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Show AT THE ORPHEUM. The Panlages bill at the Lyceum this week is is well, It is an average, aver-age, probably a little above the average aver-age vaudeville show. You will like it if your digestion is right; if not, you may like it anyway. Tho paid admissions last night gave the most vigorous approval to the efforts ef-forts of Finley & Hill, presenting "Vodvll a la Mode" and, as is customary, custo-mary, tho paid admissions were right. The number was not scintillatingly luminous lu-minous but it was refreshingly new, and therefore pleased. Paid admissions are not especially looking for anything any-thing heavy in vaudeville they only want something out of the ordinary and Finloy & Hill gave it to themi They sang new gingery songs; had a line of'talk that was pleasing; and did some acting a la amusement section sec-tion of tho old time debating societies and passed on for tho next number. The next number also happened to be bell ringer in the genius of Jan Rubina, violinists, marked on tho program pro-gram as "the wonderful Swedish violinist," vio-linist," and ho probably is. His work was about the same as other vaudeville vaude-ville violinists more than ordinarily good. It is suggested that his manager man-ager advise him that it is unnecessary to shy at barbershops any longer merely becauso he Is a good fiddler tho time has passed when harmonies and long hairs go together. That is only an interpolation but it is believed be-lieved a, tonsorialist would help the act George Primrose, the Tim Murphy of minstrelsy, of course was interesting.. interest-ing.. George Primrose has been Interesting Inter-esting to millions for the last couple of generations. The littlo hop-step-and-jump 4hat he did last nlghP, how-over, how-over, should not be mistaken by the youth- who might have been in the audience as entirely representative of George Primrose. He did that just to let tho spectators see him he is in semi -retirement Georgo Primrose is always welcome to any American theater attendance he has made more people happy than 90 per cent of the rest of actordom combined and reckoned reck-oned in laughs he has Mark Twain, Georgo Ado and BUI Nye all backed off- the boards for totals. He was given tho glad hand and very properly proper-ly so for there never was but one George Primrose aDd there will never bo another one. .His supporting company com-pany was worth foe. Senator Francis Murphy The All- Senator got by in laudable shape. His vernacular suggeated the Hebrew Avhile his labeling and his make-up suggested the Irish. An Irish-Jew is an oil-and -water compound and one or the other should be edited out. Tom Kyle and company In "The Doctored Widow" and Martlette's - Marionettes pleased. , AT THE ALHAMBRA. It would be hard to find a more winsome, win-some, charming or mlschovious barbarian bar-barian than Vivian Martin, who Is appearing ap-pearing now at the Alhambra theater in "A Fair Barbarian." She is as charming as she is petite and sprightly but her "barbarism" was just a little too much for even the gallant but world weary captain who thought he would marry her. It took an American Ameri-can to appreciate Octavia and he didn't oven hesitate to get his face all muddled up in kissing her. Who would at least If he were an American? The English seem to stop on tho funniest fun-niest conventionalities and a little mud doesn't spoil a real kiss. Most everyone knows the story of the "Fair Barbarian," how an American Ameri-can girl goes from Bloody Gulch, Nevada, Ne-vada, to England and throws consternation conster-nation into the precise Cranfordlan society so-ciety which is the habitat of her aunt But most everyone ought to see Vivian Viv-ian Martin act this little story to really appreciate it Even she could not dent the English society in which she found herself however, or make it think of her anything any-thing except that she was a barbarian. So she gave up and came back to Am-erica Am-erica where a man can laugh if he wants to. It is an excellent bill and also has Fred Opper's animated cartoons. oo |