The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
SAN FRANCISCO HAS
FAIREST OF WOMEN
Artist From Rome Pays Glow
ing Tribute to the Beauty
of GentIer Sex
Decorations of the New Or
pheum Attest Loneliness of
This City's WOmanhOod
By Walter Anthony

Rome who was engz ged 10 paint the
drop curtain and the panels and dome
decorations for the Orpheum, is
authority for the statement that no
where in the world are more beautiful
women TO be seen than in san Fran
cisco. Not necessarily professional
models are the best" said he. for
an artist TO pose FOR his work. but
often those who know the least about
the difficult art Of posing make the
most satisfactory models.
when you enter the lobby OF the
thester YOU viii be struck with one
Of the panel pictures on the left as
you enter Il is that Of Melpomene-
X was posed for by Miss Lenore
Marshall. who is sales girl in
fashionable down town candy store
She is a native san Franciscan. and
CaYallarO is enthusiastic about her
beautiful countenance and coloring-
Louise Nave. another san Francisco
girl, was the model for the picture of
Victoria In the chariot, which is
striking feature q the aurora alle-
gorical painting on the drop curtain
Niss Ruth Rietzke the daughter OF q
local sign painter posed for the other
spandrel panels in the theater lobby
Chinese Honeymoon" for its next pres
entation 10 follow The Umpire.
Fred Mace viii have the role which
Thomas Seabrook created in New York
and which Mace succeeded TO ana
made a hit with in New Hork-that
of Mr. Pineapple. Nay Boley viii have
the part that Kittie Barry was seen
in that Of an English slavey- 1t will
he a character like that which Miss
Boley made q hit in when she played
in The Girl from Paris and sang
Mary James Top Note" at the
Princess
The impertinent rumors concerning
The enga cement Of Miss Evelyn
CHAN 10 Bertram LytelL which per
sist in spite OF repeated and authorlt-
arire deuials. would seem TO have been
given their final quietus by the an
nouncement yesterday by the Alcazar
mana cement that Miss Vaughan has
0een enga ged for next season as the
Belasco leading woman. Lyteh goes
10 Rochester To assume charge OF hls
own company there. incidentally the
Aicazar managers say that MISS
Vaughan is the highest priced leading
woman playing In any stock company
ln America.
Miss Efhe Bond was called on 10
prepare the role OF Peter Pan in less
day afternoon at the Valencia and
went through her part, which is at
least 20 SIDES" long. without miss
inZ word The feat is regarded
properly as remarkabl MISS Har-
riet Worthington who was playing
The part suffered A severe accident
during the progress Of the play
Tuesday night. In stepping over the
side Of the pirate boat she broke
ligament in her ankle and suffered
torture during the rest OF the per-
formance. though sne pluckily stuck
10 her duty. The stage hands would
lift her from the stage and carry her
10 her rooms between ner scenes.
Manager Seely asked the Alcazar
mana cement TO help out until Miss
WorthingtOn was well enough 10 re-
sumo her role That's how Miss Bond,
who in private life Is Mrs: VIM 4.
Walling was given her difficult task
of getting up IN the role in order to
appear in it at yesterdays matinee
Don. the Alcazar dog, is convalescent
He returned from the hospital yester-
DAY after being nursed and dosed for
the wounds he received in his unhappy
encounter with bulldog. Ben Jacobs
who entertains Alcazar thespisns after
rehearssls md Alcazar patrons between
acts and who keeps Don in trust for
the entire clientele, says that Don has
the vicious bulldog. and that he is now
performing the mathematical puzzle of
putting down three and carrying one.
II is denied at the Alcazar that the
postponement Of the production OF "Old
Heidelberg" has anything 10 do with
Don'x inability Just now to assume his
role with the rest of the dogs which
appear in that play but il is freely ad-
mitted that the ancient and honorable
setter-the pet Of the theater-will
make his temperance on the boards
when the Heidelberg show is staged
after Regeneration
Little ollie Walter. at the Valencia.
the bold pirate slayer and companion
of Peter Pan, said the other day after
rehearsal that he had killed only one
pirate. AT rehearsal yesterday" said
The miniature actor, my pirate died on
fhe stage Mr. Platt said TO him, Get
out Of here; we don't want any dead
ones around this theater." That's pre-
tocfous sense Of humor for a youngster
in curls Ollie and her two sisters were
imported from Los Angeles to play the
juvenile roles here which they had done
so well in the southern town. Ollie. by
the way, enjoys the formidable title in
the Barrie play Of Michael Nicholas
Darling She fits her patronymic.
The attractions which viii appear
when the Orpheum nrSt opens Its down.
town doors next Monday night should
be listed here as a matter Of history:
GrigoIatfs aerial ballet; Frank FOgar-
tv. a Dublin minstrel; Margaret Mof-
fstt and company in a sketch; Arcadia, a
,oloratura soprano who plays her own
violin obligatos; Peter Donald and Nita
carson: Paul Sanders miniature circus
fhe Sandwinas; Gordon and Marx and
moving pictures. The moving pictures
viii be historical They will show
what san Francisco was like before a
fire cleared the way for making
greater city.
C. Albert Lansburgh, architect of the
new Orpheum building. was not nearly
as interested yesterday in the splendid
structure which he has helped to erect
as he was in the fact that 10 pound
babv daughter had just arrived in his
family It is his first and he says 1T is
the greatest infant that ever clung TO
p mothers breast He tried TO take
some visitors through the Orpheum
building late in the afternoon. The
will be entirely