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Show THEATERS AT THE ORPHEUM. Pantages vaudeville patrons, whe gathered in large numbers at the Or pheum theatre yesterday during show lime, were gh en a treat very mud out of the the ordinary by the Scoeli not Scoulle daucers There are thirteen dancers in the troupe, nint girls and four men The act is presented pre-sented by Benjamin Scovei., a nephew ne-phew of the late Sir Henry Irving, and in it Madame Scovell is featured. It is easily the most protentious dancing danc-ing act that has been seen In the city, being a miniature version of a Drury Lano theatre ballet performance. Madame Ma-dame Scovell was premier dansuese when her husband was playing small parts and studying dramatic art under un-der his famous uncle, and to the act in which both are seen this week at the Orpheum la given that touch of distinction that comes for foreign for-eign training in stage work. The company was recruited in Los Angeles. The girls are -genuinely pleasing of. face and figure and, under un-der the tutlage of Madame Scovell, have become expert too dancers. The men are equally well trained and the program given is one of classic dances beautiful in their rythmis expression of cultured grace and the poetry of motion. All of the dances are enthusiastically en-thusiastically received and Madame Scovell wins merited applause on her own account, with some solo numbers ind with a partner. The act is beau-ifully beau-ifully staged and handsomely cos-umed. cos-umed. Tet to the Scovell dancers, in the nerit of his act is Royal Gasciognes, nd iu his act the value of foreign raining is again shown. He is a jug-ier, jug-ier, and the best entertainer of his vpe that has been sent to Ogden over he "three-a-day" circuit. His jug-iling jug-iling in eludes an exhibition of Urengtlf as well as skill, his final eat being to balance his young lady distant, seated in a chair, on his orohead. Throughout the act, Gasciognes Ga-sciognes keeps up a steady volley of 'asides" that creat continuous 'aughter Will H Armstrong is with us again this week and his chicle "The Bag-gagmeman" Bag-gagmeman" is a lonp ways from be !ng broken down. With two attractive ?irls as foils, Armstrong makes as big i hit as ever. The "business' and libretto li-bretto of, the musical farce, so called, ias been cleverly worked out and Vrmsirong and "company" make tho most of their opportunity. Ra. Lawrence, who makes several changes of costume in' full view of the audience, is a big surprise. He is unusually clever impersonator and sings several songes in a carefully cultivated cul-tivated falsetto voice of- Mezzo-soprano quality. His work is worth while, both .having fairly good voices and some new songs and patter to work with Archer makes an indi-tdual indi-tdual hit witli tho song, "I Love You, America.'' and his partner does likewise like-wise with several chararter Imitations Imita-tions Lazar and Dale in "Blackville Cabaret," create much laughter with a dialogue containing some new questions ques-tions and answers and continue their work with somo funny "stuff on a violin, French horn and a piano. The two are blackface comedians of more than ordinary abllitj'-. |