The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-20
1.-THE CANDY SHOP"
WINS SKEPTlCAI

There's brand now entertainer In
town. Lively and mirthful is this new
entertainer. It's of mixed gender. 1t
wears trousers and skirts and its
outer garments are OF cement and
wood and iron. the whole literally
shot with sparkling electrics, big and
little, and lavishly celored This en-
tertainer is really new In San Fran
cisco, although there are others some
what similar. Don't get excited, boys.
The new entertainer is not a female,
wholly, nor can you fiirt with It. You
can fiirt with some of 1t, maybe
But II you take the trouble to go to
O'FarrelI street between Stockton and
Powell you'll see the place we mean.
In. great flashing letters 1t says
"Gaiety theater." That's the secret in
a nutshell This is the brand new
entertainer, vivid and snappy and just
chock-a-block with life and laughter
and gayety and pretty girls and real
men actors. some Of them so funny
that it's almost scream just to look
at ciH- lHty-tHe men anu tnc
women--come from New York city,
where they learned the latest wrin-
kles in the art of entertaining in the
new and most up to date manner
Their names have been on huge
Broadway signs, and Broadway loves
many of them. But that's rather an
old story now, because they have come
to San Francisco, and San Francisco
welcomed them Saturday night by
turning out just about half of the city
to see these real men and women
actors present THE Candy Shop"
The downstairs seats were so
crowded that many of our lads and
lassies had to go upstairs. Anyway
it showed what our little town thinks
of a good show. Even though Satur-
day night was opening night at the
Gaiety, the whole municipality needn't
have turned out unless it expected
something unusual and novel. That
what II got; the audience said so In
storms of applause. and that's what 1t
will get as long as Bronco" Billy An
derson and his Snowman partner. J. j.
Rosenthal, continue to produce the
goods. Anderson believes in spending
reason THE Candy Shop" is about the
best ever.
Such collection of comedians and
pretty girls and gorgeous gowns and
new music and SO on has not been seen
in San Francisco since The Follies of
1910" appeared here several years
ago There is dash and livelfness
about THE Candy Shop" that is In
spring and enchanting and which
would really take about all the ad-
jectives in the dictionary to adequate
~ describe.
To digress for a moment The new
theater itself Is the latest word in
the amusement idea and the decora-
ton idea. 1t is clean and cool. and
pretty inside and out. Expense has
not been considered in cornering COM
fort. Seats that are wide and roomy
and covered with soft stuff: lights
that are soft and subdued and rest
full and q ventilation that is perfect
are few of the high spots and fea-
ture spots noticeable about this the
alter that has come to stay and to
please.
Now. a big feature of the scheme
Is that the entertainment is so de-
vised as to permit of the exploitation
OF the entire cast OF principals. Even
the show girls get their chance at
making fun and "glancing' Mr.. Tired
business Man in bald headed row.
These show girls are really worth the
price of admission. They are mighty
fresh looking. We know because we
are interested and we had a seat aw-
fully close to the musicians--and
those musicians deserve a paragraph
by themselves, but time won't permit
it right now. But those show girls
are there three ways at once. You
can take that for its face value.
Why is the show so good and
classy? Firstly, because 1t is headed
by Rock and Fulton, timber legged
William Rock and charming Maud
Fulton, otherwise Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Rock Vaudeville lovars rovor