let him get away "Something Doing AH the Time" is very appropriately applied to the act introducing AIT Grant and Miss Ethel Hoag. Grant is a human rapid-lire gun when it comes to shooting com edy at his audience. He is a verj clever Impersonator. Thero is a horizontal bar and trapeze tra-peze act which would be hard to beat. Tho act Introduces the Marlc-Aldo trio and all are exceedingly clover. There is an nlleged runny man but the merit or the act centers on the hairbroadth work on the bars. With the usual good pictures and music by the orchestra this comprises the bill as it will be presented at tbe Orpheum every night this week and with the usual mat.nccs on Wednesday Wednes-day and Saturday |