The San Francisco call., 1910-02-28
CHEER UP GIRL"
AMUSES PLAYGOERS
Pleasing Entertainer Is Actress
In White, Who Is One of the
Attractions at 0rpheum
Clara Belle Jerome and Eight
dOOdIes Likewise Contribute
to Success of Show
By WALTER ANTHONY

/ failed TO find an uninteresting
number on the Orpheum program this
week. and 1 sat out the show, all but
the last moving pictures. Not that a
reviewer looks for uninteresting things,
but because he's bound to chronicle
them if he sees them. Some of the acts
were better than others. Anybody
would know that without going to
see the show, but none of the offerings
was poor. Some were excellent. The
average was high.
There was Miss Winona Winter, who
is billed as the cheer up girl" for
instance. With patriotic fervor be il
recorded that she does not slip on the
same stage that Alice Lloyd, from the
music ais" trOd.
Miss Winter does not work very
hard; she does not sing so very mar
velously. but she does entertain. Her
act is dressed in white, and her pretty
blonde face is persuasive of approval.
Her impersonations will not be record
ed in history with other great achieve
nents. but her demure and decorous
stunts Of yesterdays vaudeville stage
viii be remembered pleasantly by all
who saw them.
She is a lyceum entertainer. educated
10 the requirements of a vaudeville
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of the downstairs patrons.
EXCELS As VENTRILOQUIST
Her ventriloquism. which closes her
act, is. the best thing she does. and it
is minus the cigar which most ven
trilOouists chew TO hide the motions of
the mouth when speaking for the man
skin.
After that she made a little speech
before the audience would let her go.
It was triumph Of the unsensational
Clara Belle Jerome dances forth with
eight t"roodles" and William Seymour
The latter's business seems to be to
occupy the stage, while his fairer COM
panions get into other costumes. The
act is a pretty spectacle, well dressed
and presented, and one of the @Toodles'
the one on the end, I mean-fills the
eye and would be a star some day. 1
should prophesy, If the word did not
suggest diminutive. The act is called
'Joyland." which is as good as any
other title could be for the melange.
Like the thing it represents, it dis
cOurages criticism.
4 CHEERFUL BIT OF IDIOCY
THE Boy Next Door" was here a
couple Of years ago. You will remem-
Der IT when you see il. but will also
note. 7 imagine, the Improvement in
George Felix's work The skit If il
is nothing but "foolishness," in which
the boy next door is mistaken for the
son Of q millionaire and so is enter
tsined BY three young women in q
manner beyond his humble station 1t
ends in q cheerful bit of i6iocy that
robs you OF the power of discernment
Hilsrity is the motive of The Boy Next
Door"
For closing number the Orpheum
has Earle Reynolds and Nellie Donegan
in a skating act They dance to the
melodies OF popular measures. and the
top spinning" of Miss Donegan is fine
acrobatjc gracefulness.
ENTERTAINING H0LDOVER ACTS
OF the holdover acts. the Reed broth
ers in feats of skill and strength.
touched Up with comedy, are good:
Walter G Kelly. "the Virginia Judge"
nearly drove several persons into hys-
terics. and Fred Lindsay. with his long
tlonged whip, did stunts not seen
outside Of Australia before
superstition" presented by Charles
W Bowser, Edith Hinkle and corpanv.
remains battling comedy, the exact
purpose OF which remains as uncertain
as last week. The most notable
speeches are cheered Justify by the
gaHery-they are by the CRATER. who
describes himself as a politician who
went to night school However. the
little comedy is well staged and we'll
acted, though its ethics are dimlv dis
cerned.