The San Francisco call., 1896-01-21
I'm OLD KENTUCKY" AGAIN.
"The Man Without a Country" at
Morosco'S-Grover's evolves
of New York"
The house was packed.

this City and the boys of muscle and society
were out in full force. Their friends were
there also.
When the curtain went up on the first
part and the opening chorus was begun
by the entire company, it looked as though
the halcyon days of mlnstrelsy had re-
turned to stay. Every participant in the
first part was taultlessly attired in full
dress, while the traditional burnt cork
played the important part of blush-hider
to the entire troupe.
The bones ratified and the tambos
changed while the ladies and gentlemen in
the audience picked out the particular
boys they wanted to bestow boquets upon
and there were many of them.
William H. Hallett as the interlocutor,
had his hands full of inquiries regarding
the cause of various Jokes that the end
men insisted upon explaining to him, and
his articulation was especially good, which
made it easy for the audience to under
stand the drift of the conversation.
IL can be said that there weressome very
good jokes introduced, and notwithstand-
ing the temptation to dig up old gags
some entirely new bon mots were put
forth.
Aside from the work of the end men, all
of which was up to date and clever, the
special numbers contained considerable
good work. Dan Wards Better Than
Gold" was one of the features. He refused
to respond to liberal demand for more,
probably through modesty, for which he
is celebrated. Mclaughlin and Sloan, in
their comical Irish song, "The Man That
Stole My Luncheon" brought down the
house.
Frank Coffin in his solo, my Dream of
Love" took several bouquets out of the
orchestra seats and his rich tenor voice
wa n 10
Be Able to Fly, by w. ]. Aynes, dragged
all the encores out of him and he retired
from exhaustion. There were many good
local hits in his. song. Other numbers
were extremely interesting.
Immediately following the first part
James Washington Swinnerton, the Ex-
aminer caricaturist, was forced upon the
stage and did some lightning sketches of
well-known Olympians and also one of
himself. Several times Jimmie" made
some remarks by way OF introducing MS
pictures, but they were lost in the ter
races of his spacious mouth. He captured
the audience three times. once with his
pictures and twice by the loudness of his
attire.
The performers on the triple horizontal
bars executed some dangerous feats, but the
featS were too gracefully done to be
noticeable D. Mclaughlin with his Ger
man oddities did the unusual thing of not
raising his voice to loud minor pitch,
! but in a quiet and respectable way kept
| all hands laughing. His dialect stories
were all good and particularly pointed
! NJ. A. Won Bedelben introduced some fe-
| male impersonation that was simply
! gorgeous. His attire was stunning enough
for Worth, and he showed up in all his
! sylph-like proportions
| All of the acrobatic feats were typical of
the excellent training received at the club
by the boys, and were up to great many
| professional attempts. Following is a
full cast:
Mitchell, J. Cathcart, P. Sloan and j. Swimmer
ton; tambos-W. Hynes, A. Rosborough, D.
Mclaughlin and C. Cathcart; grand chorus
! and madrigal boys.
Part Opening chorus, the company; my
Dear Louise" ;" W W Finnie; 81 Want You, Ny
| Honey" A. Rosborough; Better Than Gold,''
con-" Messrs. Mclaughlin and Sloan; 1.-THE Old
Arm chair w: H. Halett; Chicken Coop
Door" r: Mitchell; my Dream OF YOU" F.
Coffin; ''What Right Has He on Broadwav?''
J. Cathcart; "Deep in the Nine" C. L. Parent;
''Shall We Ever Be Able to Fly?" w. j. Hynes;
selections, Plymouth quartet; finale, Com
pany B.
Part II-Oyerture (selected), orchestra; triple
! horizontal bars, Messrs. Leandro Belau, Rath-
Laughlin; selections, Reliance Glee Club of
| Oakland; sketches, J. Swinnerton of the Ex-
aminer Spanish rings, Messrs. Artz and Brom-
mer; female impersonations, A. von Bedele-
ben of the Garden City Cyclers; acrobatics,
Messrs. Cook, Toohey, McNally and Stageman
! of the Acme Club. Entertainment under di-
rection OF E. n. Short, leader.
| The proceeds will be in the neighborhood
of $4,000. Magnificent souvenirs filled with
half-tones from photographs taken by
Bushnell were distributed to all who at
! tended.
After the grand finale, the boys retired
| to the Zinkand and dined like the princes
that they are.
Old Kentucky" at the California.
| There was full house at the California
| Theater last night to welcome "In Old
| Kentucky" on its return to this City, and
| the thrilling incidents and breezy special
ties with which the play abounds were
| applauded to the echo.
| Incidents crowd so thick and fast upon
one another in "Old Kentucky" that the
| spectator does not get much breathing
space, except between the acts. The
gallery especially could scarcely contain
itself for Joy last night when the heroine
swung herself across an apparently bot
tomless chasm by frail rope to rescue the
hero, who was lying senseless with the
| fuse of an internal machine smoldering
at his elbow.
! Even the thrilling emotions stirred UP
by the chasm scene, however, paled before
| the orgiy of excitement that the racetrack
| incident aroused in the beholders. The
autnOr mas worked out the scene In
| skillful way that is at once convincing and
natural. All the fortunes of the hero,
Frank Layson, are supposed to be centered
on Queen Bess winning certain race. At
the last moment the jockey is tempted by
Kentucky whisky and becomes incapaci-
tated from further usefulness. To save the
mare from being scratched" Madge
Briefly, the heroine, consents to ride her
and travesties herself as jockey.
The real story of the race is told by
! jolly old colonel, whose fancee has made
him forswear all the pomps and vanities
of this wicked world, horse-racing among
the rest. Kentucky colonels never break
their words, but the one in question sees
no sin in regarding the race through
knothole from without the fence. The
| fiancee, Miss Alathea LAWSON, is also
anxious to see whether Queen Bess
will win, and with great good taste and
| judgment Neb, the old family servant,
directs them both to knothole made in
a part of the fence which is adorned with
striking picture of the new CALL building,
chastely executed in vermilion-colored
| paint. After their mutual embarrassment
at meeting the two conspirators agree that
hn ladu hall hn1a md ba