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Show f "ME WALKED D SLEEP" GALtS FORTH ! htyippke Frankly advertised as a farce, "She ( Walked In Hei Sleep' lived up tn its, title last night at the- Orpheum theatre, thea-tre, and kept r fairly well-filled bouse 111 roars of laughter throughout the entire three acts of its production The! author has not looked for. worked, nor pxpected that anybody would go crazy about the craftsmanship of his play nor the wonder of his book He et out to make people lmich and has done ft without too greatly either exercising their imaginations or shocking their susceptibilities. So great was the laughter Inst nicht that whole sentences sen-tences of dialogue were lost in the hearty enthusiasm of the house's Daphne Arnold played by Agnes Teppson. is a young ladv who walks S in her slepp and on one of her somnambulistic som-nambulistic journeys is the innocent occasion of a good deal of trouble for illiam Bruce, played by Paul Nichol- son, whose wife, Maude Bruce, played by Frances Williams, is jealous and H suspicious and ready to think the worst. Mamie Cassidy. maid of the Ca en-dish en-dish hotel, the star part of the plav. and acted by Miss Norton, is called in to help out the dreadful tangle and contrives by h-r antics to make matters mat-ters Mill considerably worse There was sufficient plot in the play to banc the humor on and nothing more, but the humor of ihe whole i ibing was so good as to justify the thinness of the plot. In an excellent east the honors went to Miss Norton, and Mr Nicholson, the only weak impersonation to our mind being that of Dr. Keith, played by Norman Houston, who did not seem L at home in bis slender part. Content with B piny that aroused the heartiest laughter, the audience uap. none too critical of its ver apparent ap-parent weaknesses and went home p' r- y fectly satisfied that Mr floss; had kepi the faith of his early promise that this was to be a good show season for the city of Ogden |