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Show I THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM. The Empress vaudeville bill which opened at the Orpheum theatre yesterday yes-terday for the week's engagement proved equal, if not superior to any program presented at the popular playhouse this season. The bill has two headline acts, both worthy of the position, and four other acts that show up exceptionally well. In the first headline act. Miss Nellie Nel-lie Nickson. an Ogden girl, plavs the only female role Her stage' name is Eleanor Prills and her acting is er celleut The sketch is entitled "One Good Turn" and is a vehicle in which the ability of E. E. Clive, the well known English light comedian and his fellow actors, is shown to fine advantage. The plot is entirely now and original and has the rare power of keeping the audience guessing virtually vir-tually until the curtain falfa Edwin Ford and company share honors with "One Good Turn' by presenting pre-senting a dancing carnival that is more than pleasing. Mr Ford has four clever and pretty young rirl. with him and the troupe give a gram of dancing with four handsome changes of scene that wins continuous continu-ous applause. The Landry Brothers present one of the finest exhibitions of strenRtii and aerial acrobatic ki!l seen here in many months. Rouble Sims furnishes considerable amusement in his eccentric sketch. "A Pipce of Chalk." "A little Talk He is a good cartoonist and with hi" drawing contributes some patter and songs in an exceptionally funny manner. man-ner. Delmore and Light, "The Ragtime Aristocrats." follosv a well worn path but please with somf clevei jano playing and original BOhgS t'laude and Marion Clereland tn9 latter easily one of the best natural comediennes on the vaudeville stage, give a brief bit of entertainment that would orove a tonic for almost any case of blues. |