The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-20
ADJUSTMENTS

HE most eccentric taste in vaudeville
cannot help being pleased MT the bill
which opened at the Orpheum theater
Yesterday. The numbers run the entire
Samut of acts. There is provided music
or the classical variety and music of
the simple and ragtlmc order; there is
sketch OF the deep. emotional character.
and the act with the comedy vein most
prominent there is a trio OF jugglers and
a pair OF acrobats. a group of singers
that smack Of foreign climes and young
woman who sings songs that typi
cally American and a set Of globe -trot
ting movies 10 complete the progra ntpe.
Blanche Walsh In The Countess Ma
dine has vehicles which provides am
pie opportunity for emotional acting and
yet does not involve the problem sit
uation so often indulged In by writer's of
sketches. Briefly, the plot OF tho piece
has TO do With the trailing by the Coun-
tess Nadine of the slayer Of her husband.
Tho trail leads her to n corner OF the
Russian empire near the German border
and the scene Is set In the room Of the
countess in "A hotel where, that night. II
is planned to arrest Paul Orloff
The winning of Pauls love for the nur-
pose of later betrayine him to the Rus
sian police is the revenge planned By the
countess. But In the process she finds
TINT she has come TO love Orloff and as
that by some means he may be able TO
prove his innocence.
All OF which is impressed upon the aud
ience I'm less time than II takes TO tell
IL. The injection Of n love -rnaddened Of
flcer nf the Russian army into the action
Of the piece provides the means for tho
working ont OF the plot which involves
the arrest and subsequent escape of Paul.
Aside from Miss Walsh. the playing OF
her associates has tho finish only pro-
duced by careful rebearsals and study of
The parts portrayed The act moves along
with ma turaTness that carries the aud
fence from one situation TO the next with
a realization that each chara cter has done
tina thing expressed that thought
which most properly meets the require
ments of the moment.
Ethel McDonough Is programmed as n
popular singer OF popular songs. Certa In
y, the songs arc popular in tho sense that
many other singers have used them, and
Miss McDonough'a popularity is best at
tested by the fact that she was applaud
ed most heartily. Even the fact that her
spot" on the bill Immediately preceded
Miss Walsh did not have tho usual ef-
feet OF putting a blanket on the applause.
The opening music for The Countess OF
Nadine, was stopped I'm order to give
the little singer one more bow.
The Partisan street singers In roper
toire Of French and italian songs and an
accordion solo by one OF the trio were
the three men have excellent voices which
were employed to especial advantage
when they were singing together.
Elsa Ruegger, cellIst, hardly needs an
Introduction to Salt Lake audiences. Her
rendition of three numbers last night was
applaudcd TO the echo Miss Ruegger is
accompanied in her numbers by the or
chestra under the leadership of her own
conductor, Edmund Llchtenstein.
j. 9. Nugent In comedy sketch The
Regular depends for a climax upon the
Introduction OF one OF tho principal ten
cts Of n national fraternaI organization.
Aside from the aforesaid principle and
small amount OF comedy the act is OF or
dlnary caliber
The three Juggling Milers, club swing
ers: Dave Lane and Charles O'Donneil,
pictures complete the programme