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Show 1 THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM It was a rather hypercritical audi ence of first nlghters oer at the Or-pheum Or-pheum last night. Perhaps the feeling feel-ing of Bensltl vcnesB was created by the crowd luixinn bnd to weather the snowstorm to see tho bill and hadn't got thoroughly thawed out when the curtain went up. At any rate, the the folks were unrcBponshc In their reception of tho first two or three numbers and it was noticeable that i i in- r reli It ,in.i no doubt wished that they were placed a little farther dow n I be bill There Is a deal of singing and dancing danc-ing throughout the performance Even Harry Gllfoll ilngfl a little song and executes a dance which reveals noth lug much but the age of the character which he represents. Out on the oast Harry Gllfoll was not headlined. His act was admitted ly good, but not quite good enough to command the big type In which to spell his name However, the critics out In I,oh Angeles sort of overlooked the then headliner and spoke so glow Ingly of fr. Gllfoll's "Baron Sands' that It started something Anyway, Harry is there with bells on at the Ogden Orpheum find nobody disputes his right to head the bill. Cilfoil's impersonation of the venerable ven-erable beau vlvanf Is carried out with careful exactitude. His comedy bits are excellent and his Imitations of circus animals and a back yard felln conversation uncounted, (iiifoii's act Is real vaudeville Lovers of good music will find much thai is appealing and attractive In the Florentine Singers The company comprises eight members, really a double quartette all of whom possess singularly pleasing voices, and the ensemble singing Is delightful The soncs they render are mostly of R semi-classical nature, but of the sort that are familiar to the regular theater-goer. Bd Morton has a bunch of songs that are new and the wav they were sung made them Bcore heavily last night. He was called back bo many times that he WS6 compelled to give Director Short the high sign and con-feBB con-feBB to the audience that his stock was exhausted Mis "When Mother Plas a Rag on the Sewing Machine" was the most popular The Dance of the Siren." with appropriate ap-propriate stage settings, by Joseph Herbert and Lillian Goldsmith. the latter In bare Yeet. Ib a novel conceit well carried out They arc both more than grateful in their dancing. Throwing battle-axes nrmiml InHlo. crlminaftely and with considerable impetus im-petus would not seem to be a partle-ularly partle-ularly fascinating pastime, but the Tuscano brothers do it without anybody any-body getting hurt In some respects, their act is a "thriller." f'arrle Reynolds, pretty and hand somely gowned, slr.gs and dances acceptably ac-ceptably her danrinn appealing most. Her voice is. no doubt, good. too. but the altitude appeared to Interfere with her singing to some extent laat uight. Almost, if not quite the Huilt In hold, daring trapes work la the offering of-fering of the Plying Martini. They are a pair of superbly built atbloteti and appear to enjoy their work. The same bill the balanco of the week, with Saturday matinee. Sunday night "Mutt and Jn," In tho floah, will be at the Orpheum for ono performance. per-formance. AT THE OGDEN. "Young Mrs Ulnthrop." Bronson Howard's greatest play, madp a good Impression upon Hie audience at the Ogden theater last evening Sweet, wholesome and tender, a play of a mnn and n woman's love and life. It n as most Judiciously Interpreted by the stock company it ib b "full dress" play and the dressing was faultless !Ome Of the gowns being beautiful The aetlng of Mr Pawley, Mlf .t Ington and Mr Boone WUS nf B wt;. I high order, a charming novelt) wai Introduced In the "Snow flake dance." S speoialtj by fen vnung Ogden lassies las-sies under the direction of Virginia Mnt I hews The little ladles were lona Carver. LUClllfl Scott. Lucille j Thomas bSonS Wricht. DdtXS Cohll Tennees Smith. Beatrice Uarnenu Mary Ernstrom. Rerfnrd Johnson and Mildred Smith. Their, work called forth a hearty encore The will appear ap-pear at every performance of "Young Mrs. Wlnthrop." which will continue until Saturday night. Inclusive, with a Saturday matinee. Commencing Sunday night the great feature day I "The House of a Thousand Candies," j will open for four nights nn |