The San Francisco call., 1904-02-15
CLEVER
YOUNG WOMEN
They Are Orpheum Headliners,
and as 1.-THE Vassar Girls"
They Do Very Refined Work
"THE DEVILS AUCTION"
Twenty-Third Annual Edition
of Famous Extravaganza De-
lights Big Crowd at California

Eight pretty young women, attired
in slate -colored college robes and natty
'mortarboards, have headline distinc-
tion this week at the Orpheum. and
they sing and play various musical in
struments in a way that entities them
to the honor. They are billed as The
Vassar Girls" and as long as they
wear the seminary costume their work
is refined enough to preserve the at
mosphere created by their appearance.
After four of them have played wooden
wind instruments, six of them blow
delicious melody through SaXaphoneS
and eight of them-four cornets and
four trombones-make braZen music
galore. Then they lose their collegiate
identity and appear as an electric
ballet" an act which is beautiful, but
lacking novelty. The girls, fairly COW
cred with vari-colored incandescent
bulbs, perform a maypole dance the
finale of which has the stage aglare
with brilliance.
Another strong act is programmed
as THE Werner-Amoros Troupe, and
consists of a scene in an artists
women make a whole lot of fun
through the medium of ingeniously
contrived mechanical effects. One OF
the men juggles nine balls and breaks
the record for that sort Of thing. The
finish of the act might be aptly termed
rough house" for all the furniture of
the studio is wrecked and piled upon
the stage.
Harry Thomson, announced as The
Mayor of the Bowery," gives some
clever limitations of familiar character
types. His various dialects are faith
full enough to keep the house in roar.
Ziska and King appear in an act
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Magician and His Valet" and do some
good comedy work. John T. Thorne
and Grace Carleton open big budget
of new jokes, some of which are
rather laboriously worked up to, but all
have the desired laughter-making ef-
feet. Thorne and Carleton evidently
studied the taste of their patrons and
constructed accordingly, for mental
effort is not severely taxed to grasp
the point of their jests.
Among the holdovers are Snyder and
Buckley, whose musical sketch can be
seen more than once without los
ing charm. Thirsty Blatz is as funny
as any German comedian in Sac fran
cisco, and that is saying something
worthy of note at this particular time.
Rice and Elmer continue their clever
horizontal bar stunts and dull comedy
work. Van. Beaumont & Co. are also
retained, and there are several new
and interesting moving pictures. The
bill as a whole is we'll UP to the Or
pheum standard.
The "twenty-second edition of
Charles H Yale's Devils Auction
opened at the California Theater last
night. While it is production OLD
to the theater-goers of this city, 1T
was, nevertheless, received by a large
audience and afforded satisfaction
Each act of the piece has been re-
arranged and invested with new scenic
productions since it was here last,
and the specialties that comprise
major portion of the show are for the
most part new.
The inferno scene in the first act
was worked out by excellent electrical
effects. as were scenes that followed,
the fantastic fog. the realms of Me-
phisto, the lake of the lost souls and
the frozen path. In the second act
Miss Madelyn Marshal as a country
girl scored a hit and George Herman.
as Chaos an imp of darkness, proved
to be one of the best contortionists
seen here for some time. The golden
garden, a Chinese scene, followed, and
the acrobatic work on the part of the
four Salamonskys entertained for
about ten minutes. The dances of the
fair attendants of the grand mandarin
were spectacular and we'll executed.
The hve-family Orni, well known
in vaudeville circles, posed in The
Interrupted Supper" in the last act
and were loudly applauded in their
Juggling stunts. This act closed with
several gorgeous scenes. Among the
leading in the cast are w. II. Lorelle
and James b. Mackie, who are good
comedians. Carlos, poor shepherd,
is done by. Miss Mai Estelle, and
Madeline is impersonated by Miss Amy
Mortimer. Henry p. Thomas. as
Mephisto, and Miss Alice Stoddard,
as Crystalline, are strong in the cast.
Miss Lillian Herndon plays Count
Fortune.
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