The San Francisco call., 1910-12-05
"DOUBLE PLAY" IS
HIT At ORPHEUM
Hite and DOnlin Please in Novel
Sketch and Whole Bill
Is Excellent :

The brightest new bit on the Or
pheum bill this week is little musical
skit called Double Play" a clever
piece of nonsensical acting, set to
music. that from the first rise of the
curtain holds the audience and keens
it in continual uproar of laughter
and applause
In the varied program. in which each
number may be said to be really good
this particular playlet stands out with
Miss Mabel Hite and Mike Donlan as
its star actors. The latter makes a
presentable stage appearance is un-
doubtedly a great favorite with theater
goers, and smiles and laughs often and
TO advantage, but the brunt Of the act
ing falls on. Miss Hite, and she does
1t capably and well. She does 1t even
better than that
She is bright, clever and pretty. and
can assume more than one role and do
1t excellently and whether in song or
chatter, she is absolutely natural and
at her ease. With her 1t is not like
playing to a crowded house-she cuts
up and capers across the stage as If
it were all for her own amusement and
really for the purpose of finding out
whether her baseball husband loves
her or his game the best
GET GREAT OVATION
Many bright and catchy lines and
some excellent bits of repertoire occur
In this grst half of the act, where the
actress wife DISCUSSES herself as her
onw newly engaged maid, and when she
throws off her disguise and appears as
herself, 1t is merely to dance an Indian
and cowboy dance with DonIin. She is
f.sl -
dance called for seven or eight encores
until all the stage hands were brought
behind the footlights to bow their ac-
acknowledgements, and finally the two
stars appeared for the final time and
worded their thanks. And then only
did an enthusiastic audience allow the
afternoons bill to proceed.
SCHEDA HAS WEIRD ACT
Scheda, the well known Polish vio
linist, proved also one of the best
drawing card on the program in his
representation of ''Paganinni's Ghost"
who at the mystic midnight hour
comes from the tomb and in the few
minutes between blackness and dawn
plays again on the violin, his favorite
instrument in life.
The setting is weird and beautiful.
and Scheda's makeup gives him very
much the effect of a deaths head, so
dark are the rings beneath his eyes
painted and so deep the shadows on his
face.
He is represented in the pale cold
blue light standing before the front
of a mausoleum, beneath cold droop-
ing trees. and the weird. unearthly
beautiful music he plays at first is like
a wall of death. His instrument seems
part of him, and he plays with every
chord vibrant with expression and
Inc hie of r.fo<
''Traumeref,'' The Suanee River and
Home Sweet Home"
COMEDIANS GET LAUGH
James F. Cook and John Lorenz. who
were formerly stars with The Motor
GirP' company, are seen in an amusing
skit called THE Two MilIionaires"
They are both clever comedians and
dance and sing well, while their side
humor, if a little long drawn out, is
irresistible Herr Richard Nadrage
also made his first appearance with
Louis and Auguste. his bright looking
little clowns through whom he illus
trated his splendid ventriloquist
powers.
THE MaIlet's Masterpiece" which
ran through last week, is included
again in this weeks bill and is well
worth seeing the second time, while
Radiant" Radie Furman, the Meredith
sisters and the Duff1n- -Redcay troupe
with their clever acrpbatic stunts all
continue to hold their own.
The bill as whole is excellent, as
each number possesses a certain quail
ity of its own and all have something
good to offer. From first to last it
holds the interest, even to the final
motion pictures, which, while not in
structive, offer throughly laughable
and enjoyable peep into Coney island
with it sthousand and one attractions.
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