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Show THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM. A clever deceptionlst. a quaint comedy and a cleser comedienne are the leatures worthy of special men- I lion on the Empress vaudeville bill, j that opened at the Orpheum theater 1 yesterda and drove away dull care from three good sized audiences. The deceptionlst travels under the j cognomen of "Onalp" and his stunt is to ' hypnotize'' a pianist and a piano and to swing them about In the air unsupported as far as the ciudleuce was able to ascertain. He performs the feat on a brightly lighted light-ed stage and to prove that the piano and pirnlst the hanging in the air unsupported by wires or "such," he passes a hoop over them. The trick! is billed as a "scientific sensation ' j and the title fits it to a "T." The comedy is entitled 'Pat and the Gonil" and the central figure is Tom Nawn Mr Nawn essays the! role of Pat and he has two capable i foils in Josephine Haywood as the 1 housekeeper and Evangeline Dlxey as the Genii. Miss Dlxey is a rarely 1 beautiful brunette and received con slder.ible attention from the audience The stage setting purports to be the museum of an Egyptologist and is unique to a degree. The plot con-J cerns the liberation of the Genii from a Jar in which she has been impris jned tor three thousand years, by Pat, to whom Bfca becomes a slave By her power his every wish is grant ed and his manner of receiving his good fortune, constitutes the fun. The act was well received. Mary Gray, the comedienne, has some character songs that 'were ap preciated because they are really new and screamingly funny, especially as she tings or talks them She also does n original dancing act. that has to b? seen to be appreciated. Her work is the most entertaining of its kind that has been seen in the city for some months. The two Georges, who open the bill, are clever acrobats and tumblers and their act proved a very good one in its place. The Rathskeller Trio, who are booked as ' The Melody Monarch?," Mon-arch?," must have purloined the title, as the-' are far from being entitled to it. A portion of the audience was, I I however. In a generous mood last iH night and applauded the turn voclf- crousjy The pianist of the trio Is H right "at home" on the instrument and bir work was meritorious. iH |