The San Francisco call., 1913-09-15
LAsKY !! <. LAMBS |: 7, BIG HIT IN SKII
The Parisienne Is Plump and Pleasing
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BY WALTER ANTHONY

At last Jesse Lasky, most inde-
fatigab1e OF vaudeville producers, has
put one over" IT was bound to come,
even In theatricals. and producer, II
he has time and his audiences pa
tience, will sooner or later secure a
success, which is just what has hap
The Little Parisienne" was hit yes
terday afternoon at the Orpheum, 1t
having that intangible element that
makes the difference between success
and failure in play or playlet. In
the case of THE Little Parisienne,r =
however, that intangible element
wasn't really intangible at all. Valerie
serice was it, and she's far from be-
ing an intangibility. She is. in fact,
just the contrary. She shares Little
Buttercup's fame. She is "a plump and
pleasing person." The fact that she
is plump is established beyond
per adventure of doubt, the
young lady herself revealing her
self In the diaphanous garb or
the x-ray skirt. That she is
pleasing is a fact as generously and
recklessly exhibited as that she is
plump As star of Lasky's organiza-
tion she reminds one of Corinne-a
long time ago-a little of Anna Held
and very much OF Valerie. She sings
well and her step on the stage Is as
light as her gossamer gown.
The staging is prettily accom-
plished for students OF the sartorial
art-as we all have lately become
there is excellent opportunity to
make comparison between the modes
past One of the musical numbers,
'Bunty Pulls the String" is sung by
the ladies in crinoline and hoop
skirts. and TO the glory-or shame
OF the afternoon Orpheum audience,
the ancient costumes ambled away
with the honors. 1t was the only
number encored, though perhaps some
Of us would have been willing to see
the transparencies and the slit skirts
again If we hadn't been ashamed to
applaud. / can't say about that.
After The Little Parisienne' came
Hoey and Lee. who drove some of the
audience into Mysteries, and every
body into approval of their most ex-
traordinary fooling. They are He
brew comedians, but their fun is In
ter-racial; indeed it becomes cosmic
when one endeavors most eagerly to
explain to the other the movements
of the earth upon It's axle They are
outfitted with a large number of sure
fire parodies and left the stage with
difhculty yesterday, ignoring the
great tug of applause.
Then follows Weiland, who Is a
tuggler. assisted by Mile. Carlotta.
Weiland has enough new things in
jugglery to provide a full measure of
entertainment and enough comedy to
suffice juggler.
After him follows Harry X. Thaw.
who was sure to arrive in vaudeville.
He does SO via the moving picture
route, and judging by the applause
given the pictures yesterday the au-
dience was about evenly divided be-
tween sympathizers for him and ad-
mirers of his nemesis, Jerome. Per-
sonally l was surprised that Thaw
was such a clever actor. The pictures
are worth seeing, as proof that the
histrionic talent is pretty generally
distributed.
To begin with the beginning of the
program, Ethel McDonough was per-
haps a trifie oyerbilled and more
was expected of the former Divine
Myrna" than brief season of song
could provide. She sings well,
dresses we'll looks well and her songs
are typically vaudeville.
Charles A. Delmore and Ben Light