The San Francisco call., 1909-03-15
WOMAN TOSSFS
HUSBAND ABOUT
Feature of 0rpheum Bill Should
Please Most Ardent
Suffragist
Madam Blessing Is Wonderful
Specimen of Beauty and
Strength
By Walter Anthony

9ecL 10 the claim made for Nine. Bless
ing that she is the most beautiful
woman OF the stage. Nine Blessing
is brunette. She is. therefore. out
of Lillian RusseTs class. But as the
strongest woman on the stage. or as
the strongest brunette. Nine Bless
Ing viii have as much trouble finding
challenger as Jack Johnson is having
TO catch up with Jeffries
The Blessings are equilibrists and
scrobsts- They supply the chief rea-
son this week for opening the doors
AT the Orpheum twice a day, and Nine.
Blessing is a wonderful specimen OF
Anazonian beauty and strength. 1t
VIII interest you II you see the turn,
10 watch the msdams countenance
when she performs her Extraordinary
feats OF muscular resistance. She bal
ances her male assistant (Herr Bless
ing) on her head. She holds him aloft
with one hand and tosses him about
IN manner 10 please the most ad-
Nanced suffragist.
SMILE BECOMES STARE
But the evidences Of the physical
effort are shown in her face, whereon
her trapeze artists smile becomes
transfEed into a stare Of fearful effort.
and, though her rounded muscles do
not show the strain, the vanishing
serenity OF countenance and the fixed
gaze show the effort which she is max
ing TO sustain her earned reputation as
the strongest woman in the world. She
is graceful withsl, and beautiful, too,
but no husband should make his wife
work so hard. Their act was sue
cessfuL and Herr Blessing. is TO be
congratulated on his own agility. but
more on his wife's quite inconceiva BILE
strength.
Sharing. among the newcomers. this
week al the Orpheum with the Bless
ingS IN the honOrs Of the opening acts
are the Eight Palace Girls" and James
clemens. They are direct from the
Palace London. wherever that is, and
their act is a perfection Of the COM
nonplace- II they were any better il
would be remarkable They dance with
= uniform step; they sing without
screeching. and-we are talking about
the girls, Of course-and they wear a
wardrobe Of pretty clothes. abbreviated
20 the eNigencies Of their strenuous
work Clemons is notable for his clog
cancing- II viii remind you Of the
Old days 10 see him step out with
dance from Erin. He brings some
novelties TO his act and is graceful and
rhythmic
INITIATES MUSIC HAILIST
James Mcdonald and Miss Valarie
Huntington redeem their act by a
proper brevity wherein Miss Hunting
ton does an imitation Of a French
music hailist singing an American
song, which is not bad. The rest OF
the turn Is not up 10 Orpheum stand
ards-Tu leave IL TO Mr MeyerfeId or
q f-s
Ray l. Royce, IN some comedy imper-
sonations. is fully as good as he was
when he vas here 2 year ago. He IL
-ustrates the inability Of vaudeville
artists TO think up new turns. His
entertaining monologue with his quick
changes Of makeup are excellent enter
tsinment al that. but the best OF acts
are better for q change and vaudeville.
] understand. means variety.
The pictures which close the bill are
evidence OF an interesting enterprise
They show Washington March :, when
Taft became president The successor
ot roosevelt is shown clearly in the
pictures and is surrounded and passed
by soldiers and cadets and all the pomp
OF the ina auguration ceremony.
The rest OF the bin is taken I'D bv
TIE SIX Little Girls and the Teddy
Bear, which remains poor act: the
> apanese troup Of acrobats which fs
even better than it was last week: Miss
Emma Rainey and her Indians f-or,
--,-l y nom nee, ana @ Herbert Mitchell, 1
VINO mas some new stories this week
LheViHne Arouses Audience
Josef Lhevinne's audience at his fare
"el piano recital yesterday afternoon
vas or the proportions which his first
= suolence should have been. We have 4
learned 10 know this reunarL<a HE p,s
SIAN artist Z rfr
wlen he comes again. as surely ne viii 4
z ere VII be no hslting at the box
once TO md out If this man is what he /
mas oeen represented 10 be- Among the
z feal players whose names are down
on our musical calling list Lbevinne
y III assume place al the top. II his
alFeruslng methods were more i,,-f5
and less dignihed he might have bs5
bouquets thrown al him and bvstericaI
women lsnguishing under the smell 81
his really wonderful playing. AS II Is
ne came quietly, played in his own
nimitable way and now leaves us win
ne stamp OF san Francisco's enthu-
siastic approval on his music.
His peculiarly OF style and his ,,,io,,.
methods have been discussed ia -
columns Al length, and the fmprassio,,
Hnlch he made yesterday only serves -,
strengthen admiration for his vigorous
masculine art
AZ Ale conclusion OF the Mozart r,t-,, !
7er, which was the second selecffon %
ne second group, the enthusiasm that
lad been boiling. broke out and he was
1ersistently encored. Many hearers
,heered him and the excitement was
great. though lacking commemorative, IL
ne hysterical fervor that comes from
. players hypnotic skill rather tban
rom his sane and wholesome genius
The Brahms sonata. with which the
irogram opened. was the novelty. II
'roFed 70 be typically Brahms OF the
'lano and not Brahms OF the songs
endency 10 double notes IN the lower
caches Of the instrument was Offset bv
ne players tactful method of playine.
he mas delicious sense Of balance and II
'elgns his left hand against his right
\ lth the sensitiFeness Of keen scales
acre is no din in his playing. however
lgorous climax he is COMPRISING.
Al the conclusion Of the proersn,
nen le had played Godard's bright
nd spirited En- Route" the audience
emained seated until he had bowed
nn numerable times and had played three
ncores
though San Francisco's appreciation
lay have been slow in develoning
.nevinne can not but feel that the bis ,
aalence yesterday at Christian Science +
al was tribute to the intrinsic excel ]
euce Of DianiStrv and 2 s,l~.. -.