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Show uu THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM. Theatrical manager? as a rule have never been noted for their philanthropic philan-thropic Impulses, but the plan of the Orpheutu management to bring 'The Eternal Waltz'' here as a vaudeville number week after next would seem ' 'o place the local manager In tho lib-eral lib-eral hearted class. "The Eternal Waltz.'" from the pen of Leo Fall writer of "The Siren " "Tho Dollar Princess" and other well known comic com-ic operas. Is the biggest act ever placed on a vaudeville stage in Am-, erica. It Is In two acts, has 50 peo-pie peo-pie In the cast a wealth of scenic ! effects and requires an even hour, to present. The act, necessarily, represents an' enormous outlay in Its production, and It coBts any Orpbeum house jus', j $3,200 for a week's billing Of course as tho local Orpbeum only shows four performances a week, it does not I cost that sum to bring it to Ogden., but (and here Is where the phllan-j tbropv comes In) the expense is so great that it will be absolutely impossible im-possible for the local house to clean up a dollar 0:1 the show even though the house is sold out for every performance per-formance Manager Goss says that the one act will cost him more than any two ordinary or-dinary Orpbeum shows of seven nets each and that the main reason .'or bringing It here is to refute the im - prcision which seems to be gaining ground among some that the Ogden Orpbeum Is a sort of side track in a vaudeville way and that the bills here are luferior to those presented in other cities fSnlt Lake, for instance). The motlnee performance dnrlnc I the big vek happening to fall on Washington's birthday, evening prices will prevail, in a slight effort to br. ill even Financially. Aside from this oue performance, regular Orpheum prices v. ill secure seats |