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Show 1 THEATERS' AT THE ORPHEUM. "Contrary Mary," another W. E. Newman production, presenting a company of Salt Lako'B talented players, play-ers, is tho headline offering at tho Orpheum theatre this week. In form it Is an oporetta, composed by Miss Vera Eldredge, a sister of J. U. El-dredge, El-dredge, manager of the Evaminer, and provides about 25 minutes of excellent ex-cellent entertainment and servos to introduco to Ogden playgoers in the title rolo, Peggy Austin, a Salt Lake girl, who first won fame in the role of "Peggy Brady," in tbe successful comic opera "The Isle of Bong" several sev-eral years ago. Miss Austin is, first, the possessor of a soprano voice, clear toned, strong and of wide range, and with it the mannor that makes for success in comic opera, whether In complete or tabloid form. She Is a pleasing actress, act-ress, and also dances well. For Miss Austin's principal support in the operetta, oper-etta, Mr. Newman has been fortunate in securing "Jack" Summerhays Utah's nowest tenor, who made his first appeal to local music lovers In a similar play several weeks ago and cementod his welcome by his brilliant brilli-ant singing In the principal role of "La Traviata," presented last week at the Orpheum by the Lucy Gates Grand Opera company In his latest character, that of Jack White, he is heard to good advantage in a couple of solos and several ensemble numbers. num-bers. Morgan Davis carries the principal comedy role, reading the lines of "Dick Holes" in an entirely capable manner, and, with Miss Fay Putnam, a chic and pretty blonde, shares the honors of the secondary role. A chorus of eight girls, well trained in singing and dancing, completes the company. One of the most pleasing features of the operetta is that it is prettily staged and costumed. The libretto and scores are excellent, and Miss Eldredge. who, dressed In a dainty domino, adds to the production produc-tion the novelty of leading the orchestra orches-tra herself, is entitled to congratulations. congratula-tions. Her work proves her to be a most talented composer and the Standard predicts for her a bright future fu-ture on the stage The five Pantages offerings from more distant places, that are on the program with "Contrary Mary," all furnish good entertainment. In point of skill, Lalla Selblnl tops the list. She is a Parislenno, which, means considerable as vaudeville goes. Known as the "Venus on Wheels," and proves herself an expert trick cyclist She also sings a song or two in a vivacious "French" manner and otherwise entertains the audience with a mystifying feat of legerdemain. legerde-main. Innes and Ryan, in a stock act, furnished fur-nished a quarter of an hour of hilarious hila-rious amusement. The lady member of the duo Is a comedienne of the carefree type that makes an immediate immedi-ate and continuous "hit" with an audience au-dience and makes several changes of gowns that Interest the ladles. Casey Ca-sey and Ashley, "PlanophoolB," present pre-sent a program of duets, on two Instruments In-struments that win hearty applause. Both are experts and their act provides pro-vides a pleasing change, Sullivan and Mason, two entertainers entertain-ers of minstrel quality, have a little trouble In breaking the "ice," but when their dialogue gets along it "goes." Sullivan also has a lyric tenor ten-or voice that yesterday's audiences could have heard more of with pleasure. pleas-ure. Last, but not least, is Karl Emmy and his Pots, an experienced animal trainer, and a troupo of trained train-ed terriers and a "clown" poodle. Their act is admirably staged and is an exceptionally meritorious and interesting in-teresting one of its kind. AT THE ALHAMBRA'. It may be sacrilege to say it, in view of the fact that Mrs. Leslie Carter Car-ter was on an Alhambra "Orpheum" program a couple of woeks ago, but the vaudeville bill that opened at the Alhambra yesterday is the most satisfying sat-isfying that has yet been seen at the Hudson avenue playhouse: But, then, Mrs. Carter is "in" vaudeville, not "of" it. There are two acts, at least, or rather, entertainers, on the program that will likely be long remembered by local vaudeville patrons. They aro Nana Sterling, of Lohso and Sterling, Ster-ling, and Charles Howard, of Charles Howard and company. An attempt to describe Miss Sterling would be plagiarism, for the press agent has said about all that is possible. Suffice Suf-fice it to say that the description probably fell short of being perfect, judging from the admiring comment that was heard at the performances yesterday afternoon and evening Physically, Miss Sterling, who Is a 19-year-old Texas girl, is said to be the only woman in the world having a perfect sex ratio. Added to this, she is one of a duo of the most ox-pert ox-pert bar and trapezo performers that has ever been seen in this part of tho country. She essays feats of strength Vihlch are remarkable, while her partner, Lohse, presents some ohyslcal attractions possessed by of unusual daring. Aside from the Miss Sterling, the act of herself and partner Is a splendid one. They received re-ceived hearty applause. Charley Howard Is a comedian, who might be termed an equilibrist, for as a balancer of his own body, he stands alone His present vehicle Is called "A Happy Combination," and In it he essays a walk that, to say the least, for amusement purposes, makes Charlie Chaplin's fade almost out of memory. He is seen In the role of a "souse" and, when not walking, either talks, sings or expresses himself him-self in some other way equally as funny and when tho act closes, the audience is still holding its sided. Howard Is ably assisted In the sketch by Margaret Taylor and Kernan Cripps, both clever vaudevilllans. Queenle Dunedln, an athletic young lady opens tho program very successfully. success-fully. She is an entertainer of numerous nu-merous capabilities of widely differing differ-ing nature, proving her title of "A Variety Girl" well chosen. First she makes a hit with a song and dance, then does give a skillful performance on tho slack wire and closes her act as a trick cyclist Her work throughout through-out is well received. Toots Paka, the Hawaiian girl and her male quartet of fellow countrymen country-men present a program of vocal and Instrumental music that is unusually pleasing. Ono of the men is a remarkably re-markably expert guitar player and his solos made a big hit Tho "Hula Hula" dance, however, though undoubtedly un-doubtedly a skillful exhibition of the torpsichorean art, should have no place in refined vaudeville. Our old friends Charley and Fanny Van are also on tho Dill this week, very much so in fact In a stock act, this couple is hard to beat and their sketch, "A Caso of Emergency," Emergen-cy," is funny enough to have been prepared by Charley himself. They furnish, a quarter of an hour of irresistible irre-sistible amusement. Jed and Ethel Dooley, singly and together, entertain with a 'Variety program, pro-gram, making use of Just themselves in modern songs and dances, a lariat and bicycles. Their work is high class and was enthusiastically received re-ceived A rare musical treat Is given by Vi-olinsky, Vi-olinsky, who is not only a master of the violin, but also of the piano. After winning encore calls for solos on both instruments, ho plays a violin and piano duet In perfect tune and time. The motion picture travelogue this week is interesting and somo special music by tho orchestra Is also en-Joyed. en-Joyed. Harry Millarde, who produced the three-act drama, "The Net of Deceit," secured some unusually thrilling scenes for this production through cooperation co-operation with General John Foster of the Florida National Guard. Thanks to General Foster, Millarde was en v abled to film a submarine mine ex plosion, among other unusual scenes Bell-ans Absolutely Removes t; Indigestion. 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