The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-03
OSculatory Turn Not the Least
Thrilling Of New Ones at Orpheum
BY James Crawford

n O rarely is opportunity afforded
for reporting something new in
gymnastics that to chronicle the
performance of the Four Lukens
yesterday afternoon at the Orph-
cum gives me no less pleasure than the
exhibition itself conveyed to every one
else who witnessed it, and there were
three thousand or more of US in the
rheater. For the brawny and agile
Quartette not only did a lot Of familiar
feats with SURPRISING ease and grace
rulness. but also accomplished some
new feats that would only be under
taken by gymnasts Of exceptional skill
and daring.
While two of the Lukens We're sus-
pended by their legs from lofty hori-
zontal bars they swung and tossed
from one 10 the other the remainder
Of the LUkens, IN whose whirlings and
twistings and somersaulting really con-
sisted the superiority Of the act over
any OF its predecessors here. It was
the seeming recklessness of the flying
men that created the thrills and COM
PEELED the plaudits. Just what they
do and how long they do it may not
exactly battle description, but il would
be more satisfactory to see them than
TO read anything that could be written
about them.
And the same sidestepping remark
is applicable to the turn" of the
Kochly Brothers, two heavyweight
acrObats, who handle each other with
as much apparent ease as if the hand
Ter were a Hercules and the handled
an infant. They, too, are the best per-
formers in their line Of work that have
ever appeared under the Orpheum man
agement.
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new BILL the act entitled TO first at
tentiOn is presented by Albert Dellman
and Lottie Moore, if for no other rea-
son than by the osculatory ex-
hibition it incidentally introduces.
A bashful little boy and a saucy little
girl yearn to kiss each other, and after
considerable faltering on his part and
pursuing on hers their lips meet-and
mutually cling. Their evident relish Of
the chaste salute is indicated by its
duration. which is so prolonged as to
make nervous young folk in front won
der If is is a permanency. When the
hreakaway eventually arrives a great
sigh Of relief sweeps the audience.
In addition TO their kissing perform
ance-which alone is worth taking the
ride to the Chutes to see-Bellman and
Moore burlesQue Camille" give bi.
or domestic strife. appear as a couple
who have been half a century in we'd
locks bonds and finish UP with a dance
that could be aptly likened to a hurrs-
cane
Some of the followers hand out new
stuf-and some of them don't. The
Narrow Feler." who is higher on the
bin than he was a week ago, pIaIs
Cheer Up, Mary" on one of his unique
instruments. The Dillon Brothers also
remember Mary TO the extent Of paro-
dying the tender lines Of the song
treating OF her lowness Of spirit, and
the orchestra helps keep her TO the
front, as likewise does the brass band
that blares outside during the inter
mission. Never did girl receive greater
Encouragement than is given to Mary.
TrOvollO's veutrilCQuial act is in its
tEird and last week, and the -Four
AvOllos. xylophonists. and Miss Lima
Painter ION the bounding Wire are
also in their final appearances here.
Miss Painter. by the way, turns out not
10 be mss Painter at al. but one OF
the female AVOilOs-Or maybe it would
be better TO say that one Of the female
AVoiios is also Miss Painter.
If her tightrOpe walking We're equal
20 ler billet-thumping what a versatile
artist she would be,