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Show uu - AT THE ORPHEUM. If Joe Goss could secure vaudeville bills for his Pantages theater of the merit of this week's bill, and secure them every week, he would have the most enthusiastic, crowd of supporters entering his theater that he ever greeted. greet-ed. In short the show is good. It is of that merit wh;ch pleases the most refined taste, for the operatic selections selec-tions and popular numbers of the Gul-liana Gul-liana trio are a breath from the metropolitan metro-politan and the snappy wit and up-to-date foolishness of .he Kane and Herman Her-man lads appeals to "anyone not too dignified to let himself out and laugh. This bill is a corker. It is usually said that the season's openers are the best bills of the year, but it is not within (he power of Ogden people to recall a show of better class given by the Pantages Pan-tages circuit this year. One thing which formed a delectable diversion was the absence of the usual frowsy, glrly, googly, leg show. These shows are all right, but when one is greeted by them each week It grows monotonous. monoton-ous. It would be hard to choose a winner and Herman boys. To those who like opera and .good singing the choice would not waver long around the Kane and Herman act But those who are effervescing with up to the minute pep and keenness would take most pleasure from the Kane and Herman stuff. The Gulliana act stands out as the bit of refinement and worthiness' of the whole bill and the singers have the estimable es-timable grace and wisdom to exclude rag timo and Its atmosphere Irom their Gangs. They sing from grand opera in their native tongue, Italian, and then render a popular ballad in English. Last night they sang "Mother Ma-chree" Ma-chree" and they sang it with the rare interpretation and delicate sympathy of McCorraack. And their grand opera singing was splendid. The voices combine com-bine baritone, tenor and soprano, the unsurpassed trio of vocal artistry. It Is a pleasure to see an actor who can let his voice speak for himself and does not havo to imitate a victim of St. Vitus dance to convey tho meaning that he is singing. Tho Gullianas merely mere-ly stand on the stago and sing, but one gets, the message with all his receptive recep-tive powers, and knows they are singing, sing-ing, and that they know how to sing. The Kane and Herman boys, to enter another vein, keep the audience rocking with laughter. They bring with them an air of the big city and its care free cussedness and as examples exam-ples of a couple of happy "stews" get tho sympathy and applause of all. These boys are clever, indeed thoy are; It could not bo said of them that they allow their act to drag or grow monotonous. monot-onous. They keep up a rapid-firo run of funny stuff, dance a bit and sing a little. They mix a ragtime cocktail combining the vigor of an ounce of nl-tro-glycorlno and the strength of a discarded dis-carded pipe and tell tho audience in a funny song of their concoction. These boys deserved a good reception and they got it Those who went with the avowed intention of calling the show "rotten" came away with a broad grin and tho conviction that it. was great. Truly it was no act for a pessimist, pessi-mist, for ho would lose his life's philosophy phil-osophy after sitting in to a session with tho Kane and Herman fellows. Now comes nutty Charley A hern with his gang of slapstick hoodlums in his act of clownishnoss and acrobatic acro-batic skill. This boy has the right idea of making people catch their breath and then laugh. Ho nonchalantly nonchal-antly rides headlong at the audience and Just as his bicycle front wheel is scraping the pianist's head, he turns and glides away. He has a lot of funny fun-ny mechanical contraptions, one of which, a hula-hula dancpr, is a roar. With Charley is a vlollniste of rare ability. Technique and interpret" tion are not strangers to this little lady by a long way and her skill alone would make a highly acceptable act on any theater Another miss wLo dances and a ragtime old con who plays drums with his whole body in motion are good features of this acl. Nelson and Nelson an two acrobats who Introduce stilts in V.ieir act with great success. They are iMever, strong, daring and cnterl.Sfng. A good acrobatic acro-batic act Is always pleasing and these gentlemen start the show with an exhibition exhi-bition of excellence. Harry Godfrey and Veta Tlenderscn have a dialogue and singing act which li entirely acceptable. They stimulate the old stunt of tho wise fellow who starts for Europe and meets the girl on the boat to whom he advertises himself him-self with great earnestness as a "-.vise guy," and then finds out that he is on the boat for Coney Island. Good motion mo-tion pictures and tho pleasing rendition rendi-tion of several orchestral numbers by Prof. Jaggers band of trained noise makers makes the bill one of general merit. |