The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-22

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| With every act "A good one, the Or
pheum theater began the last week of
the season OF 1910-l1 yesterday. The
bill this week has two stem winding acts
and several others that arc excellent
Claude Gillingwater's comedy sketch.
The Awakening OF Minerva is clever
" presented Gillingwatcr wrote the
sketch himself and he put into 1t deal
OF good comedy. Gili;ngwater takes the
part OF a sculptor whose marble statue
comes to life while his wife and his
mother-in-law are absent from the house.
She is still alive and on the job when
they return. Seeing that the marble
woman. the wife and the mother-in law
naturally have a righteous kick coming,
in oil. Happily for the sculptor, 1t is all
only n dream-and he's mighty bloomin
glad 1t Is The part of Minerva, the
statue, Is taken by Miss Teresa Dale
ton. Miss Carlyn Sterltz makes an ideal
wife and Miss Katherine Cherry "A typi-
cal joke book mother-in law. The da
logue is bright and snappy and the situa
tions complex enough 10 keep the audi
ence in state of keen expectancy
throughout.
The unmstakabe atmosphere of tho
ld-time minstrel surrounds and perme-
ates The Town Hall Minstrels. put on
by Coakley. Hanvey and Dunlevy. The
interlocutor, the end men. bones and
tambourine are in their accustomed
places. There are jokes. fresh off the
bat, and when the season of jokes ends
Is sSGa sSne 5g sSnE 6uncNy M ben old
Moonlight" is an offering by Coakley. and
Hanvey sings I'D Rather Have q Girlie
Than an Automobile" There is a grand
and Coakley dance the time -houored
) dances of the minstrel. and altogether
the act is genuinely good,
The Robert DE Mont trio. composed OF
one timber young man and two agile
young women. give an acrobatic perform
ance that is all such an act should be.
swiftness and make much of line of
handspringing that is really astonishing.
| A girl who can sing is Elsa Ward. She
and Hirschcl Hcndler. at the piano. have
Is endowed with rare voice, remark
ably clear and wide of range. The clas-
are sung by Miss Ward with good cf-
feet Hendler plays the piano well.
He won high favor with the audience
by giving Nevin's My Rosary with an
Robinson Ncwbold has some extraor
dinary representations OF famous come
dams. His imitation OF Raymond Hitch
cock is pronounced success and his
impersonation Of Perclval Knight with
THE Arcadians" is astonishingly true.
Miss, Marie Grbbin also does something
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we'll and Is charming young woman.
Leroy and Paul have bar perform
ancc away beyond the ordinary. Both
are athletes of exceptional strength and
y ability and their comedy Is not half
bad.
I One Of the acts scheduled on the Or
pheum bill is The Great orpheus." ''The
Great Orpheus" missed railroad connec-
tions and was not on the card last night,
: but he is expected TO be ON deck today.
He is said to be wonderful imitator.
| Iytt,Ya flaw caIa &c
the offering of Willard Weihc's orchestra
at The intermission. II was exquisitely
done,
at the Garrick for this week. A more
appropriate name would be Teeth Its
: a story OF the loss OF four false teeth
mostly. But there are some clever bits
, OF acting along throughout the piece that
makes even so simple a story laughablc
and enjoyable; There are just a fe"
say prosy. not exactly tiresome,-but the
clevcrness with which these places arc
reached. and ,brdged by the company
keeps the audience satisfied.
} BILLY" is an eX-football hero. In the
last game OF the season by masteriu
play he wins for his college team with
a serious loss to Billy. who can't endure
the artificial teeth he is forced 10 wear
} For six weeks after the game he never
: leaves home for fear some OF his friend;
more especially his girl friends-might
: discover his loss. lie wants to. stay til
he is accustomed to wearing the teeth
, However the task becomes tiresone anc
= and with his sister for company boards
the good ship Florida. AS IL happens
the, girl he loves, Beatrice. With her
mother. boards the same boat. Just as
he is about to tell her of his misfortune
, which he does in an awkward way. some
one .jostes him and he. loses the teeth
He has gone far enough with his story
TO leave The impression that he has had
I a past. that four women have figured
in his life. Already warned py her moth
|. er, Beatrice believes ho is about TO con.
icsS his career. She leaves as he is
searching for his teeth. Sam Eustace
another lover Of Beatrice, takes advan'
: tase of the situation and presses his
suit by misrcprcsentns Billy.
The play goes through with awkward
situations pillng ND until the exasper'
ated Billy with n second light finds Beat
rice's mothers teeth in the window o
her state room and takes them. In the
; meantime Alice, Bily's sister. finds hi!
= teeth among other lost articles on the
ship. Soon an auction Is started. The
auctioncer cries teeth" and Billy be
gins 10 bid. However. by that time San
! has been sent on The hunt for the tectl
! Of his beloved mother and the two bic
against each other Billy gets his teetf
for $1,000 and taking the stolen set from
his pocket restores them to their owner
who is under tho impression that he has
sallantly recovered them for her, A.
the curtain goes down Beatrice goes tc
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l Il pleasant task he has been unable tc
\ do with his four upper front teeth gone
i The company. headed by Miss MaudC
, Fealy. gives a jolly production OF Billy
Besides carrying IL moral-kecp you'
a front teeth fast-the play gives those
Y who sec It a jolly good laugh. Needles:
to say the usual good first night crowt
attended. The piece should have n goot
| run this week,
Faust" with Miss Fesly as Mar.
guerite. Is announced tor next week.
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: The Colonial was filed several time:
= yesterday win motion picture enlhusi'
asts and there were many more VIII,