The San Francisco call., 1906-05-28
MUCH GOOD FUN
At THE 0RPHEUM
Large Audience Enjoys
an Unusually Good
Programme.
Mirth Provokers Give En-
tertainment of High
Merit.

| AT the opening Of the second week Oh tne
new Orpheum, and its seating space, whlcn
might almost be spoken of as acreage
was fairly we'll filled with an enthusiastic
crowd that gave an applauseiul "eicoIhe
/ TO this second programme OF the Orphe-
unn's post-earthquake life. To see the peo-
pie enjoy this reopened popular playhouse
4 is to feel that San Francisco is rapidly re-
covering from the recent severe shock 10
Tits nerves and is quite prosperous and
! light hearted enough to be seeking eager
! ly for entertainment The plan OF
/ lengthy open air intermission, which the
ample grounds of the Chutes make pos
sible is quite a compensation for the ex-
tended trip out to the Orpheums tempo
rary home
The new bill is an attractive one. The
fun begins with Carson and Willard S
aFrizzled Finance" wherein the folly OF
the uninitiated in gambling on the wheat
market is shown forth oy these jokers.
/ Clifford and Burke, the black-faced &c
/ centrioues." who were here shortly before
I the earthquake, gave their play with
some additions and certainly amused the
audience very much. The darker of these
darkies when his partner on one occasion
! tells him to wake up starts out slowly
on a stif-legged seemingly somnolent
dance that suddenly wakes up the people
to the fact that a laughter creating dane
er has the floor. and as he grows timber
and more timber in his antics he wakes
/ the house to fuller life and louder laugh
ter 1t seems the contrast from his stiff
beginning that MAKES the rapidly increas-
/ ing limberment of his Iegs bring out the
/ peoples laughter in harmony with him as
he lets out link after link of droll agility
from the unknown quantity coiled in his
| anatomy.
The words also of this darklys corked
! liz -Cf.a raf
/ face and his movements. Once in re-
sponse to a hearty encore he comes back
with an added verse to his song about
/ ..Nobody-'sI never done nuthin' to no.
/ body"-he asks about the time last fall
when everything was looking fine and
| bright-and he playfully whitfield stick
one night-who told him that stick was
dynamite Nobody. Then when the au-
dience gets spasms he walls out his never
falling laughter. producing refrain, i
never done nuthin' to nobody"
Mosher. Houghton and Mosher, the COM
edy cyclists, do their chosen duty of both
thrilling and tickling the audience with
creditable alacrity and limberness. They
are masters of poise. AS for their 1.-the
ness. they can ride wheel in almost any
position. even with reversed erectness.
with head on saddle and heels toward
/ heaven. AS for their humor, sample is
given when the clown of the trio, hurt in
a collision with the scenery. rises after
1 long almost lethal quivering, and then
bathes his bruised brows in the fresh,
cool water of the painted stream. 1t was
/ a happy thought, and aside from amusing
! the audience may have been intended as a
compliment to the artist who painted the
scenery for the Orpheum stage
The chief feature on the new bill was
the part of Elizabeth Murray, who re-
/ altar having Yr1ade a hif herA fhree
years ago Her songs and stories in dia-
lect proved very pleasing to her hearers.
She is mistress of both the negro and
the Irish dialect, and told some good
short stories from her own experience
Katherine Dahl. the soprano direct from
the Alhambra, London, gave one song
which was medley of snatches from a
number of the most popular airs. Then
she created a mild sensation by singing
as if directly to a young man in the
audience, IF a girl like me. loved a boy
like you Somewhat of singer himself
was this partner of hers who had mingled
with the audience, and he replied to her
from his seat with a companion song.
Valerie Bergere changes her role this
week for the leading part in the playlette,
His Japanese Wife" She plays the
part of the japanese wife of an Ameri-
can very prettily, and her beautiful jap
anese costume is very becoming. to her
The husband and his sister have to plot
and plan to train the foreign girl to be-
come Americanized, and they finally sue
ceed by working on her jealousy. The
playlette, which is by Grace iGriswold,
brings out very forcefully- the great
worth there is TO a church marriage and
the symbol ring of permanent union even
to a japanese woman when once she
Taor lofv- cfev ffi1ov1
When her American husband called her
his little Japanese wife, she understood
the term to mean that she was just his
play wife for six months, and that after
he sent her. home he would marry some
other woman, with a ring and a church
wedding, and the other would be his
American wife" So she took a. jealous
longing to be married American fashion,
and by this force she became American
lied. The fun of the thing is that the
Japanese wife learns a good deal of
slang from her maid, and then makes
use of it to the astonishment of the
husband and his visiting sister, and to
the amusement of the Orpheum crowd.
Eva Nudge, the American girl who
captivated London, does wonders with
her rapid character costume changes,
taking only from twelve to sixty sec
onds for, almost vast alterations in her
makeup. In the change to the knight
of the highway, robbng the royal mail
stage coach, she gets opportunity to do
some acting as well as quick costuming,
which acting she does exceedingly well
Her costumes are very picturesque and
becoming.
Bailey and Austin, the two "Ameri-
can beauties" closed the programme
with whirlwind of boisterous fun. the
] richest feature of which was a burlesoue
of two girls giving a song and dance.
Judging from the amount of laughter
the crowd that attended the Sunday af-
ternoon play was abundantly satisfied.
and its lungs were certainly well exer-
cised.
Chutes.
Morning, noon and night, sunshine,
lightning and moonlight, all by electricity.
were shown at the DAY in the Alps
exhibition at the Chutes yesterday. OF
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