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Show THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM. The Paritagee vaudeville bill which opened yesterday afternoon at the Orpheum Is certainly a winner and drew three capacity audiences. Three finely trained athletes open the bill and they displayed their strength and skill In a manner al most entirely new The "Unique Trio" sing and play a number of pretty southern melodies on mandolin and guitar harps and won a number of encores at each performance per-formance Baby (lllbert. a little miss who has not yet reached Bchool age. proved herself tho most precocious youir: ster that has been seen here in a loug while. She won the entire audience with several new songs, among them being "On Circus Day" and "Don'f You Wish, Dear Old Pal." The sketch which wins the title of "headliner" is called "A Modern Ananias," and. In the vernacular oi the street, "It s a bear." The sketch is well written and proves the old adage 'If you He in the first time, ou"o got to keep It up," and the manner in which Mr. Ely LyBOD did so, kept the audience In an uproar during the entire time he waB on tli' stage. .Negro acts are getting few and fur between In vaudeville, and that ma be one reason why Anderson and Goinea wore given such a welcome, but under any circumstance!? their act would be a winner Their comedy com-edy is good and much of their dialogue dia-logue Is new and the audience wos almost worn out with laughter before be-fore they left the stage. Ameen Abou Hamld and his troupe of whirlwind Arabian acrobats, come ou Just before the pictures and their tumbling waB al a remarkable rat of speed. This week's audiences are also being be-ing treated to a "first performance" of an act not on the regular progTam The act la entitled "Isle D'Amour" and from the manner In which It w;is accepted by those present, its future success 1b assured "Isle D'Amour" is from the pen of Richard Goss, brother of Manager Jos Gobs of the Orpheum aud Is alflQ directed by him It begins with a prologue. In which Lord Lyttou, an English critic, ape before the curtain and tellB of an artlat friend who Is trying to paint the picture of a famons beauty, but which, he says, he cannot do so successfully suc-cessfully because he Ib not in love with her. The curtain then rises, showing the studio of the artist, with the artist seated at his easel, palm irig the picture of the lady, who Is standing on a pedoBlal, playing a violin. vio-lin. The Englishman and the violinisr work together and the artllst finds the real object of h's tove seated in one of the opera boxes, singing to him. He persuades her to come to him. The music Is especially pleas lng. The singing of the duet "Sympathy" my Aljln Klnson and Miss Renll-lute ta" waB a fine bit of work. .Miss Renll-luto-ta possesses u rarely beau tiful 6oprano voice and Mr. Kinson also Blngs well. Miss Lulclme la a violinist of exceptional ex-ceptional abllltj and her solo was a treat. Byrou McAullffe did some good character work aa the Englishman. |