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Show Theatres AT THE ORPHEUM. Heading the first Morris-Cort vaudeville vau-deville road show, Eva Tanguay, the enigma of the American light entertainment enter-tainment stage, breezed through two performances at the Orpheum theatre yesterday and sent both audiences home wondering whether they liked her or not. Summing up the description descrip-tion in word and action that the star, who "put on tights and her name went up In electric lights," gives of herself in several song numbers and I lapsing into her own stage vernacular, vernacu-lar, Miss Tanguay is the supreme "nut" of vaudeville. She is also, evidently, evi-dently, a firm believer in the axioms, "Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone" and "If you don't toot your own horn, nobody else will." In the latter belief, be-lief, if it does exist under her towzled yellowish hair, she Is wrong for she could recruit a willing army of horn blowers in any community she has favored with a visit. The comedienne, in the course ot the years, has, with others, discovered discov-ered herself an Interesting subject to elucidate, so she makes "Eva" the theme of several songs that make clear that she is not nearly as crazy as she acts. She has some other songs too, built to tell how much she knows of human nature and she sings them with a voice remindful of that of a baseball fan who has just concluded con-cluded attendance at a world's series. Her voice but let's think of something some-thing pleasant her personality, for instance. With this, she kept her local audience a bit tired from a show aTlout one act too long interested inter-ested until the final curtain. Of course, the way Bhe clothes her per-son-ality had something to do with it, though her costumes were not nearly near-ly as bizarre as the company litho-ghapher litho-ghapher would have the public believe. be-lieve. They were of models aB unique as the temperament of their wearer and as pleasing to look upon. Miss Tanguay's individual act came as the closing course of a vaudeville feast "de luxe" and was along the breezy lines that have given her fame, with her costumes, figure and personality per-sonality combining to keep the audience audi-ence interested. She talked, sang(?). laughed, cavorted, etc., etc., through six numbers, with as many changes of dress and each time drew hearty laughter and applause from the auditors. audi-tors. As dessert to the feast, the Btar, with the eminent comedian, Charles J. Ross and an actress not named on the program, presented a travesty on "Salome." This was done in an elaborate elab-orate and artistic stage setting and, aside from Its humorous trend, gave Miss Tanguay opportunity for some dancing. ' The Morris-Cort entertainfent on the whole contained almost enough material for two shows, allowing for encores demanded but not given, as U10 seven acts preceding Miss Tanguay's Tan-guay's performance were all of high class, These Included a position on the program for Lullus Lenzberg and his orchestra. Lenzberg 1b a violinist and composer of note, in addition to being an orchestra director and his organization which supplanted the regular Orpheum musicians yesterday, yester-day, made one of the biggest hits ot the entertainment with an intermission intermis-sion program. Leddy and Leddy, hippodrome clowns, opened the bill, the Bolivar creating much laughter with his reckless reck-less antics and his partner winning hearty applause for some, remarkable somer-saulting. An appreciated pianlstlc treat was 1 next given by Don C. Alfonzo Ze-laya, Ze-laya, a musician who has fitted his ' superior talent to accord with popu-I popu-I lnr tastes. Another genuine artist . is M. Rudinoff, who creates a picture. Another genuine artist was M. Rudinoff, Ru-dinoff, who created a picture that caused the audience to marvel, on a blackened canvas with naught but his bare hands and a small brush without paint for toolB. And then to display his versatility he gave a whistling imitation of a nightingale courtship and of other birds to the great delight of his auditors. The sketch of the evening was "Just Like a Woman," presented by the author, Charles J. Ross, and the same actress who assisted in the "Salome" travesty and who Is comely come-ly enough to give almost any star jealous moments. It was admirably enacted and, having both serious and humorous lines and situations cleverly clever-ly worked out, was well .received. Wober, Beck and Frazler, trio of iriale cabaret entertainers won enthusiastic enthu-siastic favor, with a program of high speed character songs and impersonations. impersona-tions. They have good voices and one member of the trio is an adept rag pianist. Charles and Anna Wartana, tho former a premier juggler and the latter a shapely assistant, completed the bill and their act was on an equal plane with the others. |