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Show 1 THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM. Lovers of vocal music have their inning, along with the other vaudeville vaude-ville patrons, this week at the Or-pheum, Or-pheum, for the new Empress list of players Includes several singers much above the average. The program is also replete with clean-cut comedy and a big and clever dancing act holds the headline position, the three' combined com-bined with two good tumbling acts, furnishincr an ivonlnp nf p-nrllpni ph. tertainment. Patrick, Francisco and Warren open the bill with an acrobatic act entitled "Fun Down on the Farm." The three are good In their line of work and present the act in a stage setting that Is somewhat new for an act ot the kind. Gladys Wilbur, billed as "a beautiful beauti-ful girl with a beautiful voice," proves that announcement true. Her beauty of face and figure is shown off with some charming gowns and her voice Is a rich contralto very pleasing to hear. She sang several ballads that the audience yesterday wanted her to repeat. The headline act, Joe Maxwell's dancing girls, followed Miss Wilbur, and made an instantaneous hit. There are seven girls in the troupe, headed by Ada Proctor. Miss Proctor is one of the most clover dancers that has beon presented at the Orpheum and made a fine impression. The other six girls are Nellie Melville, Irene Duke, Ethel West. Frances LoRoy. Mazie" Stanley and Jessie Brown, and they also dance well. The act is presented pre-sented ia four changes of scene and costume. The scenes are "In Ice land," "In Toyland," "In Dreamland, ' and "Way Down Yonder in the Corn Field." In one scene a realistic thunder and lightning storm is produced pro-duced and in another a rain storm is 8tagod. Fred Warren and Al Blanchard, a plain and blackface comedian, got all the laughs possible for an audience to get rid of in fifteen minutes the time they were on and also pleased with a ballad or two. The singing of Gertrude Clark and Spencer Ward, who present a "straight vocal and piano act," was an unusually fine treat. Miss Clark is a handsome blonde, with a fine soprano so-prano voice, and Mr. Ward possesses a baritone voice of much strength aua good quality. Both are right at home in their songs and eliminate "rag" from their program, to the greater pleasure of the audience. The bill is closed with a rapid tire tumbling act by Spissel brothers and Mack. It is done in a novel stage setting, that Includes numerous properties prop-erties and fun Is gotten out of all of them. ! (in |