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Show BIG VAUDEVILLE BILL FOR ORPHEIM TODAY Mystery and comedy are two of the chief ingredients on this week's Empress Em-press bill, which opens today at the Orpheum. The delightful Irish comedy com-edy star. Tom Nawn, comes with a talented company in "Pat and the Genii." and the deceptlonist Onalp brings his bewildering mystery the floating piano and player Other act6 on the bill are. The Rathskeller trio company of Mitchell, Wells and Harrison, known as entertainers to royalty. Mary Gray, the waltz girl, the Two Georges, "scandalous scamps." A rare comedy 16 "Pat and the Genii " The Idea of the sketch is Ingenious and cleverly worked out. It Is original in theme and offers an unusual vehicle for the quaint humor of the inimitable Tom Nawn. Pat is sent to the express office for a package from Egypt. It contains a magic jar which Pat sets down amid a picturesque scenic disorder of mummies. mum-mies. His curiosity is aroused and he shakes the Jar. Darkness, lightning light-ning and thunder, and then follow incidents in-cidents that baffle belief. The mystifying Onalp will prove that the days of miracles are not passed. He will cause a piano to be wheeled onto the stage. A pianist will seat himself at the instrument The scenery at the rear will be removed. re-moved. Then Onalp will cause the piano and player to float in the air, turn evolutions, and finally descend A huge hoop proves the onlooker that there 1b no mechanical contrivance contriv-ance at the rear whatever The Keystone comedy this week is said to be unusually good to complete the new Bhow Advertisement. |