Show HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE ACTS APPEAR AT A T THE j A glance glanc at tt the bills hills selected ted for the thc Ogden Orpheum theater hip dur during ing the LI coming month promises four of the best that have appeared I on any vaudeville stage here or elsewhere This weeks bill will willson willbe willbe be gathered from the four quarters of the earth one olle tL trained of sea ea lions that has set nil all Europe being scheduled to arrive today from ralia weeks eek s will be S Girls o i from J uc and it promises to lw he of the best of the Sea Sla son Other Oilier features will add to the strength of the attractions I patrons will find much of interest in the thc th following ar article article arI I entitled the Sketch Is King ling which appeared in ill a Pacific coast weekly In Vaudeville It is becoming more evident every ever day clay that the d straight act in in vaudeville audeville is losing in ill popular favor faor The rue nero acro acrobat a ro bat the juggler and the Ule funny man have found f imd that thai must have hav some sort SoPt of a scheme some thread of a story on OIl which to hang their acts before they can really make mal good with their audiences The number of sketches increasing all the time inie t I indicates an nil increasing de dl deman dei i man A straight net act must be l e very thrilling or very clever dever to gain j favor now flOWS The rhe public loves to feel the thc current of unusual emotion pounding through its veins vc nH it wants to laugh lUll h to weep to wonder to toJ tolie he lie J completely swayed by some exterior force stronger than the hum humdrum 1 drum tiit existence of everyday day conditions Above all nil does the public I II demand variety change and and no form ni of vaudeville entertainment is II capable of so many ninny phases of elaboration as the sketch U The sketch is a picture of life and is susceptible of o as ns many l varia ft lions as humanity itself The he really good sketch writer is 15 IS almost a arara aj ai i j cam rara avis so difficult is it for actors to secure proper vehicles in j f i which to exploit their talents and gain public commendation at the tho I same fa ne time lime Then too the managers may ma have ideas that conflict ct j b with those of both bO th writer and actor and arid many a clever sketch is t F frowned upon because it is is too broad bron 1 or too suggestive r Mr Martin Beck general manager mana el of the Orpheum houses par particularly parI particularly has III taken a firm stand in iu this matter and his pruning priming knife i I i is constantly busy hus I L The vaudeville audiences of today loda are arc much more intelligent than r the audiences of several years Jears ago and lud since the dramatic is the high highest i f est cst form of entertainment it follows that she sketch should grow growt in popularity popular t but huL it jt is no easy cas matter mailer to find material with which h to t simply lIpply the growing glowing demand Not a few cw playwrights have hae tried to write for vaudeville audeville and md failed Vaudeville is IS in a class l by bJ 1 itself and must be studied But B lt the story form of vaudeville leYl II e en entertainment has hns come conic to stay sta and just as the short story writer or the novelist the tabloid playwright pla has hns a large field in which to try the lie liet I paces of his or her Pegasus t |