The San Francisco call., 1910-11-08
maids and men
IN BEAUTIFUL
COLOR PICTURE
Catchy Songs and Clever Sing
ing Please Large Society
Audience
Splendid Benefit Performance
Reaps Golden Harvest for
Charities

The long anticipated kirmess has
become a reality and brilliant one.
In spite Of a few mishaps and a couple
OF humorous circumstances that added
to the success Of the dances the per-
foTmance given on the stage of the
Central theater last night to swell the
fund for the little sick children of this
city was an excellent one. II was
clever vaudeville. full of catchy songs
and charming dances and replete with
merry airs and unexpected side fea-
lures
Two years ago san Francisco had its
first kirness. Last nights production
surpassed even the first. for from the
moment the curtain went up on the
first grand opening march led by Ned
Greenway as king of the kirmess TO its
final drop after the intricate figures OF
the Hungarian dance, pleasing mar
monies Of light and color. OF song ana
dance and laughter. swept like waves
over the stage. Each scene gave place
20 something more brilliant stun be-
hind the footlights until the end.
BEAUTIFUL PICTURE
As BELTS true kirmess, the house
was draped with flags and pennants,
the combined Colors OF nation ana
stste. and the beauty Of the picture
was enhanced by the yards OF req
bunting that made up the various
booths and the varicOlored dresses OF
the society women who turned out TO
DO honor 10 the affair and the great
charity it represented
The curtain arose on the grand march
with every cline and nationality pres
ent on the stage. And following the
merry pageant that trlpped llghtly 70
the measure Of the opening bars Ned
Greenway danced solo, and danced 1t
well. giving promise Of the pleasant
surprises TO come. AS he bowed off into
the wings the maids and men OF the
Panama-Pacific dance. with England,
France, Germany, Russia, Scotland
Spain. Turkey and san francisco rep
resented in the fitting costumes, danced
into view. with Miss Phyllis de Young
as Miss California Back OF them in
brilliant letters blazed the sign that
san Francisco welcomed the world TO
its shores in 1915, and each one of
the merry group bore a letter Of light,
which. when danced into line. bore the
plea. Help us win the fair This
idea was further advanced by the solo
boost song, sung by Ralph Rooney and
Matthew in her French costume
HoRNPIPE DANCE
Then they danced up the stairs and
away and in their place came the
sailor lads and lsssies TO DO their horn
nine dance and college stunt, a brave
looking earnest little crew, in their
iaunty nautical costumes. With a
whoop and clatter the Pierrots and
Pierettes ran in for their merry, mad
frolic. For that is what il was-a
glorious frolic in which they reveled
with the delight Of children over stolen
sweetmeats. They played and they
pranced in time TO the catchiest music
and brought down the house. For they
were all good, and the song at the
finish. What Am I Going TO Do?" with
Mrs George Joerns. Miss Madelaine
Cummings. Tracy Cummings and
Marion Ellis as the principal actors,
was delicious.
II was worthy of professionals and
the glow worm effect, with the heads of
follies alone thrown into light on the
blackness Of a stage night. was i'm
pressive AS they ran off with low
whispers and quiet, If quickened, steps,
the polo dancers marched gayly on, the
men in polo costume. the girls in ball
gowns for a dance quite original and
new 70 the coast. During its merry
course Willard Barton sang Vacation"
and q sextette followed with an air
which everybody was shortly humming,
IF We Were Married" which made a
clever skit and was even more cleverly
executed.
RIDING LESSON DANCE
Miss Lurline Matson and Emil Keir-
Iein added a riding lesson dance that
had all the elements of comedy and
tragedy put to music, including a run
away. a frantic search and the lady
fsinting in the arms of her brave res
cuer. And then the chariot dance be-
gan. the most fanciful chariot race that
ever was run, with Charles de Young
and Emil Keirlein decked with ribbons
by which they were driven. With the
whip duly installed in place and the
wheels made of the brightly colored.
opened and rapidly revolving parasols
Of the eight polo maids
Then the fancy was switched from
home 10 Venice, as the air Of a Vene-
fian boat song with it's sweet, insist
ent, lingering music was heard in the
distance, coming nearer and nearer.
Then the prov of a gondola came into
sight and bevy of girls in blue and
silver appeared, chanting their song of
happiness. The gondoliers, carrying
oars, came from onder the arches in
the other direction TO assist them to
alight as the gondola approached the
landing, and the songs and dances that
followed were delightfully."- Venetian in
character, with special dances by Miss
Tessie Murphy, Miss Grace Schubert
and Miss Clarisse LUcke, ending with
Follow the song by Miss Marie Jones
that led her companions back again
into their gondola. to go singing out of
sight And with the last note the scene
changed and London was brought to
our shores in the London girls and
English chappies dance, vivid in its
sharply contrasting black and yellow
costumes. One of the best parts of this
was the song Wedding Bells" and the
seroplane dance, when Miss Edith Met
calfe flew down from space in her aero
plane Of 100 lights.
SPECIAL DANCE
Miss Enid Gregg and Emil Keirleir
danced a special dance called 'L'Esprii
d'Amour" in the intermission between
the English dance and the Toy Shop.
the little show put on by the Marguerite
auxiliary branch OF the workers for the
clsfldren,s hospital and the San Fran
cisco maternity The idea back of the
scene IS that the keeper of the toy shor
tired after his work falls asleep and
dreams that the toys all come 10 life
And they do. For as the clock strike:
~ the most charming little fairy in al
the world in the person of little Beulaf