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Show oo i Theatres AT THE ORPHEUM Two big acts, "Birth of the Rose" and "Motor Madness," hold the Pnn-tagos Pnn-tagos vaudeville bill that opened at the Orpheum theatre yesterday toother, to-other, one oilier being passably good, two mediocre and the sixth novel. "The Birth of the Rose" Is a classic terpsichorean feast in a most effective stage setting. To an enchanting orchestral or-chestral melody as tho curtain lifted disclosing a sylvan scene with a waterfall wat-erfall In a central position, a group of eight well-formed girls dance with the carefree abandonment of elves through a big number in perfect time. Then the falling wnter is parted and another maid steps forth. She begins a solo dance in the course of which a sleeping sleep-ing youth, disclosed by a spotlight, is v awakened and a terpsichorean flirtation flirta-tion follows: This is terminated when out of the forest glade glides a serpent, personified personi-fied by a clover danseuso, whoso sinuous sin-uous movements fascinato the youth. Her touch Is the blast of death to both girl and boy nnd they fall into their Inst long sleep as mortals, tp reawaken re-awaken in the denouement as beautiful rosea. This begins with the entrance of the butterfly, personified by another skilled dancer, and following her solo tho maids of tho forest again come into tho scene. Another big ensemble dance closes the act, the "birth of the rose" immediately' preceding the fall of the curtain. Miss Rao Snell and Gladys Harrison, tho featured solo dancers, are finished exponents of tho classic art and the members of the ballet have also been admirably trained. The act waB well reecived. The tltlo "Motor Madness" well describes de-scribes the second big act, which Is quite the most daring aerial act that has yet been staged here. It is an en-1 ,tirely new Idea for aerial entertain-1 ment and two of the participants take great chances of injury. They seem to bo without nerves (not nerve), and their work is startling in its nature. The equipment of tho act consists of a revolving motorcycle track suspended suspend-ed from the stage celling down to a point just below the top of the proscenium pro-scenium arch, and from it are hung two sets of trapeze. Two men on motorcycles mo-torcycles set the contraption going and keep it in swift motion, while a man and a woman perform all manner man-ner of tricks on the trapeze, which swing almost straight out in tho air as the machinory revolves. Their skill and daring was enthusiastically applauded ap-plauded last night Mile. Amoros and Ben Mulvey do a song and nance act that proclaim both high class entertainers In their particular partic-ular line. The lady is a finished dan-seuse dan-seuse of .the French type and her partner part-ner a good comedian and a graceful dancer. The auditors applaud Harry Rose in tho hope that ho will favor them with a real song and are disappointed. This vaudevlllian has a tenor voice that local lo-cal vaudeville patrons would rave over If they could hear it In two or three numbers, but he prefers to make his act one of scraps, including smut, which amuses and wins some applause, but fails to satisfy. Friend and Downing, who term themselves them-selves comedians, put over a lot of old stuff, songs and patter, some parodies par-odies that should be strictly censored and then beg for applause. The novel act is presented by Leroy and Douglass Loishman, substituting for ono of the vaudeville acts that was closed yesterday afternoon. It Is a demonstration of the Leroy Leishman electro-photograph transmitter and tho results attained create much interest. |