Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24
THE ROUND OF THE THEATERS

OEPHEUM-A program OF general
excellence marks the closing week of
the season at the Orpheum and it was
thoroughly enjoyed by a large audience
Monday night Their Was not a dull
moment from the time Weihe's ore
chestla rendered the march "The Gold
er West" until the final flicker NJ the
kinedrome and lights ont hy the ore
Chestra
There Is but one serious number in the
entire bin and that is not Of the kind
20 detract from the run and frolic. The
audience was greatly pleased and every
net was greeted with rounds Of APP
plauso The Hickey brothers do a
series of acrobatic fcats that even If
they are on the clownish order, are
most amazing and quite different from
anything Of the kind yet seen here.
Miss Ethyl Young, billed as the now
city vocalist. captiVated the audience
with her rich strong baritone voice.
and the contrast OF her voice 10 her
slim. trim and neat figure and dainty
gestures. was to say the least surpris-
ing She made decided hit especial
~ In her fine rendition OF Beautiful
Garden Of Roses
Miss Vcta Henderson and Harry Cod
frey have a rollicking sketch entitled
a Daughter ~ the Gods and the
fantasy keeps uu "a roar of laughter.
| TAYLOR. Kranzman and White IN mu-
cial oddities received several recalls for
their good voices and clever tmpcrsona-
tions
r. Roy Barnes. IN a breezy slSlt with
Miss Beslse Crawford THE Patent
Fakir and the Lady" stamped himself
as comedian Of rare ability Charles
r. Semon "The Narrow Fcler' gets
laugh for everything he saws and does
and his character representations and
the music he gets from freak iustru-
meuts delighted the audience.
"The Leading Lady" a brief musical
comedy. proved entirely too brief. and
there were regrets when the curtain
was rung down Marguerite Haney is
a clever and winsomc singer and dan
Ger. and Ralph Lynn as the Earl Of
Lancaster. a foppish Englishman, does
a good piece OF acting. As whole.
the bin is one OF the best witnessed at
the Orphcum during the present season.
and will no doubt leave a good impress
sion with patrons Of the theater.
COLONIAL-In these days NJ recon-
struction of business methods between
local theaters and their booking agcn-
cies IL surely ought Go occur 90 man
ayers sending attractions 10 a city like
salt Lake 20 ascertain whether or not
the play they propose tn present, had
already been worked cat BOO the local
field. Had this precautionary step
been taken, Mr. Eelasco'e company
would surely have given us something
else than est Elmo" Not even tho
cyclone Of advertising which the man
agcr discharged ahead. nor tho clever
device To- interest local charities. was
able Co ON the house. on the prescnta-
tion OF st Elmo" The reason Is that
the piece had been worn thread bare
already hy Local stock companies. and
perhaps still another is that the MGR
chants Of the city united iu on long
loud groau when the program ~ de-
scending upon them FOR stil another
contribution was unfolded
A for the artistic side ~ the pre-
sentation. only words ~ praise can be
uttered The play decidedly belongs
20 another generation. and lts many im-
probabilities caused a smile last night
here years ago they uigh, have pro-
duced "a thrill Tho spirtuellc role of
/ Edna WAS very charmingly filled by
Miss Nelson who looked the part and
read il very well throughout Mr.
Gums ST. Elmo was also well pore
traycd in spite " an occasional tenden-
cy to pose That stcrlinT actress, Miss
Woadthorpe. we'll remembered as the
Aunt in "Zaza" with Florence Roberts.
did two parts in her usually effective
fashion The other roles were &C
ceptably filled
The piece runs an the week, and to-
night We are promised that there VIII