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Show THEATERS "EXCUSE ME" frantic desire to get married on the part of a couple, who, on board a Chicago to Reno train, should have I taken on matrimonial bonds before they left the Windy City, but didn't have time because of a broken-down taxicab, 16 the keystone to the arch of mirth in "Excuse Me," which kept the Sunday ulghters In a happy mood for two hours and a half over at the Orpheum last night This young couple along with "Little "Lit-tle Jimmie" Wellington, a broken hearted man of about 300 pounds, on the way to Reno; his wife, who Is going go-ing there for a divorce also, a woman missionary bound for China, a sour old bachelor, a minister and hlB wife off for the first vacation In thirty years; a fussy Englishman who is "peeved" because he is deprived of his morning tub, and a patient porter all these, with various others, not to mention Snoozleums, the dog, make up about the most interesting list of passengers one could Imagine on j through train The scenes through out show the interior of a Pullman car. Reno is no more the happy "shed- j diiiK ground for those who would di vest themselves of matrimonial shat-k les, but then the play was written ' long before the Nevada legislators took from the town its reason for fame But that has nothing to do with "Excuse Me," and for those who I haven't seen the play there is always a j;ood laugh coming wniis Sweatnam is an Inimitable and altogether remarkable porter, pa-tlenl pa-tlenl to a fault, but always managing to find the humor in every situation; Sidney Greenstreet as Jimmie Wellington Well-ington makes up a big part of the show both in bulk and abilit Reeva Crecnwood is n sweet and capable little lit-tle want tu be-bride and the other parts are handled in such a way as to extract all the fun there Is out of the lines. Ogden Is brought Into the action of the play quite notably at times and the fair-sized audience that witnessed the performance got a lot of enjoy nient out of It all for it is a real carnival car-nival of fun in three acta AT THE OGDEN. Forty-five Minutes from Broad -way" as presented at the Ogden theater last night by the Ariugton - k company assisted by 18 young I men and women of Ogden. before a packed house and the splendid production pro-duction given wan most enthusiastically enthusiasti-cally received. It is no uncommon thing for a stock i ompany to attempt musical comedy 1 and many feared that George Cohan's popular play would be given poor treatment, but those who attended for the purpose of seeing a play "murdered" were agrccabh disappointed. disap-pointed. The production last evening will compare favorably with that of an road company. The success of "Forty-fire Minutes Min-utes from Broadway" depends almost entirely upon the manner In which the roles of Mary Jane Jenkins and Kid Bums are handled, and that those two roles were in capable hands at I the Ogden is the opinion of nil. Mayme Arington made a most de llghtful Mary, dressing in the man-I net that such a maid would dress and never forgettng to make a laughing laugh-ing situation of a melancholy one. i Thomas Pawley, as Kid Burns, handled han-dled the lines in a manner to bring out all the characteristics of that slangy-, sport loving, good henrted son of New York It was not known until un-til last night thnt Miss Arington or Mr. Pawley could sing, but that knowledge Is now generally disseminated dissemi-nated today, for both rendered their songs in thoroughlj pleasing style As the popular millionaire, Robert Pawley gave n good account of himself him-self and won the sympathy of tho audience when he assumed a henpecked hen-pecked appearance after several onslaughts on-slaughts from his prospectne mother-in-law. who was typified by Florence Flor-ence Craig. His song, in which he was assisted by Little Casey, was one ot the musical reatures In their respective roles Helen Con-emac, Con-emac, Frank Jonassen. Edward Moran and Prescott Erickson were good, while Mrs L. A Kempton as the lachrlmose Mrs Purdy was a feature. fea-ture. in a great measure the success of the evening was due to the efforts of the local talent who sang In a professional pro-fessional manner and presented a good stage appearance The quartette consisting con-sisting of the Taggart brothers and F. Goddard made a great hit The musical comedy Is to continue throughout the week, and beginning next Sunday night "Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" will continue for another an-other week oo |