New-York tribune., 1915-03-25
The Tour,
THE GRAND TOup
SAN FRANcr,,.

The City that Is, as VIII Irvi, w
call the Fair, is beautiful at nigb, ~st
worth coming out here 70 see D.. "a
anything else. And who know,,
may be eight or nine things Wort, 20
in New York, if most New YORKER,
not astigmatic. The prophet wa. -. ~
honor because the home folks. -
were excursioning to Someub.,.
return.
At Gas, these days, the illuminate,
gins TO sufFuse. 1t is, as the Doe, :.
awful nice. | might find out ths -,
power, and the number Of inra,S,.-
globes used, and the cost per nios,
kilowatt. But | don't even kpov !!
high the Woolworth Building ia
Mote to Managing Editor: Please ,,..
me Of this when | get back. tbt,
have an Idea.)
There are as many kinds Of res.ap,,.
in the grounds as there are on Broad
You may go to the Primrose Inn a, =
Frankfurter Inn-Kennelworth wobp
an idyllic name for the latter-and h..
any kind of sandwich, except chicks, =.
10c. Chic en- sandwiches, contairi,,
quarter of a roasted chicken, are Sr v
may go to Alt Nurnberg and pay ~.
more, or to the Inside Inn and paya w..
lot more. The popular place, at the IN,
of trying TO think Of something more !,
portant to say, is Old Faithful, sdni,s,.
to which, including a sight Of a reli., "a,
Of Yellowstone Park and hearing o. .,
Exposition Orchestra, led altematl, !,
Auguste Bose and Max Hendix, i o,
Also there is the ineluccable fox-.ru.
In the evening the beauty Of The tvl..
ings doesn't get much Of a play nb
there, more subtly and wonderfully "a,
in the day, but the crowd hocks % 4,
one, the Midway Of this Fair. A m,
thing, but our Zone, the native sor. sr
Or they may from now on. hereby y.
lease the Western and motion vic.-.
rights to that wheeze. Including q,
Scandinavian. The Zone is not far t,,-
Coney Island in interest or intente.
There are some good shows, Ike L,
Panama Canal and the Maori Village az.
Fred Thompson's Toyland-which hasn't |
opened yet, but Fred says il is all right
and the Jap wrestlers.
And the barker in front Of the Ca.
casian Dancers show. 81 have seen,' h |
sings, "the ereat-iss dancers in this cogs.
try-from coas' TO coas', ladies and gsri. |
m'n-an' | wanna say % you right tg,
that Ruth st. Denis and Gertrude Hof. |
mann do not surpass ir skill her beagr
this aggrega-shin of dancers from tier
native country. Ask anybody that syg
seen our show. Ask them how our saCE
kim-pares with the shows they see at 4.
Orpheum or-anywhere Here we haze
the Princess Turkee-a--(She stepped ts'
ward. weighing about 230. Turk .
right" said the man behind me. "Nada-'
O'Cassidy, / guess.") This little ls'y
ladies an gen'Pm'n, is wonderful dance
an only one Of our talentid comply
I Others were sitting near, on the platior
| cannot attack the yeracity OF the ad'e''
tising. They were all Caucasans Non
! Caucasian, in fact, than dancers -"
have not reduced the price OF adms'
shin since the Fair was o-plnned y"
many of the concessions on this here 1o-'
that started charging twen'y-h cents
dies an gen'Pm'n, has come down to hl's~
cents. YES. to ten cents, an some Of e
down to nothing. Why? Because cg
don't give the public what they wa
That is what we do, ladies an genIn
An how long do you suppose we c'-
last if we didn't give good show"
Well, was convinced. And We"
with a few others. We sat there io'
hour until the barker barled three NV
crowds in. While waiting for the sly
to begin. | heard the Princess Turhe'
who was sitting near me, discuss snr
BODY. II used to think he was all F'sh7
she was saying, but he makes me -
the big boob" An hour passed. ."|
elderly women, saying that they n''
catch the 9:20 boat, left indgnahuH
manding their money back and not s'.L
/ it. And then the poor, tawdry pls1.
,"show" began. A girl with legs oy 'I1
ering and hair by the American OO'.s.
Company came out and sang ""hen =. ~
Wore a Tulip and I Wore Rose -.
had all the roguishness Of hour-ana'"
store. Came then the Princess IufA'
looking like the Pyrrhic phalanx ye' ~
where had the Pyrrhic dances gone. FL
heart. it was evident, was not u a,'r,
work; but it was equally and un0eauu' 'i'.
evident, her larynx, thorax, epIg-o''nr nr@|
sometimes W and y were. ir'"
might describe her. c.. II
And a baritone, dressed as
the Desert. He sang "ln Happy ~ ~, q,
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