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Show THEATRES J Excellent Bill Offered for Closing Week of Vaudeville Unusually entertaining vaudeville is offeit-d by the Pantagea circuit In this, the closln,; week at the Orpheum theatre. thea-tre. From now on feature motion pictures pic-tures will be shown. Interspersed with road productions. The program describes tho Four Hards as sensational jugglers of human hu-man being. The audiences Thursday i onflrmed the statement, for tho quartet quar-tet has an entirely different act and a pi mui. urn one which holds spectators almost breathless. The usual tricks are forgotten for-gotten and new and thrilling feats take their place. They draw large and pontaneous applause. Skelly and Helt a talented couple assisted by three young girls, present a repertoire of song studies and character char-acter delineations which proved to be one of ih most pleasing of It kind In months and almost flawless In com-! com-! position. Kccentrle dancing also creates cre-ates laughter aplenty. Somewhat similar la the act of Elizabeth Eliza-beth Nelson and the Barry boys, one of whom Is In blackface. In which variety bits are moulded Into a diverting di-verting production. They also found high favor with the audience. With Just a grand piano and himself him-self Walter Hastings, a rather good looking chip with a baritone voice of remarkable clearness rind range, gives a variety of songs and contrasts the lold-tlme melodies with racy lazt. 1 'was accorded a most enthusiastic reception re-ception but time for un encore was lacking Hazel Moran. the only girl who ipr spun an s.'i-foot rope, so far as known, opens the show with a series of Teats which make tho stage cowboy look like a novice. M.ick Bennett's comedy. "Be Reasonable." Reas-onable." filled as it is with chuckles and laughs from the first foot to the last, rounds out the excellent show. |