The San Francisco call., 1909-06-28
LONDON BOY DANCES.
Ills WAY INTO FAVOR.
Laddie Cliffs Terpsichorean Art
Wins Much Applause From
Play Geers
Weeks Bill at the Playhouse Is
RepIete With Attractive
and Clever Stunts
BY WALTER ANTHONY


/ The value OF training and the ad-
vantage OF uniform department are
shown in three of the four new acts
at the orpheum this week. The fourth
turn diseloses a pair Of eloquent legs.
+ Do not misunderstood me. The legs
belong TO II year old boy who is
the star OF the show. His name is
Iaddie Cliff and he comes from Lon
don. The eight original madcaps.
Ollie Young with his three stage broth
( ers and Max Wits Singing Coleens"
supply the demonstration Of the JOY
I that comes of utter concord in action.
! Tile madcaps' are not original in
/ the disclosure of their pink support
but they are unique in the regimental
way that they behaTe-now in twos.
now in threes and now in a bunch.
They act as though they were pulled
by a string. but their presentation yes
terday afternoon was not given the ap-
plause which their offering of agility
and grace was entitled TO. When they
are not dancing they are tumbling
about in manner most respectable
1 becau use properly done and they put in
about IS minutes of the most strenu-
4
last heavy wind blew an so mile gale
against the lingerie pinned TO neigh
bor's clothes line.
SOME CLEVER STUNTS
Ollie Young and his brothers are
unit in intention aad fact. They do
hoop rolling daily with diabIos and toss
boomerangs about with consummate
ease and certainty. They roll hoops
from the broad stage up slender
threads. and toy with the laws of in
ertia and gravitation as though they
made them. Their act is not sensa-
tional. but il is neat, clean and with
out a quiver of uncertainty.
Seldom has there been closer agree
ment among associated singers than
that exhibited by the vocal "colleens.
II is a matter OF small importance
whether they come from Ireland, mas
much they are goWned daintily in
green and there are dark eyes and
bright cheeks TO be seen besides pretty
voices TO be heard in the best of Irish
melodies, including The Last Rose of
Sumner (which is in a FIotow opera
and he's Frenchman.
If suggestion by one who is paid
10 give advice might be acceptable, 1
would recommend that the altogether
charming ladies consult with Mr.. Nor
rissey, house manager. whose name
pronunciation OF the name "Mavour-
neen. which when uttered CeltieaIIy
by the singers win make their dresses
look more patriotic. That is carping,
however. for the girls sing sweetly,
with excellent voices and deserved all
the success they won yesterday. even
though they didn't know how TO pro-
nounce ''Alavourneen-f
TAKES HONORs OF THE SHOW
But Master Lsddie Cliff won the hon
Ors. de was English. too. His songs
and his dances are hot from the pave
ments of London, I should say, and he
told us-I was applauding him TO do it
that when we went back to England
he'd tell the king about the reception
he got. He is grOtesque as a dancer,
unusual as a singer and quite inimit-
able in all ways
James Thornton has many new
stories 10 tell; the Camille trio do their
wonderful tumbling; The Futurity
( Winner is on for another week of
rapid action, and Gladys Clark with
first place on the program make en-
trance easy at the Orpheum this week.
Good Old Irish Drama
~Arrah Ma Pogue,' that good old
Irish drama, which Denis O'SuIlivan
u
mented Grand opera house, is having a
/ successful and cheering revival this
week at the Valencia theater, with Ar
thur Cunningham, vocal and hearty. in
thhe principal role. and Miss Grace Ira
vers as Arrah Meelish.
1t would be owlish 10 review Dion
4 Boucicault's emerald play al this hour,
or TO discuss the ethics or esthetics of
the plot You wouldn't read the copy
/ If I wrote il, so what's the uses
! -Arreh Ma Pogue" is a play which is
green TO the pit Of il. Cunningham
supplies some Irish songs TO reinforce
his spontaneous brogue. 1t is hard TO
tell which the audience likes. the more,
his songs or his brogue. Grace Travers
makes a charming Mavourneen, and
/ Shaun's devotion or Feenys villainy TO
win her is easily understood. George
I Osbourne as Feeny. the process server,
who would present a bill TO his ma
jesty across the Styx. is fine char
acter and very much hissed- Paul Nc
Ailister the magnanimous Colonel
II O'Grady is chivalrous and eloquent.
The famous courtroom scene in the
third act is a picture visually and ef-
fecfive otherwise. The production gen.
orally is excellent and was well re-
ceived last night.
"The Blue Mouse"
The Blue Mouse" is now in its third
and last week at the American theater,
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