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Show THEATRES Ancient Theatrical Art Amuses Patrons at the Orpheum Although it Is reputed to be one of the most am ll nt ol theatrical arts, tho production 'f Marietta's Manikins on the Pantages vaudeville program which opined at the rpheuin theatre thea-tre Thursday Impresses the modern day Ogden audience as one of the most entertaining. Some .of course, may know how they do It with the strings but to the great majorltv tnat holas no interest, sufficient to say that the effect Is most enjoyable, and at times exceedingly hilarious. A more pretentious offering which also goes well in "Twenty Minutes In Chinatown," an episode of the tong wars near San Francisco's old Bar-bnry Bar-bnry coast. Mingled comedy and pathos written Into the lints give an impression ut pleasant satisfaction. An unusually large company is assembled to carry out the production Ripples of laughter which grow into voluminous waves are r - -: i : 1 by Da-ls Da-ls and McCoy, a gifted comedian and his fair partner. In "Too High." An eeni which ranks high In the artistic scale is the appearance of Dor-oths Dor-oths Lewis, messo-contralto singer. who received a warm reception irom the audience Beginning with Saint-Baens' Saint-Baens' "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice' in English, MibS Bc-Wis takes a wido but brief range of songs, closing with a lullaby which i s heart touching Stewart and Bay Lawrence, styled the male I'atil and the California baritone, bari-tone, appear In ' An Artistic Cycle of Song " rhe singing of Stewart in the remale register and also the full voiced voic-ed efforts of Bawrenco are found en-Joyabk. en-Joyabk. The. latter, during an interlude, inter-lude, gives a reading of one of Ser-Vice's Ser-Vice's war poems, which la gripping in its dramatic intensity. Opening the program arc the Pour Roses, a quartet of pretty girls In a variety of dances. EuKeno O'Brien comes this week in the thrilling drama, a Prophet's J'ar-adise.". J'ar-adise.". a picture which combines exciting ex-citing incidents with an interesting love story. In addition there is screened screen-ed a comedy. 'The Baying Patient,' and the Selznick News the latter fcu-turlni? fcu-turlni? the scenes In Asia Minor where the Greek colonists are fleeing before be-fore the Turks |