The San Francisco call., 1904-02-01
ORPHEUM BILL
AFFORDS TEST
Two Widely Variant Bits of
Irish Comedy Reveal the
Drift of Public Taste
NEW BILL AT THE GRAND
Lost River" Is a Good Scenic
Production-Sunda Popular
Concerts to Be Inaugurated

on the. bill at the Orpheun this week
are two. Irish comedy acts that vary
as widely in tone as do the ultra sub
lime and. the: excessively ridiculous.
One of tffern5 .,'The Fairy of Killarney, :
presented by Oliver 3 7. Holden and
Winifred .Selorenee.. is:.a dainty nlusi-
cal sketch that deals of ;foi1-iore.. and
the music. Is pretty and well sung. the
dialogue is. clean and clever and the
stage furnishing and the cestnniinE
are picturesque. The other ia an abb
surdity. entitled Casey. the Fireman,
in which Johnny and-I:rnma' Raw as
sumo wildly Exaggerated characters;
apear In an Impossible situation. and
say unlikely things. Holden and Flor
ence get hardly 2 ripple. Of eprlsu3e.
The Rays, keep. the house IN a. roar. for
about allan: hour and. then are called
back several TIM iesi Furthcr Comment
might SAVIOR OF .superfillity.
Stuart Barnes, 9nlonologist rs easily
the star: OF the newcomers that talk.
His songs are. new, his ':ga Rs" fresh
and funny and his limitations of faril+
lar stage characters and scenes very
cleyerly DONE: -Rdbertns and Wthrede
and a highly educated fox terrier do
wonderful thfSS5 with rubber balls.
and the Two Sjlvas. do equally maryelE
Gus things on; e. ladder, with no Tod
l.. =
appear i1i a sketch entitled The Two
Senator's which is noisy efio1ah to-
suit the NEST exacting. .stic41ef. for up.
roar-and that is said with. full. re.r'
membrance of the. din finale of~.rCasey'
the Fireman. X =. .-ts;:.
1t is a pretty good Iullr and it is
significant fact that:+tIre .acts retain.
the flavor of. the:':old time = variety
theater. The 1uggfers. and the .e.quil-
ibrists and Casey. the Fireman are
the acts that seem to- find, most. favor
with the patTens of so4called modern'1
vaudeville :; -
Lost River .aS'played at 4he' Grand
Opera-heuse this week eontaips a large
and varied asSortThent of: the elements
that appeal to. levers of ..up-to=date
melodrarf1a. JnseD6 Arthur, who: wrote
the play, overl06ked nothing that could
be introduced in:it. with remote. sem
blance of ,congruityi =. =:
Most of the familiar characters are
therer includfng' the beautiful and:
naughty. lady. who speaks, flawles6
English With aeliberateness: and wears.
stunning gowns the ingenious yet
heroic rural maiden who. mikes her
lenses and kneadS dough in full view of
the oaudience and the pert 'oity chaps
who scoff. at the sayings and doings of
the humble country folk The plot re-
wolves oarOunu Iae feminine Cnl4Q a1I
nature, and in its Development there
are presented a bicycle race, in which
she saves the" herO's life by. shooting
quickly and straight, and a horse race
in which she Is pprsued by two Williams
and rescued just in nick Of time. There
are several other thrilleFs and any
amount of comedy.
The cast is n long one. and Miss Lot
tie Briscoe assumes the leading role.
Manager Will Z. Greenbaum, encour-
aged by the success achieved by similar
ventureSin Eastern cities, has decided
to present 3 series of Sunday afternoon
popular concertS,o commencing OF Feb
ruaTey s, at Lyric HaH. The first three
concerts will be given by 4he Kopta
Quartet, aided by Mrs. Oscar Mans
feidt, pianiste. The programme for next
Sunday embraces a quintet for strings
and piano by Sinding. the Scandinavian
composer, o8nd Haydn's quartet, "The
Lark Two smaller quartet numbers
will complete the ensembles, and Mr..
Kopta will play two violin solos. In
New York Boston and Chicago the
Sunday concerts are society events, and
the music Lovers of San Francisco pre-
dict success for Mr.. Greenbaum's en-
terprise.o
A large audieIqce witnessed the pre-
sentation of THE Eternal city last
evening at the California Theater.
The play continues sal this week and
its two weeks production promises to
be Feature of the season.