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Show Theatres AT THE ORPHEUM Six acts without a flaw and each running a close race with the other five for headline honors Bill and Bob Milliard, who claim and display a va riety ol talent, open the bill and the impe rial Military Octette has returned to Ogden to close It. For intermediate entertainer, there is the neatest girl aei t.-en at the Orpheum Iheatre since the six Kirksmlth sisters were here, a magician, and two high class vaudeville vaude-ville stock acts. For newness of style and the pleasure pleas-ure it gave the first night andlence, the girl act wins first honors It is presented by the Bflssei Still, Hammond. Ham-mond. Lavoe and imBois, programmed as the What Four, and they wen the compliment at their first performance of being taken for local talent, the pleased patron gaining that idea from their freshness of ice and charm of appearance The stage setting, a full stago curtain of black and white, and Cloaks worn by the young ladies ;u-a ;u-a study in black and silver, giving a rarels pleasing effect to gowns select-Bd select-Bd With good taste by the designer of ihe act. Each member of the quartet quar-tet has an excellent voice for solo or quartet singing, they dance neatly and there was no alloy in the welcome thej received The Imperial Octette is always : welcome visitor, being composed of seven masters of brass instruments and an expert trap drummer, all of whom aro equally gifted as singers. To define tho degree of cleverness achieved by Herbert Brooks in the manipulation of playing cards would exhaust the 6upplv of Webster's superlatives. super-latives. Card manipulating as entertainment enter-tainment is older than vaudev ille yet Brooks has something in this line that others of his profession seen here havo failed to show. This not only saves the act from being monotonous, but makes it one of headline caliber. For good measure, he makes the audience audi-ence virtually gap with amazement with a cabinet trick that is more mystifying mys-tifying than Harde.en's water can trick. His talking accompaniment to all of the tricks is unusually witty and entertaining. en-tertaining. Prince and Deerie got into the good graces of yesterday's Orpheum audi- encesi Beemingrj without an effort, be Ing a happ mal person and a 1 barm" inc young lady. Both have good voices and use them in several novelty duets with fine effect. Prince leads bis auditors into frequent irresistible bursts of laughter, with a chortle of bj own and adds fuel to tho flame of merriment by singing funny songs. This duo is as good as has yet been i seen at the Orpheum. Ed Correlli and Charles C.iletie en tertain with Borne skillful tumbling, ! funny dialogue ami a song or two, all 'of which U good stuff," and wins applause ap-plause and laughter. Bob Milliard in the curtain raising act performs some unusual feats of skill and daring on a bicycle and sings la song With his brother Bill. Bill is an eccentrii comedian, as well as a trick cyclist and his quips and actions ac-tions provoke wholesome laughter. |