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Show Hi Wz tfze .flfistf Nighters H ORPHEUM. , In n good bill over Orpheum way, Wally Young H' and BUI Jacobs aie the bright particular stars, H and In saying so, none of that "homo town" stuff B or "native sons" business is taken into consider- H atlon. They are the goods. Their sketch "When P Caesar Ran a Paper" is a knockout -and would E bo a tremendous hit if we had nover known or Ht loved Wally, or had the opportunity of learning H that his pal "belongs." H As wo understand it, Waldomar and William H put the sketch together for the delectation of H their San Francisco friends upon the occasion H of one of the periodical eruptions of the Press H club. It was a -hit a hig hit, and was repeated H from time to time until "finally the Orpheum book- H ing came, and now the boys are going to tali H it all over the circuit, for they have heard in the H big cities that Caesar, in his new role, is the pure H quill in comedy. m We confess we were a little afraid in ad1 mce H that wo were going to see another of those H Shakespearian travesties, but not at all, nothing H like that, but just such good stuff as one might H expect would emanate from the brains of a couple H of live newspaper men engrossed in getting all H possible fun out of their principal work in com-H com-H bination with their principal diversion. H So close are the interests between printers' H ink and tho calcium glare, that it is remarkable Hj that more of the press boys working for nothing H a week on the newspapers, don't wake up to op-H op-H nortunities that vaudeville presents, and the fact H that teso two have done it and made such a sue-H sue-H cess, ould seem to bo an incentive for others to H go and do likewise. The above is a great criticism H of the sketch yes it is, but it Is hard to refrain H from a reflection or two while thinking of dear H old Wally and good old Bill. Aside from that, H however, they are perefectly good actors, both H of them, stuffed with personality and that rare H sense of humor which would make them voluntaries voluntari-es ly eliminate anything they were not sure was H fnnny. H "Wlhen Caesar Ran a Paper" is a story of the Hj Wiles of Mark Antony, press agent, and his meal H ticket dancer Cleopatra, who, in the course of WM twenty minutes of shrlekingly funny situations j and l'es that would make a mortician laugh at H his own funeral, succeeds In plastering the Cleo H face and copy all over the front page. Their suc- H cess is gained only after Cleopatra hops in a H taxi ("no, don't bring a friend") and dashes over H to Caesar's office where he falls for her while H gazing through a flock of pink flamingos and fly- H ing angleworms swinging before his vision after H a week of all-night stands with Wally, pardon, H Antony. Miss McFarland is of considerable as- H sistanco to tho principals. H Tho "Beauties" with William McCarthy, Mbrtl- H mer Weldon, Armand Cortez, Thea Thompson and H a cluster of gels, is one of the few compressed H musical comedies worth seeing on any vaudeville H circuit. It is full of funny stuff, music and ac- H tlon, and McCarthy is a show in himself. The H performance opens with Ernie Potts and company, H in a bag punching and athletic act good enough H to open with., seeing what follows, and closes H with Harry Tsuda, a remarkable equilibrist H whose aerial feats are quite unusual while he H balances on a nervous sphere. B t Katheryn Dakln, a singing comedienne could H be easily spared, though she finished with a song H that pretty nearly puts her act over. Sammy Hj Weston and Sidney Clare are average dancers H pulling nothing new, and Ismed, a pianist who H may be a Turk In his home town, gets everything out of a piano that seems to bo in it without injuring in-juring tho caso. If you haven't seen the Orpheum, you had " jt-ter jt-ter go today and insist on Wally making a spe .oh. The list of starters in the big league of stage speakers nover contained one like Wally. |