The San Francisco call., 1898-06-05

result to passion for decency, puri- tanical insistence upon gentility that has crowded out the burly, good na- tured. easy going farcical delegate to the congress of theatrical representa- tion. No one can accuse the French of prudery, and yet, if we're to judge by the translationS offered us, their comedies are even worse than ours. for they lack in wit and in decency, too.
 Kendall's method suits his audience. He knows that to allude to the neces- sity of a macintosh for the engineer on that railroad with the short curves will not offend, for the majority of his listeners have no imagination, and those that are blessed with the divine attribute leave it at home, together with other mental. qualities that would be out of place here. You go to the Orpheum to be amused. and the clever ness with which vaudeville is conduct ed nowadays is evidenced by the fact that all sorts and conditions of people find entertainment here.
 It's amusing to see the way Kendall drives every witticism, pun or innu- endo home. Nothing is wasted. The good thing is said, and the broad, i smooth face, with its keen, small eyes and thin-lipped mouth, is turned serl- ously upon his laughing audience. And then, to clinch the joke, to bring in the stragglers who recognize funny things | slowly and with great difficulty, there s
 an additional dry word or phrase,
 sort of sequel, a completion that makes the laugh unanimous.
 MT Kendall's plagiarism in his "orig- inal monologue" is quite allowable. The | monologuist becomes the fin de siecle
 bard who gives a verbal epigram to the public, the majority of whom would never know otherwise about the poet, 1 for instance, whose name embodies the fate in store for Ingersol; and sundry ether jokes whose effect is not whit 1essened because they are told by the man who didn't originate them.
 It is too early in the season to give
 a complete list of what we have in view for the Baldwin Theater, writes the management, but thus far we have secured several of MT. Frohman's at 1 fractions, including "The Sign of the l Cross" Henry Miller; Secret Service and Never Again" Of course there 1 are quite a number of new companies | coming season, from both MT Dan and 1 Charles Frohman. We will get the | Bostonians, Richard Mansfield, "A Lady of Quality" E. H. Sothern, Fanny | Davenport, all of Klaw & Erlanger's s attractions; David Belasco's new pro- | duction, Julia Marlowe, "A Man From
 Mexico,' perhaps Sol Smith Russell,
 with whom we are now negotiating; Sporting Duchess" Augustus Pitou' $ attractions, "The Circus Girl" De Wolf | Hopper, Frank Daniels Opera Com pany, "The Wedding Days" "The French Maid" James, Warde- -Rhea combination and "The Bride Elect"
 At the Columbia Theater we have already booked for the coming season Kellar, the magician; Vests Minstrels, Primrose & Dockstadter's Minstrels, Mathews & Bulger in At Gay Coney Island"; Hanlon's Superba, Hoyt's at fractions, "The Salt of the Earth" a new play by Joseph Arthur, James A. Herne, May Irwin Andrew Mack, Chauncey Olcott, Way Down East "A Contented Woman" At Pine Ridge" Cumberland 61," James ! O'Neill, the Lilliputians, Robert Man ] tell, Rowland Reed, 'The Cherry Pick ers,'' Under the Red Robe,' Blue Jeans. Of course there are a great many companies forming with excel | lent attractions that we shall put in the Columbia Theater.
 For the California Theater we have booked "Chimmie Fadden, Coon Hol- low" Eight Bells" "In Old Kentucky. " ] Kelley & Mason, "McFaddens Row of