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Show Theatres AT THE ORPHEUM. There are two acts on the Pantages hill this week which seem to divide judgment for popularity. They are ihe Denishawn dancers and Billy King's colored folks. The former Is quite the essence of refined nature U . .!..! ,l .1.. U.llJl IIJK, W in U I Mill, rtlC-UI ILI HIIU CIl'V er. Billv King and his "gemmun" and ladies present a rattling good page from minstrelsy and musical extravaganza extrava-ganza which is very meritorious. The dancers are one of the" classes s nt from the school of Ruth SL Denis and Ted Shawn. The pupils show the skill of the masters, surely. There are a half dogen graceful maidens and they interpret many different kinds of dances. One which made a distinct impression whs the Egyptran dance. (TThe costuming of this iealure was superb su-perb The Zulu girls, which Billy Kmc calls his bevy of dusky -skinned ladies, la-dies, and the Zulu men, which it is presumed he calls his male adherents, blend their voices in choral singing with splendid success. Several in the troupe have top-notch vocal ability Besides the singing, Billy and his supporters sup-porters keep up a running fire of comedy com-edy and fun and the pantomime carried car-ried out is excellent Billy's trousers and coat are the marvel of the cannibals canni-bals whom he meets and they run off several humorous tricks. After these two big acts, Oweri & Moore struck the auaience as the chief entertainers. This act opened up in usual fashion but before it finished the house was roaring. These two clowns know how to grind out humor and they struggle away with some pretty funny jokes, dance a little, and sing a couple of snappy songs. The Sleiner due, really a trio, handled han-dled the curtain raiser with a bag full of horizontal bar tricks which pleased the house. The boys showed themselves to possess a good supply of muscle and nerve and several feats they performed were quite marvelous. Lawrence Johnson is here this week wilh bis extra voice. Lawrence places a dummyon his knee and talks with him quite volubly. In fact he is a ventriloquisi ami maki B the dummy-tell dummy-tell several stories which tickle certain cer-tain portions of the house, which in, .1 us 1 In w link 1 hint;. Vent riloquil DTJ is an old vaudeville leader but Law rence dresses his contribution up nicely nice-ly and gives several minutes of pretty good entertainment. For films the shew this week is quite well supplied. A picture showing show-ing the salmon fishing industry on 1 h Columbia is one of the most interesting. inter-esting. At the conclusion, a weekly news report is shown, 00 |