The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-28
VaudevlIIe at orpheum.

The new Orpheum bill, which runs for
week beginning sunday night, is going
to be unusually good. The headlmer is
d masterpiece from the pen of Israel
ZangWlll. the brilliant and gifted He
brew English author. This is 1.-THE
Never, Never Land" 1t is given by
Helen GTantey ana u talented COM
pany, which includes James NJ. Colville
and Harry Hiiliard. Miss Grantley is
clever actress, with magnetic person
atty and charming manner. The story
of the playlet, as told by Mr.. Zangwill:
AT the moment of death, the dying
sometimes see. and live over again,
tragic event in their lives. Upon this
basis I have built up this weird, dra-
matte situation, in which a vision that
comes before the soul of a dying wo-
man Is shown upon the stage. and the
eventful happening Of her past. enacted
half century before the curtain rises.
is again revealed to her i'm all its dra-
matte and passionate intensity" This
playlet. wherever seen. has caused q
furore.
Music lovers will find in Master Leo
Filler, the Russian peasant violinist, a
surprise and a treat. He is but a mere
boy, but he plays upon his instrument
as only q master can. His principal
performance. while devoted to Suppe
or some familiar classic. yet in
cludes number of popular melodies of
the day, even ragtime, insuEng enter
tainment for all lovers of harmony and
music.
That Minstrel Man" is the title of
the Offering I'm which Frank Farrell
Taylor. Blanche Davenport and Tom
Carter appear. The two men are well
known minstrel comedians and are not
strangers in their blackface work any
where. Miss Davenport is also we'll
known. interpreted in the act is COM
edy and musical numbers. Taylor and
Carter in their instrumental numbers
are d distinct feature. but the bright
and snappy dialogue of Miss Davenport
is a show.
Everybody likes ycntriloquism, from
the small boy on the top row in the gall
leTy, to the sedate business man down
Astairs. w. Z. Whittle, the famous ven
tTiioquist, will have that end of the
work on the bill. With President
Roosevelt on the Battlefield his great
character sketch, affords MIR. Whittle
ample opportunity for the display Of his
talents In this direction. His mechan-
ical figures talk and move around with
no apparent assistance.
Flo Adler. who is so we'll known to
VdudeVillians throughout the country,
and who is especially popular in this
city, viii be with Us again. with some
selections and business that will not
only maintain her reputation. but add
greatly to it. She is wholesome mag
netic and altogether pleasing, and is d
valuable addition to the bill
In the Dietrich Brothers, athletes.
will be found a new and novel athletic
act. Not only do these people use heavy
weights with surprising ease and skill.
but in all their feats, such as pyramid
ing and the like, the heavy weights are
still i'm evidence.
George Austin Moore is the goods"
when il comes To handing out laughs
He Keeps his audience in a perpetual
road of laughter. His dialect stories and
songs are eXcruciatingly funny and he
tells and sings them in manner calcu-
lated to drive away dull care sixty sec
Onds OF every minute he is on the stage
The Orpheum orchestra will have
some more selections and overtures II
viii dispense them in its usual way.
while the kinodrome is going to flash
some really new and very interesting
feature moving pictures.