The San Francisco call., 1910-06-20
new SONGS GIVEN
BY VESTA VICTORIA
Audience at Orpheum YeIls for
Old Favorites, and Particu-
larIy Poor john
Girls Who Pose as Mermaids
Are Among Features of
Bill for Week
BY WALTER ANTHONY

Satisfying the demands of vaudeville
believers must be a trying and thank
less job. If players. change their act
we say they shouldn't. and if they
provide nothing new we yell for va
riety. Vesta Victoria has wrought a
complete revolution in her repertoire
this week, but we wouldn't have the
new songs and called for Poor John"
and others of her offerings of the last
two weeks. We were obstinate and
stopped the show. We prevented Peter
Donald from landing from Scotland.
Vesta's songs this week-most OF
them--depend upon costumery as much
as on her inimitable way of singing
them. They are not 50 peculiarly of
the. Victorian era as Waiting at the
Church, Poor John" skating" The
Widow and some others she has de-
lighted us with. Her chief success. in
deed. was won in the familiar Now 1
Have to Call Him Father" Her first
song about the four calves which
Mary brought to market, two of which
the song concerns while the other two
are what you're thinking of. was not
a riot of humor," and If it were not
for the fact that we'd seem ungrateful
the request would be "cut 'em oot"
Judgment of the audience was en-
phatic about 1t. They wanted more
about Poor John"
SONGS IN sKIT GOOD
Donald and Meta Carson have the
same act they gave on their last trip
west Donald is whimsical whether
counterfeiting drunkenness or sobriety,
and the songs introduced in the skit
are good. New gags" would be Of
advantage and a new sketch would aid
the twain in increasing a popularity
already quite emphatic.
Maude and Gladys Finney in a swim
ming and floating and otherwise drip
ping act are a pretty pair in black
bathing garb. They call themselves
the mermaids" and exhibit their
aquatic selves in a partially filled tank
of water, doing many things easy to
do out of the water but extremely
hard to do submerged. The Misses Fin
ney coax you to make complimentary
puns about their names.
II the sketch produced by Lewis Nc
Cord and company were a success its
title, Winning on Wind" might be
explained, for it's the windiest, fussiest,
most blustery nothing that has blown
west for some time. The company has
been imposed upon by the writer of
the play1et.
SHOWS CLEVER DOGS
Zertho, who says he is a clown, has
a troupe of remarkable dogs, including
"purps" from the size of watchspring,
which they otherwise energ getically re-
semble, to brutes of the stature of real
dangerous doghood. They are we'll
trained, do many new stunts and are
undisturbed by zerthos "unfunny''
clowning.
The CANNES close the program, which
from last week Franklin and
Standards, Warren and Blanchard, the
flying ballet and Vesta Victoria whose
last week this is announced to be-
On account of many requests the
funeral cortege of the late king of
England Is again shown on the moving
picture screen, and yesterday after
noon the audience lowered hands apart
and lips open to clap and cheer when
Roosevelt appeared in the parade. 1t
is regrettable that he rode in a COW
cred carriage and passed unobserved
To that degree only the pictures proved
and disappointing.