The San Francisco call., 1899-09-13
HMUSEMENT
in VHRIETY ut
THE ORPHEUM

NINCE the advent of the American
- Biograph at the Orpheum about
J everybody stays to the end of the
~ programme, and they all feel glad
they do at the finish. If any particular
subject happens to be dull it is forgotten
in the interest of the others. The pic
lures seem to be the outcome of keen OBJ
servation and we'll chosen opportunity.
The attention of the most unappreciative
everyday mind is closely held and re-
warded.
OF the new people, White and Harris,
the singing and dancing duo, were par
ticularly interesting to me up to a GER
tain point. The young woman sings
MY Ann Eliza" with such a rush of
spirits and dances with an abandon and
exuberance that leaves me quite minus a
descriptive adjective. 1 never saw the
like. She reappears after her first exit
gowned like an inverted French poppy.
is never still moment and never out of
breath. The other member of the team
puts in a few falls" with her sixteen
summers to the infinite amusement of the
onlooker and does other rational things
very cleverly. Until they begin their
burlesque acrobatic work they are ex-
celent. After that their act is just a lit
tie silly, but the orchestra plays so in
cessantly and steadily that you can't
think and you don't realize 1t until later.
1t is like having a tooth extracted with
out pain. rs he good afterwards" said
young America at my right when Charley
Case was singing his first song. 1t was a
brutal question, but since he WaS-and
very good-it doesn't matter. He has a
little patent for humor all his own-an
after explanation of facts in themselves
simple and without interest. 1t takes a
deal of quiet thought to make such
things effective, and L don't believe he
has many idle hours. His song about
the press being represented everywhere
l wonder if Montrell ever handles
things nationally, | should hate to invite
juggle with the glassware and small
plates, and it would be an awful example
for the children. His spinning firebrands
are more beautiful at second, view than
at first and his apparent lack of clever
intention half the battle of his success. 1t
seems a fitting close to the little chill
drens engagement that they should sing
"Dinah." San Francisco first fell in love
with Arnold at the Tivoli in just that
song and Hazel makes a most effective
Dinah They are both such. fresh looking
stage children. They seem to have just
wandered out from the cool and quiet of
a nursery and they both look thoroughly
happy. The Crawford sisters are quite
picturesque enough to be interesting but
enough to be convincing and they should
not do coon songs. Coon songs are not
for all people. Their jockey dance was
very graceful and very clever and with
singular discretion they put it last, leav-
ing pleasant impression upon the audi
ence. The boys band plays better this
week than last. suppes Light Cavalry
and the Strauss waltzes won well-deserv-
ed encores THE Bachelor Club Quartet
finds favor chiefly through their songs.
They seem to me sort of prophets of a
new day. If some one will take their idea
and build upon 1t, he will make one of the
very best vaudeville attractions of the
future and find the amusement lover hum
CRY for novelty rising up to call him
blessed. Finally, If could not go to the
Orpheum once week / should be much
hipped and out of humor
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON.