The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07
Orpheun.

orpheum.
"L'4paehe' Is such a smashing picture
for gown rs that III stunS the women folks
Whether or not this picture makes much
Of hit with you, Dorothy Dalton and her
dimples Will. You will find her altogether
delightful to gaze upoI. and Will De fur4ous-
ly for her i'll her dealings with the villain
The theme is Il new light Gu the Apaches
of Paris but is not SO convincing Miss
Dalton is n bizarre and vofuptuous figure
ia this spasn as the Lending person OF the
piece she makes such open appeal to tbs.
the hoydeuish good humor and square
ness with which she manages to invest
the role She faseinatss me with her quick
changes of mood and expression Never
have / seen a good bad woman so We
done. Aside from the work of Miss Dattoa
and her leading man, nobody does much
Rather a flabby support And some of the
situations do not impress you as being real
ones 1t does seem So hard for the p.etnre
people to show US regular people behaving
naturally on the screen
Novelty.
Now for the last half we have bill that
I surely would love to see laid out right
of course the Fay act wrecks the running "a
order again, it did the fore part of the
week. But If this bill were laid as regular
vaudeville, there are Il couple of acts which
would murder en- But with the Fay act
on fourth it throws the running order all
or deserve We left our. bear-eheste
friapI Elmo tasbed To the rocks with the
waves rolling ever him. And Gracie sit
ting on the sand in gruesome agony
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batfcs This couple opened the drama in
nice shape but the he -part-of-the-tHru. =
doing the bashful gestures Of our ola
friend Pfpifax. This piece OF business
SONS to be very popular with the acrobats
lately. as several are doing it
CORP. JOE NATHAN. Soldier Draw
'em- in Il hurry; Joe stepped out last night
rather quietly sang little song that
didn't register and then went into series
OF stories of the war. drew some pictures
IN chalk and cleaned up. Joe Is a peculla
sort and has Il ciean-cut personality.
You'll like Joe. you'll like his stories, some
new and some old but told with a new
twist. and you'll ike Joe's rapid cartoon
ing Joe is HkabIe ehap-e For his eff
forts he closed to a mighty hand Joe
goaIed 'em for big score and was u
TRACY, PALMER & TRACY. A spark
ling trio. This is the Tracy end of the
old Packard Four with Miss Palmer in
feeted. These folks do Il fast dancing
and singing act. they hit high fancy
chord with those out front Miss Tracy $
single number at the piano WIS funny,
setting herself in good with the gang with
her tom-ph phol-er-ie. Miss Palmer sings
and dances nicely ansi is a valuable addi-
ton to the turn Moon-Faee Tracy makes
plea sing dance series Of his work, and
is very clever On aerobatfe work. A nice
turn. A turn that befits any bill
wrfte-'em- Miss Fay doing her same turn
as seen the first part Of the week and
still enthusing a-$ Nystifying the super
| HARVEY HANEY & GRACE. Horn
Tooters- Here WIS the riot Of the evening
oh. Boy. what they would have done to that
bill If they had been up on the four spot
In a way it was a good thing. the show
wouldn't have been over yet. This trio of
fIusters stopped It cold on the closing spot
and they deserved every BIT Of it Thes=.
ro0t-e-toeters proceed with a capable act
and know Just what It Is all about IT.
hand Il the black face for knowing how
to put the applause and keep it going at
the finish. That was nice bit of show
manship. A high taIented act
And f-aEa there I went to the Ma
jestic Gardens TO partake of a bowl at
good chilli and a little glass of beer (nearl
and found this place jammed to the doors
This MaIeStie Garden affair * starting In
to hit a right rete in the daily life Of To-
peka- IL isn't bad place to GO And
J guess that will be about all