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Show iTODATOlSl "SEVEN DAYS." "Seven Days, ' as It appeared at the Ogden Theater last night, is a tonic, and incidentally ono of tho very best treats of the season, it 1 airly sparkles with the keenest kind of humor, tho Hues are full of the clever wit of Mary Roberts Rinehart and ludicrous, Impossible situations pile up until the audience Is roaring with laughter. "If you can't laugh at thib see a doctor," is good advice James Wilson, the host at a dinner party, receives word that his aunt Sa-lina. Sa-lina. who has been conbldcratelv paying pay-ing his bills, is coming to visit him and to meet his wife, from whom, unknown un-known to her, he has recently procured pro-cured a divorce. He persuades one of his guests Kit McXail, to pretend to be his, wife just for the evening. Tl?o aunt arrives, also a burglar who spends his time running up and down a dumb waiter aud the chlmnej, and always disappears just In time to persuade per-suade one of the memuers of the dinner din-ner party that she has psyhic powers and all the others that she's going a little crazy or has tried too manv cocktails. In the meantime the Jap cook hns been taken to the hospital with tho smallpox and tho house Is quarantined There is a policeman, too, who has heen looking for the thief and Jim's divorced wifo, who has come back, she says, to got her old cook. Imagine this situation and all it would bo possible for an exceptionally excep-tionally capable cast to ct out of It and you'll havo Just a glimmering Idea of how good the show actually is. All of the parts aro extremely well played, one being better only in the number of lines they have. Aubrey Beattie as James Wilson proves vthat someone does love a fat man, but you really couldn't help It, so delightfully does he Interpret that purt Mr. Beattie is a comediau, you know, one of the kind that makes jou laugh. Jessie McAllister, (Kit McNail) has a most charming personality and a pleasing voice, which only helps to make her one of tho cleverest little actresses seen hero In some time. William Wadsworth is good, and Ben F. Wilson Is splendid and they're all great right down tho Hue. CUNNING, T.HE JAIL BREAKER. Last night was farewell night at the Orpheum theater, it boins the last .performance under the direct supervision supervis-ion of the Orpheum management and, - while the house will piobably be open thieo nights a week-during the remainder re-mainder of the season, It was nevertheless never-theless considered a' sort of final tribute tri-bute to tho management and organization organiza-tion which has prevailed for tho past two years " The usual vaudeville program was dispensed with and in its stead Cunning, Cun-ning, the handcuff king, hold full sway. He was the central figure In a performance lasting more than two hours and it must be said to his credit that he entertained tho customary custom-ary Sunday night audience every minute min-ute of tho time. Tho show put on by this man Cunning is clean, clever and class) lie opened his show with straight legdermaln and, while his stunts wero not all new, they wero very cleverly performed This was followed by Some I ii i mm n i i i-i nTt- n i i i i i nn illusion work and trunk transformation transforma-tion stunts of a very high class. One ot tho best features of Cunning's show Is tho cabinet work, which is very mystifying, Tho show closes with Cunning's feature fea-ture work Jail breaking stunts. Last evening ho escaped from three pair of handcuffs, one pair of ankle chains and from a steel cage locked with four padlocks In tho short space of two minutes and seven seconds. His final experiment Is to escape from n regulation straight, Jacket such aB Is used to restrain violent Insane patients. pa-tients. Cunning's show gavo complete satisfaction. During tlie performance he announced an-nounced that there would be a big benefit performance for the Orpheum employes on next Wednesday night He will put on the show, but it will bo almost a complete change from that which was given last evening. After this benefit performance and "The Girl in the Taxi." on the following follow-ing night, tho Orpheum will romaiu dark until the Inauguration of tho "three a week" show. |