The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
Success Awaits the
Tivoli's Spectacle.
CUT RATES AT THE GRAND
BoSToNIANs HAPPILY REVIVE
"THE SERENADE."
Wilder, Kara and Josephine Gassman
Score Big Hits in a Splendid
Programme at the
Orpheum.

The Tivolis after-Easter extrava-
ganza, Beautiful Goldenlocks," which
is written and borrowed by George
E. Lask, with music from every
where and everybody, was given out
last night to a fair-sized audience
The first night of new piece at the
TivoH is generally subject to halts and
bitches and this one was no exception
The Tivolis Beautiful Goldenlocks"
will have to be trimmed and brushed
down. This can be accomplished in a
night or two; and then, by all the signs
of previous Eddy-street successes, the
production ought to be good for quite
a run. For it is stuffed with just the
sort of tunes, pictures and nonsense
that the patrons like.
Scenically it is perhaps the neatest
achievement in the history of the house
The rose-bower scene in the second act
is as gorgeous as the interior of q ten
dollar Easter egg, and the scene of the
Princes palace is as incandescent as
old David Henderson at his best. In
the rose scene fifteen girls dance a cozy
little ballet, full of pretty figures, and
a soloist fOots it daintily over a skip
ping rope. In the same scene Ed
Stevens sings another song of many
nations, while the girls contribute a
complete lightning change of costume
to each chorus in full view of the au-
dience-an odd and picturesque idea
cleverly worked out By the time the
fourth chorus was reached last night
the TiVoladies were down to close
tunics and knee breeches. The crowd
encored wildly, but the raiment re-
manned stationary.
In the palace scene in the last act
n OF hi {r,, IN aor
erdemain. He started out by asking
any person in the audience to please
give him a small Oblong table thirty
two inches in height, and a bunch of
canary birds. And would any clergy
man present kindly oblige him with
pack of cards. And everybody thought
that the Stevens necromancy was go
ing to be merely another of the Stevens
jokes. But it turned out quite another
thing. The comedian displayed a re-
markable fluency in the sleight-o hand
tricks (and they are always the best)
and a fair manipulation Of the ma
gician's apparatus. These apparatus
tricks Will doubtless improve with
few performances, and the sleight-of-
hand will be even better for a more
constant flow of side talk. Silence is
the modern magician's worst enemy
All in ALL the show is jolly, fresh and
entertaining in the right irresponsible
way. What little plot there is is based
on the tales of Beauty and the Beast"
and Cinderella" with generous inter
ruptions by dances, songs and special
ties. Miss LIGHTER walks and MARBLES
through the title part; Miss Holmes
and Miss Hill are coura geOusly the
ugly sisters; Miss Helen Merrill is the
shapely good fairy in tropic clothes.
and Miss Meyers is the Bowery boy as
bad as only a woman can make him.
Mr.. Stevens is programmed as Mr.. ALL
sOrtsofvice, a modern Mephisto, and
the part is elastic enough to give him
plenty of good comic play. Branson is
something better than his usual self
as the father of the girls, and Messrs
Pruette and Schuster are as ever. Mr..
Gerome, the tenor is the Prince trans
formed into bear. With the furs on
he does not sing much. I enjoy him
served that way.
ASHTON STEVENS