The San Francisco call., 1903-01-12
FUN IS PLENTY
At CALIFORNIA
Programme Full Of Nov
city on This Week
at Orpheum.
Farce Draws Immense Audi
ence to Republic
Theater.

The Telephone Girl" with it's many
jingles and twists, came back to the Cal
ifornia Theater last night and one OF the
largest audiences of the year packed the
house to greet the popular musical farce.
The plot, of course, is based on a lot of
nonsense. but the company is an exceed
ingly clever one and kept the house in
laughter from the time the curtain was
raised until the last curtain.
Joe Kane as Hans Nix. the telephone
inspector. was the chief dispenser of
mirth and he was ably seconded by Mil
ton Dawson Jethru Warner. E. D. Mey-
erson. Arthur Conrad and George Elmer,
all OF whom had something amusing 10 do
or say. Edith Valmasedo, Inez Dale. Mar
ion Kendall, Ruth Jordan Mamie Keough,
Mae Merrinan and Grace Hunt. the femi-
nine stars Of the troupe, shone with a
brightness that was dazzling and all of
them scored big hit
Then the chorus Of fourteen pretty girls
gives the finishing touch. The maids are
well drilled and they go through their
specialties in z clever manner.
There was breathing room only at both
the performances at the Crpheum yester-
day and the new programme went with
snap and dash most refreshing. The Miles
Stavordale Quintet appeared for the first
time in this city in a musical act that is
quite novel and a wide departure from
anything ever offered in vaudeville in
this country. With four banjos and a
harp they initiate the human voice so
cleverly that If they We're hidden from
the audience one would declare that liv-
ing beings were singing. The players get
q deeper. fuller tone from their instru-
a r1a fc rG1o 70 h1a
from banjoists and THE Tale of a Bum
bic Bee Eileen Alanna" and the inev-
liable Good Old Summer Time" were de-
lightfully rendered. The Gilmore sisters.
great favOrites here, reappeared after a
long season in London and kept the au-
dience in laughter for twenty minutes.
Kate Elinore's Hibernian Mrs. Malapro-
pisms is simply inimitable and the famil-
lar way in which she waves her cotton
gloved hands at apparent friends in the
audience is irresistibly funny ZazeI and
Vernon. The Tourist and His Valet"
presented a triple horizontal bar act
abOundlng in difficulties and clever com
edy. and Cressy and Dayne. for their
second and last week, offered Mr Cres-
sy's latest New England sketch, bill
Bifin's Baby" The author impersonates
the same character as in last weeks
playette. "A Village Lawyer" The new
skit IS immensely amusing and is full Of
sings the highest note ever reached by
woman, repeated her success of last week,
and the four Garganys European gro
tesques; Wood and Bates. musical come
dians; the three LivingstOns. parlor aero
bats, and the biograph, with many in
teresting pictures, including one showing
Spanish bull fight at the coronation
OF King Alfonso, complete a programme
fun Of novelty.
The largest audience that has ever been
inside the Theater Republic gathered
there last night TO hear the farce. "Mv
Nlfe's Husband" The pretty playhouse
was packed upstairs and down and the
throng was in throes of laughter most of
the time. The piece is very funny and.
being cleverly presented. made a great
hit There is little chance that there will
be any vacant seats at the Republic dur
ing the rest Of the week. Harry Corson
Clarke as the 'trsgedian" was certainly
funny and he was ably supported.
Next week the same capable company
will present What Happened to Jones"
The Republic seems to have caught the
fancy of the theater-goers and this piece
will probably do good business also.
There will be no play. tonight at the
Grand Opera-house. in order to give time
to complete the elaborate preparations
for Macbeth that the house presents
this week. The management is spreading
itself upon the production, and one may
expect a more than usually elaborate
presentment of the Shakespearean drama
AS Lady Macbeth Miss Nance O'Neil will
find much. cOngenial opportunity. The
character should be distinctly in her KEY
and we shall doubtless see the actress at
a very high level. Her Queen Elizabeth
proves Miss O'Neifs possession of the
necessary high dignity and restraint, and
her emotional power has never been ques-
toned. 1t will doubtless be an extremely
popular bill, Macbeth" being the most
generally effective of the Shakesperean
plays with the average audience.
Miss O'Neil will be supported by z. J.
Ratcliffe in the name role, in which the
actor wilI appear for the first time
Charles Millward and Herschel Mayall