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Show THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM. Lily Langtry, a decade or two ago tho stage's most famous hoauty, headlines head-lines a hill at the Orpheum this week which while not so pretentious as that of las' week, with Its extravagant extrava-gant "Eternal Waltz, )s quite as notable not-able In its excellence. It is all vaudeville, vau-deville, for one thlny Ie-t no one think that even if he did hear about the Jersey Lily when ho was a kid that she isn t yet cod to look upon. She is still a remarkable remark-able woman and lacking nothing of the charm attributed to her. Mrs Langtry has a sketch witty and clever and distinctive enough to make pleasing entertainment it is doubtful if 'Mrs Justice Drake' would gain votes for women, however Mrs. I angtry takes the part of the justice in the aketch and presides over the London divorce court in the j year 1920 in a way which would indicate in-dicate that alone with her other characteristics char-acteristics she has a higblv developed sense of humor. The sketch is full ot quaint lines and situations and is played excellently. The resr of the bill surprised the onlcal Thursday night audience and In spite of the "show me" attitude displayed by the first Dighters they were compelled to hestow approval on nearly even- number on the bill We had our mind all made nn that we were going to speak of Ethel May Barker as a pretty and youns: violinist violin-ist who played nicely, with fine expression, ex-pression, tor that was the improsskn she made in her first three numbers Then she was called hack and the audience liked her better and the admiration ad-miration grew even more pronounced In two other calls that followed, fo1 she demonstrated that she can play ragtime and throw in a little comedy along with her other capabilities, also. She wound up with having a lot of fun with the orchestra, th members of which acted if they liked It, and the audience did. too. Ida May Chadwick "hee-haws" and dances through twenty minutes of old-time fun, assisted by her father and mother. Their "Wiggins' Farm ' is not new, but is still good for a lot of laut'hs. Something new in a balancing act Is offered by Clara Bnllerlni. She is as much at home on a swinging trapeze tra-peze as most of us are on terra firma She deserves a better position on any bill. Bronson & Baldwin sing songs cleverly clev-erly and dance madly The lady member mem-ber of the team attracts feminine eyes with a gown, which a man would defcrlbe as a medle of trousers and lace curtains Maybe It shouldn t be I called a gown. Anyway it envelops a charming little person and the act is good fun Wilson's Comedy Circus is a sidesplitting side-splitting animal act You've seen an unrldable mule and the revolving table ta-ble stunt before, but you'll laugh just as heartily at this Marco Wolf and sister emphasize the ragtime so heavily in their violin vio-lin and pia o number that it is difficult diffi-cult to find any music in it. A little less eccentricity and more melody would strengthen their offering. |