The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-29

decorate the Partisan Office of her Britannia
Majesty with three large and handsome
maps of the United States. Great rareties
they must have been considered in Paris,
too, for every one who is familiar with that
giddy capital knows that the outside world
cuts very little figure in its biographies.
You can buy France in Provinces, !"
France in Departments, - "France With
Railroads" - canals, mountains, hedges
and ditches-if you choose, but anything
outside OF France is always represented as
of microscopic dimensions, scarcely visible
to the naked eye.
Such little touches of local colorlng apart,
the staging of Diplomacy" was fin
ished and handsome, as is always the case
at the Columbia Theater
Milton Mobiles drama, Glove and Law"
is full of thrilling incidents and the inter-
est never flags. Mr.. MOBILES took the lead
ing part at the Grand last week with ease
and naturalness; he also took all the best
points for himself and left the other char
acters without a solitary joke among them
One forgave him, however, he acted so well.
Charles Swain. as a Dutch policeman,
cut but sorry figure, and yet as an Irish
man he has more than once been the pride
of the force. Even his love-making was
brief last week and his attention TO his du-
ties was SO great that he was almost in
time to secure the burglar.
Les lie made the mildest and gentlest of
burglars. 1t was well for him that he had
an opportunity OF becoming honest, for
he would never have made his salt at
Edmund Hayes, on the other hand, was a
villain of almost too deep dye. Coulter
Brinker, usually so much at home in his
parts, seemed i'll at ease in the disguise of
wealthy man of noble birth. A life of
freedom and action is evidently more to
his taste than the part of the walking
gentleman.
Miss Hall looked well as an Italian girl
though it was mystery why she should
possess the complexion and general make
up of a coral-seller at Capri when her
parents were English and she was born in
London. Miss Thrupp fairly brought the
house down with her dancing and singing,
and the audiences contributed their share
to the performances by enlivening them
with plenty of applause.
There was a full programme at the
Orpheum last week, and every item, old
and new, was good in its way. Among the
novelties was the poolroom of Haines and
Pettigill, where you are robbed while you
watt and shot several times before you
can get out.
Mcmahon and King gave some truly
wonderful specimens of plantation dane
ing, especially the lady. whose gyrations,
if not very graceful, were so rapid and daz-
zling as to make the beholder feel that the
whole room was going round. Hines and
Remington, although new corners, might
be classed among the novelties as their rep
resentation of the Pawn Shop" was en-
tirely different from their former sketch.
Dryden and Mitchell introduced novelty,
to wit: A little dog, which one of them
sold to the other for $50 and then basely
stole back again. The audience was as en-
thusiastic as ever over the clever Weston
and Hubert musical item.
There has always been poetic license
about Italian opera which in these days of
sordid realism is positively refreshing.