The San Francisco call., 1910-06-13
VICTORIA Still IS
QUEENATORPHE
Coincidence Changes Songs and
Costumes, but Personality
Remains the Same
Newcomers Are Excellent En-
tertainers and Fit Well in
Clever Bill
BY WALTER ANTHONY

Whatever was the best last week at
the Orpheum is the best this week.
though some newcomers are welcomed
to the select soiree presided over by
Queen Vesta Victoria. late of England.
She changes her songs this week and
her costumes as well, though it can
not be safely said just now that her
new selections silence her old ones of
last week. That's popularity of this
London comedienne. You like her bet
ter a every hearing She is unusual
IN that her comedy stands scrutiny 1t
is not abashed at close examination.
put wears merry smile that doesn't
come Off, so perhaps ner new songs,
winch were wildly applauded yester-
DAY, VIII rank with the old ones when
they are as well known Familiarity
with Vesta Fictoria's S comedy breeds
content.
SINGS CHANTECLER DITTY
She has gone to much pains, and ap-
parently to much expense, to hide her
IDENTITY under the feathers of a hen.
ana IN this wise sings chanteeler
oltty. one of many inspired by Ros-
.aHa Chantecler." 1t is in burlesque
Vein, but hardly in burlesuue spirit. and
neither song nor setting merit the sac
Tlnce of her hidden identity. She
doesn't need fine feathers. The song
IS the plant of a wife whose husband
mas gone as crazy as chicken with its
mead cut off over Rostand's "Chante-
cler and who makes his wife dress
IKE hen and lay around the barn
YARD. The setting OF the act, however.
Is good. Another song is a sequel to
waiting at the Church." and she re-
talns from last week some of the big
hlts that introduced her charming per-
sonallty and her high art in low
comedy
Hal Merritt is a busy college lad with
MS craving and his whistling and his
monologue. He comes early on the
bill. and If you go ito the Orpheum this
Week you should start in time to enjoy
ms quick, neat act. The living rubber
oails-H Franklin and the Standards
star the program They are elastic
tumblers and there isn't any apparent
effort in their numerous stunts.
Lyons and Yosco, who opened a week
ago, remain, with Vesta Victoria. the
lures that a box office loves Their
musical act is extra good
UP TO EXPECTATIONS
What Fred Warren and Al Blanchard
were expected to do as old acquaint-
ances. they did. 1t was noisy fun,
brace of good songs thrown in and
some nonsense dialogue, harmless but
good for yariety's sake
Grigolatis aerial ballet is a pretty
spectacle; prettier, even, than when
seen here before. The fight of the
dancers was really more graceful than
that of the doves that Tapped their
wings about the wire suspended cory
phees. Yesterday. the Illusion of fly
ing was worked without the evidences
of wires and machinery. Perhaps we
are more willing to believe in aerial
flights this year than when the women
butterflies were here last
The Code Book" by DeWitte Kap-
Ian and Herbert Walter, is excellent
dramatic material, we'll thought out,
well staged and calculated to get all
the thrills that its subject and its de-
nouement merit. 1t will be rendered
as something new in vaudeville
sketches, and something true. Paul
Spadoni, strong and anlbidextrous, tri-
fles with cannon balls, eggs, bowls
with gold fish in them, chandeliers,
lounges. and breaks nothing-not even
into perspiration.