The San Francisco call., 1909-02-15

the curtain to fall on an undraped Sa-
lone and rise on a scene from The
Light Eternal
Now we have a prize fight,
There is no limit to the endurance
of vaudeville in it's Marathon race for
popularity. If your wife or your sis
ter or your sweetheart wants to see
Eddie Graney as time keeper for a
slugging match and hesitates to go to
Colma or Pavilion rink-take her to the
Orpheum, where there is an excellent
imitation of a scrap disguised as a
playlet and called-wait till L find my
program-"At the Sound of the Gong"
| have nothing to say against the
sketch because it was not. AS to the
fight L am not competent to judge. not
having seen more than four. one OF
which 1 was in and so missed the best
points.
The Sound of the Gong is the loud
noise" at the Orpheum this week and
it was very popular last night. The
gallery liked it hugely and yelled
loudly for Eddie Graney to add his
bows to those of the small cast at the
end of the engagement, but Eddie, who
had been pulled onto the stage TO make
the ring scene realistic, forebore to
bow and so detracteG from what might
otherwise have been a complete sue
cess.
Walter Jameson wants to get mar
ried- So does Alice Cameron. He is
only poor college boy with two suits
of clothes, a vast yearning for Alice
and college yell. Alice yearns and
has much money. Father tells him to
get $4,000 and Walter goes after Kid
Kennedy. The Kid is a professional
pug" while Walter is only an anna
teur. But he has been a good kid" at
college and he needs the money. The
day of the fight arrives and the cur
tain goes up in his training quarters,
with "Skeeter" at his side. Walter
says he's afraid he's going to lose
"Skeeter' tells him: Not so.' in fine
prize grammar. Then the girl comes
in. She begs Walter not to fight and
tells him he'll sure get killed But
Walter will fight and does. He goes
out and leaves the girl to watch the
scrap, which the audience. likewise, is
in on. The boys mix it viciously, while
the girl, hidden from the sight OF the
ringside multitude of supers, yells her
self hoarse for her> boy. who is knocked
down many times. Finally he wins.
The fighting blood surges sweetly in
his ingenue sweethearts veins and she
reminds you of the antics of other
ladies you may or may not have seen
at ringside. 1t is not very pretty nor
very elevating and nearly comes to a
bad finish because, it seems, Walter
was so scared that he nearly killed his
man. He overdid.
Danger of prison is finally averted by
the Kids considerate recovery and the
act ends with the pretty girl in her
Walters arms while the gallery cheers
for Eddie Graney. AS a fight il wasn't
a success, because 1t was a fake, and
as a playlet-well it isn't called that.
The program says 1T is a Prize ring
episode"
The Amoros sisters are a clever team
of dislocators and tumblers. They are
jugglers and dancers. too, and ons does
challenge feat which consists of
throwing her anatomical articulation
inside out and tying herself up in pain
fully graceful postures. Imro Fox is
clever juggler with some new tricks
and old, and a pleasant chattery way of
exhibiting them. Tony Wilson and Mile.
Heloise open the program with some
acrobatic stunts which are well exc
cuted and graceful; Adele and Freddie
Astaire, midget singers and dancers.
are pretty entertainers and walk amaz-
ingly on their toes while, 1t seems to
me, they might better be at school;
Israel Zangwills Never, Never Land
remains the thrilling and the best act
on the program-from my point of
view-and the Farrell Taylor company
is still amusing in it's monumental non
sense called That Minstrel Man" Leon
T. Rogees whistling was loudly en-
cored last night for the best of it's
kind heard at the Orpheum.
LIGHTNING AIDS JAILBREAK- Springfield.
Mo-. Feb. IA flash of lightning put out the